Fumitake Igarashi (Take, Eager Lush, AutoDanceMAchine )

Fumitake Igarashi, known under the stage name "Eager Lush", is a graduate of the Berklee School of Music as well as a talented keyboardist, composer, arranger and church organist.

Skilled in many music styles ranging from jazz to pop, he has earned a well-deserved reputation as a creator who covers the music of various recording artists in New England and beyond.

Take was born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1980. He took his first organ lessons at age five and at thirteen he began to play the piano. Since junior high school, jazz and fusion have been his favorite styles. He took second place in the Yamaha All-Japan Electronic Organ Competition at the age of 17. Encouraged by this success, he chose to pursue a career as a jazz pianist and played regularly with other musicians in his hometown. Take’s interest in hip-hop, break-beats, and other dance music has led him to street dancing as well.

He came to the United States at age 20 to study at the Berklee College of Music in Boston as a recipient of the Berklee World-wide Tour Scholarship. He has played the keyboard and piano for numerous concerts and clinics sponsored by George Duke, Lalah Hathaway, Abraham Laboriel, and other members of the Berklee faculty. Additional performance credits include many local bands at various venues around Boston. During his first year at Berklee, his musical sense was strongly inspired by Gospel Music, and Take became the first Japanese pianist and organist to accompany the Berklee Reverence Gospel Choir. In 2003, he played the piano at the College Jazz festival in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center. He has played with George Duke and J.P Morgan at the Berklee performance center. At his graduation from Berklee in 2004, he played the keyboard and piano at the commencement and graduation concerts.

From 2002 to 2005, Take put his love of gospel music to work as the organist at St. Francis de Sales/ St. Philip Parish in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. He continues working with gospel as a second church organist at Charles St African Methodist Church (CSAMC) playing music for 5 different choirs in the church.

As composer / keyboard player, Take has been creating music, tracks and beats for singers and DJ ‘s under the pseudonym "Eager Lush". Take joined the production team "Living Sound Entertainment" as the writer, arranger, composer, and producer deepening the talent pool and expanding the group's possibilities exponentially. In 2006, his unique style hip-hop tune "Knockin' at the door" was produced under Click Records Japan, in four different versions (Japanese, English, Korean and All-star"mixed"). These versions were performed by Yumi Matsutouya (yuming), MC sniper (from Korea) and Far East Rhymers. The song became popular enough to be performed at the Friends of Love The Earth 2006 Project in Nagoya, Japan. In 2007, he played keyboards supporting the singer JUJU at the Rock Festival "Summer Sonic Japan" an extremely large domestic rock festival featuring artists including the Black eyed peas, Avril Lavigne, Gwen Stefani, Blink 183 and numerous artists. That year Summer Sonic had an audience of over 200,000 in venues in Tokyo and Osaka.

Aside from his performances Take creates his own music as part of the production team unit "TATAMI" for Popup Sounds Inc. Through this unit he produced the classical-music-remixed-song "Joyful" feat. Koriana Lewis in 2007 which went on to be used as the theme for the “Exe” Victor Flat screen TV ads. Take also composed and engineered the song "Okajima Oki-Doki" which is played as the entrance music for Hideki, Okajima-Boston Red Sox. Songs or clips from his album "NU-CLA-SICK" are used for TV jingles and game shows occasionally.

Now he is recognized as a multi-talented keyboardist and composer and Church organist in the Boston and East-Coast music scene.