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Hideki Ishima was born on 21 March, 1944 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, is a Japanese musician (born 1944). Discover Hideki Ishima's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 79 years old?

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Occupation Musician
Age 79 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 21 March 1944
Birthday 21 March
Birthplace Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
Nationality Japan

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Hideki Ishima (石間 秀機) is a Japanese musician, known primarily for his work with Flower Travellin' Band and for creating the sitarla instrument.

1966

He moved to Tokyo and formed the group sounds band The Beavers in 1966, who had released four albums and one single but had not had major success.

Ishima began playing sitar at 24, after researching Gábor Szabó at the suggestion of a woman and learning that the jazz guitarist also played this instrument he had never heard of.

1968

He taught himself from Ravi Shankar's 1968 book My Music, My Life, looking up the Japanese translations for the English words.

1969

In 1969, while in the blues band Mystic Morning with Joe Yamanaka, the two of them were scouted by Yuya Uchida for Flower Travellin' Band.

1973

When they went on hiatus in 1973, Ishima recorded the solo album One Day and joined a group called Trans Am.

After a few years off, he followed this with the Donjuan R&R Band with Kenichi Hagiwara.

1980

During the 1980s he was in Co-Colo alongside Kenji Sawada and Nobuhiko Shinohara, before being fired.

1990

Ishima quit guitar in 1990, citing money problems.

1998

After a 40-minute sitar lesson from Manilal Nag during a trip to Japan in 1998, Ishima became a student of Nag's Japanese apprentice.

2000

A guitarist and sitar player for nearly forty years, he now exclusively plays the sitarla, an instrument he invented in 2000 that combines aspects of a sitar with an electric guitar.

Guitarists Akira Takasaki, Rolly, and Mikael Åkerfeldt have cited him as an influence.

Ishima started playing guitar at 19, at the behest of a friend who wanted to be in a band.

His first group was Jarōzu (ジャローズ) in his native Sapporo shortly after graduating high school.

He made a comeback in 2000 exclusively playing the sitarla.

That year, he recorded the album More-ish with the multinational group Pythagoras Party.

It was conceptualized by Ishima and created by Masao Nagai in 2000.

The sitarla was displayed at the 2000 NAMM Show.

2007

The improvisational instrumental group View was formed in 2007.

At the end of 2007, Flower Travellin' Band officially reunited.

Ishima revealed that there were several talks about getting back together prior, but they were all centered around nostalgia, something he has no interest in.

It was only when their producer suggested they write new material and play it together with the old songs for a three-year period that a reunion came to fruition.

Ishima also said that even though two of the other members had not played in years, they were eager and pushed him into doing it, helped by the fact that his new instrument made the old material interesting.

The sitarla (シターラ) is an instrument that combines aspects of the sitar with the solid body electric guitar.

2008

It is a hollow-bodied instrument, 3 1/2 tones lower than a guitar, with only three existing in the world as of 2008.

Ishima said he had the idea for the instrument 15 years prior, but everybody told him he was crazy.

He now plays the instrument exclusively, and it replaced his guitar playing in Flower Travellin' Band when they reunited.

It is featured on their 2008 album We Are Here.