When composer-musician Masahiro Takahashi moved from Tokyo to Toronto with his Canadian partner at the end of 2019, he had no idea what was around the corner.
¡°We were on lockdown for about a year, starting in March 2020,¡± he says. Toronto would spend 777 days under state-of-emergency measures ¡ª longer than any other major city in the world.
This didn¡¯t stem Takahashi¡¯s creativity. In 2021, he released ¡°Flowering Tree, Distant Moon¡± on Los Angeles-based record label Not Not Fun; this March, his latest album and seventh release to date, arrived: ¡°Humid Sun.¡±
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