toddle EarthQuaker Sessions- "Illuminate" & "Vacantly"

She's done a lot of EQD demos and events for us in Japan, but it's finally here! An EQD Session featuring Hisako Tabuchi’s band toddle! Hisako started this band after Number Girl disbanded in 2002. And now she's back with her new band from Tokyo performing “Illuminate” and “Vacantly” at the Audio Techica studio in Tokyo!
Hisako plays her vintage Jazzmaster neck pickup as usual, strumming through her chords with her tight rhythm section. She incorporates Arrows and Plumes as two different boosters with the trusted dirt pedals she's been using for a decade, the BOSS Blues Driver and Klon. Hisako loves the fact that Arrows is nicely EQ’ed so that her guitar cuts thru the mix when she wants it to, but she doesn't have to bump up the volume. And using Plumes as a booster, adds a nice push and bite feel to her base dirt sound.
She also loves the Dispatch Master delay/reverb and Ghost Echo reverb. As you can hear in this session, it slightly modulates the air when she turns them on.
Ai Kobayashi supports Hisako with her thick and warm overdrive tone from EQD's Dunes, as well as the White Light and Timmy. Her melodies swim through the session.
Hisako has done a lot of projects with different artists and this session might be a great chance for you to compare with what she's done with other guitarists in her career!
Shot by Chris Tran, Jeff France, Taiga Takemoto
Edited by Dannesh Moosa
Engineered and Mixed by Jeff France
Shot at Audio Technica Studio (Japan)
Special thanks Oyaide Electric and Hisanori Yohinari of Audio-Technica
toddle IG: @toddle.official
Hisako IG: @hisako_tabuchi
Masayoshi Yamazaki(drummer) IG: @yamazakidaze

[@barny15]

Hisako is a legend. This is an amazing performance.

[@EarthQuakerSessions]

Thanks for watching!

[@straightouttanehelo]

Toddle has such a “coming of age” vibe to their music. I listened to their albums on repeat in the summer of 2022
An now every time I listen to their music it brings me back

[@rerrrrr4330]

Hisako is great as always. My thanks

[@superishan69]

TODDLE FOREVER!!!!

[@user-fo2uf7id8q]

最高です！！ありがとうEQD!

[@Juniorfist1985]

A great friend introduced me to the band Number Girl, and because of it I ended up getting to know Toddle and Bloodthirst Butchers, and now they are one of my favorite bands. I'm very happy to see this session! Thank you very much EQD.

[@EarthQuakerSessions]

Thanks for watching!

[@jamesbaluyut3738]

Excellent! Toddle rules!

[@EarthQuakerSessions]

Yes they do! 🤘

[@zackzerstein]

Awesome to see all of them sound so good so effortlessly. Love Toddle 4ever

[@EarthQuakerSessions]

The best🙏

[@deztruct0823]

Hisako signature pedal someday maybe? 👀

[@EarthQuakerSessions]

Never say never! She's done some custom graphic pedals tho!

[@user-gh3jx1xv6k]

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