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Ginkai (銀界, Ginkai, means Silver World) is a 1970 album released by Hōzan Yamamoto, featuring Western jazz instrumentalists such as bassist Gary Peacock, pianist Masabumi Kikuchi and drummer Hiroshi Murakami. It is an early example of fusion experiments with jazz and Japanese classical music.
Yamamoto saw continued commercial success throughout the 1980s and early 1990s, with his albums regularly appearing within the Top 20 of the Japanese Oricon Charts and being used in advertisements. Musically, those works are considered to be of the AOR and city-pop genres, a mix of various sounds incorporating disco, rhythm and blues, soft rock ...
Musicians and dancer, Muromachi period Traditional Japanese music is the folk or traditional music of Japan. Japan's Ministry of Education classifies hōgaku (邦楽, lit. ' Japanese music ') as a category separate from other traditional forms of music, such as gagaku (court music) or shōmyō (Buddhist chanting), but most ethnomusicologists view hōgaku, in a broad sense, as the form from ...
As a composer, Yamamoto has written for all genres, including works for orchestra, band, chorus, vocal music and opera. Opera. Imaginative Landscape (無伴奏モノ・オペラ《想像風景》), Unaccompanied Mono-Opera for female voice with mobile-phone and flexatone (2000)
Junko Yamamoto (December 30, 1949) (71 years old) was born in Tenkawa-mura, Yoshino-gun, Nara Prefecture. Toshihiko Yamamoto (February 23, 1947 – March 27, 2014) (67 years old) Yamamoto was born in Osaka City. Shigeru Okawa (b. September 6, 1945) (76 years old) was born in Mie Prefecture.
Theme music for films, anime, tokusatsu (tokuson (特ソン)) and dorama are considered a separate music genre. While musicians and bands from all genres have recorded for Japanese television and film, several artists and groups have spent most of their careers performing theme songs and composing soundtracks for visual media.
' Pop Tune ') is a Japanese pop music genre, which became a base of modern J-pop. The Japan Times described kayōkyoku as "standard Japanese pop" [2] or "Shōwa-era pop". [3] Kayōkyoku represents a blend of Western and Japanese musical scales. [1] Music in this genre is extremely varied as a result.
Sankyoku (Japanese: 三曲 / さんきょく) is a form of Japanese chamber music played often with a vocal accompaniment. It is traditionally played on shamisen , koto , and kokyū , but more recently the kokyū has been replaced by shakuhachi .