name
Nobu Stowe

age
26

plays
Yamaha Acoustic Piano, Yamaha CP 70 Electric Grand Piano, Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, Hohner D6 Clavinet, Hammond M3 Organ, Moog Minimoog, Moog Memorymoog, Arp Odyssey, Sequential Circuits Prophet 5, Eminent Solina String Ensemble, Yamaha KX 76 Midi Controller, Yamaha V50, Emu Vintage Keys Plus Module, Emu Proteus FX Module

dragking history
I went to the computer store where Sluggo works. Sluggo asked me to show my I.D. and so I showed to him. He said I look like "EYE" of the Boredoms. But I didn't think so. (previous sentence implies that both Sluggo and I knew what Boredoms looks like) Then a few months later, I found myself with these PUNKS...

other band experiences
I have been leading a progressive-symphonic band called "Pale Ghosts" in Japan for 10 years. But Pale Ghosts has reformed here in Chicago. The current line-up of Pale Ghosts includes these fellow DK members, Mark Wardo on drums, Lee on sound effects, devices & percussions; as well as ex-Noise Factory member and the Hyde Park DJ-Creator, Jamie Hodge on Bass.

fave groups/influences
...well, I have 4 big idols and they are;
Angelo Branduardi (one and only!; 20th century troubadorou; great Italian cantoutore)
Jean-Jeaques Goldman (ex. the French sympho-rock band, "Tai Phong"; now the French Superstar; the greatest "POP" artist)
Flavio Venturini & 14 BIS (ex. the Brazilian prog-rock band, "O Terco", later formed his own sympho-pop-rock band "14 BIS", now a solo artist; ... of course I would say "GREAT!!!")
Keith Jarrett (publically, "...genius." (Miles Davis) and personally, "My Song")

It is obvious that I love all of my idol's albums but I also have other artists' albums which have given me big impacts and impressions. These artists are; New Trolls (Italian), Banco Del Muttuo Soccorso (Italian), Premiata Forneria Marconi, (Italian), Le Orme (Italian), Area (Italian; w/ the greatest avan-rock vocalist Demetrio Stratos), Locanda Delle Fate (Italian), Celeste (Italian), Franco Battiato (Italian), Claudio Baglioni (Italian), Magma (French), Zao (French; i.e., post Magma), Isirdurus Bane (Swedish), Sagrado Coracao Da Terra (Brazilian), Victor Jara (the great Chilien singer & poet), Pat Metheny (Amercan), Chick Corea (the American...), Yes (British), King Crimson (British), the Beatles (of course, British), any album with the great Japanese Drumer, Kozo Suganuma, and all the German Jazz label, ECM artists.

As a classically trained artist I have to list following composers as my sources of inspiration: J.S. Bach, L.V. Beethoven, F. Chopin, E. Satie

current listening material
All Keith Jarrett albums
A lot of ECM albums
Oregon (the great Jazz band)
Still all progressive albums (The genre prog-rock would include), sympho-rock (e.g., Yes, Genesis), jazz-rock (e.g., Soft Machine, Zao), avantgarde-rock (e.g., Faust, Amon Duul I & II), post-psychedelic rock (e.g., Pink Floyd), pre-techno (Kraftwerk, Ashra Temple) and other ethnic-oriented rock as well.

fave books
all C.G. Jung Books; Novalis; scientific journals; Marquee; any manga by Sensya Yoshida; Oishimbo

fave tv
Ryouri No Tetsujin (The Iron Chef)

first record bought
The Beatles - With the Beatles

fave live show ever
Oregon, Feb/'98 in Chicago

day job
(Pre?)-Drug Researcher

dk body politic
Nobu is the inner ear of DK

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