Kishi Bashi is Kaoru Ishibashis selfrecorded and selfproduced project, released by Joyful Noise Recordings. Ishibashi is a founding member of Jupiter One, as well as a member of the band Of Montreal.
Kishi Bashi is the pseudonym of singer, multiinstrumentalist, and songwriter Kaoru Ishibashi . Born in Seattle, Washington, Ishibashi grew up in Norfolk, Virginia where both of his parents were professors at Old Dominion University. As a 1994 graduate of Matthew Fontaine Maury High School, he went on to study film scoring at Berklee College of Music before becoming a renowned violinist. Ishibashi has recorded and toured internationally as a violinist with diverse artists such as Regina Spektor, Sondre Lerche, and most recently, the Athens, Georgiabased indie rock band, of Montreal. He remains based in Athens.
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