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When Japan's era changed from Showa to Heisei, I learned about the change on the car radio while standing in front of Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto. Now that it's Reiwa, having lived through two eras, I'm called an old man by the generation born in Reiwa. When I was little, the people who lived through the era two eras prior were also called old men. History repeats itself, doesn't it?

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  • Kigen

    I'm a doctor living in the countryside of the Kanto Plain, 100km north of Tokyo. I was born in 1966 and hadn't done any musical work for 32 years, but I found the time in 2018 to start composing musics again. I lived in New York for two years from 1978 for my father's work, but I forgot English. I met my jazz teacher as a teenager and became interested in jazz. I was originally a big fan of YMO and Ryuichi Sakamoto, but after meeting my teacher, my musical tastes changed. That said, I still love both Ryuichi Sakamoto and YMO. Personally, I'm willing to compose musics for anything except enka. I consider the time I wrote enka to be the culmination of my career as a composer. I've decided to share my music, from jazz to techno, classical to world music, with the world as proof of my life. To my teacher, Katsu, I'd like to thank you for imparting your musical knowledge to me at a young age.

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