HAJIME SAKITA ( Musical saw, Guitar, Composer, MC ) 

HAJIME SAKITA was born in 1971, in Osaka, Japan. In 1991, SAKITA was most impressed with performance of MIYAKOYA UTAROKU, the leading saw player in Japan. He discovered fluctuation in his mind between humorousness of the player's style and melancholiness of the sound, which is exclusive to saw music. Soon SAKITA began to learn to play a musical saw by himself and took up a post as the leader of the Japan Musical Saw Association Kansai branch. In 1997, SAKITA won first place at Santa Cruz's Musical Saw Festival and played in foreign countries such as Czech Republic and South Korea.
SAKITA is also a guitar and musical saw player of an acoustic duo, "HAJIME NI KIYOSHI", and has released four CDs. The original "comfortable HANAUTA (humming) scenery music" of this duo attracts a wide range of fans. HAJIME NI KIYOSHI produces many TV and commercial music and appear in big music festivals such as FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL, as well as plays concerts at unique venues including a public bathhouse, a church, and a MACHIYA. The music of "BOKUNCHI", a movie directed by Junji Sakamoto in 2003, is also their work.
In 2004, SAKITA got the second victory at Santa Cruz's Musical Saw Festival. In November 2004, SAKITA held the first musical saw festival in Japan and achieved great success.
In 2005, SAKITA was received Sakuya Konohana Award from the City of Osaka.
Now working on the recording of his first solo CD album.

MUSICAL SAW SONGS "S" HAJIME SAKITA 1st Album 10 songs/BTHK-002/￥2600（tax in） MUSIC CAB Ltd. DISTRIBUTED by Bet-talis 1,Toward the Light (Hajime Sakita)　♪sample 2, Flower Wind (Naoko Komatsu)　♪sample 3, Sabre Dance (khachaturian) 4, Sosyu Yakyoku (Ryouichi Hattori) 5, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (French folk song)　♪sample 6, SAW FUNNY RUG (Hajime Sakita)　♪sample 7, VIOLA (Hajime Sakita)　♪sample 8, Paradise~ Lascia ch'io pianga~ (Handel)　♪sample 9, TOMORROW (Hajime Sakita)　♪sample 10, Londonderry Air (Irish folk song)　♪sample

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