KI

Those who haven't had the good fortune of experiencing Kenso in a live setting can now have the next best thing! Beneath the beautiful cover artwork by Shinsaku Fujita lies the first DVD release by the Japanese progressive fusion quintet: Ha-re-ki, a full concert in excess of 100 minutes that features choice cuts from the band's twenty-five year recording history. Recorded in the summer of 2002 at On Air East, the six-camera shoot provides nearly every practical angle possible; this allows for horizontal and vertical split-screen viewpoints, sometimes moving up to three and even four splits to emphasize call-and-response & unison lines…

Stereokimono, in the actual line-up since 1995, distinguish themselves keeping distance from codified genres. The ability to create sound atmospheres with an extraordinary expressive freedom not submitted to any rule, leads them immediately in developing a refined repertory with a strong emotional involvement. The debut of "Psychophonic Oblique Rock" (as they ironically love to define their music) starts in 2000 with the CD titled "Ki", the album that projects them in the new musical scene at the center of the audience interest. To confirm this debut, the band wins the fifth edition of the national music competition "Stratosferica", dedicated to the memory of Demetrio Stratos.