My new album "Deep Blue and Orange Hours" is now available for Mp3 download in my internet store and streaming from various major sites. Although the music is created in a different way from the previous album "Manipulated Dreams", the soundtrack album for the movie "Dream Manipulator MUGEN", I think I have created a sentimental, nostalgic, and poetic music that brings to mind a poetic view. I am happy and proud of it. I hope that many people would enjoy it. Background The goal of this album is always "music that can invite the listener to an inner voyage",  but I had a few other ideas behind the album. Idea 1 "Layering Sound" First of all, I had a series called "Imaginary Journey" that was on youtube in 2020. ↓↓. This was a series I was working on confinement period in France, creating improvised ensembles by layering my own sounds on the PC. I was having a lot of fun discovering and improving, but I wanted to revisit and dev...

Since the end of last year, I have been practicing with a Brazilian percussionist, Brenda Ohana, and we have started to think of having a concert... and shooting this video was a part of it. She is Brazilian and I am Japanese. The common thing between us is " we were not born and raised in the country where jazz originated " and " we did not start playing music because of being fascinated by jazz ". By the way, we both are rock fans.  That is to say, we are complete strangers about  "tradition" of Jazz because of our musical roots and back born .  But I don't think this is a negative thing in the culture of jazz. Because the reason we are still  fascinated by jazz and it is an art  that has the dynamism to take what these "outsiders" do and turn them into a creative power generator, I think.  What should we do as "outsiders"?  This is one of the themes that both Brenda and I have had since before we started playing together. My thou...

This month has been full of joyful. It started with Japanese "Troubadour Rocker" Tsuji, followed by abstract music concerts in Hamburg and Berlin. A French alternative folk-rock recording soon after my return. And finally Brazilian music. Brazilian music now. I met Toninho, the leader of this Brazilian music project, last summer when we played together in a private session. He said the form of my home-made electro-acoustic upright bass that I was using at that time make him remind their traditional instrument "RABECA" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabeca In this picture, It is played like a violin, but in reality, some people position it like a cello or a double bass). Using my instrument as a bigger and lower range version of the RABECA....I heard this is the Idea for calling me for this project. Toninho is a musician who has been working in Paris for a long time. He was the accompanist for a singer "Moustaki" who was the first music director(?) of a ...

This is the 2nd video of " Electro-Acoustic Upright Bass Jam" . I always like to create drum patterns even if it is without any purpose. And in this video series, I would like to explore something musically while jamming.... Recently, I'm wondering if I could to create rhythms with different sounds instead of using  drum kit sounds..., so I took a pattern that was originally created with normal drum kit sounds and changed it to some kind of ethnic instrument kit sound. And it sounded like a " World Beat " I like it and I took it. I feel this kind of mood was by rock musicians in the 80's as there experiment work but I think it could be interesting if we retake them as one of  contexts of jazz.... I'd love to push this feeling a bit further. On the technical side...  I tried to create the "main riff" also works as the "theme" of this tune. So the bass riff can also work  as the main motif. ( I'll define the word " Riff " ...