okapi the guitarmanAsia Tour of okapi and Soenke vol.1
種別: diary
Hi there, this is okapi who plays guitar, not the animal.
As I posted to SNS sometimes,
a guitarist from Germany had been Japan from May 10th to 21st, to play a tour with me. and his name is Sönke Meinen!!
It was an awesome tour. There were a lot of trouble, a lot of funny things, a lot of kindness of people as well.
I will write about our tour!
Introduction – here is the background story
I will tell you about the story from the start, here is how we got to know each other.
in 2016, I made a decision.
“I will definitely go to have performance in Germany, absolutely, for sure.”
I made this decision from that I had some frustrated experience, but I will tell this story some other day haha
Several weeks later when I made that decision, I had an opportunity to go to Europe to have a performance, it was in Poland.
I thought…..
” …….Neighboring Country……. “
Just so that you don’t misunderstand, I was sooooo happy that this happened, because it was my first opportunity of having a concert in Europe!
I decided that I will take care of this fate. And I did my best for this performance and made friendship with people in Poland. I love Poland 🙂
Then, I met Michał, who is organized my concert in Poland, and we made really good friendship!
By the way, this photo was taken when I went to Poland, with Michał (center), and Daniel Padim (right: from Brazil)
As you see, he is really cool guy. He has tattoos tightly LOL
Well, here I told you til 2016. a year before I met Sönke.
It was at our China tour in July 2017 when I met him for the first time.
I wrote about those days in another post, so please read that if you didn’t read it yet. ->http://okapi-music.com/south-china-tour1/
This is an unforgettable scene that we had stage together in China 🙂
I still remember clearly the time we met together first time. I said ‘Nice to meet you!’ Then he said:
‘ Nice to meet you, too! Actually I already know you. ‘
I was so surprised, and I asked him why he knew me. So he said:
‘ Do you know Michał? He is an organizer in Poland and I know that you performed at the festival he organized last year, didn’t you? And I performed at his festival this year. ‘
And he continued:
‘ Michał introduced you to me ” he(okapi) is an amazing guitarist from Japan” and Michał showed me a your video of your concert. Then I really looked forward to meet you. ‘
Well…..
I love you two! LOL
I am sorry if the words weren’t collect even though I said ‘ I still remember clearly ‘ haha
But I was so surprised for that ,
that was the start of relationship for us, and we made great friendship, then we decided to invite each other to each countries! This is why our tour came true! ( and I will go to Germany in the end of August! )
I realized that it’s really important to take care for every things, and make friendships.
Well! Here goes main part! Let’s go!
10th, May
Yes, we started from this date.
I went to Haneda Airport in the morning with something like butterflies in my stomach.( many many butterflies )
I found flight information from Munich.
To be honest, I didn’t understand that I had invited guitarist from Germany till this moment. LOL
I couldn’t realize until I saw this information………haha
For now, I will write my appearance with use that things, the things you saw in my post for China tour.
（10 minutes later….）
（20 minutes later….）
（30 minutes later….）
（40 minutes later….）
finally, he arrived!!
To be honest, I wanted to take a photo of his appearance first time to land to Japan, but I still waited for long time so I couldn’t react quickly enough. Then I only have this photo that you cannot understand who is this guy hahaha.
But I like this anyway, haha
Actually, he sent me a photo like this before boarding:
Couldn’t help but laughing very hard. LOL
because of I saw his excited face, I gave up to say to him ‘ Panda is symbol for China! ‘ .
OK, it seems to be very long, that’s all for this time.
Do you think ‘ Hey, you didn’t even start writing about the tour ‘ ?
I AM SO SORRY. haha
It was long story, so please look forward to read our story of this tour☆
to be continued for vol.2 …… 🙂
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