Shin Kawasaki
- Music Department
- Composer
Interpreter of sound, language and culture, Shinkawasaki has worked as a guitarist with the likes of Lee Takasugi and Visiting Violette, one of the pioneers of Asian American alternative rock scene, and Chili Charles, the steel and kit drummer of Mike Oldfield and The Beach Boys "Kokomo" fame, or The Remotes, the house band for Daytime Emmy Awards for 2016 and 2017 led by composer/producer Caleb Martin, to list a few. He also cofounded post-punk/prog band Los Desnudos who gained an Independent Music Awards (Jam category) nomination. As a composer/producer SK contributed music for various entities and causes including SanDisk, Japan Airline, NHK Enterprises, House Foods and Japan Self-Defense Airforce. He released 1st self-titled solo effort in 2010 which gained another nom for Independent Music Awards, then he formed a Livetronica/Technopop outfit Flying Platforms who hosted bi-monthly experimental jam session at historic Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown Los Angeles for almost a decade.
SK started out 2020 with a 6-track EP "Six Songs from Insomnia," featuring acoustic instruments and analog synthesizers recorded live on 24 track tapes which then digitally manipulated in the post-Hip Hop era sensibility, mixing the elements of Jazz, Soul and Prog. Once the pandemic hit, a synthwave instrumental compilation "Solid State Survivors" was released with a vocal single "What's It Gonna Be?" He also sought to collaborate with a Tokyo-based MC/beatmaker and an old friend ASAP Takahashi for a Japanese-language Chillhop track "43 Mushoku (43 and Unemployed)" then with an ex-bandmate and synthesizerist Wingo Shackleford resulting with an ambient analog synth + nylon string guitar duet "Isolation Tapes." One of the tracks from this collaboration "No. 3: Memorial Day" was featured on "Kintsugi Spirit" Virtual Exhibition curated by Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.
SK started out 2020 with a 6-track EP "Six Songs from Insomnia," featuring acoustic instruments and analog synthesizers recorded live on 24 track tapes which then digitally manipulated in the post-Hip Hop era sensibility, mixing the elements of Jazz, Soul and Prog. Once the pandemic hit, a synthwave instrumental compilation "Solid State Survivors" was released with a vocal single "What's It Gonna Be?" He also sought to collaborate with a Tokyo-based MC/beatmaker and an old friend ASAP Takahashi for a Japanese-language Chillhop track "43 Mushoku (43 and Unemployed)" then with an ex-bandmate and synthesizerist Wingo Shackleford resulting with an ambient analog synth + nylon string guitar duet "Isolation Tapes." One of the tracks from this collaboration "No. 3: Memorial Day" was featured on "Kintsugi Spirit" Virtual Exhibition curated by Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.
