In 1994, three high school boys who were keen on listening to KING CRIMSON, SOFT MACHINE, MILES DAVIS, JOHN COLTRANE, ete. got together forming Qui after their graduation in Tokyo. At the time, the members were Takashi Hayashi (Guitar) who wrote most of the songs, Kanji Sugano (Bass), Fujimoto (Drums). The band were playing jazz-rock taste sound at live clubs regularly till 2003. Demo-recordings around the early days titled "Prelude" were released from Vital Records, a division of POSEIDON Records. In "Prelude" three members played live at the studio, after that adding Hayashi's synthesizer sound. Then Hayashi is being a professional musician but others were not able to continue playing for personal reasons.

In 2004, Hayashi reformed Qui with Seto (bass) and Yoshikawa (drums) who are professional jazz musicians and rehearsed during the year then played live again. In 2006, Yoshida (flute) joined the band. Unique Qui Sound is a mixture of Hayashi's progressive / Canterbury music taste guitar playing and other members' jazz/latin elements. Official debut CD "Qui" released from POSEIDON/MUSEA in 2008.

Qui is the only progressive band who can play live from Tokyo to east area of Japan regularly. In fact, they play twice a month in Tokyo. Qui's performance are always fascinate us with their cool technical instrumental playing and aggressive improvisation.

*discography

2006 Prelude (Vital Records VR-023) demo

2008 QUI (POSEIDON PRF-047/Musea FGBG 4757.AR) full album

2008 V.A. - Jap's Progre (YggrDrasill YDRC-00009) compilation

2009 Qui Super Live (POSEIDON PPS-008) DVD

2010 Live at Silver Elephant (Hoy-Hoy Records D10088)

2010 V.A. - Romantic Warroirs (Zitgeist MEDIA) DVD

2011 Live at Welcomeback (Hoy-Hoy Records D10128)

2012 Qui2 (Hoy-Hoy Records) full album

2013 Live at 440 (Hoy-Hy Rrecords)

2013 Five Ghosts (Hoy-Hoy Records) cover album