Toshifumi Hinata 1988 Another Graffiti

Toshifumi Hinata attended Berklee College of Music in Boston and graduated from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, where he studied under the tutelage of Patricia Laliberte. His career started upon graduation from university in 1982. He has composed music for numerous TV dramas, documentaries and commercials.
Taking cues from the languid feeling of classic French impressionist music, Toshifumi sculpted Sarah’s Crime (1985) as an album full of modern piano-led nocturnes that could fold in orchestral instrumentation and synthetic key beds into a seamless mix of woozy arrangements. The goal was music for half-forgotten musical touch points, with an atmosphere that could best described as illusory…