Tanabe Mamoru is a Tokyo based singer and songwriter. His songs are bitter-sweet portraits of life and love. His experience of modern Japanese life is wryly humorous but his themes are serious and universal.
When I think of my life I often forget the small things that make me happy. Going for a walk, seeing a kind face, eating something really good, spending a day doing nothing with someone I love. But listening to Tanabe Mamoru's music I am reminded of all the small happinesses and sadnesses that make my life. And, somehow, because they are such ordinary things they become important again.
by William Stapley
Album Discography
2009 Songs and a Guitar 2009
2007 Life Cycle
2006 Songs and Violin Live
2004 Hello! Folks
2003 Love and Knowledge
2002 Cassette and Gazette
1999 Love Comedy
1998 Weekenders
1998 Young American
1997 3 Days A Week
1996 Dobojide (Why?)
