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Cry for yourself
2
Winter moon
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Dan Dan Dah
4
Evening Star
5
Long distance shore
6
Drifting
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Quince
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Baby it's so hard. but I don't mind
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Reasons why can't interact with women
10
I'm stupid one
11
Ironic Keisuke's age is 30 years old
12
Nice to meet you
13
On boro car
14
Gather the wind
15
Friends gather together
16
Dimple
17
3am
18
New Century March
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I lived in Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture from 1989 to 1996. During the seven years I worked for a manufacturer of educational instruments, I taught, arranged, and wrote scores as a professional instructor throughout Japan. I learned a variety of techniques, but did not apply them to my own music. I consciously avoided becoming too familiar with them. All the songs written during this period have a somewhat distant look to them.The pretentious title of the album, "Windsor Knot," was a reminiscence of his days as an office worker who always wore a tie to work.
The album is divided into three parts. Tracks 1 to 6 depict a period of time when I was busy with work and lonely, tracks 7 to 11 depict a period of time when I was devastated by a broken heart, and tracks 12 to 18 depict a period of time until I met someone new and got married. In other words, I think this album is rich in variety, depicting me around the age of 30. I hope you will give it a listen.
My name is Iwashita Keisuke, also known as Sardine. Over the 20 years from 1983 to 2003, I have recorded about 200 songs by myself. I compiled these into eight albums and released them one by one in 2024. In 2025, instead of an anthology, I will release an album edited in chronological order. Sardine's music is diverse. It ranges from accessible pop to socially conscious message songs, from progressive constructions to punk subversiveness. I'm a formidable pianist, a mad synthesizer player, a halting guitarist, a tone-reading bassist, a loose percussionist, and a clumsy singer-songwriter with solo multi-choruses. All of these parts are integrated into one persona. A mixture of romance, cold-heartedness and passion, depicting incoherent anxiety and yearning for something unattainable, this is an oldie but an evergreen. Please listen to Sardine's expressive music.