Drummer/Composer

Chikara Aoshima was born in Hamamatsu Japan. He grew up with Rock music and his music background was influenced by his older brother. 

He started playing drums at Yamaha music school in his hometown. Also started playing guitar in high school.

Chikara entered Pan School of Music in Tokyo where he learned music theory, piano, and further developed his drumming skills. There he played with a number of bands. ZANZO was one of them which is a Progressive Electronic Rock band. 

After graduating from Pan School he focused on ZANZO. He performed in SXSW 2005 in Austin, TX.

In 2007, he entered to Berklee College of Music In Boston U.S. The first of a couple of years he focused  on Jazz, Funk Latin drumming. But his interest was changing to compose Electronic music gradually.

In 2011, he graduated from Berklee College of Music.

In 2012, two of his tracks featured by Sup peeps record from London, UK.

In 2013, his album "Close Down" was released from Somehow recording in the UK. He moved to Berlin in Germany and he focuses on combining between Electronic music and Acoustic music also  visual arts.

In 2014, he joined Locust Fudge which was founded by Schneider (a.k.a. Dirk Dresselhaus of Schneider TM, Die Angel, ex-Hip Young Things etc.) and Krite (a.k.a. Christopher Uhe, ex-Speed Niggs, ex-Sharon Stoned, ex-Floor etc.). 

In 2015, he started playing with a guitarlist/composer Alex Baboian as Schlafwagen. He collaborated with DJ Sudo and released their EP "Awakening" from Night Light Records in London, the UK.

In 2016, he played at Deutsches theater(Marat/Sade) until 2018. He joined Locust Fudge's new album recording "Oscillation" with well-known musicians such as Ulrich Krieger (Lou Reed, Metal Machine Trio), J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), and had a release show at Berghain Kantine in 2018. In the same year, he played in Fusion Festival as Schlafwagen. He had a collaboration film called "Rotten Cats" which won the Pool18 Pearls Award. 

In 2019, he has composed all the music for "Shinsekai Into the Depths" from the legendary video game company CAPCOM which was presented at WWDC. Since December 2019, he has been playing at Volksbühne for a theater play "Legende". In March 2020,"Shinsekai Into the Depths" was released on Nintendo Switch as well as the original sound track.

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