Japanease / English

　

TAKUMI SEINO, guitarist and composer, has performed and recorded with diverse acts beyond any genre. As an improvised musician he has been working with many talented artists all over the world beside solo performances. Including his own works on VOS Records, he has appeared on over 80 CD releases on the labels in the Japan, Europe and U.S.A. His unique expression is so colorful that people often says "pictorial".

Takumi graduated from the Berklee College of Music with the highest honors (Summa Cum Laude) 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 named best guitarist at the YAMAHA competition in Osaka, Japan 1985. He received an award from Suita City as a person of cultural merit in 2020.



Discography

as a leader/co-leader
ECHO / Takumi Seino (2023)
Sandalino / Takumi Seino (2022)
Songs for Fukushima / Takumi Seino trio (2021)
Piled Distance - Book Apple 2 - / Takumi Seino (2019)
Path of June / Takumi Seino (2018)
Strawberry Express / Takumi Seino (2016)
Last Tree / Takumi Seino, Hugues Vincent (2015)
Book Apple / Takumi Seino solo (2014)
Flower Flows / Takumi Seino, Yasutaka Yorozu, Larry Marshall (2013)
Old Red Chair On The Porch / Takumi Seino, Yasutaka Yorozu, Larry Marshall (2012)
Room to Move / Takumi Seino, Masahiro Yamamoto, Nobumasa Tanaka, Hiroki Chiba (2012)
Frozen Dust / Tskumi Seino and Motohiko Ichino duo (2011)
Faded Diary / PRAED and Takumi Seino (2010)
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
CHRONOSYSTEM / NEXT ORDER (2014)
THE END OF BIGINNING / NEXT ORDER (2013)
LIVE-INTENSIFIED / NEXT ORDER (2011)
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
MABATAKI / NAGAO KUMI (2021)
SIX SENSE LIVE / Seiki Yukimoto & SOULBLEED (2021)
Kaze no Iro / The Tomomi Azuma Band (2021)
LIVE / Kan Mikami (2020)
Last Winter / Tomomi Azuma Band 2020 (2020)
Imagine Meeting You Here / Alister Spence : Satoko Fujii Orchestra Kobe (2019)
The Echo of New York City / Seiki Yukimoto & SOULBLEED (2019)
Pattern Night / satoko (2018)
For You / Asamichi Takahashi (2018)
Kuchizusamu France no Uta / Kumiko Suyama (2018)
Blue Hour / Khamsin (2018)
S.S.W.2 / Seto + Seino + Watanbe (2018)
Kaisou / Eiichi Hayashi (2017)
Yume no Kuni / Sugami (2017)
Over Sky..... / Mitsuhiro Furuya Takumi Seino, featuring Takashi Furuya (2016)
S.S.W / Seto + Seino + Watanbe (2015)
MIMICRY / Yuki Saga, Takumi Seino (2014)
Meets the composers - stablemates / Tomomi Azuma (2014)
Horoscope / Words Of Forest (2014)
EXODUS from JAZZYLAND / Seiki Yukimoto & SOULBLEED (2014)
ECHO / Atsushi Shimada Quartet (2013)
Fifth interaction / HYDRATION (2013)
Suu Suu Haar / KUMI NAGAO (2013)
falls From View / Unit (2011)
Aru Haruno Koibito / Minuano (2010)
Oumasan ga yattekuru 2 / Kumiko Suyama (2009)
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