As a composer and musician under the keyword of "child's view", Nobukazu Takemura flows freely back and forth across the world of music from experimental and contemporary classic to jazz and hip hop. Alongside his huge output of recordings, including "Scope" and "10th", he has also provided sound design production for a number of other artists projects and clients including the internal voice of Sony's AIBO. More recently he has been concentrating on creating imagery and graphics.

"There was trouble with the PA so everything didn't go to plan, but I like being in Sheffield. I just played in London on Sunday. It's my first time in Britain. It's a very mysterious city. It's a civilian city and there's nature around it and there's not very many places like that" Nobukazu Takemura (Japan)

"I quite liked it. It reminded me of the sort of thing you see in spy films where they hypnotise the enemy spy to try and get information out of them, it felt like at some time in the middle of the night he's going to turn on a beacon on in his room and we're all going to get up and walk to some location unknown to us at the moment..."
Tom Betts & Jonny Picher