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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
Tomas Fujiwara
[courtesy of Tomas Fujiwara]
CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
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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