Pink Drums, Purple Lights is the debut album from Japanese American

Japanese American

are American people of Japanese heritage. Japanese Americans have historically been among the three largest Asian American communities, but in recent decades have become the sixth largest group at roughly 1,204,205, including those of mixed-race or mixed-ethnicity...

 indie singer-songwriter Maya Bond

Maya Bond

Maya Bond is a Japanese-born American indie and avant-garde music singer-songwriter and drummer from Austin, Texas. She is the daughter of musician and composer T.W...

. The album was released when Bond was four years of age. It was produced by Maya Bond's father, T.W. Bond. Since this recording, Bond has released no other albums.

About the album

Pink Drums, Purple Lights goes into the detail of stories. On the album, there are songs about monsters, castles, candy, her father and her grandmother's dog among other things. Recorded when Maya was 4 years old by her father, T.W. Bond, Maya outlined the composition for the music and wrote the lyrics on all of the songs on the album, aside from "Kira Kira" and "Velvet Twinkle" which are traditional lyrics to "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

"Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" is a popular English nursery rhyme. The lyrics are from an early nineteenth-century English poem, "The Star" by Jane Taylor. The poem, which is in couplet form, was first published in 1806 in Rhymes for the Nursery, a collection of poems by Taylor and her sister Ann...

", the former in Japanese and the latter in English.

Track listing

1. "Velvet Twinkle"
2. "Cute Papa"
3. "Ghost Waltz"
4. "Kira Kira Hoshi"
5. "1-2-3, Hello Kitty"
6. "The Ghost Castle"
7. "Inu Ga Ita No Sa"
8. "Spooky Story"