A solo album "Utsusemi" featuring steelpan by Yoshio Machida. In addition to the steelpan, he also plays and overdubs all the other instruments, including drums, bass, piano, and electronics, on this ambitious work. In a calm atmosphere, the transparent sound of the steelpan, piano, and electric piano weave a poetic scene. An ambient piece with an aesthetic feel reminiscent of ECM works, sweet melodies of the steelpan, and a somewhat nostalgic feel. All tittes are old Japanese words. "Utsusemi" is cicada shell, means all people who live at this moment and also nothing. Influenced from Buddism concept "Form is emptiness, emptiness is form."
Utsusemi
Info: Amorfon /
Digital streaming
Ohanami (Tatsuhisa Yamamoto + Yoshio Machida) will play at hako gallery.
Time/Date: 20:00-, 3 July, 2025
Venue: hako gallery
Ohanami: Tatsuhisa Yamamoto (ds) + Yoshio Machida (steelpan, electronics)
Charge: 3,000yen
Info: hako gallery
Osoyoos(Cal Lyall + Yoshio Machida) will play at hako gallery
Time/Date: 19:00-, 22 May, 2025
Venue: hako gallery
Artist: Sid Frank, Carl Stone, Osoyoos(Cal Lyall + Yoshio Machida)
Charge: 3,000yen
Info: hako gallery
Machida will play Steelpan at SupernaturalDeluxe on 11 May.
Venue: SupernaturalDeluxe
Day 1
Time/Date: 15:00-, 10 May, 2025
Artist: 🇯🇵 Yosuke Yamashita (solo piano), 🇯🇵 Taketeru Kudo (dance), 🇺🇸 John Dikeman (sax), 🇨🇭 Nicolas Field (percussion), 🇨🇦 Cal Lyall (sound installation), 🇫🇷 Yoann Moreau (talk), 🇯🇵 Phil Cashman (talk), 🇯🇵 Ryo Kusunose (sax), 🇯🇵 MAKO (dance), 🇨🇭 Laurent Valdès (visuals), 🇯🇵 Misola (visuals), and more!
Day 2
Time/Date: 14:00-, 11 May, 2025
FDF Trio (🇨🇭 Nicolas Field – drums, 🇺🇸 John Dikeman – sax, 🇨🇭 Thomas Florin – piano), 🇯🇵 Taketeru Kudo (dance), 🇨🇦 Cal Lyall (sound installation), 🇯🇵 Yoshio Machida (steel pan), 🇯🇵 Ryo Kusunose (sax), 🇯🇵 MAKO (dance), 🇯🇵 Misola (visuals), 🇨🇭 Laurent Valdès (visuals), 🇺🇸 Jamie Lee Reed (yoga), 🇫🇷 Yoann Moreau (talk), and more!
Charge: [One-day ticket 5/10] Advance ￥5,500 | Local Discount ￥5,000 | Student ￥3,500 | Door ￥6,000 / [Two-day pass] General ￥7,500 | Local Discount ￥6,500
Info: SupernaturalDeluxe
At an event of Taiwanese artist GAN-Ting-Xu(Jimi Wen), Machida will play Synthi.
Time/Date: 19:00-, 24 Mar, 2025
Venue: Neort++
Artist: GAN-Ting-Xu, Cal Lyall, Christophe Charles, Yoshio Machida
Charge: Free
Info: Tokyo Gig Guide
Machida's solo album "Documentary Music" is released. Including 12 page text booklet written by Machida titled "The Essence of Art." A collection of soundtracks for documentary programs on artists such as "Shinro Ohtake," "Tanizaki Junichiro," and "Maruyama Okyo," produced by NHK from 2020 to 2023.
NHK TV program soundtracks
- Tanizaki Junichiro on Japanese Aesthetics - In Praise of Shadows (2020)
- A Bug in the System: Artist Ohtake Shinro (2022)
- Artist Ohtake Shinro “My Art My Memory”(2022)
- Maruyama Okyo, The temple of miracle (2023)
Documentary Music
Info: Amorfon /
Digital streaming
Machida's solo album "Music from the SYNTHI #2" is released. Including 16 page booklet with text and Synhi photos.
Music from the SYNTHI #2
Info: Amorfon
I made a soundtrack for Biljana Isijanin and Sandra Kotevska's exhibition "The Wanderer" in Skopje, North Macedonia.
Place: National Gallery of Macedonia – Multimedia Centre "Mala Stanica"
Info: Multimedia Centre "Mala Stanica"
Osoyoos (Cal Lyall + Yoshio Machida) will play at hikari no uma.
Time/Date: 19:30-, 7 Sep, 2024
Venue: hikari no uma
Artist:
Albedo Gravitas
keiko higuchi (p, dr, vo)/ Sachiko (vo, electronics, etc)/ shizuo uchida (4 strings)
Osoyoos
Cal Lyall (gt)/ Yoshio Machida (steelpans)
Charge: 2,500yen- (+1D order)
Info: hikari no uma
New Album of Osoyoos (Cal Lyall + Yoshio Machida) is released as cassette from VLZ Produkt.
Osoyoos [Satellite Rides, Night Lies]
Info: VLZ Produkt
New Album of Osoyoos (Cal Lyall + Yoshio Machida) will be released. The release event will be held.
VLZ PRODUKT Presents
Osoyoos [Satellite Rides, Night Lies]
New Cassette Tape Release Event
Time/Date: 19:00-, 3 Dec, 2023
Artist: Osoyoos, HIROYUKI, Keiko Higuchi+TOMO
Drop liquid painting: Yutsuki Suyama
DJ: Atsushi Reizen
Charge: Donation 2,000yen- + 500yen(1D)
Info: Soup
At live show of a Spanish sound artist Cristian Subirá aka Jason Kolàr, Machida will play steelpan.
Time/Date: 19:00-, 16 Sep, 2023
Artist: Jason Kolàr, Yoshio Machida
Charge: Donation 1,000yen- + 800yen(1D)
Info: Apollo
Machida’s creative card "Narativ Cards" (in Japanese) is published. It’s a card deck that helps you get inspired and have fun. App version "Narativ" (iOS / Android, billingual) is also available. When you're stuck for ideas, you can refer to 40 hints to develop your ideas. Based on general tarot, which is a collection of the wisdom of our ancestors, it is incorporated ideas from narrative therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and quantum mechanics, reinterpreting the meanings to fit modern situations and making them more intuitive to use.
[card version]
distribution: Visionary Company
Price: 3,300yen (+ tax)
Info: Narativ Cards
[application version]
■iOS: Narativ
■Android: Narativ
Machida will play Synthi AKS.
Time/Date: 19:00-, 30 Jul, 2023
Artist: Akira Sakata + Mitsuhisa Sakaguchi + Cal Lyall + Joe Talia, Carl Stone + Yumiko Tanaka, Shizuo Uchida + Yoshio Machida
Charge: 2,500yen (1D)
Info: Ochiai Soup
Machida will play steelpan at a cultural center in Chiba (former elementary school).
Time/Date: 13:00-, 7 May, 2023
Info: Hota Elementary School
Machida made soundtrack for NHK TV documentary "Ohkyo Maruyama, The temple of miracle".
On air: 20:00-21:00, 12 March, 2023
Info: NHK BS8K
Ohanami (Yoshio Machida + Tatsuhisa Yamamoto) will play for a Halhigan festival at a temple, Ryodenji.
Date: 21 March, 2023
Time: 11:00-16:00 (Ohanami will play at 14:20.)
Info: Ryodenji, Tokyo
NHK TV program "A Painter Ohtake Shinro, 21st Century Bug Man" that Machida made the soundtrack is now palyed at The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.
1 Nov, 2022 - 5 Feb. 2023
Info: The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
