about us
It all started with the strange idea of "I want to play with a large number of people."
A large-scale project centered on Soshi Uchida and Megu Imaji .
The biggest attraction is the collaboration between Soshi Uchida's composition and arrangement, which has a high degree of musicality from his wide range of musical activities, and Imaji Megu, who has a singing voice that resonates with the heart and a natural melody sense that transcends the boundaries of R & B.
In addition to that, the lyrics of Poison Baby and the contact machine
It is really important to deal with everyday themes that everyone nods.
Soshi Uchida
Soshi Uchida
Graduated from Berklee College of Music in 2001. He made his major debut from Victor Entertainment in 2004 with grooveline, a jazz-funk band that he formed while attending school. Released a total of 3 albums. He has performed several Blue Note tours and is the undercard of Soulive. In addition to grooveline, he participated in projects such as sh⭐︎t, jackazz, 1025 Gospel Choir, and JAMNUTS. At the same time as the band activity, he also supports JUJU, Akinori Nakagawa, Kaori Kobayashi, Keyco, Yoshitaka Minami, Maru Fire Lily, Tyrone Hashimoto as a bassist, and co-stars with Hiromi Uehara, Shuichi Murakami "PONTA" and Tommy Campbell.
Moved the activity base to New York at the end of 2006. While deepening his activities in the local R & B gospel scene, he formed his own band, Neo Blues Maki, and produced music that fused songs reminiscent of enka and Showa Kayo with contemporary gospel-style arrangements. Playing. As a bassist, he supports many artists including Les Nubians, B.Slade, Luke James, Blitz the Ambassador, Kimberly Nichole, Andy Suzuki & The Method, Aligns, and many of them are appointed music directors. Co-starred with Chrisette Michele, India.Arie, Brandy, etc., and also experienced the undercard of The Beatles' Ringo Starr. He has also been a permanent bassist for about five years at the Maranatha Baptist Church, a black church in Queens, Jamaica.
Returning to his hometown of Fukuoka in 2015, in addition to the support of artists such as Megu Imaji, Gun Kondo, Eiichiro Fujiyama, Tsutomu Eto, MIOSIC, Hironori Ura, Yuka, The Perfect Me, TOKU, Eric Marienthal, Kozo Suganuma, Co-starred with Vana Gierig, Shinobu Honda, Kaori Todoroki, etc. He is engaged in various musical activities such as an open mic event called "So-kun's Jam!", A large band called Poison Baby and Contact Machine, and Little America Chorus.
Megu Imaji
Imaji Megu
From an early age, I loved playing the piano, writing poetry, writing songs, and listening to the music on TV and radio. When I was in junior high school, I was impressed by the songs and music of John Lennon and Aretha Franklin, and I started my activities with the desire to become a singer who can convey the excitement. The owner of a unique husky voice. Influenced by a wide range of genres of music, mainly R & B, SOUL, POPS, JAZZ, etc. from the 1960s to the 2000s, I try to create works that I digested through myself in order to sing in Japanese.
From teens to 20 years old, won various domestic contests. After that, while traveling to New York alone several times, I challenged the audition of "Amateur Night" held at the Apollo Theater and passed. Play a part. Participate in open mics and perform live activities. After returning to Japan, he released his own songs. At the same time as releasing two CDs, two release one-man live performances were held, and it became so crowded that there were not enough seats.
Received a scout during live activities in Tokyo and worked as a vocalist of the band HISS !. HISS!'S "ONE" was appointed to the short film "Shizuku <SHIZUKU>" released in 2013. Currently based in Fukuoka, while performing live as a singer-songwriter at events such as live houses and commercial facilities in Osaka and Tokyo, he is active as a singer-songwriter, providing music to other artists, collaborating, chorus keyboard. He is active borderlessly with the theme of "something that reaches the heart" through music such as band support members of.
In 2016, the original song "USO" was appointed as the ending theme of the BS 12 (Twelve) channel program "Kenji Fukuda's Kyushu Danji". In the same year, "USO", which is the 1st single for Megu Imaji, was digitally released. In the same year, participated in "Lalala with Imaji Meg" recorded in KG's new album "LIFE" released. In 2017, Imaji Megu One-Man Live was held at Fukuoka ROOMS. In the same year, the 1st album "I like WHAT I like !!" was released nationwide. In 2018, a limited release from the "Hayuki" digital distribution store.