Maki Tomoda Interview Page

The most profound moment comes at the end. The journalist, running out of time, asks the cliché: What advice would you give to your younger self?

This piece is fictional, composed in the spirit of her legacy, as no extensive English-language interview with Maki Tomoda is widely available. maki tomoda interview

The journalist asks if she feels vindicated by the recent re-discovery of her work by Western DJs. Does she feel like a legend? The most profound moment comes at the end

She tilts her head. “A legend is a tombstone. I am still gardening.” The journalist asks if she feels vindicated by

She speaks of her years as a session musician in Los Angeles in the late 80s, where she was told to anglicize her name to "Mandy." She refused. She was fired from three sessions in one week. She recounts this not with bitterness, but with a kind of anthropological curiosity, as if describing the mating habits of a strange, lesser-evolved species.