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Plamo

Named following the Japan term for the hobby of modeling dreams away of plastic, Plamo may be the gleeful, whimsical house recording task of professional clay modeler Shuji Suzuki. From 1995, Suzuki began working on some skittery, sparkly indie pop music that drew in the jaunty, carefree music entirely on …

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4 Bonjour’s Parties

Tokyo’s 4 Bonjour’s Celebrations build delicate, electronically enhanced chamber pop which has an epic experience, because of the band’s seven-member lineup. Vocalist, programmer, and multi-instrumentalist Ayumu Haitani qualified prospects 4 Bonjour’s Celebrations, which also contains vocalists/multi-instrumentalists Koji Ueno and Tomomi Shikano; guitarist/trumpeter Hirokazu Kusakabe; trumpeter/vocalist Yukiko Hamada; vocalist/drummer/saxophonist Masashi Tabei; …

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Shugo Tokumaru

Shugo Tokumaru began saving his nice and eccentric lo-fi indie pop tunes — tunes that nod to performers like Plamo, Lullatone, and PWRFL Power — in the first 2000s. He documented a ten-track demonstration CD-R, Fragment, in 2003. The recording was by no means officially released, nonetheless it did have …

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Lightspeed Champion

Following the experimental rock and roll group Check Icicles disbanded in 2006, Devonté Hynes released Lightspeed Champion as his own folk-driven task. The new endeavor allowed him to spotlight his like for pop melodies, a fondness that started with Hynes’ child years like of Broadway musicals and, years later on, …

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Lullatone

The sensitive lap-pop project Lullatone came collectively soon after Shawn Wayne Seymour moved from his hometown of Louisville, KY, to Nagoya, Japan, along with his girlfriend and bandmate, Yoshimi Tomida. Both initially met within an intercultural marketing communications class in the Bellarmine University or college. At one stage during course, …

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Cale Parks

Cale Parks got his begin because the drummer within the marching band-influenced indie group Aloha. Because the band done its fourth recording, Some Echoes (Polyvinyl Information, 2006), Parks was occupied at work on the assortment of ambient music. The tracks piled-up and finally became a full-length recording, Illuminated Manuscript, that …

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PWRFL Power

Kazutaka Nomura went single beneath the name of PWRFL Power following a 2006 separation of Na, a trio which Nomura became an integral part of immediately after he found america from Japan at age 18. PWRFL Power stood in stark comparison to Na’s extra post-rock experimentation; supported with a lone …

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Jonathan Bree

Multi-talented Brand-new Zealand musician, producer, and label head Jonathan Bree began his musical career in 1998 when he and Heather Mansfield shaped indie pop group the Brunettes. Playing a tuneful make of pop music with contrasting special (Mansfield) and sour (Bree) vocals, the music group released its first one in …

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