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• tsTom

  Born in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture in September 1961. From around the age of 5 or 6, he studied electronic organ for two years. Around the time he entered junior high school, he was shocked by the Beatles and became devoted to Western music. He would buy Beatles albums every month with his allowance, and would be glued to the radio listening to Western music and passionately recording it off the air. In the fall of his 15th year, a melody suddenly came to him on his way home from school. Since then, he has aspired to become a composer. Around the age of 18, his life froze. After that, he was forced to live a life of hiatus for about 10 years. Around 1988, he was shocked by the music of Paul Williams after watching the movie "Phantom of the Paradise". After practicing piano on his own, he held his first live performance as a singer-songwriter playing piano in 1989. For the next three years or so, he performed on the stages of various live music venues at a pace of about once a month. In 1993, he stopped performing live in order to concentrate on horse racing in order to become a professional gambler. In 1997, his passion for music was rekindled after appearing on Yomiuri TV's "Shinbashi Music Hall" in the "Find the Street Musician" segment (where he premiered his original song "Valentine's Day Elegy"). In 1998, he formed the unit CanPain, performing as the core of the unit under the stage name "tsTom," primarily through street performances. However, the unit disbanded the following year. In 2000, he launched the CanPain official website, shifting his base of operations to the internet. In 2001, he released his first self-released EP. In November 2002, he narrowly escaped being falsely accused of groping on a commuter train. This incident led him to release the outrageous song "If You Were Mistaken -- It's Seriously Dangerous" as a free internet single, which garnered a passionate response from some. After releasing the 5-track internet EP "SET A" on May 6, 2003, he temporarily suspended his solo activities in Japan and shifted his focus to creating music in collaboration with overseas artists and writers under the name "Tsutomu." He mainly produced pop and country-style songs. At the same time, he began working on electronic tracks that heavily utilized loops, a genre completely different from tsTom's previous pop style, and this gained high praise on overseas indie sites. In November 2003, he released the unique collaboration EP "BEATWORDS" / TSUTOMU feat. Koichi Sugiura, featuring poetry readings by Koichi Sugiura, who was also a member of CanPain. The track "Rhyme Like A Knife (flying flute)" from this EP reached No. 1 on Broadjam's electronic chart. Also, exactly three years after its release, in November 2006, "911," a track from "BEATWORDS," won fourth place in the Best Asian Song competition held by Just Plain Folks, a prestigious independent music site in the United States. (Incidentally, Mari Iijima took first place.) In January 2007, to commemorate the release of Masayuki Suo's latest film, "I Just Didn't Do It," "If You're Mistaken - It's Super Dangerous" was re-released. This time, it was a different version that had been remixed in 2003. This song was too bitter for tsTom himself, so he had kept it hidden for several years, but deeply moved by Masayuki Suo's passionate spirit, tsTom decided to re-release it. Thank you, Director Suo! At the end of 2006, tsTom opened a MySpace--Limited by character count. cf. my JPbio.

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  tsTomの他のリリース

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    The Long and Winding Pop tsTom
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    Pretty Cruel World (Remix) tsTom
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    Christmas Carol Baby (Remix) tsTom
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    Watching In Silence (feat. HARUKA) tsTom