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Shugo Tokumaru

Shugo Tokumaru

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  • Born: 1980 in Tokyo, Japan
  • Years Active: 2000s

Biography

Shugo Tokumaru began recording his sweet, eccentric, lo-fi indie pop songs -- songs that nodded to artists like Plamo, Lullatone, and PWRFL Power -- in the early 2000s. He recorded a 10-track demo CD-R, Fragment, in 2003. The album was never officially released, but it did manage to grab the attention of the US label Music Related, who released Tokumaru's second full-length, Night Piece, in 2004. Tokumaru went on to release a couple more albums over the course of the next few years; L.S.T. followed in 2005, and Exit was released in Japan in 2007. The latter was re-released on the US label Almost Gold in 2008.
— Margaret Reges , All Music Guide

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