You'd swear on Eddie's corpse that this was a lost Zorn/Patton concoction...
"Akira Sakata is a Japanese free jazz saxophonist. Born in Hiroshima on 21 February 1945, he first heard jazz on short-wave radio and 'Voice Of America', then became more interested in it from listening to film soundtracks. He began studying music seriously in high school, and played in a jazz band when at university. He was with the 'Yamashita Yosuke Trio' from 1972 to 1979 and toured internationally with them. In 1986, he played with Bill Laswell's 'Last Exit'. Laswell went on to play bass for and produce several of Sakata's albums, one of which featured the reclusive Pete Cosey (who had worked with Miles Davis) on guitar. He later worked with DJ Krush and Chikamorachi. His career nearly ended in 2002, when he had a brain haemorrhage. He had to relearn the saxophone and returned to performing after three months."
