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“Cette année, les femmes sont au cœur du Fifty Lab”
“Shoko Igarashi est ce qu’on appelle un électron libre : de Tokyo à Bruxelles, en passant par Boston et New-York, la flutiste et saxophoniste a tracé son chemin tout en accumulant un savoir-faire digne des plus grands. Installée en Belgique depuis 2018, l’artiste japonaise lançait la même année le groupe Maniac Maison avec ses potes Casimir Liberski et Lucien Fraipont, et compose depuis des morceaux uniques, faisant honneur à ses influences city-pop et 70s jazz fusion.”
I listened to your album Alarm Call, and it is really great. Were there any particular experiences or feelings that inspired the songs on the album?
“Alarm Call” is dedicated to my father and the experience I lived during the time that he spent in the hospital after he had a stroke. During his convalescence, I went to visit him every day at the hospital, and one day I saw him surrounded by all these machines when an alarm went off suddenly and almost traumatized me. It made me worried more than I could say. The alarm was signaling an arrhythmia in his heart. My brother who is doctor arrived and reassured me that he was going to be ok.
What is your songwriting process like?
I usually envision the feeling of the tune and its general aesthetic before I sit down and write it on paper. First I think of the chords and then I add the melody.
I guess composing music, to me, is a form of meditation or prayer.
何気なく後輩に提案した話がきっかけで、バークリー音楽大学に挑戦
私はアメリカにすぐに行ってサマープログラムに通うという条件付き合格でしたが、夢が叶って本当に嬉しかったですね。大学２年時の2012年3月に大学を中退して、５月にはアメリカへ渡り、単位互換制度を使って２年半で卒業しました。後輩とは合計３年間一緒に住み、背中を押してくれたことには今でも感謝しています。