Shin Terai is a Japanese musician and producer most known for his work with

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and

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. On his albums he combines

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with dub and

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Biography

Shin Terai gained some first publicity as the singer of Chaos Face, a project by Laswell and Robert Musso. Second singer on Chaos Face's only album '' Doom Ride'' was

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, the former drummer of the metal band

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. The first album under Shin Terai's own name was ''Unison'', released in 1999. Guest musicians included

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and

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, besides Laswell and Buckethead. In 2004, Laswell reworked the material for the remix album ''Heaven & Hell''. Intermediately Terai worked as producer of ''Soup'', a trio consisting of Laswell, guitarist

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and drummer Yasuhiro Yoshigake (also playing trumpet). In 2007, with ''Lightyears'' another album was released under his own name. It featured the core members Laswell, Buckethead and Worrell, besides Nils Petter Molvær (trumpet), Lili Hayden (violin),

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(strings), DXT (turntables) and Laswell's wife Gigi. Additionally, Aman Laswell (son of Gigi and Bill) can be heard gabbling. ''Lightyears'' was dedicated to him.

Discography (partial)

* 1994: Chaos Face - ''Doom Ride'' (as singer) * 1999: Shin Terai - ''

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'' * 2003: Soup - ''Soup'' (as producer) * 2004: Soup - ''Soup Live'' (as producer) * 2004: Shin.e - '' Heaven & Hell'' * 2007: Shin.e - ''Lightyears''

References

External links

*
Review of ''Unison'' at Fearsmag.com
* Review of ''Heaven & Hell'' at Allmusic.com {{DEFAULTSORT:Terai, Shin Japanese male singers Living people Japanese record producers Year of birth missing (living people)