CURRENT MISSION

In my neighborhood there is Ghibli Museum which is well-known world wide, and the park called inokashira-park. I think my city Mitaka is a very cozy bedtown.

ABOUT ME
Here's my YouTube: https://youtu.be/ut_NYoWwuzw
(Hope you like my music...)
Well, I used to play the drums in a rock band. Now I am making music as a hobby. My own project "pai patiroma" is named after "Hateruma Island", which is located in the southern part of Okinawa, Japan.
I was born and raised in Tokyo. But I also love Okinawa where both of my parents came from. I've visited there many many times since my childhood.

When I was 20, I lived in Yogyakarta, Indonesia for one year. There I studied anthropology and Indonesian traditional music, Gamelan.

After Returning home, I started writing various kinds of music. Some for our vocal project, and the other for our instrumental project. My musical influences range from classical music to jazz music. But the band I was influenced the most was tortoise, so-called "post rock" pioneer.

Their music motivated me a lot to write music more individual and original way. A lot of ideas came out by mixing the taste of Okinawan music and Gamelan music with post rock. Here you can listen to other music I wrote.

Hope you like it...
www.soundcloud.com/paipatiroma

Interests

Musical Influences:WAY too many to mention them all... but here are a few: Toyama Takeo. Takemura Nobukazu. Prefuse 73. Dusk. Juana Molina. Ennio Morricone. Town and Country. Brokeback. Sigur Ros. Javanese Gamelan. Rachel's. Jim O'Rourke. Gastr Del Sol. Bundy K Brown. Papa M. David Pajo. Sam Prekop. John McEntire. Isotope217. Pullman. Slint. June of 44. Directions in Music. James Taylor. Sea and Cake. Tortoise. Stereolab. My Bloody Valentine. Steve Reich. Hum. Jeff Buckley. Ride. Crystalized Movements. Luscious Jackson. Smashing Pumpkins. Sound Garden. Beck. Helmet. Pearl Jam. Dinosaur Jr. Nirvana. Sting. Led Zeppelin. Jimi Hendrix. The Beatles. TOTO. A-HA...

• writing
• gardening
• music
• classical music
• jazz
• guitar
• drums
• anthropology

Teach, Learn, Share

Teach: Drums. Classical guitar.

Learning: Gamelan, Darbuka (percussions)

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Sweden, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Indonesia, Japan

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