Takeshi Nishimoto + Hiroshi Watanabe

Takeshi Nishimoto is a Japanese guitarist, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and
educator whose work spans contemporary classical, ambient, electronic, and
cross-cultural music. Classically trained at the University of Southern California, he has
developed a distinctive musical voice shaped by European classical traditions, North
Indian classical music, jazz, and minimalist composition. He has collaborated with
artists including John Tejada, Burnt Friedman, Robert Lippok, and Mike Shannon and
released music on labels such as City Centre Offices, Sonic Pieces, Nonplace, Tho,
New Kanada, Cynosure Recordings, and Palette Recordings, among many others.
Hiroshi Watanabe is a Tokyo-born electronic music producer and DJ renowned for his
deeply emotional, melodic techno and ambient soundscapes. After studying
synthesizers at Berklee College of Music and navigating the New York underground, he
returned to Japan to forge a distinct sonic identity, with releases under various aliases
via Kompakt, Derrick May’s Transmat Records, and more recently InFiné.