TAKAAKIRA TAKA GOTO // CLASSICAL PUNK & ECHOES UNDER THE BEAUTY - DELUXE BOXSET (3LP + CD)

TAKAAKIRA TAKA GOTO // CLASSICAL PUNK & ECHOES UNDER THE BEAUTY - DELUXE BOXSET (3LP + CD) -Solid White LP-Clear and Black Haze LP-Black LP-Digipiak CD RELEASE DATE: 13/5/2015 Takaakira “Taka” Goto is a composer based in Tokyo, Japan, who is also known as the lead guitarist and composer for Japanese instrumental rock band MONO. Taka’s first solo album ‘Classical Punk and Echoes Under the Beauty’ was originally written and recorded in 2003, but was never completed and ready for general release. „I wasn’t actually thinking about sharing this album with anyone at the time. It didn’t sound like MONO, so I left it as a trail to my envisioned world, as my personal collection“, Taka explains. The tracks sank into oblivion as Taka focused on MONO. Now, in 2015, they appear like a melancholic relict of the past… a relict much too precious and too authentic to be polished up – and hence, Taka decided to simply master these tracks, and to release them as they were, in their raw, slightly sho