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Simon Koperu

About Me

Hi! My name is Simon Koperu. I am a bassist from New Zealand but I have been living in Japan for the last 9 years. I started playing in a High School band call Juice with my buddies, guitarist and graphic artist Jacob Luamanuvae-Sua (Lord of the Rings,Happy Feet) and drummer Darren Mathiassen (Hollie smith, Rhombus,Trinity Roots). Those of you from New Zealand might know me from these bands. The David Feehan Band (Top 40 pop band), The Dave greer band (orginal folk) or The Saturday night band (Acid Jazz).SInce coming to Japan I have been involved in a variety of interesting music projects from Hawaiin music to Techinal fusion. I love playing all kinds of music. Those of you in Japan might know me from some of these bands. Urban Lounge Mode (Lounge,Jazz), Derek Short (nu Jazz, www.derekshort.com), Nikkei Aloha (Comedy Hawaiian), The Conductors (Funk, pop, www.rocktokyo.com), Kawaihae (Hawaiian pop, Kawaihae 3), Killians (Jazz),and the Hiroaki Trio (Techinal fusion).Thanks for checking out my site. I am looking forward to meeting through the realm of cyber space.Peace Simon ..
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Member Since: 06/01/2007
Influences: Too many to count! Mark King, Marcus Miller, Jaco Pastorius, Victor Bailey, Victor Wooten, Pino Palladino, Nathan East, Anthony Jackson, Will Lee, Stanley Clark, Richard Bona, Doug Wimbish, Flea, Ashton Barret, Ryan Monga, Baghiti Khumalo, Gene Perez, Reggie Washington, Bootsy Collins, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Bob Cranshaw, Paul Jackson, Derek K Short
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Record Label: Unsigned

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