Shigemi Minetaka

Finally, I've started to work on new recordings.  (Details will be shared much later as I only started to scratch the surface at this point).  

My bassist friend Ethan (also a recording engineer) helped me pick a good home recording…

My last post about making an office space at home might have made an impression that I am powering through quarantine life in an ambitious style.  

If that's the impression I gave, that's actually not true.  

With a long stretch…

Out of the blue, I felt like sharing this one positive thing I did recently at home. 

That is, to make my personal office space (for the first time in my adult life).

Frankly, it's just a wall, but making…

There's a piano that I am interested.  The touch is amazing and the sound.  So powerful and sensitive.  

It seems beyond my reach but I feel happy even just to remember how it sounded at the Apollo Piano show…

Still surprised how many people came out to the CD release party.  Quite frankly, I didn't know till that night I was supported this much in community of Chico.  And a friend even drove with his toddler from Santa Rosa…