With his long black hair pulled back in a tight, neat ponytail and his pale complexion, electronica musician Nobukazu Takemura has an otherworldly quality somewhere between a computer geek and a monk.
That he lives and works in Kyoto seems entirely fitting. During an interview prior to his American tour this month, he spoke in calm cadences at almost subsonic levels.
"My friends say I'm like a child," he says. "I'm not sure if that is true, but I feel that I like things that children like."