@Guitarist Takumi Seino has performed and recorded with diverse acts including Drops Trio - VOS records, Japan. (plays his own compositions), Priority - Musea records, France. (plays his own compositions), Ryo Hashizume Group - Hao records, USA. The Third Impression (plays his own compositions), Six North - Musea records, France. Next Order - LoLo Records, USA. He has also performed a lot of improvised music - solo or group. He has appeared on over 30 CD releases on labels in the U.S., Europe and Japan.
Takumi graduated from the Berklee College of Music in 1996. He was selected as a guitarist for the Berklee College of Music All Star Band and performed at the 23rd Annual IAJE International Conference in January 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. At that time, he was awarded by IAJE a Special Citation for Outstanding Musicianship. He was also named best guitarist at the YAMAHA competition in Osaka, Japan 1985.
Discography
as leader/co-leader
Mood for Red / Takumi Seino - DROPS TRIO (2009)
Needful Things (2009)
Trees / Blue Willow Trio (2008)
Dark Shape / Takumi Seino solo (2007)
Ripple / Takumi Seino solo (2007)
ARC - beneath the surface / Takumi Seino with Antoine Berthiaume (2006)
Blue Willow / Takumi - Masako - Jeremy (2005)
Crab Apple / Takumi Seino - DROPS TRIO (2004)
Untied Strings / Takumi Seino (2004)
FLOW / Takumi Seino - DROPS TRIO (2002)
UN VOYAGE EN PROGRESSIF / Priority - MUSEA (2001)
DROPS / Takumi Seino (2000)
Light is decomposed into fragments / Priority (2000)
Birds From The Sea / Takumi Seino (1996)
Sunny Land / The Third Impression (1992)
with NEXT ORDER
LIVE-REFINED / NEXT ORDER (2009)
LIVE-ROARING COLORS / NEXT ORDER (2007)
LIVE-POWERED NEXUS / NEXT ORDER (2005)
LIVE-2003 / NEXT ORDER (2003)
with other artists
Human Wacher / Words of Forest (2009)
KESHIKISS / KUMI (2009)
Silent in Smile / Tadahiro Fusahara Group (2008)
Your Story / Masato Hirai (2007)
It's raining over there / Words of Forest (2006)
Introducing / Eiichiroh Arasaki BIG BAND (2006)
Ayauki ni Asobu / Goutte - 001 (2005)
Ayauki ni Asobu / Goutte - 002 (2005)
SUNSET STREET / EBA (2004)
PRAYER / SIX NORTH (2003)
Hanapi-Love / Kumi (2003)
Budderfly / Budderfly (2003)
Ma Plus Belle Histoire d'amour / Reiko Fujii (2002)
Pure Love / Takashi Kamide (2001)
KImiwa Unkaiwo Mitaka / Kousuke Kanatani Group (2000)
SIX NORTH / SIXNORTH (2000)
Somewhere In The Universe / Takeshi Asai Group (1998)
Khamsin / Khamsin (1998)
In A Stranger's Hand / Ryo Hashizume Quintet (1997)
And Then You Heard Tales (1996)
Blake Newman Trio (1996)
Let The World In / Thomas Lichtenstein (1992)
and others