Exit is the third album from Japanese multi-instrumentalist

Multi-instrumentalist

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 Shugo Tokumaru

Shugo Tokumaru

is a Japanese singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, who debuted in May 2004 in America with his album Night Piece. He creates every aspect of his music, including the lyrics, music, arrangements, recording and mixing. He is known for the variety of instruments he uses in his music, using...

. The album garnered universal acclaim by music critics, eventually earning the title of being the fourth best album of 2008 according to Metacritic.

Background

Tokumaru plays more than fifty different instruments on the album and claims that he "drew inspiration" for its music from Japanese pop and a pile of old Beatles

The Beatles

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 cassettes. Both of these were very influental music styles. He attained the album's experimental sound using everyday household objects such as a fork, ashtray, doorbell, wind-up toys; along with more traditional instruments such as acoustic guitar and wooden flutes. Most or all of the instruments were played in major key in a clipped, almost clockwork cadence

Cadence

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. The album was mixed and recorded on his laptop, using the popular digital audio program Pro Tools

Pro Tools

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Track listing

1. "Parachute" - 3:04
2. "Green Rain" - 4:53
3. "Clocca" - 3:27
4. "Future Umbrella" - 2:04
5. "Button" - 4:02
6. "Sanganichi" - 2:37
7. "D.P.O." - 1:51
8. "Hidamari" - 4:37
9. "La La Radio" - 5:28
10. "Wedding" - 3:16

Personnel

• Yoshinobu Arima – Design
• Michael Fusco – Design
• Mandy Parnell – Mastering
• Shugo Tokumaru – Audio Supervisor

Release history

Region	Date	Label	Format	Catalog
Japan Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...	October 17, 2007
United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	September 2, 2008	Almost Gold	Compact disc Compact Disc The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...	31960

External links

• Shugo Tokumaru
• Shugo's MySpace page