Making his debut in Canada, Hataken is an improvisational musician, composer, and DJ. As an electronic artist he has worked with musicians across a broad range of styles (ambient jazz, psychedelic, techno, trance, chill out) and has been a force in the Tokyo underground scene for over a decade. Hataken is straight off the heels of a show at South by Southwest, where he performed with Tokyo-based saxophonist Fujiwara Daisuke and their project Quartzhead.

gun-shy (gnsh) :adj.
1) Afraid of loud noise, such as that of gunfire.
2) Extremely distrustful or wary.

Gunshae is live ambience at its most beguiling.

Gunshae is improvised laptop and live instrumentation.

Gunshae is the Panambient project of Canadian dubstep pioneer James “Kuma” Graham and renowned Oboeist and DJ, Eve Mori.

Gunshae is what happens when a classically trained musician and a notorious DJ with a pentiant for improvising, jam on the sound of stuff and things. It’s molten woodwinds and Satie references. It’s a heavy drones and show tunes played by a band sitting on a veranda after too many mint julips. It’s discrete music for the wifi generation.

Every Gunshae recording is different. Every live performance is different. Fully improvised to the utmost extent.

"When people jump through time, they give themselves up to the rhyme and reason of the heavens."

- Julian Cope