Toshinori Kondo
Toshinori Kondo (1948 - 2020) was a Japanese trumpeter who took the instrument from free improvisation into electronics. Born in Ehime Prefecture, he studied at Kyoto University, played with Yosuke Yamashita, and in 1978 moved to New York, where he worked with John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Fred Frith and Eugene Chadbourne; in Europe he recorded with Peter Brötzmann, Paul Lovens and Derek Bailey. In 1984 he founded the band Kondo IMA, bringing his avant-garde roots into electronic music, and in 1993 he moved to Amsterdam to begin his solo project Blow the Earth. In the 1990s he was a member of Brötzmann's Die Like a Dog quartet, devoted to the memory of Albert Ayler.
Toshinori Kondo (1948 - 2020) was a Japanese trumpeter who took the instrument from free improvisation into electronics. Born in Ehime Prefecture, he studied at Kyoto University, played with Yosuke Yamashita, and in 1978 moved to New York, where he worked with John Zorn, Bill Laswell, Fred Frith and Eugene Chadbourne; in Europe he recorded with Peter Brötzmann, Paul Lovens and Derek Bailey. In 1984 he founded the band Kondo IMA, bringing his avant-garde roots into electronic music, and in 1993 he moved to Amsterdam to begin his solo project Blow the Earth. In the 1990s he was a member of Brötzmann's Die Like a Dog quartet, devoted to the memory of Albert Ayler.
