Monday, October 4, 2010

Shugo Tokumaru ゆっくりしていってね

 
     Here's one of my favorite Japanese musicians, Shugo Tokumaru. His music has a real childish feel to it, with simple, whimsical melodies and diverse use of instruments.  This guy is basically a one man band, he plays nearly every instrument you hear on his albums. He writes all of his music by himself, and records and mixes it from his computer. The most amazing thing is all of the sounds he can create, using over 100 instruments, from a traditional acoustic guitar to various kitchen utensils. Most of his lyrics and videos are based on a dream diary he keeps. Take it easy and have a listen.

     One more thing, I've seen some of the posts about the recent decline in postings and I just wanted to say I hope everyone continues. Even though some of you say your blogs are uninteresting, I've found almost everyone's to be worth reading so just relax and post freely.

Fighto! /jp/!





11 comments:

  1. Wow, these songs tare unlike anything I've ever heard before. I see what you mean by ''Childish feel'' cute video clips as well! I can't believe this is my first time hearing of him, thanks for the insight.

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  2. >Even though some of you say your blogs are uninteresting, I've found almost everyone's to be worth reading so just relax and post freely.

    >almost everyone's

    Then which blogs are the ones that truly aren't interesting?

    Nice music, man. /jp/ in general has a great taste in music.

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  3. >various kitchen utensils

    Sup Tom Waits. Nice songs!

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  4. Your blog isn't uninteresting, 2cat.

    >/jp/ in general has a great taste in music.

    I've just noticed how retarded that sentence sounds.

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  5. Wow, every instrument? Must have taken a lot of work to learn them all!

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  6. Haha, I was feeling kind of under the weather, and Parachute just cheered me right up. Just what I needed!

    And of course I'm gonna keep at my blog! Determinism like one of those Shonen action heroes.

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  7. Very happy music man. I need to get his albums and listen to more of this stuff. Makes me want to skip and dance to my bus stop

    http://quarterqwerty.blogspot.com/

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  8. Wow, I love these songs. I'm going to go download them!

    Your blog has been the most useful to me of all the blogs I've followed, thank you so much :)

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  9. >>almost everyone's

    wellexcusemeprincess.jpg

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