YBZ THE PODCAST Ep. 53 -" Oto"

On this episode of YBZ The Podcast, we introduce the members of the Okinawa band Oto — Mitsue, Yoshie, and Kiki. We talk about how the band came together, their musical influences, the meaning behind the band name, and what the future looks like for the group.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_07 0:10

Action.

SPEAKER_01 0:12

Okay. Oh, let me so let me finish telling y'all about the part. I I want to do this so I can kind of get y'all used to the fact that now we're recording. Right? So other thing I was talking about was so the from the podcast, the visual podcast, right? I will take uh clips of that and turn those into reels. Like the reels, like you see on Instagram and YouTube, and I would take those reels and I would put them on Instagram and Facebook and YouTube shorts. So that's a new one.

SPEAKER_05 0:51

I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

Do you do and so that way we can get more views and more people can get exposed to feel like dick on me? So alright, so the cameras is on. Do y'all have anything?

SPEAKER_05 1:09

No, you say the action, whatever you do. We just say anything. Yeah, we we here showed up.

SPEAKER_01 1:14

Yeah, we just showed up. Yeah, so uh first thing first before we do anything, I want to thank y'all for y'all time today. Thank y'all for letting me interview you. Uh Furious has been telling me great things about you guys, and I'm very happy and honored that you would let me interview. So I trust this man with my life, so if he say, Come interview you guys, I'm here to interview you.

SPEAKER_05 1:56

So she tell you for that interview.

SPEAKER_01 2:04

You're good. Can I hire you? I'm a I'm a sensitive. Oh, but now definitely working, though. Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:12

Can I hire you?

SPEAKER_01 2:14

This is the cleanest. Sure. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 2:17

I'm peeping the game. Right, yeah, right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

Like, yeah, sounds like Go make. Alright, I'm gonna start with the show. I'm gonna try to I'm gonna tone it down from what I normally do. Uh I do something a little bit more loud, but this time I'm gonna make it a little bit more quiet because of what we're doing. Yeah. So you oh, I thought you were gonna do the do the trans. Everything I say everything. You're fired.

SPEAKER_05 2:51

Everything I say. Uh the side. Yeah, for real. Yeah, that's gonna kill. She's a car and the other side of the kid.

SPEAKER_01 3:04

She's so she's so good. I'ma hire you, man. I'ma hire you. For real. You ain't gotta be on camera all the time. Sometimes you can say, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:11

I I love it too. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 3:13

She'll be the new voice of God. Yeah, for real.

SPEAKER_05 3:15

I mean, I thought they could be.

SPEAKER_03 3:21

No, because uh you know why that's important though. Again, this is from my, I can only talk from my perspective, right? I love helping people out. Regardless of whether you pay me or not, or any of that stuff. If if you're on my team or I have uh a fondness for you, I'm gonna protect you and make sure you're good. Everybody at that table, all three of you, minus my bass player, um, you guys are great people at the end of the day. You know, because when Yoshi and I met a long time ago, and I'm gonna tell that quick story.

SPEAKER_01 4:01

Yeah, go ahead.

SPEAKER_03 4:01

So because it kind of leads into why these people are sitting in front of us in the first place. Okay. So, Yoshi, you and I, we met at um Shaan, did she all?

SPEAKER_05 4:13

Shaitan.

SPEAKER_03 4:13

So, was it at the coffee shop? Yeah, yeah. So I was a big fan of going to Javago's coffee. Reason being is because they hired me to be their photographer and videographer for a short period of time. And I got to meet a lot of different people, honestly. And he happened to be one of the folks that I met, but it wasn't about photography, it was about music. So I guess at some point, somebody bought up the fact that I'm a music producer and engineer, and this that grabbed his attention. Right. So we talked about projects and various other things, and then we didn't see anybody. We see each other for a while. Right. Fast forward like five years, maybe? Yeah, about five years. More than more than eight.

unknown 5:04

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 5:05

Maybe more? Maybe more than that? Yeah, we'll say five for sake of argument, but my son, my youngest son, is at uh junior high school, and his friend is Yoshi. Yoshisan. Okay, all right. So I get this conversation with Noah, my son. He's like, hey, pop, somebody says they know you. And that's a conversation he and I have all the time because a lot of people know me. Right. So I give him a side. Okay, who, yeah, all right, who knows me? He says, Well, he said he knows you from a long time ago. Okay. Well, did he say what's going on? He's like, No, he just says he wants to meet you. He wants to see you. Talk to you. About a week or two later, he had a basketball game at one of the local schools over in Gushikawa. So I go over there to pick him up, and he's like, Pop, he's here. Right. I'm like, who's here? The guy, he wants to meet you. I was like, okay, well, where is he? And he goes and grabs Yoshi's, and I see this dude walk up on me, and he lights up like a Christmas tree. And what's the typical thing Okinawa's love to ask you when they see you? Do you remember me? And I don't want to be the rude guy, so I'm like, maybe, yes, maybe. Right, right, right, right. Uh, and then then he then when he explains himself, it's like it clicked. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's why we're here because he's like, I have a band. Oh, well, let me go ahead and help you out with that. Right. So it has been a really, really great experience. I had the honor of going to a show last night here in this wonderful little live house.

SPEAKER_01 6:52

Right.

SPEAKER_03 6:52

That it was outstanding. They had another uh group of musicians that played prior to them that were wonderful. You know, some machines, huh? Yeah, man, she's playing like yeah. And she's been all over the place too. So that's probably another person we should probably think about trying to come in and have an interview with because she she she's wonderful too. But yeah, long story short, it's been really cool, and that's why I felt like it was super important for all you guys to come together.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 7:24

Because of what you do for everybody around here, the community, as a as an artist, as a guy that likes to, you know, learn more about the people that are around him, and then in turn allow them to be accessible by the rest of the world, then that's we're doing exactly what we're supposed to be doing. Okay. All right.

SPEAKER_01 7:45

Oh shit, I appreciate it. Yeah, yeah. I know you made it sound grander than I'm like, Jesus, man. Made it sound big. Well, it is big, man.

SPEAKER_05 7:58

Yes, yeah. I know.

SPEAKER_00 8:18

Now now they know too. Now they know they know too. Morbid.

SPEAKER_01 8:49

This is your boy Jay. This is YBZ the podcast. Like, share, and subscribe. This and all other episodes will be on YouTube and on all streaming platforms. So wherever you get your podcasts, Apple, Spotify, that's where this podcast will be at, and many others. Go check it out. We got a good one today. Alright. It's been a long time since I can announce people in the boom boom room. Myself and One Furious in the Boom Boom Room. You feel me? For this one, this one's gonna be good. I I got feeling in my bone. I'm kind of smiling. Y'all can't see me, but I we're gonna smiling like that. This one's gonna be good. Alright. So, first of all, what's the band's name? You didn't tell me the band's name. It's on their shirt, bro. Is it? Yeah. I can't read that. Otto. Oto? Yeah. Oh, that's sweet. Yeah, right. First, second. Uh, y'all selling them shirts? Can I buy one of them shirts?

SPEAKER_03 10:02

I guess I'll just go get a piece of paper. I'm not gonna show for the animals. Uh? Uh-huh. Okay, okay. Okay. Which, which, okay, there you go. Y'all need merch. Yeah, but you well, that's okay. You can make the price affordable for the rest of the folks.

SPEAKER_01 10:26

I would've I would have rocked the fuck out of that shirt. I would've rocked that shirt.

SPEAKER_03 10:29

You beat me to it, because I was gonna ask for one too. For real? Yeah, yeah. Because it got stuff on the back too. Oh, see, that's cold.

SPEAKER_01 10:35

Yeah, that's a cold shirt. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:37

Ladies and gentlemen, please. If you don't know, now you know. Yeah, for real. You need to go ahead and order a shirt from this band. Yes.

SPEAKER_06 10:44

He says he's gonna send you a link.

SPEAKER_01 10:46

Okay, please, please. I will take a look at it. I'll buy it. I'll buy it. I mean, it need to go to you though.

SPEAKER_05 10:52

You have to buy, that's what he's saying. All right.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

So, all right. So we got one Otto. I said that correctly. We got one Otto in the building one time for what's his Livehouse name?

SPEAKER_03 11:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:07

It's right there behind me. I'm messing up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 11:10

Live is Poto E. Live Spot Spot E.

SPEAKER_01 11:13

Live Spot E with Otto. Alright. What we're gonna do is we're gonna have the band introduce themselves from my left to my right, which is your left. Wait a minute. Don't don't mess it up. Don't mess it up, which is your right and your left. So from your right to your left, please start introducing yourself.

unknown 11:36

What does me?

SPEAKER_01 11:37

May that would be you first.

SPEAKER_05 11:38

Hi, my name is May. Um, I'm trying to help this my favorite band. Um I'm trying to do in one age to help them. And yesterday I did beautiful keyboard. Okay, alright. Uh, but I'm gonna try hard, but I didn't play so long, so it was like a Navasrack last night.

SPEAKER_03 12:06

But you did well though, because I was here watching you. You did really, really well. So you have managerial responsibility, you're a manager, then mother, and keyboardist. Got it. All right, cool.

SPEAKER_05 12:17

Hi, you're just gonna get it.

SPEAKER_03 12:19

Alright. And translator, too, by the way.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

Yes, and translator, yes. That I'm trying to steal.

SPEAKER_04 12:28

Uh bo carando guitar. Uh Yoshi goes emas. Alright.

SPEAKER_05 12:35

He is his name is Yoshi, he's playing a guitar and a vocal. Main vocal.

SPEAKER_03 12:40

Main vocal, got it. Aka John Lennon. Yeah, really? Yeah, that's what I call him. Okay, yeah. He's John Lennon.

SPEAKER_05 12:46

Ooh. And he uh you write too, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:53

You write all the music and all the. So listen.

SPEAKER_04 12:56

Otto no, my kyoku tinoa. Uh the boku got such the originus.

SPEAKER_05 13:07

So everything is his raw music and lyrics. That's what we pray for original.

SPEAKER_02 13:16

Okay. Like I said, John Lynn. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:20

All right, all right. High praise, high praise. High praise. Next up, from the diaphragm. My name is Kiki.

SPEAKER_03 13:39

We're having fun with Kiki. Because he's he's the quiet guy. He's the one you gotta keep an eye on.

SPEAKER_01 13:47

Yeah, Kiki, we're gonna make you talk a lot today. Kiki, that's it. What do you do for the band? What do you do in the band? Lee guitar. Okay, all right, all right. Uh do you mind ask do you mind if I ask your ages? Uh uh, we'll just say 50. 50? Okay.

unknown 14:23

Sir?

SPEAKER_01 14:24

Across the board?

SPEAKER_04 14:25

51. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 14:25

51, really? Yeah, he he and I have the same birthday, by the way. Okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, April 21st. Okay, all right, all right. So you just celebrated a birthday? Yep. Yeah. So, I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_04 15:18

Like thirty-two.

SPEAKER_01 15:19

Oh, she did that on her own. See, I didn't ask.

SPEAKER_05 15:24

Because my name is Me Too. So thirty-two is Japanese say me and a two. Okay. So I'm a four thirty two.

SPEAKER_01 15:32

You forever thirty two? I just learned something. Yeah, already. Me too.

SPEAKER_03 15:40

So well, you only have um three of you. There's a guy that we haven't talked about.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

Yeah, yeah. Is there another band member?

SPEAKER_05 15:47

We have a bass. I thought you had to be a big one.

SPEAKER_01 15:51

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 15:52

Morio. Moriol.

SPEAKER_05 15:55

His name is Morio.

SPEAKER_04 15:56

And he plays the bass. Okay. Okay. And he is a technician, too. Good. He's very good. Looks like a so big.

SPEAKER_03 16:04

Yeah, yeah. He's a big bowl of sober, bro. Yeah. He's a big old bowl of sober. Okay. Word. I thought he was the bouncer when I first met him. Yeah. Like the security. He's a bass player.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

Oh, I want to meet him now for real. I want to meet him for real now.

SPEAKER_03 16:23

Yeah. I mean, he got his hair cut now, so he looks very, very presentable. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 16:34

That Modio is like a disbanded mood maker.

SPEAKER_03 16:37

Moodmaker, yeah. He he does have that quality about him. Yeah? Yeah. He's like super even. Very level. Okay. You know, not a lot of excitement. Other than when he's playing. Even when he's playing, it's like you can tell he's excited, but it's not like off the chain.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

You know, so it's it's very good. All right. Well, shout out to Morio. I'm so I'm so upset that I didn't get to meet him. You sound like he would have been my favorite next to next to me. But uh real. All right, so let's get started. So could you tell everybody a little bit about the band? How how did the band get started? Yes, just please be careful. Let's start there. How did the band get started?

SPEAKER_03 17:31

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 17:31

So this now Bokuga Moto Moto ano histori de mushan desk.

SPEAKER_05 18:15

Uh first he was playing the music by himself for so long, but to start with uh there was high uh junior high school. They play band together. And then uh graduated high school and everything going well, everybody's married, uh, and then they separate their own way. So he kept playing himself for the music, keep playing music and then my son and three or three or four years ago, uh connected with Morio on the basis, and then they start talking about the band and started the band. Before that, seven years ago, he met Kiki first. Then started playing together seven years ago.

SPEAKER_04 19:22

So we got Corona no.

SPEAKER_05 19:24

Then start Corona at that time, you know, they met and they started going to the beach and playing music, guitar.

SPEAKER_04 19:35

Yeah, I know, I know, I'm so sort of high.

SPEAKER_05 19:38

So that's what I started with. And then four years ago, connected with uh bassist. Okay. Then it started bad. So it's like uh 30 years. Yeah, 30 years.

SPEAKER_04 19:58

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_05 19:59

That's that's some serious investment in time, man. We have uh quiet time, but we just start a bad.

SPEAKER_03 20:07

So I gotta segue off. Go ahead. So when you guys got back together, right? Did it feel like um you never left or did or were there some growing pain?

SPEAKER_05 20:20

Umgo sato gini Nani Mukara Otaga Hanadu Kapitan style.

SPEAKER_04 20:30

Yeah, toma book another mushroom caravamo ungakomo unto sanjun deco sanjun to mu gita mosatene, bass mosatene, to ano kanjema, neco my de atenu. So nani youakanjuno.

SPEAKER_05 21:03

So first, I mean, uh he was keep playing the music, but other two, Kiki and Murio, wasn't touched the music for thirty years. So they met together and started uh doing for the music. But he don't feel like uh what is it? He felt like uh go back to the junior high school at that time, you know, uh there was uh exciting for the parade music together. That's what he was feeling like. But those two a guitar and a bassist, Kiki and the Morio was not touching at all. So they was like a start over.

SPEAKER_02 21:43

Right. It was like they came out of retirement. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 21:46

But now they feel like that. It's the same feeling that they was at the junior high school.

SPEAKER_01 21:52

Can I ask a question real quick? Kiki, what would you do in that time where you wasn't playing music? What would you do?

SPEAKER_05 21:58

Uh Unga Ku Salatana Again, then you'll see them all. Take care of the comedy and the kids and just being regular life, being dead.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Gotcha, got you, got you, got you. Okay, okay, okay. All right. Alright, go on. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 22:19

So yeah, that was oh. That's back to you. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:22

Alright. So the the everything passed, y'all done got back together, y'all formed the band. From that point on. What okay, first, what did where did the name come from?

SPEAKER_04 22:54

Otto kokoro ma sandoni hat to Hana Sunomo feeding kimochi dashi.

SPEAKER_03 23:30

But in a in a very, very deep and spiritual sort of way.

SPEAKER_05 23:33

Right. It's conjugate music and heart.

SPEAKER_03 23:36

Heart, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 23:37

So he wanna put it in for like a talking, like a meet people, always connection connected with the heart, right? So he wanna this music to the connect to heart to the heart. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 23:53

I agree with that too. I agree with that. That that's a first of all, it's a beautiful name. It requires thought. And when you when you explain it the way you did, because I got it immediately. Um even with you speaking it in Japanese, I I understand about 60% of what you talk about. And I got I I got it. I think I felt that the first time I heard it play, too. Because it's the music is one of those things to start with, is that it's a it's a binding element amongst all human beings. That's the important piece. That's why music is so popular and not why there's so many genres, because that connection that you share with people that you're walking the planet with is the only thing that allows us to actually stop and say, Yes, I feel connected to you, or you feel connected to me, and we're doing it through music. Because music doesn't have a race or a color or a creed. It actually just is. It exists. And in doing so, because it exists the way it does, you can have a guy from Cleveland, Ohio meet a whole bunch of people from a small island in the middle of the Pacific and have a beautiful connection. And it's the music that allows that to happen.

SPEAKER_04 25:30

So now can't get soon on the Jivumo, I know Yapericono, Neon Jin, Maukinano, Sun and the Skiddle. Nemo Kotovo Karanakemo, Yapari Kokoro Corono, Epari Slavi Katachino, Epari Don't know Jin Shumo, he should atomote.

SPEAKER_05 26:11

Exactly, it's the same feeling. That's what I he don't care about uh colours or anything. The music to music, that's what he wanna connect. So never said it is on the other.

SPEAKER_03 26:25

So it's a great name, great um it's a great analogy or thought process behind the name, and it uh absolutely shows up when you play.

SPEAKER_01 26:36

And so while we're talking about all of this, you know, the the name, the name fitting for how you felt when you heard the play or whatever, if you had to describe it had to put a name on your sound, what what would you call it? I can't wait to hear this one.

SPEAKER_05 27:08

He don't have a box kind of music.

SPEAKER_04 27:11

Alright.

SPEAKER_05 27:19

He's not in a lane music.

SPEAKER_03 27:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 27:21

He's always out top of the box.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

And that's why I was curious about that, Andrew, too. So here's what I thought when I listen to the first thing you hear is uh the folk aspect of the music. Okay. That's the first piece. That's sort of like the DNA. The general construction of their music is very much folk and direct people. But along with that, you hear a lot of rock, but not like hard rock. Imagine 1978. 1978. The way rock and roll was played during that time period, because that was a critical time period. That's the kind of that's the kind of tone and sound that again, me as an engineer, that's what I'm hearing. Right? So along with along with that, so we have the folk piece, we have the 70s real deeply ingrained 70s rock with um a very, very um additional aspect of Okinawan flavor. Okay.

SPEAKER_05 28:34

Okinawa took the flavor.

SPEAKER_03 28:35

Minus minus some of the technical instrumentation that you would normally hear in Okinawa music.

SPEAKER_05 28:41

Right.

SPEAKER_03 28:42

But you still feel you feel the vibe of, yeah, that's definitely kind of Okinawa for me. Like I couldn't hear this if I went to mainland. It'd be different. Yeah, sound different. It would sound completely different. And that doesn't take anything away from anybody, but the uniqueness is what keeps you wanting to hear what they're gonna come up with next. So my thought process.

SPEAKER_04 29:11

What do you think? I know it's exactly he skina onga, you know.

SPEAKER_05 29:21

He's a favourite song. Nana Junin Nandis 1970s music.

SPEAKER_04 29:25

He never told me that by the way.

SPEAKER_05 29:31

Whatever you start talking about, he was had goosma. Oh my gosh. Seven is folk song, that's what he was praying. Japanese folk song.

SPEAKER_04 29:48

Seven is rock music. He was a listener walk.

SPEAKER_03 29:55

He loves I was gonna bring that one in too, but that's more along what like uh the bassist does with the guitar. Right. You know, because we we've had this conversation too about drummer and no drummer. I'm a fan of them not having a drummer. Y'all don't have a drummer.

SPEAKER_06 30:12

Well, he he wanted a drummer anymore.

SPEAKER_03 30:14

He wants a drummer. He literally wanted to hire me as a drummer. Nope. Why not?

unknown 30:19

Nope.

SPEAKER_03 30:19

Do you know? Because I don't, it's because from what I'm hearing, again, it's very obviously it's a it's opinionated. I don't feel like there a drum would get in the way. To be completely honest, because nothing against the guy from last night.

SPEAKER_05 30:37

Like he played well aside from the book.

SPEAKER_04 30:43

It doesn't really need it.

SPEAKER_05 30:52

So somebody told him it's the same exactly the same thing. Told him no need to draw.

SPEAKER_03 31:10

Now, mind you, that's not to say that you can't have percussion. You can absolutely have percussion. Yeah, kick and a snare and a simple No, no. But maybe shaker, or maybe some bongos or some something very, very light. So so so exactly. Just a little bit of support element, nothing to take away from what's already magical. You know, because drums. Drums can take over something, literally. Especially if the person's good, you know, they can end up being the star of the show. Yeah. So putting together a band, um, and again, I'm only speaking from my perspective on this. It's like it's like making a soup, you know. And you want to make sure your ingredients actually work well together. Because if they don't, then nobody eats.

SPEAKER_01 32:36

What a you you said you uh like the the rock from the what the 70s, right? What uh name me some some uh some artists that you listen to. If you don't mind me asking. Uh yeah, toks.

SPEAKER_04 32:59

Give me some of your favorites. Yeah, definitely. Yep, yeah. Babu Diran. Bob Dylan? Babascum.

SPEAKER_03 33:14

How about uh David Bowie?

SPEAKER_04 33:16

Oh David, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 33:24

Motorikuru. Who's singing purple?

SPEAKER_04 33:32

Prince.

SPEAKER_03 33:34

You like Prince, okay. Well he was he was coming up during that time frame because he dropped in the early 80s.

SPEAKER_01 33:40

80s, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 33:41

So, yes, and that's interesting too, because his musical style transcended standard RB or soul music, and it kind of crept its way into rock. Purple Rain being one of those songs. Shout out to Prince, rest in peace. Um, so I get it. That means your palette, your musical palette, has a lot to play with. There's a lot of space there.

SPEAKER_05 34:23

So he has uh a lot to like the music, but he don't have this is it, you know. Right. He has a song, right? No, no, no favorite. No favorite. But he says that just only one song is make him move the heart.

SPEAKER_04 34:40

What song is that? Jim Buskin and the song. Yeah, but he Beaturos know. Yeah, yeah. But which album though? Which album?

SPEAKER_05 34:51

I don't know. I don't know what I've got.

SPEAKER_04 34:53

Yeah, let's tuit guy.

SPEAKER_05 34:57

Let it be. That's his most favorite. Only one favorite. He says he listened first heard that song as he was uh elementary school.

SPEAKER_04 35:13

Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you so that's that's the one is his favorite. That makes sense though.

SPEAKER_05 35:24

That makes a lot of sense. Yeah, elementary school, he was a little fast and he heard. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 35:29

And you just carry that with you?

SPEAKER_01 35:30

Yeah, yeah. That's fine. Kiki, you got something you got a song like that? You got something like that why you got in the music, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 35:43

Uh Gunnar Rose.

SPEAKER_01 35:46

What song from Gunnar the Rose?

SPEAKER_04 35:48

Uh see to tell my head.

SPEAKER_05 36:00

High school, there was high school uh playing band together.

SPEAKER_03 36:05

So a lot of a lot of a lot of covers, basically.

SPEAKER_01 36:09

A lot of cover work.

SPEAKER_05 36:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 36:10

So they play they play some of them songs, probably.

SPEAKER_03 36:14

I've heard nothing but their own. In high school.

SPEAKER_01 36:19

They was playing. So yeah, okay, alright, alright. That's what's up. So they're not playing, man. They ain't playing. This is really and again, listening to what they're saying and and listening to not only w what they like and what they were doing in high school, I can almost imagine how they sound now. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_02 36:37

So it's lovely.

SPEAKER_01 36:38

Yeah. Yeah, I can imagine how you sound. So uh let's talk about the band currently. Currently, right now, do y'all have any any projects, any albums y'all working on, any singles out now we should be listening, looking out for or listening to?

SPEAKER_04 37:18

Oh, my demo no demo chotosango.

SPEAKER_05 37:26

So now we're working on uh trying to make a trap. What do they call recording recording with uh Mr. Twitter? So last uh couple weeks ago they recorded for the song.

SPEAKER_03 37:40

Yeah, we did we did uh three songs um I mixed them, mastered them, and shot them right back to he was very happy. He was very happy about it. Um still because that's the thing, they don't really have a lot of work out in gym pop right now. Uh and that's that's why I'm here. Okay. It's to help them formulate and and put together whether it's uh a mini EP or a full project. Right. We're kind of moving through that. But the intent obviously is one of the get some stuff out that people can listen to. Because they have a lot of good work. Right. Once we get that out there, then it's it's just a matter of uh not rinsing. Pretty much that. Uh you know.

SPEAKER_01 38:34

What about uh what about live shows? Oh, how how have you uh do y'all have any live shows coming up? I I just heard y'all just did one the other night. Yeah, they did one last night.

SPEAKER_05 38:43

Yeah, yeah, we we had it last night.

SPEAKER_01 38:45

Yeah, I had it last night.

SPEAKER_05 38:46

Yeah, and then to give you no live boy too.

SPEAKER_04 38:57

So this is like home base. Got it, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:03

So if uh so everybody had a family and still he had uh small uh kids. So we he have to everybody have to take care of the family first. So we base on this price, but eight, to once a month or once at a couple months later live.

SPEAKER_03 39:22

No, that's cool. That's cool. And it works out great because this is a beautiful facility. Yeah, yeah. Don't let the smooth taste fool you folks. Um, it's located in the heart of Aruma City, which is uh a small city that is on the island of Okinawa. But it's very convenient because everything is right here. Yeah, you know, you don't have to go very far to get a uh a good meal, um, have a great cup of coffee, or hang out with some folks at a beach. Everything's within 10 minutes of it. Yeah, Udamar's Udama's. It's very from what I'm seeing.

SPEAKER_01 39:58

It's my first time spending this much time over here, to be honest with you. I ain't gonna hold you.

SPEAKER_03 40:02

Yeah, but it's it's a it's a dope area. And this, because when when uh Yoshi told me about this place, uh I didn't realize what it was until after the fact. He's like, I asked him, I said, So where's your place at? He's like, Oh, it's right here by the Koban. Koban is Japanese for a police station. And I was like, wait a minute, there's a there's a live house there? And he's like, Yes. And I show up in this place like, oh my god. Yeah, really? This is this is way too cool. It's in the cut, too. Yeah, it's in the cut too.

SPEAKER_01 40:34

You need somebody, you need to know somebody to know somebody for real. Cut your hand shaking. Yeah, you need to know somebody at the door to come through here, right? It it's it's in plain, it's in plain sight. It's like right there in your face, but you would not even know. Yeah, they in there playing uh whole bands in there playing. Just having a great time. Yeah. So, okay, so let's talk about your hopes for the band. Like, what are your hopes for your for this for this band? Like, future wise. What are what are the hopes and dreams for the band?

SPEAKER_04 41:42

Ma Jubunta Unga inato iron. Oh my skin. Ma jugun no kimochi, katagata no kimochi, kako itani, Bokuno Magunkibo this.

SPEAKER_01 42:21

I'm gonna give you the photographer.

SPEAKER_05 42:26

I could well uh he said uh he likes to connect more people, how they feel, how he feels, but it's connect somewhere and make everybody happy. That's why he wanna try to uh send it to the world without his music.

SPEAKER_03 42:44

Okay, that's what social media is all about.

SPEAKER_01 42:45

Yeah, for real, whole point.

SPEAKER_05 42:47

So they got social media though.

SPEAKER_01 42:50

So hopefully people will see this, find your music, get connected with your music, and the more people that see it, the more people you can connect to, you know. So yeah. They're out there, your fans are out there right now. They're waiting on you.

unknown 43:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:15

Tell us about your experience with the band.

SPEAKER_05 43:18

I mean, I know we went to the high school, same high school. Okay, and uh I know he played in the music, so uh I love live music, so I go everywhere I was young. And then he was playing the music, so I went whatever his life show. And then I moved to the States for thirteen years and then come back and he's still playing and we met. His sister is um friend with two, so we connect. Then he was playing. So I go cheer up and listen. Then uh some days I had a downtime. Mm-hmm. And then he called me and hey, why don't you come over and listen to music? And then why don't you play piano and whatever? Let's have fun. So that's why still helping them.

SPEAKER_01 44:10

That was my next question. How long have you been playing keyboard or piano?

SPEAKER_05 44:14

Well I was playing piano and electron, you know, uh for from nine to high school.

SPEAKER_01 44:22

Okay. Wow.

SPEAKER_05 44:23

But but uh never touched.

SPEAKER_01 44:27

Why not?

SPEAKER_05 44:28

Um I found uh different my different stuff to do. I got you. I mean I I love I mean I love music, but yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

You were doing other stuff, I got it.

SPEAKER_05 44:42

Yeah, other stuff and crazy stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:45

No, no, we got this that's a different podcast.

SPEAKER_00 44:48

That's a different podcast.

SPEAKER_05 44:50

Anyway, so I still connected with the music, and always I go to the live show, everybody's uh different kind. So then he helped me. I was in the downtime. So then a couple months ago.

SPEAKER_00 45:07

Couple months ago.

SPEAKER_05 45:08

A few months ago, he said, why don't you start to play this song? And he sent it teaching me how to play the music and I practice.

SPEAKER_01 45:15

How did you do?

SPEAKER_05 45:17

It was awesome.

SPEAKER_01 45:20

It was awesome, awesome, right?

SPEAKER_05 45:21

I mean it feel great. Feel great?

SPEAKER_01 45:23

Of course it does.

SPEAKER_05 45:24

But it's nervous. Look, I'm sweaty already talking about it. Yeah, it's it was nervous.

SPEAKER_01 45:32

Which one is more nervous? Playing keyboard in front of the people or doing this, which you're doing right now?

SPEAKER_05 45:37

Playing keyboard playing keyboard, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 45:41

Serious. For real.

SPEAKER_05 45:44

So but always feel good to listen to their music. It's not I don't think nobody have their music. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 45:57

No, it's hard to it's a few.

SPEAKER_01 45:59

They have their own side of songs.

SPEAKER_05 46:01

What do they call that she keeps saying the feeling, yes? It is a feeling matched for me. It's cheer me up when I'm done. Uh when I'm happy, make me more happy. You know what I mean? So um it's great to listen to their music and even the practice. They just start one people praying, other people come in, join, other people join, you know. They just it's organic. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_03 46:28

It's very, very organic. And that's the beauty of it. Right to your point. We're talking about the DNA of the music, right? The thing that actually um really makes what it is. And I I agree with you a hundred percent, mate. Your music has this really infectious quality about it.

SPEAKER_06 46:46

Right.

SPEAKER_03 46:46

Because it's one, it can go a lot of different directions. That's the cool part about it. So you don't put yourself in this box per se. That's I feel like that's kind of important in what you do because that opens the gate for more attraction and more people to gravitate towards you and listen to your music because it's not just locked into one style, it has all these little fingerprints and signatures that are like, oh, I like that song. Or, man, this one made me feel happy, or this one is like, oh, I feel the song when you're telling me you're singing about missing someone. Like, I miss you, Sabachi, that kind of thing. I can relate to that, you know. So when you have a whole bunch of those songs all in a row, it it opens up the door for a lot of people to just uh be able to uh feel it and and have it touch their heart. I feel that's that's what you guys do really well right now. And as long as you keep that mixed into the DNA of your band, you can't help but have a whole bunch of people, man. The the worst part of this is just, and I was talking to Jay about this before we got started, is we just gotta find a tribe. You gotta find your tribe. And the only way I can find your tribe is I gotta put you out in front of people. Or I have put your information out for people to, hmm, that tastes pretty good. Let me have another bowl of that. You know, that's what it's all about. Because when you're, and I can relate to this when I say it, as an artist, it's very difficult to be your own promotion. Because you don't think of yourself like that. You think of it as like, man, I'm just playing, I'm having a good time. But if you're good at it and people are coming in and telling you, hey man, you probably need to do more of that, your brain just doesn't want to wrap around that concept. It doesn't want to understand that, it just wants to stay small. But what you're doing when you do that is you're literally hurting yourself. And you're hurting everybody else because you might save somebody's life one day with a song.

SPEAKER_06 49:33

Exactly.

SPEAKER_05 49:50

So I was down and he was helping the same that's what I it's exactly the same point for his music. He likes to if he can help, he likes to help with the music. Some people it's a downtime and he he cannot put your hands out. He only can do he likes to do the sentence to the music to the pulling out to make them stand up and go to their way.

SPEAKER_02 50:32

Right. That's the connection. Connection, yeah. No, that's that's beautiful.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

All right. We've been into the part of the show where we uh give you a chance to give any shout-outs or anything that y'all, y'all, anybody want to the shout out and or anything coming up you want to let people know, or tell people about this location and when y'all perform next. Or uh yeah, just this is your time to talk into these cameras and talk to your people and let them know where they can find you, where they can find your music, where they can find y'all performing live. Those are oh, one more thing. The piggyback, go back, go back, go back. The piggyback on what he said. I hope that this interview helps expose y'all more and more people come to find you guys and listen to you guys.

SPEAKER_05 51:26

Or whatever.

SPEAKER_04 51:43

So listen.

SPEAKER_05 52:17

So we have a private live show uh on the June. But uh it's a it's private for the their junior high school teachers celebration.

SPEAKER_01 52:28

Oh, that means nobody can't go because it's a teacher. You have to be a teacher there. Now you're gonna make people want to go because it's private now.

SPEAKER_04 52:35

Yeah, don't pretend to be a junior high teacher. For real, we're gonna show up. She got so ninja go niche. Okay. And uh just this same as dry twenty go.

SPEAKER_05 52:49

Dry twenty steps.

SPEAKER_06 52:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 52:51

It's uh same spot, like spot A.

SPEAKER_06 52:54

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_05 52:54

Uh located out now, Uruma. Again, City Uruma. City. Uruma City Again. Again, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 53:03

Suburb is again as a suburb of Ghana.

SPEAKER_05 53:06

You can find a Starbucks and uh police station, it's other side. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_00 53:11

Let's cross the street. Okay. Sorry. Police station, other side police station. Yeah, police station. We don't promote folks. We don't promote folks like that. Find the Starbucks. Nothing about Starbucks. No, I'm joking. Go ahead. I got the Starbucks socks.

SPEAKER_05 53:27

Can you see the orange sign say that live spot E.

SPEAKER_01 53:31

Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Y'all listen to her and come find the spot. It's it's really cool in here.

SPEAKER_05 53:36

And then we have an Instagram.

SPEAKER_01 53:38

Yes, yes, Instagram handle.

SPEAKER_05 53:40

Uh name of the Instagram name. Otto official.

SPEAKER_03 53:43

Auto official. All one word.

SPEAKER_05 53:45

Um good night. You know what?

SPEAKER_04 53:54

Don't worry about the search. You think it's just searching like O T O T O official.

SPEAKER_01 54:02

Check it out. We real professional. Okay. I'm finna say something. I always wanted to do this too. What I'm gonna do is kind of like right about now, I'm gonna have it flashing right under you.

SPEAKER_05 54:12

So yes, come in ahead of me, coach you know that that's stuck you. We have a YouTube, we have Instagram, we have Facebook. Um, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 54:23

Although you can find uh I we we'll exchange all that later, but uh the one the band official and y'all Instagrams, I'll have them flashing right in front of y'all. All right, so everybody know how to find y'all and stuff.

SPEAKER_06 54:36

So that's great.

SPEAKER_01 54:38

Uh I really do appreciate it.

SPEAKER_06 54:40

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_01 54:41

Uh Kiki, I am upset I didn't make you talk more. I'm so upset. You look like you want to say something so bad. I don't know what it is. All right, man. I really do appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Y'all catch Otto Otto over here at uh Live Spot E. I'm saying all this right. You can't I be I'll be getting nervous and stuff. All right, let me do it one more time so I can sound professional. You can catch the band Otto over here at Livehouse E. Uh In Aruma City. In Aruma City. There you go. Boom. In a ruma city over here in Okinawa, Japan. If you over here, uh y'all come over here and see if y'all can catch them. You know what I'm saying? Uh thank you, Furious. Easy day. Thank you, Otho.

SPEAKER_05 55:38

Thank you.

SPEAKER_01 55:39

I got one question.

SPEAKER_03 55:40

Well, go ahead. Yeah. Would you guys be cool with coming back to the show anytime soon in the future?

SPEAKER_04 55:51

Um Wow.

SPEAKER_05 55:55

I think he says that next week it's fine too.

SPEAKER_00 56:00

Not that quick. Not that bad.

SPEAKER_01 56:02

We want to give you guys time to do some stuff. I'm glad you enjoyed what was going on.

SPEAKER_05 56:10

June, uh July 25th. Come here, come here.

SPEAKER_04 56:14

Come kill alive.

SPEAKER_03 56:16

Yeah, all right. We'll put that in the camera. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because last time there's no cameras. And I did not pull my camera out. But everybody around me, though. Camera phones and everything. They're getting it in. I'm like, oh, nobody likes to follow rules. It's all right. But yes, and we would definitely want to have you guys back on the show again just to keep promoting and sharing your story. Yeah. I can't speak for Jay, obviously, but I feel like this was like a pretty good show too.

SPEAKER_01 56:55

Yeah. I enjoy myself. I I'm like this. If everybody's having a good time on the show, then and you can feel and when I watch it back and you feel it coming off of the screen, and everybody having a good time, that's when I know if the show is good.

SPEAKER_05 57:10

So the Tanoshin, the deck, I call that.

SPEAKER_01 57:17

Yeah. So I'm having a good time right now. So and if I watch it back and I feel that same feeling, then to me it's a good show. So I truly appreciate it. One more time, Otho Club, uh Club. I'm so off with Club. One more time. Otho, Live House E. In the boom boom room with me is One Furious. This is your boy Jay. This is YBZ the podcast. And until next time, we'll catch y'all. Be easy. And that's the end of the show.

SPEAKER_05 57:58

Yay. Yay.

SPEAKER_01 58:03

I need to know that.