About 1 year ago a friend of mine Tadashi asked me to add some music to his album. Tadashi was making his debut album under the name Zaion (http://zaionrecordings.com/). I met Tadashi in Japan in 2005 when my band ettouchi (www.myspace.com/ettouchi) was playing at Milk in Ebisu. Tadashi is 1/2 of a band called 13cm (www.myspace.com/13cm) who was playing the same show. We fell in love with their music, went to all the shows we could after that and were so happy to have met Shotoku and Tadashi.
Then in 2006, Tadashi moved to San Francisco.
This was about 1 year before I even considered moving here. When I finally arrived in SF I was so happy to have someone to go to shows with, talk music and just happy to be around Tadashi again.
So anyway, last year Tadashi asked me to add some sounds to his album and I jumped at the chance. I worked on the song “Nomadic Landscapes” which is the first track on the album. I had only heard the version I had given to Tadashi which was unmastered and hadn’t yet been integrated properly.
This week I got my copy of the album “Nomadic Journals” by Zaion and it is beautiful. I am not sure if it is available in the USA at the moment but you can buy it from http://www.zooooo.jp/
Have a listen on his website and tell us what you think… I was so happy to be playing again and even happier to be doing it on a beautiful project like this…
Thanks Tadashi it is golden
