Takumi Seino is a Japanese guitarist who has performed and recorded with diverse acts including Drops Trio - VOS records, Japan, Priority - Musea records, France, Ryo Hashizume Group - Hao records, USA, The Third Impression, Six North - Musea records, France, Next Order - LoLo Records, USA. He has also performed improvised music frequently, as a solo or group artist. He has appeared on over 50 CD releases on labels in the USA, Europe and Japan.

PRAED
Founded in 2006 by Raed Yassin and Paed Conca, Praed is a band whose musical oeuvre can be described as a mixture of Arabic popular music, free jazz, and electronics. The band made its first public appearance in Al Maslakh festival in Switzerland, immediately followed by a concert at the Irtijal festival in Beirut. Since then, the band has frequented numerous international music festivals and toured intensively world-wide, spanning the Arab world, Japan, Europe and Canada. Through these endeavors, they have created a large global network with other renowned musicians as musical collaborators. Their music is essentially multi-instrumental: Raed Yassin plays keyboards, electronics and vocals; and Paed Conca plays clarinet, electric bass and electronics.