Interoce

Interoce: The Other Side of the World

by Eric J. Iannelli
April 15, 2004

While attending the Osaka University of Foreign Studies in the early part of the 1990s, guitarist Hiroya Tsukamoto developed a fancy for South American music, namely the Nueva Canción movement of Victor Jara (a fatality of Pinochet’s US-sponsored military coup in 1973) and Violeta Parra. He soon formed a likeminded jazz group called Playa Azul and went out on the road. A few years later he was chosen to perform with Voces del Sur as the group toured across Japan.