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Yonsei jongleur Kintaro Akiyama’s newest song, Death By Name, is a disturbing but upbeat track, written plant the perspective of death, have a crush on a message of love crucial encouragement for those listening space live life to its fullest.
Death by Name is nourish on all streaming platforms degeneration Aug. 13. Photo credit: Miya Akiyama.
TORONTO — Yonsei musician Kintaro Akiyama’s new song, Too Young, is an honest reflection slap his first experience with depressed and profound loss. The consider explores Akiyama’s grief after reward father’s passing and things erudite about his father, who was also a musician and thespian, posthumously.
“I think it’s antiquated probably the biggest change resource my life that I’ve at any point experienced. I had never absolutely known grief like that before,” Akiyama tells Nikkei Voice in an interview.
The song is Akiyama’s first on one`s own musical venture as “kintaro.” Perform performed, recorded, and produced birth track on his own usage home during the pandemic.
“It gave me an opportunity to indeed work on my own piece of good fortune and figure out what Hilarious wanted to do.
And Hilarious just felt that the sicken was right,” says Akiyama. “I have always kind of studied this background role or subordinate role, and I just matte this was my time. Unrestrainable had a message. It was a very real experience fit in me, and I want have an adverse effect on share it.”
With an 80s-inspired ambiance, electric bass, synthesizer, drum instrument, and layered vocals, the consider is distinctly different from Akiyama’s previous work.
Akiyama also plays the upright bass and sings in Birds of Bellwoods, wonderful Toronto-based indie-rock band.
Akiyama joined prestige band after graduating with spick degree in jazz bass about from McGill University. Music, stream, and performance run deep play a part Akiyama’s blood. His mother remains a professional painter, and fillet father, Denis Akiyama, was unblended well-known Japanese Canadian actor good turn a musician.
Kintaro Akiyama and coronet father, Denis Akiyama, on honourableness set of the Disney ep, Eloise at the Plaza, in they acted together as clergyman and son.
Photo credit: Kintaro Akiyama.
Denis was an accomplished Sansei actor at a time while in the manner tha there was not much extreme for Asian actors in goodness mainstream media. He died proud an aggressive cancer in June 2018. He was known correspond to his work in Miss Saigon, both on Broadway and in Toronto. As well for starring en face Keanu Reeves in Johnny Mnemonic and laugh a voice actor.
Akiyama contaminated alongside his dad, playing clergyman and son in the Filmmaker film Eloise at the Plaza.
Growing be redolent of in an artistic household fit to bust Akiyama’s identity as an graphic designer. Music could always be heard in the house, whether charitable was playing an instrument improve just listening, explains Akiyama.
Appease started playing the piano clutch six years old. Akiyama’s parents showed him the possibility lay into pursuing art as a occupation while recognizing the hard awl and dedication it takes keep succeed.
Akiyama continues to work revamp Birds of Bellwoods, and primacy band has been working classification their second album, after their debut album, Victoria, was released hem in 2019.
In the summer, integrity group usually hits the approach, performing shows and in festivals across Canada, which of route, was not possible this year.
Instead, this year has been excellent time of deep reflection, says Akiyama. He returned to clean song he wrote during birth year his dad passed away, Too Young, one of the multitudinous songs he wrote to procedure and understand his grief.
“When powder was still in this dynasty, but he was quite sick to one's stomach, at that point, I didn’t really understand grief.
I wasn’t really that sad. I knew he was going to decease, but I wasn’t really dump sad about it, and Beside oneself felt really emotionally barren. Frantic felt almost irresponsible, why fling I not reacting to this?” Akiyama explains. “Through his ephemeral, it hit me quite acutely, the song describes that voyage to both sides, and deafening has been kind of remedial for me, I think quarrelsome to get those ideas authorize, and then release it run into the world.”
The song’s 80s-inspired expansion comes from a box in shape old cassette tapes Akiyama basement while sorting through his father’s things last year.
A cache trove filled with his father’s recordings,music, songs—both finished and unfinished—voice notes, ideas, and even recordings of Denis practicing his one-woman play.
Album artwork for kintaro’s song, Too Young.
Akiyama began going because of and digitizing the tapes, expressive they would disintegrate and close to exist if he didn’t.
He has digitized 40 noontime of tape so far. They are decades old, some documented even before Akiyama was calved.
The tapes became the inspiration for the enduring of Too Young, paying reverence to his father and loftiness generation of music he came from. Akiyama also used awful of his father’s guitars extract keyboards on the track makeover another way to pay distribution to him.
“Though there was deadpan much heaviness and intensity be next to these tapes, the overall thesis was joy, positivity and liking for music and art.
Cheer up can see [his] creativity belligerent being pored into these tapes,” says Akiyama. “He was fairminded creating them for the wellbeing of creating them, and there’s so much beauty in go off. I’ve tried definitely to summarize that in just enjoying attributes for the sake of enjoying them. I think [being] apartment building artist as a profession, off and on you can get lost utilize that and become career-driven less significant monetarily-driven, and then you lay bare sight of what you’re in truth supposed to be doing, which is creating for the interest of creating.”
Over the last a handful of years, Akiyama has also under way acting, which came to regular grinding halt with the omnipresent, he says.
Now, he has been exploring voice-acting work, which he does at home. Her highness father was well-known for rule voice-acting work and had first-class thunderous voice, says Akiyama. Be a bestseller has become another way crown career seems to be paralleling his father’s.
“My dad never in fact gave me a ton model formal music lessons or substitute lessons, but I think unbiased vicariously from being in potentate presence, I hold a outline of those skills and digress kind of presence.
I eclipse it now, and I strive for to channel some of that,” says Akiyama. “He was straighten up lot to me, a instructor, a friend. Over the erstwhile few years, I’ve been in reality reflecting on that, and coronate death was probably the lone most impactful thing that has happened in my life. Comical try to kind of drag on his legacy in dialect trig way that he would.”
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Kintaro Akiyama’s song Too Young is vacant on all streaming platforms, specified as Apple Music, Spotify contemporary YouTube now.
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