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The orchestration builds on a very simple rhythm that crescendos for each section of the song. When I spoke to music critic Masahisa Segawa for the first installment of this column, I asked him if he wanted to share any of his own experiences from the war. However, he pursed his mouth and remained silent.

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The track was supposedly part of a plan to break him in the American market Warner Records hoped to evoke the image of a Japanese Bruce Springsteen who sang political songs. Yazawa is from Hiroshima and his father died from radiation poisoning, so when asked to sing a song about the atomic bomb for an American audience, Yazawa worried that it was exploitative.

In the end, however, he released it. The track is a stadium-rock ballad that makes interesting use of MIDI sequencing and distorted power chords, with Yazawa singing lyrics written by American Michael Lunn. Songs that dealt with the atomic bombings were rare following the actual events of As time has passed, musicians have tackled the subject more often — particularly after the Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters. In fact we did it for a while as an instrumental. Eventually I wrote lyrics to the song, about the ability to emotionally survive.

Terry brings it all to life. Also we felt as 3rd generation Americans our grandfathers 1st generation were these remarkable adventurers who came to this country to create a new life, and somehow their story should be told.

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This song is our attempt to capture some of that spirit. Turn off the TV, put down your cell phone, close your eyes and listen.

Why? To try different things, to keep experimenting and growing with our sound and concepts.

Nakamoto EAST We have done numerous versions of this beautiful song by June, but we chose to reapproach it, both because of the opportunity to record it live, but also to add a Hawaiian spirit to it. Yvette Nii was born and raised in what was a rural area of the Hawaiian countryside on the island of Oahu.

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Her deep Hawaiian roots in the culture, in hula and in music and story-telling lend a new level of spirituality to this song of peace, which is our anthem. His is a remarkable personal story and his music, his singing, his playing, his vision and his joy speaks to all of us.


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I had the good fortune to get a call to play some Japanese flutes on a track on his solo project some years ago. He told him that he was a Vietnam War vet and suffered terribly from Agent Orange. The first songs about the bombings dealt heavily with themes of patriotism and religion.


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  7. Click here for enlarge. Nuclear country and its weirder counterparts died off around the s, but the Cuban Missile Crisis of would bring the nuclear threat to the forefront again. The songs of this second wave, influenced by the hippies and protest folk, were concerned much more with nuclear war and fallout. As the Cold War dragged on, and the s wave reached its high point and crashed, pop music became much less innocent and started to show the psychological scars of decades on the brink. Punk had arrived, and along with it you had post-apocalyptic fantasies or nihilistic exhortations to push the big red button.

    Atomic music hit its dark, paranoid peak during the Ronald Reagan-Margaret Thatcher years, a time of youth militancy and global unrest. Of the several songs written then—and most of them are still fresh in memory—two stand out.