David Tamura

{{Short description|Japanese-American instrumentalist}}

David Tamura was a Japanese-American multi-instrumentalist based in New York City, US. He was a member of Von LMO's band on the album Red Resistor, which was described as "brilliantly tight".{{Cite web|url=http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/von-lmo-red-resistor|title = The Book of Seth: VON LMO — Red Resistor}} He had played with many musicians on the New York noise rock scene.{{Cite web|url=http://thefirehousespace.org/event/damian-olsen-and-david-tamura-pianos-with-nicole-zaray/|title=Damian Olsen/David Tamura: Pianos and Nicole Zaray: Piano and Vocals | the Firehouse Space}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.publiceyesore.com/artists.php?art=0&id=123|title = Public Eyesore Records - Artists}}https://elliottlevin.com/event/1749111/340587225/eighty-pound-pug-daniel-carter-barbiana-complex-elliott-levin He died on June 23, 2023.https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133263

He was one of the main forces behind The Jazzfakers, where he played guitar, keyboards, and saxophone; one reviewer writes "it's him that provides the powdery, blues-rich tenor melody that boards the loose-boned march of Oh Rise New, adding a recognizable jazz voice to the restless buzz-keyboard swirls and mosquito-drill guitar, the rambling bass tune and the childlike organ which hangs and fidgets on a single disruptive chord".{{Cite web|url=http://misfitcity.org/2013/05/11/review-the-jazzfakers-here-is-now-album-2013-accumulates-itself-out-of-loose-particles-of-imagination-like-a-rogue-dust-bunny/|title=March 2013 – album reviews – the JazzFakers' 'Here is Now' ("accumulates itself out of loose particles of imagination; like a rogue dust-bunny")|date=27 March 2013}} Of his release Mystic Mountain, with Marc Edwards, Grego Applegate Edwards wrote "David Tamura adds a welcome and contrastively volcanic tenor sax. But then the threesome of Karl Alfonso Evangelista, Colin Sanderson and Alex Lozupone, the three on very high-crank electric guitars, Alex (who also is leader of the band Eighty-Pound Pug that I have happily covered here) on combo electric guitar and bass."http://gapplegateguitar.blogspot.com/2016/03/marc-edwards-slipstream-time-travel.html In April, 2023, Tamura recorded an album with the group Toadal Package, which was called Final Entrance in a tribute to Last Exit.

Upon his death, Rachel Mason wrote: "He just had a true genuine quality of kindness - despite the appearance of being some kind of underground-street-gangster. This sight of him was a character out of Quinten Tarantino movie. Exuding cool. Arms filled with tattoos, and a jet black hair almost looking like fire folding around his face. Arms that were Crazy guns- and then the saxophone. He busted it out and he was just a full fledged experimental jazz machine. He really was A Comic book action hero."https://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/133263