What an honor it is to write about the highly talented and acclaimed, award-winning, and all around nice guy, Argentinian contemporary composer and pianist (and industrial designer!), Marco Sanguinetti, who I had the very lucky chance to become friends with during a recent tour he made to Japan. As fate would have it, I managed to book him for a speaking event, at which he also played, and really captured the audiences imagination with not only the performance of several solo compositions he graced us with, but also with a deep explanation to his conceptual approach to writing and playing […]
Tokyo Record Style
Miho Jonishi
This is one of those individuals whose mere presence makes any and all molecules in her immediate vicinity, I suspect everywhere she goes, begin to vibrate with excitement, whose high-voltage smile on the street demands a double-take, whose coolness, if you’re lucky enough to be acquainted, makes YOU feel cool, who not only has aura, but who IS aura – the incredibly talented and supremely hep Jazz vocalist from Sapporo/Sydney/NewYork/Tokyo, Miho Jonishi. Beyond this firecrackin’ bang of character and charisma I mention, she is also a most soulful vocalist, with a deeply nuanced and signature voice that I highly recommend […]
Tokyo Record Style
Koichi
This project is proving to be an interesting little vehicle for the perfect conversation with a stranger, particularly from one music lover to another. It seems that with nearly everybody I’ve met, spoken to, and photographed, we’ve come to learn something that we have in common beyond just a love for music. And it’s kinda remarkable how it starts. Just the sentence “Excuse me, are those records?” seems to simultaneously cause curious antennas to raise while initiating the diffusion of any tension or suspicion as if it’s some kind of secret password buried in subconscious that overrides all external perceived […]