2025

KAKUHAN is a duo project formed by Koshiro Hino and Yuki Nakagawa in 2022.

Hino is known for his solo project as YPY, and as a leading member of a four piece band goat (JP) , as well as for running record labels NAKID and Birdfriend.

The word KAKUHAN in Japanese means ‘stirring’ of various different elements. It perfectly describes the duo’s musical approach in ways they have stirred the boundaries of ‘electronic/string’, ‘contemporary/club music’, ‘traditional/contemporary’, ‘physical/metaphysical’ and ‘composition/ improvisation.’

The fusion of electronic and acoustic instruments, the digitisation of instrumental sounds, and the reimagining of digitised sounds have been attempted repeatedly in the field of experimental and contemporary music, but what we hear from KAKUHAN has the potential to transform them to the extent they have not reached before.