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 […]
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Hinoharu
I consider myself quite lucky to have grown up in and around dance studios and backstages at performing art centers having a godmother (Miss Shelley) who taught ballet, tap, jazz, modern, and beyond to half the city of Tulsa. My mother was also a ballerina who taught at Shelly’s school for a spell, and while both my sisters studied there for years, neither me nor my brothers ever took a single dance lesson. Still, I really love watching professional dance, and really appreciate the forms, artistry, and athleticism, and it’s not in my bones, it’s at least in my blood. […]
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Saleh
Jet Set Records in Shimokitazawa (and their original shop in Kyoto) has to have the coolest of all the record store bags. It riffs on the classic PanAm logo and it has a cool two-tone opacity so you can see the records through the logo. It always catches my eye as it did when I was driving down Ichiban-gai, the streets where it’s located, and spotted a handsome young lad with two equally sharp escorts I’d soon find out were his parents. This has become a rather common occurrence, spotting young adults on family holidays who have dragged their parents, […]