NEWS ARCHIVE
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2024
• AIRMW is a recipient of a 2024 CityArts Program grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (September 23, 2024)
•"Carrying on Tradition Through Music: Tatsu Aoki and the Toyoakimoto legacy of innovation and tradition in the Japanese cultural arts of Chicago," Pacific Citizen Vol.179, No.6 (September 20, 2024)
• The MIYUMI Project mentioned the Hyde Park Jazz Festival preview on Chicago Reader (September 18, 2024)
• ​Tatsu Aoki selected for 2024 Avant-Garde Masters Grants, awarded by The Film Foundation and the National Film Preservation Foundation (September 10, 2024)
• Stooping to Talk to a Cat on a Doorstep (from AIRecords) reviewed in Dusted Magazine (June 2024)
​• Toyoaki feature on Chicago Shimpo, English version, Japanese version (June 2024)
​• Tatsu Aoki's The MIYUMI Project mentioned as a Quick Pick feature in 10 must-see shows happening during EXPO Chicago for EXPO ART WEEK (April 2024)
• Asian Improv Records' newest releases Sunlight Filtering Through Leaves by Chicago-based musician Mai Sugimoto is on recommended new release list of The New York City Jazz Record's annual “Women in Jazz Issue"(March 2024)
• View the archived recording of Haruhi Kobayashi's interview of Tatsu Aoki on Fred Anderson's legacy. Event co-presented by AIRMW & Experimental Sound Studio (February 2024)
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2023
• Tatsu Aoki interview for Jazz Tokyo: https://jazztokyo.org/interviews/post-89664/ (July 1, 2023)
• AIRMW awarded a Chicago Arts Recovery Program grant from the Chicago Mayor’s Office & the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (May 9, 2023)
• Tsukasa Taiko on WGN's Daytime Chicago segment (May 8, 2023)​
• BEST EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC ON BANDCAMP: APRIL 2023 featuring Tatsu Aoki's new album "Actual Music Now" (May 3, 2023)
​• CHICAGO SHIMPO “Grand Opening of New Dojo, AIRMW Cultural Hub” (March 30, 2023)
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2022
• Tsukasa Taiko on NBC Chicago Today (August 10, 2022)