the clock is on a new face every night
i wake up with the same things on my mind
i stay here but i don't quite know why
i haven't felt alive in a long time

and i guess it's all to show
what matters to me
cause people come and go
but i never will leave

i wonder if the future's pretty nice
i only have the past cause it's undenied
the present is a passing streetlight
fading out into the inkwell of the night

and i guess it's all to show
what matters to me
cause people come and go
but i never will leave

song about jimmie

hard to pretend

I Heard That Noise

This Room

Beginning Band Day One

You Are

Something Tells Me

The Roof By The Watertower

Tornada - Inside My World

Song of Shadows – Chant des Ombres

At the heart of this music lies the steel pan — an instrument born in Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in the early 20th century.

During the colonial era, African drumming was banned under British rule, out of fear that rhythms could unify enslaved and marginalized communities. Yet, music could not be silenced.

People turned to bamboo sticks, metal containers, and eventually oil drums, transforming restrictions into invention.
From this resilience emerged the steel pan, the first acoustic instrument created in the 20th century.

The word Creole itself speaks of mixture and convergence: in Republic of Trinidad and Tobago it refers to Creole languages shaped by African, European, and Indigenous influences, and more broadly it names cultures formed where worlds collide.

Reflecting this spirit, Creole weaves the luminous timbre of the steel pan with tribal rhythmic currents, embodying hybridity, memory, and the unbroken force of music.


all instruments, program, artwork
produce and mastered by Setsuya KUROTAKI

releases September 9, 2025

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Creole

I Heard That Noise

quickly, quickly