The concert with Kazuhisa Uchihashi marked the next step in the Japanese musician's cooperation with Polish artists. For several years, Uchihashi has been consistently participating in the Polish New Music Festival in Tokyo, concerting and recording albums with Polish musicians. The album "Utsorui" is no exception. Beside Uchihashi, the recording of the album was participated by three Polish musicians: Michał Górczyński, Dagna Sadkowska, Mikołaj Pałosz and Japanese artist Maya R. The album was inspired by the sound of the Japanese language and the lyrics accompanying the music are based on the poems by of Frederick Nietzsche, Yoshihiro Harada and Kawahigashi Hekigoto.
Kazuhisa Uchihashi is considered one of the greatest guitar improvisers in the world. Alongside Otomo Yoshihide and Keiji Haino, he is a symbol of the Japanese avant-garde. Born in 1959 in Osaka, he started playing the guitar at the age of twelve, and since 1983 he has devoted himself entirely to the improvised music. He experiments with many different devices and sound adapters to enhance the expression of the guitar sound. He also composes music for film, theater, radio plays and television commercials. Uchihashi gained popularity in Japan and around the world thanks to his concerts with such giants of improvised music as Hans Reichel, Ned Rothenberg, Kan Tae Hwan, Peter Brotzmann, Sam Bennett, Steve Beresford, Zeena Parkins, Elliott Sharp. He was a co-founder of the legendary formation Ground Zero, and since 1996 he has been co-organizing the most important Japanese improvised music festival Beyond Innocence. Since 2011, Uchihashi has been regularly participating in Polish New Music Festival in Japan. Except Uchihashi himself, several leading young Polish musicians creating on the border of jazz, avant-garde and improvisation performed at concerts held during the three editions of the festival (2011, 2013, 2014). So far, Uchihashi has appeared on stage of the Polish New Music Festival alongside such Polish artists as Jerzy Rogiewicz, Michael Górczyński, Jerzy Mazzoll, DJ Lenar, Maciej Obara, Dagna Sadkowska, Piotr Domagalski, Wacław Zimpel as well as Paweł Szamburski and Patryk Zakrocki from the SzaZa duo, to name a few.