Chikara Aoshima

Chikara Aoshima was born in Hamamatsu, Japan. His father is an abstract painter Saburo Aoshima. He started playing drums about 14 years old. Chikara entered Pan School of Music. There started composing and he played with a number of bands. ZANZO was one of them which is a Progressive Rock band. He performed with them in SXSW 2005 in Austin, Texas. In 2007, he entered to Berklee College of Music In Boston U.S. In 2011, he graduated from Berklee College of Music.

In 2012, two of his tracks featured by Sup peeps record from London the UK. In 2013, his first solo album "Close Down" was released from Somehow recording in the UK moreover one of his tracks was used by String & Fader in Boston, the US for a compilation Album called "Dance Think Move". In the same year, he moved to Berlin, Germany and he focuses on combining between Electronic music and Acoustic music as well as 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.