PROFILE

日本語

学生の頃よりレゲエに目覚め、DJを経験後単身N.Yに渡る。

その後様々なジャンルの音楽やアート、人種や考え方に触れる内に日本人の持つ
独特の文化や感受性の高さ、奥深さに改めて気付き自らのオリジナリティーを求め帰国後和楽の門を叩く。

数年後、家元より尺八、篠笛を伝授され「整萌(せいも)」の名を授かる。

2011年よりソロとしての活動を本格化させ、フランスのビッグフェス「ArtRock2011」や
ドイツで開催された「FIFA women’s world cup events」「Nippon connection」「Japanfest2016」などに出演。

また、単独フランスツアーやドイツツアー、アフリカ公演を行い、
日本のみならず海外にも活動の場を広め高い評価を得ている。

2017年、528ヘルツの持つ可能性に肝銘を受け、エイコン・ヒビノ氏に師事する事となる。 その縁から2017年7月、天河大弁財天社例大祭での奉納演奏、さいたまスーパーアリーナで行われたさだまさし主催の「風に立つライオン基金」イベント等に出演。

2018年４月、自身メジャーデビューアルバムとなる「ピアノ尺八528マリアージュ」をリリース。世界で初めて528ヘルツに調律された尺八・篠笛を手に、現在は528Hzピアニスト 小瀧 俊治との活動を開始。

English

Seimo Yamaguchi began his musical journey playing guitar in high school.
After graduation he found work as a DJ in the club scene of Osaka.

His artistic drive eventually led him to New York City where he immersed himself in the bohemian music and art of the Lower East Side. Such cultural diversity helped him open his eyes to his own Japanese heritage, and with a renewed sense of purpose he returned to his home country to knock on the gates of traditional Japanese music.

Yamaguchi spent the next several years studying shakuhachi and shinobue with the esteemed grand master Seido Inoue.
It was Seido Inoue-sensei who bestowed on Yamaguchi the ceremonial name of Seimo to signify the level Yamaguchi had attained.

Yamaguchi then set out on a solo career blending traditional Japanese music with modern Western influences.

While continuing to perform throughout Japan, Yamaguchi has also appeared at Art Rock 2011 in France, FIFA Women’s World Cup Germany 2011, a music festival in the African country of Djibouti, and the 2015 Nippon Connection film festival in Frankfurt. Yamaguchi toured France in 2014, followed up by 2015 tour of Germany.

In 2017, Yamaguchi was struck by the possibility of the 528Hz music and started to study under ACOON HIBINO, a leading expert in the field. This brought him new opportunities to perform at the Tenkawa Daibenzai Tensha Festival as well as ‘The Lion Standing Against the Wind Foundation’s event run by a renowned singer Masashi Sada at the Saitama Super Arena.

With the world’s first 528Hz-tuned shakuhachi and shinobue in his hands, he is now pursuing collaborative endeavors with a 528Hz pianist Toshiharu Kotaki. They release the first album “528Hz Marriage of Piano and Shakuhachi” in April 2018, which made a major debut for Yamaguchi.