Nowhere Home by Koen Park

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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Tracklist

1.	Nowhere Home	0:23

2.	Yellows and Browns	3:26

3.	Cycling Through Ikebukuro	4:31

4.	White Buildings On Green	0:18

5.	Church Roof Train Bento	0:55

6.	Seibu Line	0:20

7.	Wendy's Dream	3:17

8.	I Miss My Koen	0:25

9.	Love Your X-18	2:16

10.	Casio Beat Reversed	0:15

11.	Happy The Playground Chimes	1:08

12.	Trains In Season	4:00

13.	Distant Cousin	1:04

14.	Boombox, Paper Thin Room	1:20

15.	La Bella Circuit	0:06

16.	Distortions, Grains, and Emotions	2:49

17.	Bye Bye Robot	2:32

18.	Alright Kids, Let's Country!	1:28

19.	I Miss My Ginza	1:08

20.	The Nowhere Community I	6:08

21.	The Nowhere Community II	2:38

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released February 27, 2017

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