Jay Eigenmann has his head buried in the mixing console, twisting knobs and raising channel faders, as toe guitarist Hirokazu Yamazaki gives instructions in broken English onstage. Eigenmann levels his mix to a specific rawness that guitarist Takaaki Mino — who is also an audio engineer — prefers for the stage and house, filling the hall with their signature blend of electronic and organic tones. This is the Japanese post-rock band’s third time in Manila, and Eigenmann’s first time to work the board for them in the country, opening their 2016 Asian tour on a Sunday evening. Having worked with toe as their FOH engineer outside Japan for over a year now, Eigenmann is confident and psyched to finally be home again. He’s been all smiles since he arrived from an excruciatingly long flight from New York, and his welcoming committee seems to get larger and larger as members of the crew spot him at the tech booth at the far end of the hall. Before working for toe and becoming Director of Production at Le Poisson Rouge, a club in New York, Eigenmann was all over the place. Like a true Millennial, he searched for his calling, hopping from school […]
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