Jurstday Thursday on ottomen.com !!! I’ve been busy, so I haven’t done a new Jurstday post in awhile.  I wrote this album between 2010 and 2011.  I finished the music around the middle of 2011 with the intent to release it under Justin DiCenzo, but soon decided that the group name should be SLEEPY TOKYO because as you can see in the image, everyone is SLEEPY all the time in this city.  The theme is yes, a little cynical, but aren’t we all in the big cities???

Skip the PayPal thing if you don’t wanna pay, there’s a free link to download it!

Sleepy Tokyo’s first release “Dark Circles” is finished and free for download!

“Dark Circles” is a musical journey through the long evening and tough morning of the average Tokyo business man.

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Download the music free!

The album opens with dark circles

which form under your eyes as your superiors aimlessly extend each work hour into the night, then eventually drag you and the other younger employees out to drink until you can barely stand up.

You get yourself into your own taxi and sit back to witness the 2am taxi ride windows

reflect neon lights in the windows as you dart through the taxi lined streets.

The taxi is extremely comfortable and very easy to fall asleep in with a heavy head fallen

to the side or back against the plush seat.

Once the taxi goes as far into the side streets as possible, you’re on your own left to perform the slow plover stumble

or in Japanese 千鳥足 (chidori ashi) to reach your apartment door.

The elevator ride to your floor seems impossibly long as time slows

You make it in the door and almost automatically begin your night routine. Like a computer, your subroutines take over

and you find yourself passed out on and hopefully in your futon.

Without effort, you quickly fall asleep and proceed to enjoy a short dreamless sleep

Around 430am, the sky changes to a light navy color and with each passing minute dawn creeps

and causes you to toss and turn as you fear the 7am alarm. The rising sun beams in and the solar warmth

lets you know that another day has begun. You rise and prepare to return to the race.

The race to make more money, have more financial stability, have more things, meet your future spouse, raise kids and take an occasional 3-5 day holiday to another country.

This song is called GAMEPLAN!

A song I wrote with Misung aka Dave Stevenson.
I emailed him the instrumental rough heard below and he sang over it.

Here is the demo

Then I re-recorded everything and sang it in a more exciting key.  Here is a rough mix by me:

Misung and I have been friends since I was about 14. The first time we sat down together and wrote something was a very strange experience to me at that age. He got out a tape recorder and a guitar and said, come on lets write a song. No paper, no pen, just make!

He is one of the most prolific people I know. Thanks Dave for writing this with me! More to come!

Sk welcome by justindicenzo

Track from my NEWLY RELEASED CD: SLEEP (I/II)

First 4 are I

Last 4 are II

I made this Drone/ Ambient album to help me sleep when I was living in Los Angeles. Now it’s always in my ambient playlist with the epic Brian Eno and friend Maxwell who also has a great Ambient record under the name EN.

Here is the store you can buy the full thing:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/justindicenzo

This video I made.

This song I made.

I play the koto on this song and improvise using something called the RITSU scale. This scale is used in Gagaku music.

I like this song and will make more like it.

THE GAMEPLAN

This song was written half by me then the rest by Misung.

I originally wrote it in a key he could sing, then jacked it up played and then recorded all the instruments by myself.

We does did pretty good job on this.

It was intended for KONAMI, but they changed their mind last minute and requested an instrumental instead of an upbeat song about sports.

Now it exists….here.

It will have to go on a Justin and the misungs album.

Aztec

This is a song I just wrote for a friend.
Thought I would post it since it might not end up being used.

Ottomen records artist Justin DiCenzo’s website was down, so for the time being he has moved it under the ottomen umbrella. And I fixed the link on the left thusly. Check it out:

http://ottomen.com/justin/

Hey OTTOLAND! This is Justin here for Jurstday #1

This is a song from my 2nd album “SUPER ULTRA”

It’s about sumfin and Misung says “refrigerator” a sample from the song “Magnet Artist”

OKBYE!
-Justin in Tokyo, Japan

Posted by misung on August 09, 2008

THE OTTOMEN ARE BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER WITH 2 BRAND NEW ALBUMS, “THE OTTOMEN ATTAK!” AND “OTTOMEN NYC: RAW AND WRIGGLING!”

OTTOMEN ATTAK! BRINGS BACK JUSTIN DICENZO AS PRODUCER AND MUSICAN ON A 14 TRACK ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF FUN AND MAYHEM! INCLUDES SONGS, “HOSTEL”( A SONG ABOUT BEING TORTURED), “ABOVE THE LAW”, (A ROCKIN’ SONG ABOUT STEVEN SEAGAL AND GODZILLA), AND “POLE POSITION!” (PUT YOUR HELMET ON FOR THIS PUNK ROCK RACE!)
THEN THERE’S “OTTOMEN NYC, RAW AND WRIGGLING!” THE TITLE SAYS IT ALL IN THIS 17 TRACK POWERHOUSE OF FRESH AND RIPE TUNES STRAIGHT FROM THE OTTOMEN’S LOINS TO THE 8 TRACK! RECORDED IN UNDER 4 HOURS IN A SMALL ROOM IN MANHATTAN NYC, THESE SONGS WILL BLOW YOU AWAY!!

YOU CAN LISTEN TO SOME TRACKS BY GOING TO THE OTTOMENSTL MYSPACE PAGE!

AND GET EM’ TODAY BY GOING TO ST. LOUIS’ VINTAGE VINYL OR EMAIL US AND WE’LL SEND YOU A COPY!

EMAILING INFO:
DAVE: MISUNG1977@YAHOO.COM