Nowhere Home, by Koen Park

Nowhere Home

by Koen Park

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1.	Nowhere Home 00:22	buy track
2.	Yellows and Browns 03:26	buy track
3.	Cycling Through Ikebukuro 04:31	buy track
4.	White Buildings On Green 00:18	buy track
5.	Church Roof Train Bento 00:55	buy track
6.	Seibu Line 00:20	buy track
7.	Wendy's Dream 03:17	buy track
8.	I Miss My Koen 00:25	buy track
9.	Love Your X-18 02:15	buy track
10.	Casio Beat Reversed 00:14	buy track
11.	Happy The Playground Chimes 01:07	buy track
12.	Trains In Season 04:00	buy track
13.	Distant Cousin 01:04	buy track
14.	Boombox, Paper Thin Room 01:20	buy track
15.	La Bella Circuit 00:05	buy track
16.	Distortions, Grains, and Emotions 02:49	buy track
17.	Bye Bye Robot 02:32	buy track
18.	Alright Kids, Let's Country! 01:28	buy track
19.	I Miss My Ginza 01:07	buy track
20.	The Nowhere Community I 06:08	buy track
21.	The Nowhere Community II 02:38	buy track

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Originally released in 2008 on Headphonica. 'Nowhere Home' is an album about my first year and a bit living in Japan way back in 2001 - 2002. I lived right by Togoshi Koen ('koen' means 'park') which was a magical little place for a lone foreigner to live at the time really. I came up with the name 'Koen Park' simply because most people would put the two words together when speaking in English, making 'Koen' part of the name. I also liked the idea that it basically comes out meaning 'park park' which was a name I used before anyway.

My Togoshi Four guise also stems from this period where I would travel up to north Tokyo to practice with the band I was in, then promptly come home to my tiny apartment that was basically a bed with gear surrounding it, and record non-stop. I'd also take myself to the park quite often in the middle of the night to record music on my little Fostex X-18 cassette recorder, which I still use to this day.

This version has been re-mastered in 2016 from the original four-track recordings.

All music by Ian Hawgood.

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released February 27, 2017

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hello. my name is ian hawgood.

i make music on old tapes and reels mostly, curate the home normal label, and master music for a variety of labels and artists.

throughout 2021 i will be uploading weekly music i make using my coastal hydrophone recordings and tapes as folk reels.

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