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C-TAK

GUITARIST/COMPOSER/PRODUCER

About Me

Born and raised in Los Angeles, California. Currently, I am a freelance music producer, guitarist, composer, arranger, programmer and engineer. I play and listen to any kind of music but I particularly like funk, rock, jazz, r&b and pop. For a complete bio and other schtuff feel free to visit my website.other interests: wine, good-ass ramen, hitchcock movies, reverse the curse ice cream, natou with (tokyo) negi, masa-chin's okonomiyaki...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/12/2005
Band Website: christakita.com
Band Members: So far just me.

Influences: Green Day, Metallica, Primus, Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Albert Lee, Wes Montgomery, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Utada Hikaru, Jonatha Brooke, James Taylor, Bela Bartok, Maurice Ravel, Meters, James Brown, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk, Chris Thile, Luna Sea, Siam Shade, Shiina Ringo, Tokyo Jihen, Arif Martin, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Rob Cavallo, Bill Holman, Robert Randolph, My Chemical Romance...

and my guitar teachers back in the day who helped me out a bunch...Jinshi Ozaki, Joe Rogers, Wayne Krantz...
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"HARUKAZE" Takaya Kawasaki

Please check out Takaya Kawasaki's new album "Harukaze". This is actually the first album I produced/recorded/mixed. It also features me playing guitar in pretty much every track so I would love to ...
Posted by C-TAK on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:34:00 PST

ULTIMATE PANDAS released!

Features my work as recording engineer and guitarist. http://www.ultimatepandas.com/
Posted by C-TAK on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 08:15:00 PST

Meotobana

For those of you who are wondering what this is...This is an ENKA song I wrote with Tsuyako Imahara. It's my first attempt in writing Japanese traditional pop music. It really was a fun project and ...
Posted by C-TAK on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:57:00 PST

11/04/06 updates

For those of you who are wondering what the hell I'm doing these days: I am currently producing Singer/songwriter Takaya Kawasaki's new album. We are planning on finishing around late January or earl...
Posted by C-TAK on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 01:50:00 PST