Next Door, by Leo Takami

Next Door

by Leo Takami

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1.	Letter 00:50	buy track
2.	As if Listening 06:48	buy track
3.	Beyond 06:08	buy track
4.	Winter Day 06:59	buy track
5.	Road with Cypress and Star 01:57	buy track
6.	Spring Snow 05:33	buy track
7.	Next Door 07:47	buy track
8.	Family Tree 06:04	buy track

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Adroit jazz guitar, prog rock fantasia, and Japanese environmental music all rest comfortably behind Leo Takami's Next Door. The follow up to the acclaimed Felis Catus & Silence, Next Door finds Takami ruminating on passages — of time, seasons, consciousness. Through music, Leo contemplates daily events and finds beauty in ordinary moments. He also seems to be questioning the value of being stuck in the world, allowing his mind to wander towards something beyond it. His music is earnest, deeply personal and introspective, and is sort of akin to Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker or Kenji Miyazawa’s Night on the Galactic Railroad.

On “As If Listening” Takami takes inspiration from a Van Gogh art show organized chronologically, articulating the sense of “enlightened resignation” that is intrinsic in the act of creativity. “Beyond” is a dream of otherworldly nostalgia, a watercolor of past lives. His music is a hazy cinema of memory, the soundtrack to a cherished memory that may have never really happened, but still radiates in the mind like the sun on an unusually warm winter day.

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released October 6, 2023

All Music composed and performed by Leo Takami. Mastered by Taylor Deupree. Artwork and design by Robert Beatty.

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