Satoru just released his CD, Ash Returns to Ash on September 18th, but according to his last news posting (dated August 3), he's already confirmed a second album Balancing in the Twilight to be released very soon in October! His myspace is probably more current, and lists the sophomore album to be released in November.
Before I begin telling you about Satoru, I should point out that he license his work as Creative Commons, which means anyone can copy, distribute and transmit the work, as long as you give credit and attribution for noncommercial usage. This is pretty awesome, I think more artists should release their music via Creative Commons.
So I found out that he's actually the singer of a San Francisco band called The Thunders. It would seem to me that the Thunders haven't released any CDs (I couldn't find any evidence of any) and that all the members are from Japan.
With the Japan thing, this is really obviously if you start to hear some of Satoru's songs. It's in English, but there is that really distinctive accent.
Most of the tracks off Ash seems to me to be instrumentals (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 12, and 13). Most of these instrumentals guitar noodles and pluckings seems like Flamenco sounds, so if you enjoy that kind of thing...
The ones I did like are the ones with lyrics (which by all accounts are only 39% of the songs). Track two, "Tell Me What You Feel" is the best among all the songs. It has a good balance of music (especially at the 3:40 mark) and lyrics.
10/06/2007 23:59:33 vu my♥posts [email protected] www.satorucolusa.com
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