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Taxi Driver in NYC

Kigen

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I turned 60 this year and work as a doctor in the middle of nowhere in the Kanto Plain, 100km north of Tokyo. I resumed composing in 2018 after a 32-year hiatus. My father's work took me to New York for two years, from 1978 to 2019, where I was introduced to jazz and wanted to compose. By chance, when I was a teenager, I met Katsu, who graduated from Berklee College of Music in Boston, mastered the 10-string guitar stick, and returned to Japan. He taught me jazz arrangements. Without him, I wouldn't have the composing skills I have today. Even though I haven't done any musical work for 32 years, it's thanks to him that I'm able to compose music now. New York is my second home, a city I want to live in. However, the harsh reality is that my dream of living in New York likely won't come true in the future. I occasionally compose musics that evoke my feelings for New York, hoping to at least express them in my music.

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  • Kigen

    I work as a physician in a small town on the Kanto Plain, about 100 kilometers north of Tokyo. From 1978 to 1980, I lived in New York because of my father's work. The atmosphere and scenery of those years remain one of the greatest inspirations behind my music. As a teenager, I discovered jazz, which completely changed the way I listened to and understood music. I was also deeply influenced by YMO and Ryuichi Sakamoto. Today, I compose freely across many genres, including jazz, techno, classical, and world music. In 2018, after a 27-year break, I returned to composing. Since then, I have written more than 200 pieces of music, releasing them one by one as a record of my life. Rather than staying within a single genre, I enjoy turning memories, landscapes, and ideas into music. Someday, if I can naturally write an enka song, I might consider that a personal milestone as a composer. If even one of my pieces resonates with you, I would be truly grateful.

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