Lazie Indie Magazine - September 2024 Edition

On Cover Masa Takumi

LM: Hi Masa, can you discuss how your early exposure to music, starting with the trumpet in

elementary school and later exploring instruments like drums, guitar, bass, and piano, has

influenced your career path and creative style?

MT: As you told me my music career began with joining brass band in my elementary school

with playing trumpet. To be honest wanted to join football club though my teacher suggested me

to play trumpet because I was good at playing recorder (a flute for kids). Although wasn’t

educated I had relative pitch and can play some song I know as long as in C key.

And after I joined the brass band I was so touched by older students play almost 40 people

sounds. I wasn’t be able to express my feeling though I was sure it’s very comfortable. And as

time passed by, I improved to play trumpet and could read score thanks to the experience.

During break time we tended to exchange out instruments what made me to be multi-

instrumentalist. It was so fun to play other instruments after I joined rock band when I was in

junior high school my role was drums there.

LM: With your experience collaborating with a diverse range of artists, from Japanese acts like

EXILE and KARA to US rock artists like Eric Martin and Terry Bozzio, how do you adapt your

style and creative process to work effectively with artists from different musical

backgrounds?

MT: I think boundary of Genre is just instruments and BPM so I feel like almost all music sounds

same to me as melody & chord progressions. And I’m very good at adjust my music to any genre

and fun to take a trip to other music world so it’s my happiness to write any kinds of music.

Lyia Meta Speaks To Masa Takumi

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