Council Meeting Memo #021

Takuma Watanabe’s Top 10 for 2021

1. Jeanne Lee, Ran Blake: The Newest Sound Around (Down At Dawn, Album)
2. Bent Lorentzen: Electronic Music (Lydarkaeologi, Album)
3. Lucy Railton & Kit Downes: Subaerial (SN Variations, Album)
4. Mankunku Quartet: Yakhal’ Inkomo (Mr.Bongo Recordings, Album)
5. Michael Small: The Parallax View OST (Cinema Paradiso, Soundtrack)
6. Le Ren: Leftovers (Secretly Canadian, Album)
7. Jim O’Rourke: Best that you do this for me (Another Timbre, Album)
8. Jocy De Oliveira: A Música Século XX de Jocy (Litoral Records, Album)
9. Beatriz Ferreyra: Canto+ (Room 40, Album)
10. Clara Rockmore: Theremin (Mississippi Records, Album)

Takuma Watanabe is a Japanese composer. Studied composition and music technology at Berklee College of Music. In 2006 he started his film composing career. In 2007 he joined the world tour of David Sylvian for keyboard and played 28 concerts. In 2014 he founded a string ensemble with several string players to perform music alongside live computer processing. His latest release is ‘Delay x Takuma’, remixes by Vladislav Delay out on Constructive.

Visit https://www.takumawatanabe.com / https://twitter.com/tkmwtb