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Windsor knot

Iwashita Keisuke Sardine

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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.

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  • Iwashita Keisuke Sardine

    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.

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