Ché-SHIZUChé-SHIZU (シェシズ）is an underground Japanese improv/folk group consisting of Chie Mukai

Chie Mukai

is a female Japanese composer and musician, best known for her underground improv-folk group Ché-SHIZU. She has been involved in improvised performance since 1975, when she participated in the East Bionic Symphonia group, a graduation project for students of Takehisa Kosugi at the Bigakko art...

 (向井千恵) and others. The group's sound is dominated by Mukai's vocals and er-hu playing. The group was formed in 1980, but is currently inactive. Many notable musicians from the Japanese underground have played in the group at one time or another, including Tori Kudo

Tori Kudo

Tori Kudo is a Japanese musician, composer and potter, active since the late seventies, and best known for his strikingly naive work in the group Maher Shalal Hash Baz.-External links:* * *...

, Masami Tada, Masami Shinoda

Masami Shinoda

Masami Shinoda was well-known Japanese alto-saxophonist and composer. He began his career in the 1980s and was a member of both Seikatsu Kojo Iinkai Orchestra, and the Japanese band Compostela. His final performance, given in Tokyo in 1992 as a guest saxophonist for the band Cassiber, was...

, Yuriko Mukojima, and Ikuro Takahashi

Ikuro Takahashi

Ikuro Takahashi is a Japanese drummer and percussionist. He has been a central member of many groups from the Tokyo psychedelic underground from the early eighties. Some of the groups he has played with include High Rise, Kousokuya, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Fushitsusha, Ché-SHIZU, Nagisa ni te, LSD...

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Discography

• Yakusoku wa dekinai (約束はできない) LP (zero records, 1984; CD reissue on Alchemy Records
  Alchemy Records (Japan)
  Alchemy Records is a record label based in Osaka, Japan, specializing in noise / experimental music and psychedelic rock. It is run by Jojo Hiroshige of the noise group Hijokaidan. Alchemy has released albums by Hijokaidan, Balzac, Hanatarash, Masonna, Incapacitants, Borbetomagus, and Merzbow,...
  
  , 2001)
• V.A., Aura Music LP (zero records, 1984)
• V.A., Welcome to Dreamland LP/CD (Celluloid, 1985)
• Live-Shu 1 (1986-1988) cassette (Steeple & Globe, 1990)
• V.A., Mushy cassette (Gekkan Kaeru, 1992)
• Nazareth (ナザレ) CD (PSF
  P.S.F. Records
  P.S.F. Records is a Japanese record label specialising in underground psychedelic and folk music, and free improvisation. P.S.F. are named after the 1985 High Rise record Psychedelic Speed Freaks and were established in Tokyo by Hideo Ikeezumi with the philosophy "I only release to what I like,...
  
  , 1993)
• A Journey CD (PSF, 1994)
• Live 1996 Suisho CD (PSF, 1997)
• Glimmering Star (瞬きの星) LP (Aleutian Retto, 1999; CD reissue on Alchemy Records, 2001)