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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 ...
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In 1980, the group went into a hiatus but resumed a year later with their music, breaking a record by being the first act in Japanese music history to sing 4-beat jazz with Japanese composition. In 1984, "I want to be honest" was released and the song became the group's most commercially successful song.
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.
Project Name In Japanese Artists Involved Artists' Names In Japanese Acid Mothers Temple [1] [2] Kawabata Makoto 河端 一 Astro: アストロ Hiroshi Hasegawa 長谷川洋 Aube: オウブ Akifumi Nakajima 中嶋昭文 Boredoms [3] ボアダムス Yamatsuka "Eye" Tetsuro, Yamamoto Seiichi, Yoshimi P-We
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)
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 ...