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World Heritage, The: Travelling Silk Road (Magaibutsu)

Live recordings of drummer Yoshida Tatsuya's World Heritage band from Koenji HIGH in 2009, condensing and editing the show into one incredible hour of sophisticated rock improvisation.
 

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Katsui Yuji-violin

Yamamoto Seiichi-guitar

Kido Natsuki-guitar

Nasuno Mitsuru-bass

Yoshida Tatsuya-drums

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Label: Magaibutsu
Catalog ID: MGC-42
Squidco Product Code: 15784

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2012
Country: Japan
Packaging: Cardstock gatefold foldover
Recorded at Koenji HIGH on September 3rd, 2009.
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Artist Biographies

"Guitarist Kido Natsuki (鬼怒無月), born 7 July 1964, plays in a multitude of genre-defying units such as Bondage Fruit, Coil (Japan), Korekyojin, and Black Stage."



"Kido is the most important guitarist in the Japanese progressive rock scene. Also he plays avant-garde improvised music and on the other hand he may join to play tango or ethnic folk songs. At first...everybody will be surprised at his guitar technique, but soon they will understand his emotional musical sense.

He has been playing with his own band "BONDAGE FRUIT","PERE- FURU","COIL",super tang group "SALLE GAVEAU"and the all-acoustic band "WARE HOUSE". Also he is producing his own "Maboroshi no Sekai". "BONDAGE FRUIT" was invited by "Scandinavian Progressive Rock Festival"in 1998 and "Prog Fest '99" at San Francisco. In 2002 Richard Sinclair chose Kido for his Japanese unit.

"SALLE GAVEAU"had tour in Europe in this 2008 summer. He is also a great composer, he offers some compositions to "KIKI".

He is a important member of several group like " Kore- Kyojin "" Salamander" etc. In the other project,he played with various musicians like Pablo Ziegler,,Keiji Haino,Tatsuya Yoshida,Yadranca, Ryouta Komatsu, COBA,Sizzle Ohtaka,Yosuke Yamashita,Takaaki Segi, Kazuto Shimizu, Mitsuru Nasuno and so on.

He released many albums:

Bondagefruit 1 ~ 6 (Bondagefruit )

Pere-Furu (Pere-Furu)

Totem (ERA)

Three colors of the sky (ERA)

Alley(SALLE GAVEAU)

STRANGE DEVICE (SALLE GAVEAU)

Quiet Life (Solo)

Wild Life(Solo)

BigGames (Coil)

Endless game of Cat and Mouse (Warehouse)

Patorol Girl (Warehouse)

Isotope(Kore Kyojin)

etc

-Kido Natsuki Website (http://www.k3.dion.ne.jp/~u-shi/kiki/kido_e.html)
5/26/2026

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