‘Music’ Archives
Hatsune Miku, Megurine Luka, and more in the concerts as Vocaloid
Hatsune Miku is already a well known anime character in Japan and in the world of anime fans. It's natural for anime fans that characters should have reality and fans often think as if the characters are alive in this real world. That desire is already realized in the concerts. Some many know it but for anime beginners it could be a hard [...]
Yoshiki, the Leader of X JAPAN composed theme song for Golden Globe Award of America
Yoshiki of X JAPAN did it again. This time Yoshiki composed the theme song for Golden Globe Award of the United States for the first time in the history of Golden Globe Award. Yoshiki says that it's such an honor to do that, and he added that he never dreamed this kind of event over himself when he started X JAPAN. Yoshiki is already [...]
Nada Sou Sou covered by Terresa Bright, Kealii Reichel, and Hayley Westenra
A song of Okinawa by Rimi Natsukawa is one of my favorites among Japanese songs. This is really good in original version, however, it's also nice to hear in covered version by some foreign artists. Firstly, Okinawa is small islands situated in the south part of Japan being far from the main island. It's a tropical weather place just like [...]
Ayumi Hamasaki announced divorce
Ayumi Hamasaki, a Japanese female singer, was reported today to divorce her husband soon. Detail of the news is not enough. About a year ago, she got married an Austria born actor. The happy time for two of them were for 1 year only, and Ayumi Hamasaki expressed the reason for this result is because she does not want to leave Japan [...]
Yoshiki Radio from Los Angeles for X JAPAN fans
Some months ago last year, a news arrived from L.A and it said that Yoshiki of X JAPAN would have a radio program in L.A. I think it already started, as I didn't check it, I hope it's still running OK. I found one of the radio programs which was recorded with Toshi, the vocalist of X JAPAN, as a special guest. As far as I hear that, it [...]
RYUICHI SAKAMOTO, A true beaty of music
Ryuichi Sakamoto is one of the best composers of Japan. Probably he and Joe Hisaishi are both admired highly by all Japanese people. Ryuichi Sakamoto's works are really touching in our heart and its range is really wide. Some may remember that he used to be a member of Yellow Magic Orchestra, which was the first active Japanese band also in [...]
Nausicaa, Summer, One Summer’ Day by Joe Hisaishi
Joe Hisaishi composed many masterpieces. Among them, probably the most acclaimed works are his film music. Many of good films can't get enough understanding without good background music. Movie directors in Japan, including even the genius director, Hayao Miyazaki, were very lucky that they all lived in the same time with Joe [...]
Once again Hikaru Utada !
There is one thing I regret about Japanese music scene today. Many of new Japanese artists recently have less impact compared to the time of 1980 to 1990's. Back then, new artists were competing their new breaking fashion, new song style, and totally impressive personal talent of music. It's a little strange to see many past artist, now [...]
Ancient music of Japan, Gagaku
In the ancient time of Japan, people among aristocrats enjoyed original music of Japan called Gagaku. Especially in Heian Era ( late 8th century ), when was a prosperous time for aristocrats called Fujiwara Clan, it's a luxury entertainment. As you hear, this is a very strange music with super unique melody by amazingly old time musical [...]
Departure, Okuribito theme song by Joe Hisaishi was recorded with London Symphonic Orchestra
Okuribito or Departure was filmed in 2008 and it took many film contest prizes including the Best Foreign Language Film Prize at Academy Award in the USA. If you missed this film, it's not hard to recommend you see it as most of the people are moved with it. Ryoko Hirosue ( photo) is a graceful film star of Japan, and she acts also very well [...]
