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Shugo Tokumaru

Posted about 1 year ago

Tokyo's Shugo Tokumaru plays music that I can't quite understand language wise, but fully comprehend and enjoy sound wise. I'm starting to call him Tokyo's Brian Wilson or maybe Japan's Sufjan Stevens. Why? Because Tokumaru writes jaw-dropping pop songs that blossom into masterpieces through the building and construction of bells, bips, whistles, bugs, organs, birds, [...]

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Comments (3)

  1. Charley Rogulewski says

    wow! that was a cool listen. the instrumentation was amazing and i loved hearing him sing in Japanese.

    Permalink posted 09/24/2008
  2. laurent the laurent says

    If you're interested in more, I just found out that he has a few more albums released previously.  They may be hard to find, but well worth the listen.

    Permalink posted 09/24/2008
  3. Charley Rogulewski says

    yeha, i'm just worried i might get annoyed not understand what he's singing about. he could be spitting out satanic proverrbs in his sweet japanese for all i know. it's cool to listen to for a little while. i just heard these guys on another blog here. desmond and the tutus. i'm kinda obsessed. check 'em out. they are form south africa. up your international music alley.

    Permalink posted 09/25/2008

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