Uchihashi Kazuhisa has been played on NTS in shows including Death Is Not The End, featured first on 13 January 2018. Songs played include Carl Stone, Hans Reichel, Kazuhisa Uchihashi And Opitope and Warna-Tanah Medley (Senyawa).

Kazuhisa Uchihasi (内橋和久, Uchihashi Kazuhisa) is a Japanese guitarist involved in free improvisation music. Born in 1959 in Osaka, Uchihashi began to play the guitar at age 12, playing in various rock bands, though he later studied jazz music. In 1988 he joined the band the First Edition, and in 1990 formed the band Altered States. He was also a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997. Uchihashi also plays daxophone, and in addition to his role as a free improviser, Uchihashi has been the musical director for Osaka theatre group Ishin-ha, has held improvisation workshops (a project known as New Music Action) in various cities in Japan, as well as London, and has set up his own record label, Zenbei Records.

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Tatsuya Yoshida (吉田達也, Yoshida Tatsuya?) is a Japanese musician and composer who, as the group's drummer, is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as the later Koenji Hyakkei. Outside of his own groups, Yoshida is renowned for his tenure as drummer in 80's indies progressive group YBO2, a band also featuring guitarist KK Null. He is cited as the "indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground" [1], a "rhythm section gone ballistic" [2], and the best and largest hope for continuing the Christian Vander made genre of Zeuhl. (both from wikipedia)

Together they have recorded three albums of improvised music together: 2005 - Improvisations (2CD) 2005 - Hercules' Icy Club 2007 - Improvisations 2 (3CD)