TOMOO NAGAI – Percussionist, Drummer, Composer
Born Shizuoka, Japan, 1975. Undergraduate, BA and Graduate,MFA Degrees from Tokyo University of the Arts. As a student Nagai was exposed to Jazz. He explores improvisation in Live House performances and in concerts experimenting in different styles of music genre and recording. He creates his own original instruments and gives solo concerts performing with them.
He performed with the group, LULI, with French musicians, Fabrice Bony, Samantha Zaccarie and Japanese musician Yasuyo Iso. Nagai has also performed with the Trio, EPOCUS created with Koichi Yamaguchi (pianist) and Yutaka Kaido (bassist). He has performed with Sto-Mocs with Sachiko Nagata « Il conformista » with Morley Robertson. He created a collaborative work with musicians Akira Sakata, Yuki Saga, concerning the poetry of Kazuko Shiraishi,
Nagai created a soundtrack for the movie”TAMAGO”, “FLOAT”, titled “Song of Windswept Traces” and was the director for an original work he created and performed for the exhibition of Kiyoshi Hibi, titled”The Night the Moon Came Closest to the Earth”.” He created and perfomed a percussion work, titled “metallications” and “saboten”, for the San Paulo Teatro Yuba Ballet Company established in 2011.
Music composed for the public was realized by Nagai in his project « Sound for 31 Stations » a tonal work which resounds throughout 31 stations on the Kinokuni line of the Japan Railway in Wakayama Prefecture. Nagai also worked on the project « Sounds for Tennoz Central Tower » creating musical pieces for the building’s public spaces.
Touring internationally Nagai has performed in Indonesia, Brazil, France, Morocco and Iceland from2005-2014. Recent Solo Concert performances include Opera City and Omigakudo in Tokyo, Japan.
In 2013, The French Japanese Cultural Center in Toulouse (CCFJT) France, released his solo album « 514 Pictures ».
Musical Activities
2015
HUES 1st album [in hue notes] Publication, Vo:Manami ISHIKAWA G:Hideki TSUCHIYA
Torainart 2015 (Music director)
Shimane tour with pianist Noriko KOSE, Shimane Pref. Japan
Music for Theater Shizuoka SPAC, “Flying kingdom Aristophanes-The Birds-”
Solo concert , OVE Minami Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
Eri Matuzaki “Parnassus” , Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre , Tokyo, Japan
Iceland tour “Reflctions”2015 , (Akureiry Art Museum) ,Arkureiry, Iceland
Solo concert, OVE Nakanoshima ,Osaka , Japan
Sound Track for Film [TAMAGO], (Mac Film Festival BRASIL Award of best cinematography, Accolade Global Film Competition America Award of recognition, Luisville’s International festival of film America Award of “On the Edge”, 2015 Oregon Film Awards America Gold Award of “First time director”, Filmmakers of the Year Film Festival 2015 Indonesia Gold Award.)
LULI Japan tour, Japan G:Fabrice BONY, Vo,Video:Samantha ZACCARIE,Vo:Yasuyo ISO
France Tour 2015, France
Composition for TENNOZ CENTRAL TOWER Building,「Sound for TENNOZ CENTRAL TOWER 」Tokyo, Japan
2014
Composition for 31 Stations of JR line 「Sounds for 31 Stations 」Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
Solo concert ,Tokyo Opera city,Tokyo, Japan
Solo concert , Machiyama temple, Tokyo, Japan
France Tour 2014 , France
Fresh Winds Art Symposium 2014 , Iceland
2013
Solo concert , OVE Minami Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan
Art Tanabe 2013 Wakayama Prefecture, Japan
France Tour 2013
Album [the colors of water] Publication with Piano Noriko KOSE
Solo Album [514 Pictures] Publication from C.C.F.J.T France
“Full bloom” Art Symposium, France
2012
Concert at Morocco [The Traveling ORIN Project]
[The Traveling ORIN ] Publication
Art Tanabe 2012
France Tour 201
2011
Music for Teatro YUBA , Brazil
Brasil Tour 2011
Haruo HIGUMA Paradigm Shift ,Tokyo, Japan
sto-mocs Album [THAUMTROPE] Publication
ESPIRA Japan Tour 2011
Music for Theater [Tukiga Itibann Chikaduita Yoru] , Tokyo, Japan
2010
sto-mocs Japan Tour 2010
ESPIRA Japan Tour 2010
Art works for Deco Galeria ,Sao-Paulo Brazil
Concert EchigoTsumari Triennial , Nigata, Japan
Music for Exhibition [SABOTEN] , Tokyo, Japan
Produce music instruments for Baptist church , Okinawa, Japan
Music and musical instruments for exhibition [ISU ISU ISU] , Tokyo
2009
Performance [Akikann] ,Tokyo, Japan
Music for Kiyosi HIBI’s exhibition , Tokyo, Japan
ESPIRA Japan Tour 2009
2006
Takao Studio Inauguration , Tokyo, Japan
Music for Film [Fuumonnno utagoe]
Album [EPOCUS], Publication with Piano Trio EPOCUS
2005
EPOCUS, Indonesia Tour 2005 , Indonesia
Album [TALK HARD] Publication with Band “Flight Of Idea”
Music Production for Film [Float]