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Baku Tsunoda (28) and Naomichi Tanaka (31) have been working together as the Rainstick Orchestra for the last four years. They met when they were both DJing in a club in Tokyo and, as they lived near to each other, they began hanging out and trying to improve their musical skills by working together.

By day, Baku is an Editorial Designer and Naomichi is a Systems Engineer. But it’s music that drives them both. While Naomichi cites an early love of the music of Manchester as a formative influence as well as time playing in punk bands, Baku started out playing guitar and piano in both a Yellow Magic Orchestra covers band and a session group who played in the style of Maceo Parker and Funkadelic.

What they create together, using guitars, piano, bass & sequencers, is a delicate ‘systems music’ that gives a nod to the minimalism of Cage and Reich as well as echoing forms such as techno and jazz. Unsurprisingly, they both subscribe to the idea that music is “borderless”.

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natsq wrote:
October 2009

More more!!

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AJulian wrote:
September 2009

I wish so badly that they would release another album. Floating Glass Key was absolutely wonderful.

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dazmanic wrote:
June 2009

More Please! The Floating Glass Key in the Sky is lovely, and I would certainly like to hear what other sounds the Rainstick Orchestra can come up with. :-)

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TippinMyStuff wrote:
March 2009

wicked tune

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lawrencefelt wrote:
January 2009

Really fresh !

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GiraffeCat wrote:
April 2007

New stuff is definitely needed. Have you heard their remix of Hexstatic's remix of Guitar Vader's Perfect Bird (Phew!), though? It's superb.

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gunterb wrote:
March 2007

nevermind :) 2004

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gunterb wrote:
March 2007

when did this album come out? (year)

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LawnchairGenera wrote:
December 2006

I think the name of the band suits the music really well.

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Faeerie wrote:
October 2006

Delicious tunes, but I want more.

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Fetti wrote:
October 2006

Damn right. TFGKITS (nice abbreviation) has only 7 tracks so it's more like an EP than an album. :/ Great songs though.

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yagood wrote:
June 2006

They should release something new at last :-(

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