“In a milieu of increasingly specialized skills, Kikuchi might be considered a kind of polymath. As a composer, instrument builder, percussionist and movement awareness practitioner, he manages to integrate his different abilities and interests to forge an authentic voice.” read full article
Read the February 2011 Earshot Jazz profile article
“The music sounds like it belongs with some kind of ritual for a world we do not yet know.”
“Kikuchi’s ensembles paint vivid sound pictures, ones which reward repeated listening.”
“Gorgeous sounds.”
“…Kikuchi straddles an interesting line between Philly Joe licks and Paul Lovens kitchen-sink…”
“…Kikuchi’s scintillating percussive asides and pneumatic tom-tom work occasionally sounds almost electronically generated and alien in their timbre…”
