snoweffect
Takafumi Ishikawa,Masaaki Takemura,KenIchiro Hoshi.1st album『Desktop Caffeine』releaced in 2001,played at Japanese pop music festival in New York in 2002.
They create many music works for famous Japanese radio proglam "snakeman show",and Nintendo's game soft "GIFTPIA"(nintendo),call-signal-with-melodies warehouse project with"comedy club king"(club king) .
and snoweffect is as known as produce team of ryoondo-tea,Firo(by KenIchiro Hoshi),heprcam(by Takemura and hoshi),Oriental homeward(Ishikawa and Hoshi) and Oto-graph(by KenIchiro hoshi) are their produce.On Feb 2005,new album "rustic physiocrat" is released.
Takafumi Ishikawa
saxophone player,composer. He is well known as saxphone player at world's end girlfriend(noble) or many other sessions. Ishikawa plays important part as sound engineer in snoweffect. As known as recording project "BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS" with Kazumasa Hashimoto from 2000.
Masaaki Takemura (a.k.a. cinq)
As his solo project cinq ,he released 1st album sketch (MIDI/noble CXCA-1094) in 2001. well known as a guiterist from his eary days in Kyoto, he took part in many sessions like Kazumi Nikaido or Nishiyama Hirono's gootefolk (daysyworld discs).
KenIchiro Hoshi
leader and producer of snoweffect. A lot of ideas of ryoondo-tea is based on his conception. Sometime as an artist, sometime as a publisher, KenIchiro had worked in the lot of scene of Japanese techno or ambient since 1995. Producer of the rabel and the radio proglam. rabel representive of ryoondo-tea.