LinuxMusicians

Shugo Tokumaru music is bright in tone and very creative, using mostly acoustic instruments and anything that can make a sound, like toys and such. I follow his music since quite a few years now.

Here is a video live in a South Korean studio, to give an idea of the music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gK1dz6c7WQs

The latest album is called "Lift" and while on sale as a CD, the record company also put it on youtube at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcV86g5Agfk

That is some smart, imaginative pop music. So many hooks. Thanks for sharing it.

And here's a video from the latest album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiJomOkaVA

EDIT: Couldn't resist, also adding two other live videos, in Japan this time:

Rum Hee

And a short instrumental, in Spain:

Future Umbrella

Very good pop, with some highly original ideas thrown in. and that last one had some fun ideas in the vid.

In that video there are curious musical 'machines'. They are not there just for fun. It turns out there's a whole story behind them, the story of Meiwa Denki. The BBC had earlier this year a short report on them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4sB3xwU2FU

Not wanting to drag that too long, I had to also post this Swiss video of Meiwa Denki ... and you must turn on captions for when the Swiss German presenter talks (or leave it on). Because this is all about non-sense machines and the captions makes it even funnier. I understand a good bit of German, so this is a riot. But even without understanding, the captions adds a "non sense" "mechanical" touch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e3UnyGf76I

Wonder if any of his controllers runs Linux...