Available everywhere on 26 May 2021 !

Inspired by lo-fi pop artists like Men I Trust and the classic synth pop of Gary Numan, Point Lobo (drummer for hip hop legends The Pharcyde, composer for The End of The World with Josh Clark podcast) wrote this song about mental health during a somewhat desperate time in his life. This is the lead single off of his upcoming Tacoma Narrows EP. Also a visual 3D artist, Point Lobo will be releasing this single alongside animated videos & anime-inspired 3D artwork.

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LYRICS

I need lots of medicine
For these broken parts within
Here I sit and there you stand
I'm being honest as I can

Read the books all of them
On the subject
Studied it practiced it
Got most of it

Oo-oo-oo let me
Help you help me
Oo-oo-oo let me
Help you help me
Oo-oo Oo-oo-oo

I know these edges are a bit rough
Below the canopy
But one favor's all I need
Just some sunlight for the seed

Read the books all of them
On the subject
Studied it practiced it
Got most of it

Oo-oo-oo let me
Help you help me
Oo-oo-oo let me
Help you help me

Tacoma Narrows EP

Broken Parts

Single available & streaming everywhere
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This Prince and YMO-inspired track about the yearnings to transcend life’s mundanities will be included in my upcoming Tacoma Narrows EP, releasing on 21 July 2021!

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LYRICS

I wake up to familiar pain
Squeaky boots under the rain
This briefcase is my only face
I can barely hear the train

It’s the only thing I know
But it’s the only thing I know

Trees blossom as they fly by me
Are they crying for my soul?
Tall buildings reflect off the street
Do they rise up or sink below? 

It’s the only thing I know
But it’s the only thing I know

Kita City (single)

Kita City

Single now streaming everywhere!
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Will be included in the upcoming Tacoma Narrows EP dropping 21 July 2021!

Musicians:
Point Lobo: vocals, synth, guitar, drums
Angela Vicente Asato: vocals, percussion
Caitlin Moss: congas & timbales https://caitlinmossdrums.com/
Dan Seeff: electric bass
Yohei: vocals https://www.yoheishikano.com/
Xuan Nguyen: vocals

Music composed & produced by Point Lobo
Band members’ parts recorded remotely by themselves w/ additional engineering by Chris Leopold Hackman (Human Barbie)
Mixed & mastered at Grandma’s Dojo studio

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LYRICS

Cooking on a low flame / patience in the slow lane
Moving on the map, eventually

Save me from a blue screen / make me up a new scene
Spinning like a beach ball, endlessly

Acting on a green screen / I just want to be seen
peering thru the fog is all I see 

Following all my instincts all the time
But it betrays me, says I’m doing fine

Asking for some honesty / Asking for a friend, you see
Tell me have I lost my mind / Am I too late or I got some time?

Acting on a green screen / I just want to be seen
peering thru the fog is all I see 

Cooking on a low flame / patience in the slow lane
Moving on the map

On a low flame
On a low flame, burning

Low Flame

A song of longing, about relationships turned cold and the need for returned affection. Sonically, I imagined it to be the soundtrack to a lost episode of Twin Peaks, but scored by Wilco or Bowie and channeled through the aesthetics of contemporary lo-fi pop artists like Men I Trust and Andy Shauf. This song will premiere June 23 and is the second single off of the new Tacoma Narrows EP (full EP releases July 21).

Released June 23, 2021
Music composed & produced by Point Lobo

Vocals, guitar, synth, bass, drums by Point Lobo
Additional electric guitar by Yohei www.yoheishikano.com
Clarinet & bass clarinet by Francis Frances (Michael Birnbryer-Lao) www.francisfrances.com

Recorded, mixed & mastered at Grandma’s Dojo studio by Miles Senzaki

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LYRICS
Jewels they cling to me
hanging like pendulums
Loops and rings circle me
as do the years

Waiting here underneath
patterns of yesterday
Through my glass watch the ice
as it disappears

This peeling paper
falls like the season
Somehow these walls still
hold up the ceiling

Closeups they cut away
Keep it in cut you down
Will this meal cook above
smoldering sand?

Waiting here draped in these
habits of yesterday
Through my glass scan the sea
looking for the land

This peeling paper
falls like the season
Somehow these walls still
hold up the ceiling

Helen's Song

“Sounding like a chance encounter between Thundercat and Tame Impala, the audio-visual maestro has valiantly penned his own open memorandum on the subject of despondency” - Crosby Stewart, InTune Music
A song inspired by the infamous bridge collapse, Tacoma Narrows is the post-punk & synth pop infused title track of my new 6-track EP, releasing August 11, 2021. Thematically, it’s about all the times an event turns your life upside-down, like wildly rolling and crumbling bridge. The intense climactic ending features horn virtuosos Hitomi Oba and Nick DePinna (on tenor sax & trombone respectively). Their wildly energetic improvised solos were recorded while watching the actual footage of the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse, channeling the imagery into sound. The song will premiere alongside a fully animated music video.

CREDITS
Song composed & produced by Point Lobo
All instruments performed by Point Lobo except:
Saxophone - Hitomi Oba
Trombone - Nick DePinna
Mixed & mastered by Miles Senzaki at Grandma’s Dojo studio

LYRICS
In a very strong wind
And an oscillation
Like a child on a swing
Or the sand that can sing
All you need is just a shove
And now the ground is up above

The wrong box I open on my shelf
Balance is lost all by myself
I hear balance resides inside my ear
Well if this is true, I guess I hear you

In a very strong wind
And an oscillation
Like a child on a swing
Or the sand that can sing
All you need is just a shove
And now the ground is up above

I hold onto the train but my mind’s a blur
What can I say to change your word
The day before, the road was still in place
But when the swaying starts, it leaves no trace

In a very strong wind
And an oscillation
All you need is just a shove
And now the ground is up above

Tacoma Narrows

The sixth and final track on the Tacoma Narrows EP, this 2-part song starts off as a strutting early-80s Bowie-esque anthem but quickly turns into a high energy Prince-influenced funk excursion, featuring a sax solo by woodwind expert & singer-songwriter Francis Frances.

CREDITS
Song composed & produced by Point Lobo
All instruments performed by Point Lobo except:
Alto saxophone - Francis Frances https://linktr.ee/francisfrancesmusic
Mixed & mastered by Miles Senzaki at Grandma’s Dojo studio

LYRICS
What Did I Drop
What Did I Drop
What Did I Drop

I checked my pocket for a hole
I asked my roommate if he stole

Empty stain inside my fridge
Scratched myself but I got no itch

I know not what I know not when
I must have lost my mind again

What Did I Drop / Greasy Snow

What if you took the most iconic track from the anime series everyone is currently talking about, and turned it into a City Pop jam straight from 1982? The answer, I found out, was a funky banger of a track featuring an irresistible bass line by Nick Campbell Destroys (of Scary Pockets), vocals by Japanese voice actress Rina Hoshino (voice of Mewtwo in the Detective Pikachu motion picture), and a searing sax solo by jazz composer Hitomi Oba. This cover of the hit lofi hip hop tune "Comedy" by J-pop star Gen Hoshino was released alongside a music video that likewise seems to have popped out of a time portal from the early 80s. Check out the video here:
https://youtu.be/m9yudjr8oGE

track credits:
Point Lobo - arrangement, vocals, drums, guitar, keyboards
Rina Hoshino - vocals
Nick Campbell - bass guitar
Hitomi Oba - tenor saxophone
Yohei Shikano - background vocals

Song written by Gen Hoshino

recorded, mixed, & mastered at Grandma’s Dojo by Point Lobo

Comedy (SPY×FAMILY×CITYPOP)

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Platform

“Dolphin Hotel,” the new single by Point Lobo, is available everywhere
Stream/Buy: http://hyperurl.co/dolphinhotel
Watch the short animated film for this song: youtu.be/Wo3Ha2ary_g

Music composed, performed & produced by Point Lobo
Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Grandma’s Dojo studio

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Dolphin Hotel

“18 Feet High” is a remote collaboration between artists Point Lobo & Yohei, composed  and produced under quarantine, from opposite sides of Los Angeles—Koreatown to Mount Washington. Singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Yohei (has worked with Cornelius, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes) started off the song by chopping up a sample in his MPC, and later adding melody and lyrics. Point Lobo (has played drums for the likes of The Pharcyde, Breakestra, Syl Johnson), arranged the song and fleshed it out with drums, synth, guitar, and vocal harmonies. Yohei & Point Lobo hope this song can inspire folks to stay creative and positive even in the circumstances of isolation we now face.
Listen/Watch: https://smarturl.it/18feethigh

Yohei's soundcloud:
https://soundcloud.com/we_are_myhawaii
https://soundcloud.com/yohei_shikano

lyrics by Yohei
music written & performed by Point Lobo & Yohei
album art by Point Lobo & Yohei
recorded at The Hut by Yohei Shikano and at Grandma’s Dojo by Miles Senzaki
Mixed & mastered by Miles Senzaki

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