"Flow" 4 song album (guitar/voice/pedals) /  by Goh Kurosawa

"Momo" (track 2 from “Flow” 4 song album)
composed by GOH (guitar)

"Return of the Fruit Bunny" (track 3 from “Flow” 4 song album)
composed by GOH (guitar/pedals)

"Flow"
4 song album composed by GOH (guitar/voice/pedals)

—click “HERE” to download album ($5.55 or name your price)　/　ご購入は”ココ”で—

I am on the road... wanted to get it out tonight... more info soon perhaps... just be well!
ツアー中．．．今日リリースします．．．詳細はまた後でもしかして．．．ただ健やかであれ！

—to send a message, or to contribute by Venmo (PayPal) & Zelle, click “HERE” for support page—

Grants Pass Museum of Art /  by Goh Kurosawa

photo: Annie Marie Evans, Scotty Evans
newspaper: Kathleen Alaks (article), Sue Morris (photo)

AW2YA videos /  by Goh Kurosawa

AW "two year anniversary / 二周年記念"

-program (first day / 初日)-
1. AW Live: Goh - "Lovetap"
2. AW Talk: Goh, Michael, Paola, Yasko, Masashi, Lisa, Al, Tsukuru, Uchip (start 13:30)
3. AW Live: Uchip - "freestyle rap" (start 38:30)
4. AW Talk: Mitchell, Bryan, Kurt (start 39:00)
5. AW Live: R&Y - "Akai Postono Niaumachi" (start 48:00)
6. AW Live: Goh - "Mama" (start 53:00)

-program (final day / 最終日)-
1. AW Live: Goh - "Mama"
2. AW Talk: Goh, Pride, Trina, Cathleen (start 17:00)
3. AW Word/キーワード: "ワクワク！！！ / Wakuwaku!!!" (start 25:00)
4. AW Talk: Goh, Kenmei, Bethany, Mark, Trina, Cathleen, Pride, Kenmei (start 29:00)
5. Bonus/おまけ: Nyan Nyan (start 48:00)
6. AW Talk: Helen, Jun, Bev, Mark (start 48:30)
7. AW Live: Goh - "Flowing” (start 54:00)

Wave... this wave is only here today... I am here, and so this is where I belong... moral jujitsu… sonomama/そのまま with a positive attitude… just trust.

波... この波は今日しかない... 僕はここにいる、だからここにいるべきなのだ... 道徳的な柔術... そのままをポジティブな体制で受け入れる... ただ信頼するのみ。

During AW2YA week, 50+ people (along with 10 cats, 6 dogs, and 2 snakes) tuned in from the US, Canada, Mexico, and Japan.

AW二周年記念ウィークには、50人以上の方（プラス猫10匹、犬6匹、そしてヘビ2匹）がアメリカ、カナダ、メキシコ、そして日本より参加しました。

www.composelife.com/diary/aw1ya (AW "one year anniversary / 一周年記念")

Pacific Reemergence Lovetap Tour /  by Goh Kurosawa

明けおめことよろ！ /  by Goh Kurosawa

お陰様で、
2022年は初日の出を見て、
年明けそばを作りました。
演奏を土日にやり、
さらに今日月曜日は、
梅干しバーガー（超うまです！！！）。
いい感じに始まっていてめちゃ最高。
やるぞ。
明けおめことよろ！

Because of you and all things,
I saw the first sunrise of 2022,
then made welcoming soba for the new year.
Performed during the weekend,
and today,
made a ridiculously delicious umeboshi burger.
Staring this new year with a bang.
Keep on grinding.
Happy New Year!

今年も、
よろしくお願いします。

This year once again,
please take me for who I am.

Fruit Bunny / 果物ウサギ /  by Goh Kurosawa

This is how I remember...

Once upon a time, there was a galaxy filled with Fruit Bunnies; various fruits for their tails... oranges, apples, pineapples (obviously a pineapple was a little inconvenient to hop hop the bunny thing).

One day, Bun Bun with the tail of an apple comes to our world. However, Bun Bun's apple tail is lost and he transforms into a Tatarigami (the monster god of death perhaps most commonly known today from the Princess Mononoke movie). He starts killing everything that he touches until...

He bumps into a gigantic doggy (way larger than any Tatarigami). The gigantic doggy goes "Wan wan (or 'woof woof' in English)," and they make a choice to go look for the missing apple tail together...

They eventually come along to a huge tree (even bigger than the gigantic doggy). Far up in the tree, the Fruit Bunny believes he sees his missing apple tail, "I think that is my apple tail!" and the gigantic doggy answers by barking "Wan wan (in Japan, dogs go 'wan wan' so let's get it right all)."

They try to figure out a way up to the top. In the process however, they fall asleep peacefully underneath the mighty tree; perhaps even more peaceful than any silent night of Christmas (click “HERE“ for video of Silent Night)...

Now the story has a few alternate endings, but the one that I keep going to is...

The Fruit Bunny is now dreaming, smiling, and telling himself, "Perhaps I do no longer need my apple tail any more, since I found a great friend."

On Sun 12/12 2021 (US time zone), a new song came to me, leading me to believe that the Fruit Bunny has returned. On Wed 12/15 2021 (US time zone & Thu 12/16 2021 in Japan), friends from Across Waters confirmed that they have been seeing many bunnies in Denver Colorado, and Whidbey Island Washington.

Have you found the Fruit Bunny yet?

The world would rejoice by hearing (y)our honest story. Make effort (for every job that needs to be done, there is an element of fun) to share your letter to the world; today, tomorrow, and 2022.

Visit https://bit.ly/3yyhERo for an article by Travis Rogers, Jr. (The Jazz Owl) to learn about my CD album Energy / 命 and the original Fruit Bunny music.

Keep well, lovetap the world, and happy holidays!

こんな感じに覚えています．．．

昔々、Fruit Bunny 果物ウサギ が栄えた銀河があったと。彼らのシッポはいろんなフルーツでした... みかん、リンゴ、パイナップル (でもパイナップルの場合ぴょんぴょんするのに一苦労だったとか)。

ある日、リンゴシッポの Bun Bun が我々の住む世界に到着しました。しかし、到着後まもなく Bun Bun はリンゴシッポを失い、祟り神になってしまいます。触れるものすべての命を吸い取っていきましたが．．．

どでかいワンちゃんにぶつかり、「うぉー！」とビビりました。このどでかいワンちゃんはどんな祟り神よりもはるかにでかかったのです。ワンちゃんは「わんわん」とつぶやき、ふたりはなくなったリンゴシッポを一緒に見つけようと決心するのでした。

旅に出て間もなく後にとてつもなく背の高い木に来ます。木のはるかてっぺんの方まで見上げた Bun Bun は、「あ！あそこに僕のリンゴシッポがある！」といい、ワンちゃんは「わんわん」とつぶやいた。

ふたりは何とか上まで上る方法を見つけようとする。その過程、ふたりは大きな木の下で安らかに眠り始めました．．．めっちゃ安らかに（きよしこの夜 / Silent Night の動画は “ココ”）。

この話のエンディングはいくつかありますが、僕が好むのは．．．

夢見る Fruit Bunny は、にっこりしながら、自分に言っていました．．．「もうリンゴシッポはいらないのかもしれない。すごくいい友達ができたから…」と。

米国で2021年12月12日(日)に新しい曲が生まれたのをきっかけに、Fruit Bunny が帰ってきたと感じています。日本で2021年12月16日(木)、アメリカで2021年12月15日(水)の Across Waters の際、コロラド州デンバーやワシントン州ウィッビー島でたくさんのうさぎが見かけられていたことが明らかになりました。

あなたは Fruit Bunny に気付いていますか？

わがままのストーリーをみんなと分けましょう。努力と脱力のバランスをもって、世界への手紙を今日、明日、そして2022年へ。

英文上記の最後より二段落内のリンクを見ていただければ、僕のCDアルバム Energy / 命 と Fruit Bunny の三部楽章の曲について英語で読むことができます。

健やかを求めつつ、世界をlovetap、そしてよいお年を！

Concert (GK B-Day) /  by Goh Kurosawa

photo credit: Sue Morris

Roger B-Day Celebration /  by Goh Kurosawa

Bellingham... I'm coming! /  by Goh Kurosawa

Destination is Bellingham; I am flying for the first time in two years.

>>>
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

GOH live in PNW
Sun 11/21 5pm @ JUXT Taphouse
accepting donations (free admission)
119 W Holly Street Bellingham, WA 98225
www.juxttaphouse.com

Residing in Los Angeles and travelling the world from Japan, GOH (Goh Kurosawa) is a musician armed with Honey Beast (his guitar), Lucky8 (his amp), fresh original songs, electrifying soundscapes, and stunning arrangements of familiar global melodies.

Scott Yanow (journalist for AllMusic & LA Jazz Scene) expresses: "Goh Kurosawa's music is beyond any simple classification. The guitarist improvises melodically, is open to the influences of pop, rock, flamenco, classical, Latin and Japanese music, and has his own musical identity. Equally skilled on electric and acoustic guitars, he has mastered tapping and sometimes uses electrical devices to create a wide range of sounds yet is not shy to embrace a pretty melody; personable and eager to talk about his music and guitar tunings between songs, Goh put on a warm and entertaining show. His set included Bob Marley's No Women No Cry, My Family My Friends (original), a Japanese folk song, Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah (which he sang) and parts of a suite he recently composed."

GOH's performance at JUXT will be his first outside of Los Angeles since the start of the pandemic. Coincidentally, he will be playing at the Taphouse and the name of his tour is the Lovetap Tour. The focus of his first out-of-state performance is "finding home." GOH says, "A dear old friend of mine, Roger Mills (former co-owner of the Wild Buffalo in Bellingham), is flying me out to Washington state for his birthday week. Bellingham, I am coming back to you, my 'home' in the Pacific Northwest!!!"

Lovetap Official MV
www.composelife.com/diary/lovetap

Please contact Tsukuru Fors: lovetaptour(at)gmail.com for press inquiry and interview requests.
>>>

For those of you who are Kombucha Town fans, I will be coming by Culture Cafe at 9pm to play. Please stay well, I hear that the rivers are flooding.

Kitchen55 (Goh Go!) /  by Goh Kurosawa

2025 update (March 3):

2024 second update (May 22):

2024 first update (February 15):

2023 second update (August 21, 2023):

2023 first update (March 21, 2023):

2022 final dish (December 31) + photos since June:

Lunchbox from Kamehameha Day (June 11) + more recent photos from K55:

K-Day Lunchbox

Valentine’s Day 2022 (breakfast & gallery update):

V-Day Breakfast

Introducing K55 (November 17, 2021):

“te ihi, te wehi, te mataku, te mana” /  by Goh Kurosawa

“The Maori of New Zealand have a phrase to describe the artistic process:

‘Te ihi, te wehi, te mataku, te mana.’

Te ihi is the performer’s gift to the audience.
Te wehi is the audience’s reciprocal gift to the performer.
Te mataku describes the circular nature of that process.
Te mana is the general uplifting realized by both parties.

In their opinion, and mine as well, one can create by one’s self, but in order for it to be an artistic creation it must be shared in some way. Acceptance, rejection, ambivalence…. a response of some kind is necessary for that creation to become art. You and I have both discovered in our lives how an audience can and does shape a performance. The artistic process is participatory. Only when our creations are shared do they become art.”　

Roger Mills


「ニュージーランドのマオリ族は芸術をこのように述べている:

『テ イヒ、テ ウェヒ、テ マタク、テ マナ。』

テ イヒ、とは、パフォーマーよりオーディエンスへの贈り物。
テ ウェヒ、とは、オーディエンスからパフォーマーへの贈り物。
テ マタク、とは、上記 give&take の自然な円（ご縁）。
テ マナ、とは、それぞれが感じた向上感。

誰もが創造することができるが、創造された芸術になるには、なんだかの形で分ける必要がある、というのがマオリ族の人々の考え方であり、私もそう考えている。認識、拒絶、迷い、などなど．．．． 創造されたものに反応があることによって芸術になる。あなたも私もそれぞれの人生の中でオーディエンスがパフォーマンスを影響することを経験してきている。芸術の過程は参加型です。我々が創造したものを分け与えたとき、創造されたものが初めて芸術となる。」

ロジャー・ミルズ

Hungry? / ペコペコ? (reads "peco peco?") /  by Goh Kurosawa

Two photos of my food plus an American morning photo…. wanna see more?

アメリカンおはよん写真＆米国自家製おにぎりとカレーを作りました．．．もっと見たいですか?

Across Waters (three videos released) /  by Goh Kurosawa

"one year anniversary / 一周年記念"

　-program-
　1. teaser/触り
　2. AW Talk: Goh, Grant, Tony, Martha, Adam, Hideki, Leo, and Brandon (start 9:00)
　3. AW Live: Goh - "Sing" (start 44:55)
　4. AW Talk: Roger, and Fae (start 50:00)
　5. AW Encore/アンコール: Goh - "Live Every Day" (start 52:00)

Intention... There is a term, it is called flow... We are not still water... Sing... Be yourself... Live Every Day... Question... Is there enough time? Is there too little time? Is there too much time?

意識的な動き... 流れ (flow) という言葉があります... 私たちはじっとしている水ではないです... 歌え... わがまま... 生きよう... 質問... 時間の量はちょうどいいでしょうか? 時間少なすぎますか? 時間ありすぎますか?

People were in touch (www.composelife.com/diary/2020/4/11/japan-on-my-mind) at the beginning of the pandemic to share heart... how is Japan, how is Los Angeles, how is America, how is Columbia, how is Australia, how is Mexico, how are things. 72 people tuned in for the AW Anniversary on May 1.

パンデミックの影響で会話 (www.composelife.com/diary/2020/4/16 - 日本はどうですか？ロサンゼルスは？米国は大丈夫ですか？) が様々な形ではじまり、隔週で続けてきたオンライン Across Waters Live&Talk は5月2日の一周年記念にアメリカ・日本・コロンビア・オーストラリアより72名が参加しました。

"balance/バランス"

　-program-
　1. teaser/触り
　2. AW Talk: Goh, Ben, and Pete (start 1:11)
　3. AW Live: Goh - "Lovetap" (start 20:42)

The deeper things of culture are the slowest things to change... guilt vs shame... humans don't do well without other humans... make effort to be the best person, and contribute to make the world better... it is our world.

文化奥深くに刻まれている事々は変化するとしても最もゆっくりと変わるもの... 罪と恥... 人間は人間と共に生きることによって元気を分かち合う... ベストの自分をつくり続け、その結果として世界を整えましょう... 我々の世界を。

"jaga jaga jaga / ジャガジャガジャガ"

　-program-
　1. AW Live: Goh - "Slow Burn"
　2. AW Talk: Goh, Kentaro, Adam, Mindy, Michael, Roger, and Geli (start 0:47)
　3. AW Encore/アンコール: Goh - "When Nothing Comes To Mind" (start 28:00)
　4. Bonus/おまけ: "jaga jaga jaga" (start: 30:59)

Introduce yourself... then reintroduce yourself... when nothings comes to mind... reinvent yourself... the person(s) you have seen for years without saying hello... every conversation... every introduction... every chance... let's take it!

初めての自己紹介... さらに次回の自己紹介... 何も思い浮かばない時... 自分を整えよう... 何年も見て知っているけれど未だに今もなお声をかけたことのない彼(ら)... すべての会話... すべての出会い... すべてのチャンス... 楽しくのめりこもう！

http://www.composelife.com/brokentour (AW page)

Summertime hello, August is here!
夏ですね、アメリカでも８月になりました!