Shoko Nagai/Satoshi Takeishi's VORTEX

Vortex is a project created by Shoko Nagai (piano, accordion, analog synthesizers, electronics) and Satoshi Takeishi (playing a unique “hybrid set” consisting of both western and eastern tradition percussions) with a mission is to integrate cultural, technological and musical elements that surround us in everyday life into a coherent musical structure expanding the possibility of sonic palette for the use in contemporary jazz composition and improvisation. Their use of a variety of acoustic instruments and electronic processing have successfully created sonic world of such vividness that their music has been described as “Treat every moment as an opportunity for deep synchronicity” 

–The New York Times, Giovanni Russonello