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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 ...
The Rough Guide to the Music of Japan is a world music compilation album originally released in 1999. Part of the World Music Network Rough Guides series, [ 1 ] the album presents an eclectic mix of the music of Japan ranging from traditional Japanese music (including Ryukyuan and Ainu music ) to J-pop by artists of the 1990s.
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.
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 ...
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.
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)
Wagakki Band covered "Senbonzakura" and released their music video on YouTube on 31 January 2014. The video was shot at Nakoso no Seki in Iwaki, Fukushima.The cover introduced the world to the band's style of mixing traditional Japanese musical instruments (wagakki) with heavy metal (), and it is the most well-known song in their discography.