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“Neo City Pop”. In December of last year Masa from Japan released his song No Matter What, No Matter Where , a track that caught us primarily because of its complex harmonies and the fantastic electric guitar runs. As big fans of Japanese 80s city pop, we could hear direct parallels and musical influences.
The melody is just brilliant and the polyphony gives the track an incomparable magic that runs through the entire song. We particularly like the groove that motivates movement and is mainly generated by solid drums, a soft bassline and sonorous guitars. As mentioned above, the guitar solos are awesome!
-Adrian Prath, Berlin on Air
“A FIRST PARAGRAPH OF A SIDE STORY, WHICH DUE TO ITS DEPTH COULD ALSO BE RETHOUGHT AS A WHOLE CHAPTER, “NO MATTER WHAT, NO MATTER WHERE” IS AN IMPECCABLE SYNTHESIS OF WHAT MASA HAS COLLECTED IN HIS JOURNEY TO DATE.”
-Gabriele Filippi, NOVA MUSIC blog
BIO.
Masa (Mamoru Satoh) is a Japanese artist with a multicultural background, having grown up in Japan, Hong Kong, and the United Kingdom. He has been traveling the world with his guitar since graduating from the London College of Creative Media in 2014. He started out busking in Galway, Ireland, and has built a reputation one performance at a time.
Highlights of his journey have been recording guitar for a German TV advertisement, playing music festivals in Europe (with ex-Weather Girls Ingrid Arthur and others), and playing shows in over 10 countries and 25 cities including London, Tokyo, New York City, Berlin, Montreal, and so on.
Masa creates a unique Neo City Pop sound with smoky vocals, tasty blues guitar, and laid back jazz harmony. His music style emanates the sounds of blues, soul, and jazz and combines them with catchy melodies.
You can learn more about City Pop composition, listen to Japanese and English covers and reharmizations, and listen to Masa’s by checking out his YouTube Channel.
Throughout the traveling experiences, Masa found that you can learn a lot from different cultures. One of his dreams is to spread the virtuous nature of Japanese culture through his musical journey. He enjoys playing in cultural events and music festivals. To pursue this dream Masa created Neo Tokyo, a Japanese cross-cultural community on Discord welcome to all.
For inquiries about performances, collaborations, recording sessions, or other works for hire contact us!
Upcoming Release “Komorebi” on April 23, 2021
“Komorebi is a Japanese word, which can't be translated directly to other languages. It is the subtle sunlight as it filters through the trees, and I was already singing the word Komorebi along with the piano in the beginning. The background vocals represent the sunlight pouring through the leaves into the shade. The theme of the song is "The way you perceive the world is how the world exists to you". If you appreciate small beautiful things around you, like Komorebi, your life is beautiful.”
— Masa
Contact.
For Booking/Press, Collaboration/Production, or All Other Inquiries: david@fogwoodrecords.com
Watch Masa’s performance with Ingrid Arthur (Ex-The Weather Girls) at Sister Soul Altstadtfest Gifhorn (Festival in Germany).