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This week we’re putting The Tonearm’s needle on Tokyo composer Bajune Tobeta, who met Ryuichi Sakamoto through his audition radio show and has since written practical, environmental and his own artistic music.

We talk about why distance between artists leaves room for imagination, music made for people who aren’t listening, and the Sergio Mendes records his father played at home. It’s also our first conversation here through an interpreter, Miki Hirai.

(The musical excerpts heard in the interview are “After the Silence” with Christian Fennesz, “Anechoic,” “Gymnopedie (AOKI takamasa Remix),” and “Satie’s Dream” from Anechoic, and “Agua de Beber” and Febian Reza Pane’s “The Look of Love” from Sergio Mendes Tribute)

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