toshimaru nakamura
toshimaru nakamura
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toshimaru nakamura
@toshimarunakam
no degree, no award, no-input mixing board
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某ライヴハウスで、若手即興演奏家10人ほどが出演、先輩たちが審査員になって順位をつけるイヴェントがあると聞いたのだが、それ、逆だったら面白いと思うなあ。誰もがそうと認めるだろう大御所10人に演らせて、若者が審査して講評すると。「やりたいことはわかるんだけどさぁ、古臭いんだよねぇ」とか
We had an improvised music session today, occupying a whole abandoned building in the city centre of Tokyo. Police officers climbed up to the top floor. Not so bad.
I've been very emotional for these couple of days. My Mackie mixer seems to be dying. Still making some sound but it sounds like it is screaming out of pain. After about 29 years of making music and travelling together around the world.
Making a duo album w/ Tetuzi Akiyama. We scattered our music all over a music room. Tetuzi left. I am now trying to place them in order. Feel like I am a father picking up toys, tidying up a room after my kid has gone to bed.
Listening back to the pieces for my tentative next solo album I am making, I already don't remember how I made those sound and music.
Doesn't matter whether the music is improvised or composed, the only thing that does is to make a right sound at the right moment. That is what my mentor (friend too) said, and never leaves me.
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その通り。だけど、麻薬中毒、犯罪者には全く抵抗感がないのに、「権力の犬」の音楽だけは、聴く気が失せそうな気はする。
Captain Akiyama came over to play my telecaster to make me happy
New No-Input Mixing Board solo album on Room40.
toshimarunakamura.com/news
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その前から
佐野→plagiarism
竹田→bribery
というのもありましたね
Thank you so much for your advice and inputs. Now, I am determined to make an album with no input.
Question: I don't play in a band. And I have no camping equipment. Can I still join the Bandcamp?
Is there still a concept of making an "album"? Like a set of some pieces of music 35 - 45 min. in total?
Playing together with several other musicians in Koeln, Germany. We were sharing one big table. His phone was placed between my gears and his. Amidst the performance, his phone rang. He picked it up. I went like "what? are you answering the phone now?!"
theguardian.com/music/2021/jul
友人がCovid-19 接触確認app から通知を受け取った。問い合わせると相談センターの返答は、「無症状の場合は問題無しとみなしてPCR検査はしません」とのこと。そのapp はなんのためにあるのかな。
This quarantine time gives me a chance to touch my guitar, an old friend of mine.
Good, it's still there. Matthew Blackwell interviewed me, and wrote an article.
Interviewed in Japanese. Responded in Japanese. Written in Japanese. Isn't this a good chance to see how good your google translation is?
Remembering Pita... Victoriaville, Canada. Peter was so determined to have every meal at the steak house in the hotel. "Toshi, there is no better choice. Just eat steak".
Nobody is visiting Tokyo. I am not travelling anywhere. My English ability is dwindling down. Soon, I have to say goodbye to everyone.
Listened to a tentative master of my next album, and now listening back to my first album from 2000. Very different. I'm happy. Coz, change is good. But I myself prefer the old one. F**k! What have I been doing for all these 21 years?!
Making an album, possibly "no-input mixing board #10". Still struggling. Hope you have a listen to it when it's ready. One day...
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これは由々しき事態だ。ロンドンとヒューストンのロスコ・ルームにも行ったけど、僕の一番はあの千葉県佐倉市のあそこ。（ヒューストンのは、ロスコ・チャペルですね）
I didn't really wanted to do this. But I finally opened my gig bag, deployed my gears on my working table, be ready to make some noise at home. I know how to do home recording. But I preferred gigs in public!!
my new solo album is now available on Room 40
emporium.room40.org/products/61870
Tonight at Kafe Haerverk, Oslo. Kjell Bjorgeengen & Toshimaru Nakamura. Getting ready…
I guess I am done with my new solo album. Completed and happy. Now slowly slowly moving onto a new project with Tetuzi Akiyama. Excited, but might be a tough one.
僕がここで何を言ってもどうにもならないけれども、就寝前にいま一度言いたい。ジュンゾくんにはなんとか生き延びて現場復帰してほしい。元来は人に頑張れとは言わないのだけども、ここだけは言いたい。ジュンゾ、頑張れ！
ライヴ公演の告知には「いらしてください」などとお行儀良いふりをしていますが、演奏中は「これでもくらえ、ざまあみやがれ」という態度でやっています。いま思い出した。
僕ほど終わりたがる即興演奏家はいない。この辺で自然に終わろう、と思っても他の皆さんはまだやりたい。しょうがないから終わりませんか？の気配を出すんだけど、それから10分ぐらいして、やっと終われる。
I love my bike, been with me for around 20 years. Some parts were replaced, of course. But this one endured for a long time.
