Song of the Day: Lita-Ruta (Shugo Tokumaru)

Shugo Tokumaru has done it again. While he is certainly no novice at mixing and cutting unrelated pieces of sound into a cohesive whole, this one takes the cake up to Everest. Each second that you waste on predicting its direction is one second less spent appreciating its wonderful, irregular tempo and tonality. Multiple streams of variations staggers amongst unexpected accompaniment and support vocal. For all his whimsy, Tokumaru has always managed to sound triumphal. Here, the main vocal is suitably joyous but there’s just a hint of insouciance. Yes, he probably doesn’t give a damn whether we understand his vision of the musical cubist equivalent. It might as well have been in Japanese – it wouldn’t dampen the spirits anyways.