Clive Tanaka y su orquesta is tagged as: chillwave, electronic, lo-fi, electropop, twinkling tones When Clive Tanaka finally found his voice, he ended a family tradition of silence that stretched back half a century. For 11 years, Clive almost never left his room in his family’s home outside of Sapporo on Hokkaido, Japan’s huge northern island. “I was hikikomori,” Clive explains, one of almost a million boys and young men in Japan who shut themselves away and withdraw from society. In Clive’s case, he stopped going to school and retreated to his room after sustained episodes of vicious hazing and harassment by older students, a chronic problem in Japanese public schools. But even before his own withdrawal when he was 14, Clive had first-hand experience of what silence and isolation was like. “My grandfather was a Soviet prisoner of war until 1949. He was a very young soldier in the [Japanese] army in Manchuria towards the end of the Pacific War [World War II] and was a POW many years longer than he was a soldier.” He married when he returned and seemed OK. But while watching the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, he saw the Soviet Union flag carried by Russian athletes, and something snapped. He did not speak another word for 20 years. When Clive became hikikomori in 1991, he had no computer or Internet for amusement, only books and magazines that his parents would... Read More About Clive Tanaka y su orquesta Biography...  Send Clive Tanaka y su orquesta ringtones to your cell
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