There might also be people who don’t want to make music anymore. Sakamoto: I have no idea, but there’ll probably be people who quit. With our current situation, everything is a bit unpredictable-b ut what do you think the future holds for musicians? So it’s sad to think that I might not be able to do stuff like that from now on. I went to places I never expected to go, and even this year, if corona didn’t happen, I had plans to do an overseas tour. How did you feel about starting to do live shows again after taking a break? I’ve learned that I can only make things according to my taste. Even if I go into the studio, it’s like I’m thinking about playing live. Sakamoto: The feeling of not having any plans, and just thinking about making new songs. What do you mean by your feeling around the time of the earthquake? But with my new songs, since I couldn’t play shows, I felt like I’d returned a bit to how I was feeling around the time of the earthquake, when I made my first solo album. There was a period where I made three albums without playing any live shows, but when I started playing live again recently, I couldn’t keep creating music at the same pace. Sakamoto: I feel like I did what I could do for now. In comparison to your past work, where do you feel your two recent singles stand? Personally, I felt continuity with your previous music. Although, it’s totally fine to make a song that’s meaningless and confusing but interesting-actually, that’s better. So the content becomes limited, and it quickly becomes like threading a needle. It’s not that I think you should only sing what you’re thinking, but that being said, I can’t sing something I’m not thinking. I keep deleting words that I feel like are wrong in terms of meaning and nuance, and from there, I make lyrics that I feel like I could sing.
Sakamoto: It’s more of a process of elimination. So I think it’s something we should talk about openly. Sakamoto: Right, it’s something that can’t be justified. That’s why the people falsifying information can’t admit that’s what they’re doing. “By Swallow Season/Don’t Tinker With History?” second single to be released 12/2 There were a few songs I put aside for that reason, so I thought I’d add lyrics to them and finish them anyway. I’ve been working on songs for 2 or 3 years, but they lacked a “wow” factor, or I guess they just didn’t feel as new as my previous songs. So this time, I decided to record with everyone.ĭo you already have enough songs to make an album? But then I thought that there would probably be a lot of home-recorded albums coming out, so I quickly lost motivation. I’ve always liked music that sounds like something off of a demo tape made with an old drum machine, and I collect records like that too, so I wanted to try it for myself.
In the end, those shows ended up being cancelled, so we figured that we may as well use the studio we had reserved for practice to record.Īre you still working on music with the drum machine? Then I realized that a studio recording was better after all. But then there was talk that we might still play the postponed shows, so I put a pause on home recording to rehearse with my band in the studio. So your new singles were recorded in the studio with your band, but the original plan was to record at home?
And that motivated me for a bit, which led to my four new songs. Also, I got excited and bought an Ace Tone FR-1. Sakamoto: This thing called a Maestro Rhythm King that Sly Stone used to use. So to inspire myself, I went online and bought an old drum machine that I’d been wanting for a while. But there were a lot of songs I’d been sitting on, so I figured I could record an album at home. Shintaro Sakamoto: My live shows scheduled in April were postponed, so for a while, I was feeling pretty unmotivated. What have you been up to these past six months? I tried to record an album at home, but I realized a band would be better.
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