Profile No. JA-204

Kiyohiko Senba

Percussion, Drums, Taiko — Japanese — B: December 23, 1954, Tokyo, Japan

Last updated October 21, 2026

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Kiyohiko Senba (仙波清彦; Discogs and some record labels spell the name Semba) is a percussionist whose career runs along two tracks that keep crossing. He was raised inside the drumming tradition of the Japanese theatre, and he has also spent more than four decades in rock, fusion and jazz studios and on their stages. He was an early percussionist of The Square, the band that became T-Square, and in 1982 he founded the art-rock orchestra Haniwa All Stars. This profile says plainly that his own identity is kabuki hayashi (the drum-and-flute music of the kabuki stage) and world-fusion percussion, and that jazz is one important part of his work rather than the whole of it.

He was born in Tokyo on December 23, 1954, the eldest son of the head of the Senba school of hayashi, the traditional ensemble music of Japanese theatre. According to Japanese Wikipedia and the school profile published by Hot Music School, he began studying kotsuzumi (the small shoulder drum) and taiko with his father at about three, and at ten he entered the kabuki world and appeared on stage in many productions; a review of his album Jasmine Talk on Fondsound says that by that age he had played at the National Theatre in Tokyo and the Kabuki-za in Ginza. He studied at the Tokyo University of the Arts, where he received the Ataka Prize for outstanding students of Japanese music, and graduated from its Japanese music course in 1978.

That same year he joined The Square. Discogs credits him on percussion on Midnight Lover and Lucky Summer Lady (both 1978), on Make Me a Star (1979), where the credits list kotsuzumi, otsuzumi, shime-daiko, congas and glockenspiel, on Rockoon (1980), where he also plays synthesizer drums, and on It's Magic (1981). Japanese Wikipedia dates his membership to 1978 through 1980. He came back as a guest on the band's Truth (1987), on the T-Square Super Band album Smile (2013) and on the 40th anniversary reunion record It's a Wonderful Life! (2018). On Truth he is credited alongside the drummer Hiroyuki Noritake.

After leaving the band he became one of Tokyo's most unusual session percussionists, and the credits show how wide that was. Discogs lists him on percussion, marimba and bird whistle for Ryuichi Sakamoto's Hidari Ude no Yume (1981) and on Akiko Yano's Tadaima. (1981). He is on the saxophonist Akira Sakata's 4 O'Clock (1981), Trauma (1982) and Tacology (1987), and on the band Wha-ha-ha's Shinu Toki wa Betsu (1981), a group Fondsound says he formed with the singer Mishio Ogawa and Sakata. He played in Kazumi Watanabe's Mobo Band, with credits on Mobo Club (1984) and Mobo Live (1985), and on Toshinori Kondo and IMA's Taihen (1984). The pianist Fumio Itabashi recorded To Be (Denon, 1989) as a trio with the bassist Nobuyoshi Ino and Senba on percussion. In 1993 he is credited on a track of Casiopea's Dramatic, and he is credited on percussion on Tokyo Operations '94, a Tokyo performance of the game piece Cobra released in 1995 under the group name 吉凶部隊, with John Zorn credited as composer.

Haniwa All Stars is the project that carries his name outside the studio world. The group was formed in 1982, and its first LP, Kiyohiko Senba and His Haniwa All Stars: Haniwa (CBS/Sony, 1983), lists nearly thirty players: Senba on percussion, keyboards and as conductor, Akira Sakata on reeds, the keyboardist Daisaku Kume, the singer and keyboardist Ichiko Hashimoto on vocals, the bassist Tamio Kawabata, the drummer Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami, and a row of koto, shamisen and fue (bamboo flute) players. The album sets kabuki-style ensemble writing against rock rhythm sections and cabaret songs, and Discogs files it under folk, world and country with art-rock and experimental styles, not under jazz. The live album In Concert (Sony, August 1991) added guest singers including Jun Togawa and Demon Kogure, and a two-disc compilation of the group's and his own recordings, Makafushigi: Senju Hiro, followed from Ordermade Factory on March 19, 2019.

His own albums show the same split. Buson (CBS/Sony, 1988), a twelve-track mini-album, was his first project under his own name. Jasmine Talk (Sony, October 21, 1996) leans on Indian and Southeast Asian sources; a review of the album names the Indian classical singer Geeta Deshpande among its performers. Semba (Village Records, 1999), which he composed, arranged, produced and played, includes a medley whose title contains a pointed question, "Jazz?". After 1998 he also led the Asian Fantasy Orchestra, which toured Asian countries, and in 1993 a reformed Haniwa had toured Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka.

His most jazz-identified work under his own name is Faraway (Magic Notes, January 2002), a duet-billed album with Masanori Sasaji, who is credited as co-producer and on piano, guitar, synthesizer and mallet instruments. It is one of two records under his own billing that Discogs tags as jazz (Contemporary Jazz; the other is the 2012 DVD Live!), and it is built from familiar melodies: the NHK travel-program theme "Shin Nihon Kiko," the theme from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence" and "Greensleeves." Around the two principals are Japanese-instrument players on long-song shamisen, Tsugaru shamisen, koto, shakuhachi, shinobue and nohkan, plus French horns, strings, harp and an Okinawan sanshin singer.

The strongest connection to straight-ahead jazz is Pacific Crossing, the album by the pianist Yosuke Yamashita's New York Trio, released on Verve in Japan on October 22, 2003. It is billed to the trio "featuring Meisho Tosha and Kiyohiko Semba." The trio's bassist Cecil McBee and drummer Pheeroan akLaff are joined by Senba on tsuzumi on two tracks and by the fue player Tosha, and the Los Angeles Japanese American National Museum presented the work on October 19, 2004, billing the two guests as acclaimed kabuki musicians. Yamashita had already used Senba on the Jazz Daimyo Sound Revue (1986), where he is credited on taiko; Japanese Wikipedia adds that he gave instrument instruction for the film Jazz Daimyo the same year.

In the 2000s he turned increasingly to large percussion ensembles and to commissions. He formed Semba Sonic Spear in 2000, whose electronic-leaning album Sonic Spear appeared in 2003, and in 2005 he was music director of the "Parade in the Forest" at the Aichi World Expo and led a Haniwa Expo unit. From 2005 he has led Kiyohiko Senba and Karugamozu (仙波清彦とカルガモーズ), a percussion band of roughly twenty musicians, some of them former members of Kodo, according to a Time Out Tokyo listing. He is credited as producer for Japanese traditional music and instruments on the video-game soundtrack Sengoku Musou 2 (Koei, 2006), and Japanese Wikipedia and Discogs both credit him as composer and arranger of most of the music for the anime Bamboo Blade (2007 to 2008). In 2012 the DVD Live!, recorded at the Tokyo club Jirokichi on September 19, 2011, paired him with the guitarist Hirokuni Korekata, the bassist Vagabond Suzuki, the drummer Yasuo Sano and Daisaku Kume; Discogs tags it Jazz, Free Improvisation. In 2023 he is credited on drums on Imabari, a release by Bill Laswell's Drop Zone.

He remains active. He has produced the singer Mie's annual "Pink Lady Night" concerts at Blues Alley Japan in Tokyo (January 2023, 2024 and 2025 editions), and he teaches percussion at the Hot Music School in Akihabara. His schedule lists two Tokyo shows in November 2026: a Karugamozu one-man show on the 25th at Hareta Sora ni Mame Maite in Daikanyama and a Budobatake joint night on the 26th at Tsukimiru Kimi Omou in Aoyama, with Daisaku Kume and the violinist Kaori Takahashi, whom Japanese Wikipedia lists as his wife.

Senba's instrument is a whole percussion section carried by one person. The credits on his records name the kotsuzumi and otsuzumi (small and large hand drums), shime-daiko, o-daiko and jin-daiko, alongside a drum kit, congas, berimbau, glockenspiel, Octapad and synthesizer drums. He learned the first group as a child inside the kabuki tradition, and his habit is to place them where a Western band would put a drum kit, which is why a record like Make Me a Star can sound like Japanese fusion with a theatre drummer in the room.

The scope question is real and should be stated plainly. Against a jazz identity: his leader albums Buson, Jasmine Talk, Semba and the Haniwa All Stars records are tagged folk, world, rock and art-rock on Discogs; much of his credit list is pop, rock, anime and game soundtracks; and the groups that carry his own name, the Haniwa All Stars and Karugamozu, are theatre-percussion and art-rock projects. For it: he played percussion in The Square in the late 1970s, when Japanese fusion was taking shape, he is credited with Sakata, Watanabe, Itabashi, Kondo and Yamashita, who work in free, fusion and mainstream jazz, the Jazz-tagged records Faraway and Live! are his own, and Japanese Wikipedia's infobox lists his genres as jazz, fusion and kabuki. The profile treats him accordingly: a theatre-trained percussionist whose record is half inside Japanese jazz and half outside it, with the tag Ethno Jazz covering the places where the two meet.

Key Recordings

Make Me a Star (The Square, 1979, CBS/Sony) - Senba's fullest Square-era credit, with kotsuzumi, otsuzumi, shime-daiko, congas and glockenspiel listed. Apple Music - Make Me a Star Listen · Buy
Rockoon (The Square, 1980, CBS/Sony) - Percussion, synthesizer drums and voice. Apple Music - Rockoon Listen · Buy
Kiyohiko Senba and His Haniwa All Stars: Haniwa (1983, CBS/Sony) - The first Haniwa All Stars LP, with Sakata, Kume, Hashimoto, Kawabata and Murakami. YouTube - Haniwa Listen
In Concert (Haniwa All Stars, 1991, Sony) - The live album, with guest singers Jun Togawa and Demon Kogure. YouTube - In Concert Listen
Jasmine Talk (1996, Sony) - An own-name album with Indian and Southeast Asian influences, available on the major streaming services. Spotify - Jasmine Talk · Apple Music - Jasmine Talk Listen
Semba (1999, Village Records) - Composed, arranged, produced and played by Senba. YouTube - Semba (full album upload) Listen
Faraway (with Masanori Sasaji, 2002, Magic Notes) - Famous melodies played with traditional Japanese instruments and a jazz-fusion rhythm section. Spotify - Faraway · Apple Music - Faraway Listen
Pacific Crossing (Yosuke Yamashita New York Trio featuring Meisho Tosha and Kiyohiko Semba, 2003, Verve Japan) - The kabuki-and-jazz meeting, with Senba on tsuzumi. Buy
Tacology (Akira Sakata, 1987, Invitation) - Senba on percussion on a Sakata fusion and avant-garde record. Apple Music - Tacology Listen
To Be (Fumio Itabashi, 1989, Denon) - A piano trio with Nobuyoshi Ino and Senba on percussion. Apple Music - To Be Listen · Buy

Full Discography

Kiyohiko Senba (仙波清彦) - Full Discography

Japanese percussionist and drummer, born in Tokyo on December 23, 1954. Discogs spells the name Kiyohiko Semba (artist 278141).

Name variations on record: Kiyohiko Semba, Kiyohiko Senba, Semba Kiyohiko, Senba Kiyohiko, K. Semba, K. Senba, Kyohiko Senba, Kiyohiko Ssemba, 仙波清彦, せんバきヨひコ.

Group affiliations: The Square / T-Square (1978 to 1981 and later guest appearances), Haniwa All Stars and Haniwa, はにわちゃん (Haniwa-chan), Wha-ha-ha, Semba Sonic Spear, Kiyohiko Senba and Karugamozu, Mobo Band, Sakata Orchestra and Sakata Sextet, Bill Laswell's Drop Zone, Kao's M-Unique.

Discogs lists about 230 entries for Senba, a large share of them session credits on rock, pop, anime and game-music releases. The sections below put his own releases first, then the jazz and fusion records on which he appears, and finish with a chronological list of everything else. Discogs files most of his own-name releases under folk, world, rock and art-rock; where Discogs tags a record as jazz, the notes say so.

Leader (own name, group billing and co-billed albums)

Album	Year	Label	Personnel	Notes	Listen	Buy
Haniwa (billed as Kiyohiko Senba And His Haniwa All Stars; 仙波清彦とはにわオールスターズ, はにわ)	1983	CBS/Sony, 28AH-1557 (LP)	Yuji Sagae (Bass); Yoriyuki Harada (Bass Clarinet); Kiyohiko Semba (Conductor, Percussion, Keyboards); Shuichi Murakami (Drums); Atsuo Fujimoto (Guitar); Bun Itakura (Guitar); Shuichi Chino (Keyboards); Daisaku Kume (Keyboards, Percussion); Takako Mizuguchi (Koto); Yoko Naito (Koto); Mamoru Mochizuki (Percussion); Motoaki Senba (Percussion); Ryutaro Yokosawa (Percussion); Jun Aoyama (Percussion, Drums); Reichi (Percussion, Voice); Tamio Kawabata (Performer); Kiyohiko Higo (Performer [Fue]); Tetsuhiko Shibata (Performer [Fue]); Akira Sakata (Reeds, Voice [Chattering]); Seiichi Nakamura (Reeds, Voice [Chattering]); Isoichirô Yoshimura (Shamisen); Yoshiko Fujio (Shamisen); Yuko Imafuji (Shamisen); Yukiko Takei (Shamisen, Performer [Futozao]); Osamu Matsumoto (Tuba [Slide-tuba]); Hiroaki Tsukamoto (Vocals); Ichiko Hashimoto (Vocals); Koichiro Tanuma (Vocals); Mishio Ogawa (Vocals)	Ten tracks, from "ちゃーのみ友達スレスレ / Slightly As Friend Around Party" to "めだか"; the first Haniwa All Stars album. Discogs genre Folk, World, & Country; styles Art Rock, Experimental, Prog Rock.	YouTube	Amazon
Gokuraku Rumba (極楽ルムバ), 7" promo	1983	CBS/Sony	Kiyohiko Senba and the Haniwa All Stars	Promotional single from the album; "Gokuraku Rumba" is the first track on side B of the LP.	not found	Amazon
Buson	1988	CBS/Sony, 32DH 5073 (CD mini-album)	Kiyohiko Senba	Twelve tracks, released June 22, 1988, titled 夏河, 鳥羽殿, 狸, 石工, うすぎぬ, Buson, ふぐ, 河童, 温泉, 春の水, 雲を呑む and こだま. His first project under his own name. Discogs genre Folk, World, & Country.	not found	Amazon
In Concert (イン・コンサート), billed to 仙波清彦とはにわオールスターズ	1991	Sony, SRCL 2132	Kiyohiko Senba and the Haniwa All Stars; guest vocals by Demon Kogure, Jun Togawa, Mishio Ogawa, Tamio Okuda and Yoshiharu Abe	Released August 28, 1991. Fifteen tracks including オレカマ, リボンの騎士, シューベルトのセレナーデ, 奇妙な果実 and ブンガワン・ソロ. Discogs genre Rock.	YouTube	Amazon
In Concert (DVD-Video reissue)	2005	GL Visual	Kiyohiko Senba and the Haniwa All Stars	NTSC DVD of the 1991 concert programme.	not found	Amazon
Jasmine Talk (ジャスミン・トーク)	1996	Sony, SRCL 3590	Kiyohiko Senba (percussion); performers named in a published review include the Indian classical singer Geeta Deshpande	Released October 21, 1996. Ten tracks, from "Breeze And I OREKAMA Revisited" to the title track. Discogs genres Rock and Folk, World, & Country.	Spotify	Amazon
Semba (SEMBA ~~リズムのこづち~~)	1999	Village Records, VRFL 23	Kiyohiko Senba (composed, arranged, percussion, producer); Mikio Aoki (executive producer); Kazuyoshi Hinoki (engineer)	Released February 1999. Five long medley tracks, lettered S, E, M, B and A on the release, including "Just Opening - 骨折 - 37°11'n", "ヨクネタ - Jazz? - Le Lion D'or" and "Curry Udon - Cous Cous キムチ". Discogs genre Folk, World, & Country.	YouTube	Amazon
Faraway (遥かなる旅)	2002	Magic Notes, COCB-31779	Kiyohiko Senba (production and a long list of drums and percussion including shime-daiko, o-daiko, kotsuzumi, berimbau, Hand Sonic, Octapad), Masanori Sasaji (production, piano, guitar, synthesizer, vibraphone and mallet percussion); guests Makoto Takei (shinobue, shakuhachi, nohkan), Yuko Imafuji (nagauta shamisen, vocals), Shinichi Kinoshita (Tsugaru shamisen, vocals), Yoko Naito (koto), Masahiro Mochizuki and 望月圭 (taiko), Chieko Kinbara's strings, Hitoshi Okano (trumpet), four French horns, Shigeo Fuchino (tenor saxophone), Hideyo Takakuwa (flute), Seiji Maeda (bassoon), Tomoyuki Asakawa (harp), Kenji Takamizu (bass), Hitoshi Hamada (baliphone), Satoshi "Jimmy" Murakawa (vocals), Tetsuhiro Daiku (vocals, sanshin)	Co-billed with Masanori Sasaji. Released January 2002. Ten tracks: "Shin Nihon Kikou", "Kazeno Tanino Nausika", "Boston Marathon / Memphis Underground", "Walk On", "Merry Christmas Mr.Lawrence", "Tokue Ikitai", "Chobokure Dung-Dud", "Oumaga Koigoyomi", "Greensleeves" and "Gondra No Uta". Discogs genres Jazz, Funk / Soul and Folk, World, & Country; style Contemporary Jazz.	Spotify / Apple Music	Amazon
Live! (billed to Hirokuni Korekata x Vagabond Suzuki x Daisaku Kume x Kiyohiko Senba x Yasuo Sano; DVD-Video)	2012	Atoss International, ATDV-265	Vagabond Suzuki (Bass); Yasuo Sano (Drums); Hirokuni Korekata (Guitar); Daisaku Kume (Keyboards); Kiyohiko Semba (Percussion)	Co-billed. Recorded at Jirokichi, Tokyo, on September 19, 2011; released January 27, 2012; about 88 minutes. Includes "Manteca". Discogs genre Jazz; style Free Improvisation.	not found	Amazon
Makafushigi: Senju Hiro (仙波清彦・摩訶不思議〜千手披露)	2019	Ordermade Factory, DQCL 749~50 (2 CD)	Kiyohiko Senba and the Haniwa All Stars with associated artists	Released March 19, 2019. A two-disc compilation drawn from Haniwa (1983), the Haniwa-chan record (1984), Buson (1988), In Concert (1991) and later recordings.	not found	Amazon

Group and band releases (billed under another name)

Album	Year	Label	Billed as	Notes	Listen	Buy
Shinu Toki wa Betsu (死ぬ時は別)	1981	Better Days, YF-7018-AX	Wha-ha-ha	Percussion. Discogs genres Jazz and Rock; styles Art Rock, Avantgarde, Experimental.	not found	Amazon
Getahaitekonakucha (げたはいてこなくちゃ)	1981	not stated	Wha-ha-ha (わ・は・は)	Group album of the same band.	not found	Amazon
Wha ha ha (compilation)	1983	Recommended Records	Wha ha ha	LP compilation of the group's recordings.	not found	Amazon
Kanashibari (かなしばり)	1984	not stated	はにわちゃん (Haniwa-chan)	Duo project of Senba and the keyboardist Daisaku Kume.	not found	Amazon
Happy People	1992	not stated	Haniwa	Group album.	not found	Amazon
Shin-Daimajin (新大魔人)	1993	Sony	Haniwa	3-inch mini CD single.	not found	Amazon
Live Dub +1	2003	not stated	Wha-ha-ha	Later Wha-ha-ha release.	not found	Amazon
Sonic Spear	2003	3-D Corporation Ltd, 3D-3	Semba Sonic Spear	Five tracks: "Goorgui Fethieu", "Mbolo", "Hadji ~~Pilgrimage~~", "Mansa Dub ~~The King Of Dub~~" and "Khoumbeul"; arranged and produced by Koki Takai, lyrics credited to Latyr Sy, with DJ Quietstorm as a guest. Discogs genre Electronic; styles Experimental, Electro, Dub.	not found	Amazon
Kao's M-Unique and Live!!	2013 / 2014	KAO Records / Atoss International	Kaori Takahashi / Kao's M-Unique	Discogs credits Senba on the 2013 album and the 2014 DVD of the violinist's group.	not found	Amazon

Co-billed guest album

Album	Year	Label	Actual leader	Notes	Listen	Buy
Pacific Crossing	2003	Verve Records, UCCJ-2028	Yosuke Yamashita New York Trio, billed "featuring Meisho Tosha and Kiyohiko Semba"	Released October 22, 2003. Recorded May 16 and 17, 2003 at Sound On Sound Recording, New York, and June 10, 2003 at Crescente Studio, Tokyo. Yosuke Yamashita (piano, producer), Cecil McBee (bass), Pheeroan akLaff (drums), Kiyohiko Semba (tsuzumi, tracks 4 and 6), Meisho Tosha (fue, tracks 5 and 6). Nine tracks, including "Heike Kids", "Four Spirits Flag" and "The Quintet". Discogs genre Jazz; style Contemporary Jazz.	not found	Amazon

Jazz and fusion credits as a sideman

Albums on which Discogs credits Senba and which are tagged jazz, fusion or free music, or are led by a musician with a profile on this site, in chronological order.

Album	Year	Label	Billed artist	Credit	Notes	Listen	Buy
Soft Landing	1978	Seven Seas, SKS-3005	Takeru Muraoka & His New Group	Percussion	Discogs genre Jazz; style Jazz-Funk.	not found	Amazon
Midnight Lover	1978	CBS/Sony, 28AP 1031	The Square	Percussion	Discogs genre Jazz; styles Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Soul-Jazz.	Apple Music	Amazon
Lucky Summer Lady	1978	CBS/Sony, 25AP 1117	The Square	Percussion, voice	Discogs genres Jazz, Funk / Soul, Pop.	Apple Music	Amazon
Make Me A Star	1979	CBS/Sony, 25AP 1007	The Square	Percussion, congas, kotsuzumi, otsuzumi, shime-daiko, synthesizer percussion, glockenspiel	Discogs genre Jazz; styles Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Disco.	Apple Music	Amazon
Rockoon	1980	CBS/Sony, 25AP 1798	The Square	Percussion, synthesizer drums, voice	Discogs genre Jazz; styles Fusion, Jazz-Rock.	Apple Music	Amazon
It's Magic	1981	CBS/Sony, 07SH 1087	The Square	Percussion	Discogs genre Jazz; styles Fusion, Jazz-Funk.	not found	Amazon
Hidari Ude no Yume (左うでの夢)	1981	Alfa, ALR 28025	Ryuichi Sakamoto	Percussion, marimba, syndrums, bird whistle	Discogs genre Electronic; styles Synth-pop, Experimental.	not found	Amazon
Tadaima. (ただいま。)	1981	Japan Record, JAL-7	Akiko Yano	Percussion; choir on B12	Discogs genre Electronic; styles Synth-pop, New Wave.	not found	Amazon
4 O'Clock	1981	Better Days, YF-7026-N	Sakata Orchestra (Akira Sakata)	Percussion	Four-track big-band record.	not found	Amazon
Trauma (12" single)	1982	Better Days / Shan-Shan, YW-7403-BD	Sakata Sextet (Akira Sakata)	Percussion	Two ten-minute tracks, "Tora" and "Uma".	not found	Amazon
Mobo Club (Mobo 倶楽部)	1984	DOMO, 28MX 2512	Kazumi Watanabe	Percussion	Discogs genres Electronic, Jazz; styles Free Jazz, Fusion, Experimental.	not found	Amazon
Taihen (大変)	1984	Polydor, 28MX 2503	Toshinori Kondo & IMA	Percussion	Discogs genres Electronic, Jazz, Rock, Funk / Soul; styles Free Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Avant-garde Jazz, Jazz-Rock, Fusion.	not found	Amazon
Mobo Live	1985	DOMO, 28MX 2519	Kazumi Watanabe	Drums (A3 to B2), percussion (B4)	Discogs genre Jazz; styles Contemporary Jazz, Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Avant-garde Jazz.	not found	Amazon
Jazz Daimyo Sound Revue (ジャズ大名)	1986	Japan Record, 28JAL-3050	Yosuke Yamashita, Yasutaka Tsutsui	Taiko	Discogs genre Jazz.	not found	Amazon
Truth	1987	CBS/Sony, 28AH 2154	The Square	Percussion (tracks 1, 2, 3 and 7)	Discogs genre Jazz; style Fusion.	Apple Music	Amazon
Tacology (タコロジー)	1987	Invitation, VIH-10	Akira Sakata	Percussion	Discogs genre Jazz; styles Fusion, Avant-garde Jazz.	Apple Music	Amazon
To Be	1989	Denon, CY-3670	Fumio Itabashi	Percussion	Trio with Nobuyoshi Ino on bass. Discogs genre Jazz; style Bop.	Apple Music	Amazon
Dramatic (ドラマティック)	1993	Alfa, ALCA-487	Casiopea	Percussion (track 9)	Discogs genres Electronic, Jazz, Funk / Soul; styles Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Fusion.	not found	Amazon
Tokyo Operations '94 (John Zorn's Cobra)	1995	Avant, AVAN 049	吉凶部隊, composed by John Zorn	Percussion	Discogs genre Rock; style Avantgarde.	not found	Amazon
Tightness	2001	3 Views / JVC, VICJ-60731	Yoichi Murata Solid Brass	Percussion (tracks 1 and 7)	Discogs genre Jazz; style Fusion.	not found	Amazon
Smile	2013	Village Records, VRCL 10109~10	T-Square Super Band	Percussion	SACD plus DVD. Discogs genre Jazz; styles Fusion, Smooth Jazz.	not found	Amazon
It's a Wonderful Life!	2018	Orange Lady, OLCH-10013-14	T-Square and The Square Reunion	Percussion, tambourine	40th anniversary release; the concert film is a separate release (OLXL70011-12). Discogs genre Jazz; style Fusion.	not found	Amazon
Imabari	2023	Not on label (Bill Laswell self-released)	Bill Laswell's Drop Zone	Drums	Digital release. Discogs genres Jazz, Rock; style Fusion.	not found	Amazon

Soundtrack and production credits

Album	Year	Label	Credit	Notes	Listen	Buy
Sengoku Musou 2 (Original Sound Track) (戦国無双２)	2006	Koei, KECH-1359/60 (2 CD)	Tsuzumi; producer for Japanese traditional music and instruments	Video-game soundtrack with music by Minoru Mukaiya, Kenji Nakajo and others.	not found	Amazon
Bamboo Blade O.S.T. (バンブーブレード)	2008	Flying Dog, VTCL-60017	Composer and arranger of all tracks except 2, 8, 14 and 20	Anime soundtrack; a second volume followed in 2008.	Apple Music	Amazon

All other credits, chronologically

Everything else that Discogs lists for Senba, from guest percussion on pop and rock albums to compilations. Roles are as Discogs files them (Appearance, Track Appearance, Producer, Remix or Unofficial Release).

1977: Foot Prints, Foot Prints
1978: Teru Sakamoto Trio, Let's Play Jazz Piano Vol.3 (Victor)
1979: Akira Ito, Bosatu & Mugen = 菩薩と無限 (Black)
1979: 中原理恵, Heart Of Gold
1979: Makoto Highland Band, Injection
1979: Various, Library Of Dynamic-Sounds Vol.5 (Columbia) (track appearance)
1979: Various, Queen Songs
1979: Tatsuya Nakamura, Where Is The Quarter? (CBS/Sony)
1980: Keiko Goto = 後藤啓子, Aimez-Vous Sagan = サガンはお好き
1980: Judy Anton, Smile
1980: Chage & Asuka = チャゲ&飛鳥, 風舞
1981: The Square = ザ・スクエア, Magic = マジック
1981: Miharu Koshi, Make Up
1981: Tamori, Radical Hystery Tour
1981: Ippu-Do, Radio Fantasy
1981: Susan, The Girl Can't Help It
1981: Kumiko Hara, Unhappy Birthday
1981: 伊藤詳, やすらぎの道心気・Japanesque
1981: 鳴瀬喜博 = Yoshihiro Naruse, ミスティック= Mythtique
1981: 赤尾三千子 = Michiko Akao, 風舞 = Kazamai
1982: Kumiko Yamashita, Baby Baby
1982: Yoshihiro Naruse, Bass Bawl
1982: Sakata Orchestra = サカタ・オーケストラ, Berlin 28 = ベルリン28
1982: Sandii & The Sunsetz, Immigrants
1982: Various, Ninjin娘 - やせろ！チャールズ豚三世 (Canyon) (track appearance)
1982: Masami Tsuchiya, Rice Music
1982: Various, Sony Walkman Demonstration Tape (Sony, Sony)
1982: Various, Sony Walkman Demonstration Tape (Sony)
1982: Pegmo / ポンキッキちびっこ合唱隊 / ガチャピン, ムック, SOS ペンペンコンピュータ / あさがお体操 / 新体操 / ネコ・イヌ・ボク
1982: 横井久美子, メッセージ (Discomate)
1982: Kumiko Yamashita, 抱きしめてオンリィ・ユー
1982: The Square, 脚線美の誘惑 Kyakusenbi No Yuhwaku
1983: Yoshitaka Minami = 南佳孝, Daydream = デイドリーム
1983: Imitation, Happy Hunting
1983: Jake H. Concepcion, "J"
1983: Masae Ohno, Masae A La Mode
1983: Ippu-Do = 一風堂, Night Mirage
1983: The Square, うち水にRainbow
1984: The Square, Adventures
1984: Keizo Inoue = 井上敬三, Boys, Be Ambitious! = ボーイズ・ビー・アンビシャス
1984: The Square, Overnight Sensation (CBS/Sony)
1984: Rie Kitahara, South Wind
1984: Genji Sawai = 沢井原兒, Sowaka = 薩婆訶
1984: The Square, Stars And The Moon
1984: 矢野顕子 = Akiko Yano, オーエスオーエス
1984: 久保田早紀, 夜の底は柔らかな幻
1984: 原マスミ, 夢の4倍
1984: Yas-Kaz, 縄文頌
1984: Akira Ito, 聖音の響き
1984: 一世風靡セピア, 道が俺達の背を押した (Bourbon Records)
1985: Mu: Pradʒékt, Asia Dream
1985: Kazumi Watanabe, Mobo Special (Yamaha, DOMO)
1985: 筒井康隆, The Inner Space Of Yasutaka Tsutsui
1985: Various, Tokyo Meeting 1984 - IMA Festival Vol. 1
1986: Killing Time, Bob ・8687・Peru
1986: Tetsuo Sakurai = 桜井哲夫, Dewdrops
1986: Mich Live, Message From Heart
1987: Various, Bad Alchemy Nr 8 (Bad Alchemy) (track appearance)
1987: The Square & Friends, Color Palette
1987: Akiko Yano = 矢野顕子, Granola = グラノーラ
1987: Gontiti, Legacy Of Madam Q
1987: Sayuri Kume = 久米小百合, Tehillim 33 = テヒリーム33 (Michtam Records)
1987: 友部正人, ６月の雨の夜、チルチルミチルは
1988: Macoto Tezka Presents Reiko Okano, Macoto Tezka Presents Reiko Okano's Fancy Dance = 雲遊歌舞 = ファンシイダンス
1988: Yoichiro Yoshikawa, The Miracle Planet
1988: Gontiti, Yellow Tornado
1989: Flipper's Guitar, Three Cheers For Our Side
1990: Daisaku Kume & Selah, 9 Picture Cards The Ear Of Marco Polo (Electric Bird)
1990: Akiko Yano, Akiko Yano
1990: 喜納昌吉, Celebration
1990: Kazumi Watanabe, Romanesque
1990: Chakra, 南洋でヨイショ
1990: 本條秀太郎 = Honjoh Hidetaro, 散華 = Sange (Crown)
1990: 瀬間千恵, 瀬間千恵のクルト・ヴァイル = Sema Chie Sings Kurt Weill (Omagatoki)
1991: Masayuki Suzuki, Dear Tears
1991: Yukihiro Isso, It's So Isso (Raijin) (producer)
1991: Michiru Akiyoshi, Mangetsu
1991: Yoichi Murata, Solid Brass
1991: 小川悠一郎, α波トーク（ストレスに勝つ"心音法"） (King Records)
1991: 越美晴, おもちゃ箱第1幕
1991: 小林靖宏, シチリアの月の下で (Eastworld)
1991: ユニコーン, ヒゲとボイン
1992: Adi, Adi (Roux)
1992: Various, Imabari Meeting 1991 - Live (Meldac)
1992: Mooko, Japan Concerts
1992: Aska Kaneko, Multi Venus (Roux)
1992: Akira Sakata, Nano Space Odyssey
1992: Adi, Softly (Roux)
1992: Toshinori Kondo & IMA, Taihen & Metal Position (Jaro Medien)
1993: Various, Asia Music
1993: Daisaku, Eastern Shore (Moo Records)
1993: Adi, Golconda (Roux)
1993: Jimsaku, Wind Loves Us
1993: SNK・ADK, ワールドヒーローズ2 イメージアルバム = World Heroes 2 Image Album (Pony Canyon, Scitron, Pony Canyon, Scitron)
1994: Lucia Shiomitsu, Arpa De Mi Corazon (Sony)
1994: TRF, Billionaire (Boy Meets Girl)
1994: Eurogroove, Eurogroove #01 (Cutting Edge)
1994: Eurogroove, Eurogroove #02 (Cutting Edge)
1995: Cano Caoli, Hadaka De Aimashou = 裸であいましょう
1995: Masatoshi Mizuno, Method, Method (SubConscious Label)
1995: Kaneko Aska, Twelve Myths (Zigzag, Zigzag)
1995: Kazumi Watanabe, おやつ2 遠足
1996: UA, 11
1996: Trf, Billionaire '96
1996: Akiko Yano, Hitotsudake The Very Best Of Akiko Yano
1997: Oni, 嫁入り (Yomeiri) (Lucky Bird, Off Note)
1998: Wuyontana, Khorchin (Omagatoki)
1998: Chocolat, One Too Many Chocolat
1998: 村上"ポンタ"秀一, Welcome To My Life
1999: Blur, 10th Anniversary Box Set
1999: Asian Fantasy Orchestra, Asian Tour 1998 (Polydor)
1999: Guitoo, Cyclotron (A.K.A. Records, WEA Japan)
1999: Akiko Yano, From Japan To Japan
1999: Blur, No Distance Left To Run
1999: Kodō, 鼓 = Tsutsumi
2001: Kahimi Karie, My Suitor
2001: クレイジーキャッツ, 植木等, ハナ肇, 谷啓, ハナ肇とクレイジー・キャッツ, クレイジーキャッツデラックスボックス (Toshiba EMI)
2002: Various, Let's Sing: Azumanga Daioh Vocal Collection
2002: Oranges & Lemons, 空耳ケーキ / Raspberry Heaven
2002: Kinoshita Meets Lakatos, 遭遇 (Avex Io)
2003: WeiWei Wuu, Shanghai Red
2003: The Square & Friends, T Comes Back (Village Records)
2003: クロコダイル・パパ, 哲学するマントヒヒ (Dreamusic)
2004: Hoppy Kamiyama + Bill Laswell, A Navel City / No One Is There
2004: Various, Shibuya Jazz Clash - No Wave In Jap Jazz And Funk '75-'86
2005: Killing Time, Skip +1
2005: Satoru Shionoya, The Selection Of Salt
2005: クレイジーキャッツ, コンプリートシングルス Harahoro盤 (Toshiba Records)
2006: Kahimi Karie, Nunki
2007: Shiro Sagisu, Bleach The Movie The DiamondDust Rebellion Original Soundtrack
2007: Method, Vector音律 (VEGA Music Entertainment)
2007: 上野洋子, "Yk20" ～20周年につき初ソロ～＜visual＞ (tide disc)
2007: Various, 無双Orochi Original Sound Track (Koei, Koei, Koei)
2008: Shiro Sagisu, Bleach The Movie Fade To Black Original Soundtrack
2008: Akira (Emoto+Sakata), D.D.T.
2008: Kahimi Karie, KOCHAB (Victor)
2008: Tim Ries, Stones World (The Rolling Stones Project II)
2008: Tim Ries, Stones World (The Rolling Stones World Music Project) (treeLAWN Artists)
2008: 戸川純, Togawa Legend: Self Select Best & Rare 1979-2008 (track appearance)
2008: Various, にほんのうた第二集 (Commmons) (track appearance)
2009: Shiro Sagisu, Evangelion Wind Symphony 01 (Starchild)
2009: Hifana, Hifana Presents Nampooh Cable 2 (南風ケーブル弐) (W+K Tokyo Lab., GroundRiddim, Virgin) (remix)
2009: Shiro Sagisu, TV Animation Bleach Original Soundtrack 4
2009: Various, にほんのうた　第三集 (Commmons)
2010: Saki Kubota, Farewell Concert 1984.11.26 (Ordermade Factory)
2010: Hashim B. = ハシムB, Fu-Ka-Kai Mix Vol. 1 = フ・カ・カイ Mix Vol. 1 (Dublab, VTech) (track appearance)
2011: Thomas Enhco, The Window And The Rain (Happinet Corporation)
2011: スガダイロー, 八番勝負 (Pony Canyon)
2012: Blur, Blur 21 (The Box)
2012: あがた森魚, 女と男のいる舗道 (Vivid Sound, Qpola Purple Hz)
2012: 戸川純, 蛹化の女~蜷川実花セレクション (GT Music) (track appearance)
2013: Shiro Sagisu, Evangelion PianoForte #1 (Starchild)
2014: Shiro Sagisu, The World! Evangelion Jazz Night =The Tokyo III Jazz Club= (Starchild)
2015: Giovanni Venosta & Sonata Islands, Nippon Eldorado Kabaret
2016: Various, More Better Days
2016: Vlad Dobrovolski, Secret Thirteen Mix 177 (Secret Thirteen Journal) (track appearance)
2016: Various, Waka Wave (track appearance)
2017: Killing Time, Ultimate Killing Time (Ordermade Factory)
2018: Colored Music, Colored Music
2018: Akira Sakata, Early 1980's (Columbia, Better Days)
2018: 鷺巣詩郎, アニソン録プラス。= Shiro's Ani-Songbook (King Amusement Creative)
2019: Various, Jazz 100年 Part4 Jazz Masterpiece Collection 11 Jazz Of Japan, Now & Then (Universal Music)
2019: Various, J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1969-1983 (Volume 2)
2019: Chakra, Live & Unreleased
2019: 橋本由香利, さらざんまいのうた／カワウソイヤァ (Aniplex)
2020: Akira Sakata 6tet + Syuichi Chino, Live At Kamuy Tura No '83 (Not On Label (Akira Sakata Self-released))
2021: T-Square, Crème De La Crème～Édition Spéciale～特別篇＠The Square～T-Square "1978～2021"作品集 (Aldelight)
2021: Various, Heisei No Oto (Japanese Left-Field Pop From The CD Age, 1989-1996)
2023: T-Square, Vento De Felicidade = しあわせの風
2024: Various, Akashic Bassmatter Chapter 2 (Not On Label (Bill Laswell Self-Released))
undated: Natsumi Itsuki, Oz (AniManga, Crammed Discs, Animusik / I.D.E.)

Personnel & Collaborations

Daisaku Kume, Akira Sakata, Ichiko Hashimoto, Tamio Kawabata and Shuichi "Ponta" Murakami - Haniwa All Stars members on the 1983 LP Haniwa; Kume also shares the 2012 DVD Live! with Senba.
Akira Sakata - the reedist with whom he is credited on 4 O'Clock (1981), Shinu Toki wa Betsu (1981, Wha-ha-ha), Trauma (1982) and Tacology (1987).
Yosuke Yamashita - pianist; Pacific Crossing (2003) and the Jazz Daimyo Sound Revue (1986).
Kazumi Watanabe - guitarist; Senba is in the Mobo Band on Mobo Club (1984) and Mobo Live (1985).
Takeru Muraoka - saxophonist; Senba is credited on percussion on Soft Landing (1978).
Hiroyuki Noritake - T-Square drummer; both are credited on Truth (1987).
Fumio Itabashi and Nobuyoshi Ino - the trio of To Be (1989).
Toshinori Kondo - trumpeter; Taihen (1984, Toshinori Kondo and IMA).
Ryuichi Sakamoto and Akiko Yano - both albums of 1981 (Hidari Ude no Yume, Tadaima.) credit him on percussion.
Casiopea - credited on percussion on a track of Dramatic (1993).
John Zorn and Bill Laswell - Cobra: Tokyo Operations '94 (1995) and Laswell's Drop Zone Imabari (2023).
Mishio Ogawa - singer; Wha-ha-ha, the 1983 Haniwa and the 1991 In Concert.
Masanori Sasaji, Makoto Takei, Yuko Imafuji and Shinichi Kinoshita - the co-leader, flautist and shamisen players credited on Faraway (2002).
Meisho Tosha - fue player and fellow guest on Pacific Crossing.
Hirokuni Korekata, Vagabond Suzuki and Yasuo Sano - the other three players on the DVD Live! (2012).
Shigenori Kamiya - guitarist (and, on Getahaitekonakucha, synthesizer) in Wha-ha-ha, on Shinu Toki wa Betsu and Getahaitekonakucha (1981), both of which credit Senba on percussion.
Takahiro Miyazaki - saxophonist credited with Senba on "Japanese Soul Brothers," the T-Square bonus-disc recording on Gravity (1998).
Yoriyuki Harada - bass clarinettist on Senba's Haniwa All Stars album Haniwa (CBS/Sony, 1983).
Kyoko Kuroda - pianist on Akira Sakata's Nano Space Odyssey (NEC Avenue, 1992), on which Senba plays drums and percussion.
Teru Sakamoto - pianist and leader of Let's Play Jazz Piano Vol.3 (Victor SJX-2146, 1978), on which Senba plays percussion on two tracks, "Les Parapluies de Cherbourg" and "Teru-Teru Bozu (Black Keys)."