Naoto Yamagishi

Drummer and percussionist, born in Saitama, Japan
Naoto started drumming at the age of 13 and studied under Takuya Abe in Japan.
He collaborates with various artists regardless of genres – musicians, dancers, poet, photographers, calligraphers, Ikebana the Japanese flower arrangement artist and media artists – from Japan and overseas.
His major projects include ‘Shoju-Sennenno-Midori’ (松樹千年翠) with a Japanese calligrapher Setsuhi Shiraishi, an Ikebana flower arrangement artist Oshun Tsukagoshi and Biwa player Rie Fujitaka, ‘En Route’ with a painter Akiko Ueda, and usva with Lauri Hyvärinen & Jone Takamäki(Finland) and more.