BY CARLY SUSMAN | Shugo Tokumaru returned to New York City after five years with his most recent album In Focus?, which was released in November. Shugo and his accompanying musicians blew the Bowery Ballroom‘s audience away with their performance last Thursday night.
Opening for Shugo and his band at the Bowery Ballroom were OneOne, which featured Saya from Tenniscoats and Satomi from Deerhoof. Oneone performed several playful songs in Japanese; Satomi described one as being about a crab cutting a telephone wire. Keeping with the Japanese theme, singer and songwriter Mirah then performed in a shirt that she said she bought at a flea market in Tokyo and shared multiple new tracks with the audience.
Tokumaru opened his set with “Katachi,” which has an incredible stop-motion music video that won the Audience Award for Best Music Video at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival. The performance was captivating, especially because being able to see the wide array of toys and instruments used to create each song gives Shugo’s music another dimension.
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