The Singing Writer

Wanna hear me sing? Check this out

- on any iPhone, iPod and iPad that means.

Look for the “Punk Silent Night” starring my British friend Gazza Grimm GT Tomita and myself under the pseudonym of Igu-chan. It’s short for Iguana. I sang in a (copy) band for a while before time constraints put an end to that and the band was called Iguana Complex with me being the Iguana

You have to download the Groove Coaster game (the “Zero” version is for free), then navigate yourself through the tutorial and so forth and eventually you should stumble across the free present of the “Punk Silent Night”!

Recording of the not so “Silent Night” happened in a tiny studio in Shibuya’s Dogenzaka region. Amongst “love hotels” and bars stand a few inconspicuous apartment blocks and in one of them hid the recording studio inside a remodeled apartment. The studio is so tiny that you cannot record drums there – the recording cell fits two people or one person with a guitar. If two guitarist or a bassist and guitarist were to record in this studio they would have to stand sideways or back to back to each other so tiny it is.

Here’s the studio’s website for anybody interested.

And here’s a pic of the avid singers Gazza Grimm (in the middle) and myself plus a friend who works at Taito and who talked us into this little adventure



And now go and download the “Groove Coaster Zero” and our “Punk Silent Night” – both are for free!

Merry X-mas