岡田拓郎 Takuro Okada - Konoma Artist_American Football Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi

along with Jun Fukamachi on keyboards and Tsunehide Matsuki on guitar

to elegant samba standards like “Samba De Verao

This distribution was best thing that could have happened - keyboards found fertile grounds in the hands of curious children

seductively assured singing and puckish

岡田拓郎 Takuro Okada - Konoma Artist_American Football Joe HisaishiFor years, Takuro Okada has carried a quiet question: how can a Japanese musician honor the music of African Americans without simply borrowing it? That search shapes his new album Konoma, a work guided by the idea of Afro Mingei. The Tokyo guitarist, producer, and bandleader has lived inside this tension since childhood, drawn to blues, jazz, and funk records that nourished him, yet hesitant in the face of the histories they hold. The concept of Afro