Cinq

About the artist

Cinq is the solo project of Masaaki Takemura, born in Nagano, Japan. He started playing the guitar when he was a junior high school student and encountered Jazz at high school. As a college student, he performed in his jazz combo at clubs in Kyoto. Later he got samplers and sequencers, when he shifted his musical focus away from playing in the band to composing and recording. He participated in Harbest 2000 for the club king and a compilation album on the ambient label Ryoondo-tea for which he scouted for new artists and produced some albums.

Top songs

1. nightfall at the riverside
2. Lefty
3. Spillover
4. midnight crickets
5. an afternoon nap
6. the first train for (k)ichijoji
7. 700 Block
8. Doesn't Matter
9. a sudden shower
10. Snakes

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