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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Shugo Tokumaru's music is audio Impressionism; the listener is subject to drips and drops as opposed to the movement of comprehensive layering (which has become pervasive in "rock music" since the advent of the electric guitar). More similar to the melodic organization and embellishments of Architecture in Helsinki, than the somewhat discordant excesses of Hot [...]
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Hello!I'm swept away by the sweet sounds of Mr. "Shugo Tokumaru":http://www.shugotokumaru.com/ . He combines strange background sounds, ambient noises, random instruments (ukulele, etc.) and his own sweet sweet voice to produce eclectic, cute, quirky, interesting music.I love his music. It makes me feel like the lost 20-something that I am and it makes me love that. I don't feel so bad takin...
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Shugo Tokumaru at Loews Jersey Theatre (10/23/08 Photos: Tim Griffin While I was busy doing CMJ related things in the city, Japanese musician Shugo Tokumaru was in the middle of his first mini-tour of the US supporting the Magnetic Fields. On Thursday night (10/23) he was over at the Loews Jersey Theatre promoting his recently released (and [...]
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You'll often come across references to Cornelius when people talk up Shugo Tokumaru. At first blush it may seem lazy -- both artists come to us from Japan, see -- but it isn't for lack of imagination. Actually it's on account of imagination, on both artists' part, for the way they deal with and digest Western pop idioms. Tokumaru's third album Exit is getting Stateside release this fall (it's o...
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Last year the world was treated to Japan's Shugo Tokumaru 's beautifully animated and wondrous album Exit . This year we get treated to his beautifully animated and wondrous video for the track "Clocca". It features a strange clockmaker (possibly Shugo?), birds turning into tugboats, a mouse, magically blooming trees, and a bird turning into a clock. Ah hell just watch it: mp3: Shugo Tokumar...
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Something to listen, today :Mist
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--- - |- I'm not really sure where to start with Shugo Tokumaru. I guess I could make the statement that he's the male version of Asobi Seksu. He's from Tokyo and sings in both English and Japanese... but that's about as far as that comparison could go. As a point of divergence, Shugo crafted his third and latest album EXIT in his bedroom with a Mac and some mic's. That point alone doesn't dem...
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Just came home and not in the mood to write a lot, so enjoy th's cute little nugget from Japenese singer/songwriter Shugo Tokumaru. Off 2007's Exit, folktronica?
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Shugo Tokumaru, the Japanese wonky-pop genius, returns with another EP.
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