Mandolin, Ceramics, Airplanes, Duckpin Bowling, Bicycles, and Superconductors
future collaborators, and re connect with people I have meet before.
New Music
We just did a limited release of our first outing as a group. Middlehill . "Pills To Purge Melancholy" .
lyrics which tell a good story, the melodies that move, harmony. I am not as picky as I used to be, but I still don't dig aural assaults. Musicians I look up to: Hamza El Din, G. Bradley Rhodes, Timothy Day, Chris Conner, Yo-Yo Ma ( you almost stepped on me ), Roy Haynes, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Ellington, and most importantly, my grandfather Moe Wechslercool hand luke, yojimbo, amarcord, deadman
my side of the mountain, sign of the chrysanthemum, dolphin island: as boy now: galapagos, invisible man by Ralph Ellison, the writings of Chuang-Tzu, I just read dan pink's a whole new mind, which I could not put down and 20th century ceramics, which will definitely be on my reading list for my students
Mom, Granny + Gramps, Dad, My brother David, Odawara Hatsunori