Hi, my name is Doug Koyama.

I love music and sharing the gifts that I have been given. I am exceedingly grateful for this life and I work hard to fill it with love, magic and bliss every day.

I perform improvised A capella with a loop pedal. By using a little bit of technology and my voice I weave songs from small bits of melody, harmony, basslines and percussion. The loop pedal allows me to mix it all together to make unique songs in each moment.

Here is a short bioflick that captures the essence of it: https://youtu.be/Wl9E7l5ydmU

This is a track called Uh-oh, from my 2014 release WISE Sessions: Click for song on Bandcamp

My music has carried me to more than fifty BC music festival performances in the past five years. This year alone I will appear at eleven festivals, finishing in mid September.


Last winter I shared the stage at an event created by Vancouver painter Paula Nishikawara. This is it: A Celebration of Freedom, Uselessness and Collaboration was first created on March 14, 2015 to a capacity audience in a studio space in Vancouver's Chinatown.

Imagine an improvised mixed-form event where two painters paint on five dancing canvases which, through their movement, trigger musical performance from a six piece musical ensemble. A performance and art truly created in the moment.

 
Watch video excerpts of the event: Click Here

That brings us to now. Paula, the painter who conceived and co-created this work is in Berlin at the moment. She is painting and planning another run of "This Is It" to be held in October. She has invited me to come to Germany and be a part of one, possibly more presentations of this amazing concept.

This is where you come in.

I don't have the money to get to Europe. If the event were in the Spring I could work the winter and save up but it's not.

I am asking for your help to get to Berlin so I can be a part of making this beautiful art.

Thank you, with love and gratitude.

Doug