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Togo Kiyomaru

ひゅるりらと 街の灯りが

はためくような ため息交じりの

夕暮れを背負うくたびれた人影

新しい家へ帰ろう、僕ら

からっぽな胸に 注ぎ込むような

はだかの歌を唇にひと節

何度でも 初めてかのように迎えたい

朝の窓辺に 灯りはいらない

静かにゆれる 山茶花のひと差し

  • Lyricist

    Togo Kiyomaru

  • Composer

    Togo Kiyomaru

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    wind & fire

    Togo Kiyomaru

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    Spring Waltz

    Togo Kiyomaru

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    Pipe

    Togo Kiyomaru

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    Wave Motion Prefecture

    Togo Kiyomaru

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    Morning Bird

    Togo Kiyomaru

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    Orca

    Togo Kiyomaru

This is a narrative work produced by Togo Kiyomaru alone in the living room of his parents' house where he spent his boyhood and adolescence.

His previous work, "Q tune," released in 2019, featured over 10 guest performers and engineer Toshihiko Kasai, pursuing a groovy sound incorporating dance music and world music. The following year brought a worldwide pandemic, and at the same time, the birth of Kiyomaru Togo's first child. The rapid changes in society on a global scale and the growing new family shook his conventional values from both macro and micro perspectives.

As if facing the fundamental questions of what is music, what is singing, and what is myself, I completed a guitar-playing album with a simple sound image in the living room of my parents' house where I can spend time peacefully.

The song is about the joy of living and working, the longing for a new world, and the regret for what will be left behind. The number of notes and rhythms are reduced to the bare minimum, and the harmony of the voices is sometimes overlapped to delicately weave the music.

Past Rank In

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iTunes Store • Folk TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 4 • 22 Oct 2024 Apple Music • Folk Top Songs • Japan • TOP 5 • 24 Jun 2023 Apple Music • Folk Top Songs • Mongolia • TOP 68 • 22 Jun 2023

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Spotify • New Music Everyday - tuneTracks (curated by TuneCore Japan) • 23 Jun 2023
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