Featured Artist: Goh Nakamura
We’re going to try something slightly different. Up to now, for the most part, whenever we received new music to play, we just loaded it onto our playlist and I wrote a single blog entry about several artists. Sometimes, there was a common theme tying the artists together. Most of the time, there was no common theme. For the next several weeks, we’re going to try and introduce each artist in an individual post, complete with a biography and some words about the songs they’ve offered to the station. We’ll see how this goes. First of up is Goh Nakamura.
Goh Nakamura may live in the Bay Area now, but he lived half of his life in Massachusetts. He grew up in Lexington, MA and went to the Berklee College of Music. Apparently, part of his musical career was spent in Boston where he provided “stunt guitar” work for various local bands.
His work as an individual artist didn’t really begin until he moved back to the west coast. He likes to think of himself as a combination of John Lennon, John Cusack and John Coltrane. (Why three Johns? I don’t know!) However unholy this trinity is, it seems to work (at least in his head).
For the last 3 years, he’s been playing his original songs as well as an eclectic spectrum of covers at assorted venues throughout the SF Bay Area.
Goh Nakamura’s debut album, “Daylight Savings”, was named one of the Top Ten Local Albums of 2004 by the San Jose Metro. We’re playing several of the tracks from his album on our radio station.
I’ve been listening to his CD over the past couple of weeks. When I first listened to his music, I thought it was kind of somber. I wasn’t paying close attention to the lyrics so I decided to check out his lyrics to see if the words were as depressing as the music sounded. And I guess the verdict is yeah, kind of. The songs are definitely bittersweet. Tune into our stream and and judge for yourself. We’re playing a fair number of tracks from his album, including the song for the video, “Embarcadero Blues.” It is a song about a food service worker who barely makes anything but is happy to have someone special in his life. Apparently, the video has been getting tons of hits on Youtube.com.
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