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Tokyo Rain

by Espen Kraft

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I was so lucky to get the help of Caroline Johansen with the japanese voiceover, singing, lyrics and the overall feel to the female narrative. Thanks!

I wanted to make a retro synthwave track with an "impossible love" angle between a foreign visitor to Tokyo (maybe a sportsman) and a japanese girl. Some faint hints of eastern music seeps through here and there.

The recording is all done with a variety of old 80s hardware synths, samplers and drum machines.
Roland Juno 6 for bass, D-50 for percussion and chorales. Yamaha TX802 for even more percussion.
The Roland TR-626 and Akai S1000 delivers drums while the Roland JX-8P delivers all pads and strings. Add a Telecaster guitar and some own samples of rain and thunder and you have it.
The awesome reverb is done with the help of Strymon BlueSky at full throttle...

lyrics

End of the season, where did you go?
At one time I thought I loved you
Heavens fallout
To loose, away....

(japanese translated to english)
It was the end of summer
I should have known from the start
This was not going to work
But maybe will meet again one day
In the rain?

Tokyo Rain

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released January 19, 2018
Photo by Fuse Brussels on Unsplash

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Espen Kraft Norway

Producer of 80s inspired synth-pop and retro emotions.

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