Tak Shindo

Tak Shindo
1922 - 2002
Tak Shindo  American Musician
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First Name Tak
Last Name Shindo
Birthday 29th December, 1922
Birthplace Sacramento, California
Died 17th April, 2002
Place of Death San Dimas, California
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Nationality American
Occupation Text Musician, composer and arranger
Occupation Musician
Music Genre (Text) Exotica, ultra lounge, Japanese folk
Year(s) Active 1957–1967
Instrument (text) Koto
Record Label Capitol, Mercury, Edison International, Imperial, Nippon Victor

Takeshi "Tak" Shindo (November 11, 1922 – April 17, 2002) was a Japanese American musician, composer and arranger. He was one of the prominent artists in the exotica music genre during the late 1950s and early 1960s. Shindo also founded a dance band in 1947 and was a frequent lecturer and writer on Japanese music. He first gained prominence for his work on the 1957 motion picture Sayonara, served as the musical director for the television series Gunsmoke, and composed theme music for The Ed Sullivan Show and Wagon Train. He is most remembered for the exotica albums he released from 1958 to 1962, including Mganga! The Primitive Sounds of Tak Shindo (1958), Brass and Bamboo (1959) and Accent on Bamboo (1960). He also released several albums in Japan during the mid-1960s that blended American and Japanese musical traditions. In 1980, Shindo made a documentary film, Encounter with the Past, about the Manzanar relocation camp where he was relocated in 1942 as part of the Japanese American internment policy.

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