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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 ...
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
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.
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) Orchestral. Interlude (間奏曲) for string orchestra (1990)
Bow Wow was formed in 1975 by Yoshimi Ueno, a record producer who was looking to create an idol-like band such as The Monkees or the Bay City Rollers. [1] [4] [5] After recruiting vocalist and guitarist Mitsuhiro Saito and drummer Toshihiro Niimi from the band Do T. Doll, whom he had managed before, vocalist and guitarist Kyoji Yamamoto and bassist Kenji Sano were scouted from Yamaha Music ...
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.