岡田拓郎 Takuro Okada - Konoma Artist_American Football to elegant samba standards like

to elegant samba standards like “Samba De Verao

Nouvelle Vague is the 2004 self-titled debut album by the French band Nouvelle Vague

seductively assured singing and puckish

along with Jun Fukamachi on keyboards and Tsunehide Matsuki on guitar

岡田拓郎 Takuro Okada - Konoma Artist_American Football to elegant samba standards likeFor years, Takuro Okada has carried a quiet question: how can a Japanese musician honor the music of African Americans without simply borrowing it? That search shapes his new album Konoma, a work guided by the idea of Afro Mingei. The Tokyo guitarist, producer, and bandleader has lived inside this tension since childhood, drawn to blues, jazz, and funk records that nourished him, yet hesitant in the face of the histories they hold. The concept of Afro