Drummer

• Born in Oita prefecture, Japan.

• Released LP Great Death, which was his first album as leader.

• Released his solo album, Tsuji Seppoh.
• Formed the trio "Goku" Nonaka & Ningenkokuho.

• Played at the top of Mt. Fuji (3,776 meters high).

• Made a 12,000-kilometer drumming tour across the Asian continent, carrying his drum set: played in Tiananmen Square and on the Great Wall of China; at the Potara Temple, and at an altitude of 5,350 meters on the world's highest mountain, Mt. Chomoramma, in Tibet; at an Afghan camp in Pakistan; by the Ganges River in India; and in Istanbul, Turkey.

• Published his first book, Batchi Atari, about his Asian drumming tour.

• Made a 5,000-kilometer drumming tour across the African continent, carrying his drum set: played at the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania; in a Masai village in Kenya; in Kampala, Uganda; and in a pygmy village and by the Zaire River in Zaire.

• Published his second book, Africa Ongaku Tanken-ki, about his African drumming tour.
• Published his third book, Oira ga Goku da.
• Released "Goku" Nonaka & Ningenkokuho's first CD, Jolly.

• Made a 15,000-kilometer drumming tour across Central and South America, carrying his drum set: played at a Lacandon village in Mexico; on a street in Guatemala; in villages near the Amazon River in Colombia and Peru; and at the Carnaval in Rio, Brazil.

• Released "Goku" Nonaka & Ningenkokuho's second CD, Dull.

• Published his fourth book, Amazon Ongaku Hyoryuki, about his Central and South American tour.
• Released "Goku" Nonaka & Ningenkokuho's third CD, Dump.

• Played in Da Nang, Vietnam; in Sri Lanka; and in a Somali refugee camp in Kenya.
• Made a 3,500-kilometer drumming tour across Japan, carrying his drum set.

• Played in Shanghai, China and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

• Visited Uganda to expand his drumming style.
• Released "Goku" Nonaka & Ningenkokuho's fourth CD, Over Drive.

• Russian tour with Ningenkokuho, including an appearance at the Sergey Kuryokhin Memorial Festival.

• "Goku" Nonaka & Ningenkokuho appeared at the Moers New Jazz Festival in Germany.

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