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‘I’d like each listener to interpret the sounds in their own personal way’
Chris Searle speaks with drummer TOMAS FUJIWARA
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TOMAS FUJIWARA, born in Boston in 1977, started on drums when he was seven and heard his dad’s record of a Max Roach/Buddy Rich drums contest.
“No-one else in my family is a musician,” he tells me, “so music was something very much of my own. I had to figure it out as I went along, with the encouragement and support of my parents.
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