T-Bone is a guitar player from Canada. He graduated from the prestigious Music Industry Arts program in London, Ontario. He worked as a guitar instructor and session player before moving to Taiwan in 1999. In Taiwan, he has worked as a host for a radio program and has co-produced full-scale musical productions of The Wall and The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. T- Bone has performed all over Taiwan playing in bands, appearing solo and doing session guitar work.

Yasu is a percussionist from Tokyo, Japan where his extensive professional career includes work with X Japan (!) and its members, Stranger than Paradise, and countless others. He moved to Taiwan in 2006 to work for a music production company and has since worked with many of Taiwan’s top artists, including writing a hit single for Yang Pei An, which was used as a national ad campaign for Taiwan beer. He currently teaches drumming and appears at drum and percussion clinics all over Taiwan.

Using variations of tempo and time signatures, as well as unique chord structures and rhythms, T-Bone and Yasu’s music creates interesting and original textures. Playing beyond a “guitar and a box”, they tackle arrangements that might normally be reserved for full bands.

“ I met Yasu when he showed up at a gig I was playing with a box. As he didn’t speak English and I don’t speak Japanese, he just showed me the box made noise and sat down with me. I had never seen anything like it in my life…he made this box sound like a drum kit and then some.. hahaha.. From the first chord we played together, we both knew it was something special. Truly, this is a situation where we use the language of music to communicate on stage. Frankly, I don’t know how we do it sometimes. I think this is something that is unique, as we never play anything the same way twice, and yet sophisticated and removed from a ‘jam band’. I don’t know how he follows what I do. I can switch to an odd meter and he has yet to ever miss a beat.”
T-Bone