Karin Nakagawa

Known for playing multiple designs across jazz, traditional, and contemporary music, Karin Nakagawa is usually a Japanese singer, composer, and player from the koto, a normal stringed instrument as well as the nationwide tool of Japan. Given birth to right into a musical family members, she started learning the device at age group 12 and continued to study the original 13-string device at university or college, but developed experience around the rarer 25-string koto. Nakagawa offers performed in over twelve countries across European countries, Africa, and Asia, documented using the J-pop group Ikimono Gakari for his or her 2009 launch Hajimari no Uta, and shows up on japan alt-rock music group Porno Graffitti’s 2010 Dvd and blu-ray Result in. She collaborated with dual bassist Anders Jormin and vocalist/violinist/violist Lena Willemark for the improvisatory, traditional music-based Trees and shrubs of Light, released by ECM in 2015.