YES Seazer
JA Seazer ( Japanese J ・ A ・ シ ー ザ ー , JA Shīzā for Julious Arnest Seazer ; born October 6, 1948 in Miyazaki Prefecture ) is the stage name of the Japanese musician and composer Takaaki Terahara ( 寺 原 孝明 , Terahara Takaaki ).
Work and style
Seazer is known in Europe and America mainly for his close collaboration with the film and theater director Shūji Terayama , who died in 1983 . For his films as well as for many theatrical performances of his troupe Tenjō Sajiki ( 天井 桟 敷 ) he composed the music, which can partly be assigned to progressive rock . After Terayama's death, he co-founded a theater company called Banyu Inryoku ( 万有引力 , also known as Universal Gravitation ), which is still active. He has had a few appearances with his Asian Crack Band recently after not performing live for over 30 years.
Seazer often alternates between rocky sounds with epic, operatic vocals (with sometimes very cryptic lyrics) and calm, melancholy, traditional Japanese passages (for example with shamisen sounds). He is also not a trained composer, so he acquired his skills autodidactically .
Famous works
Among other things, he is responsible for the soundtrack of the internationally known film The Fruits of Passion (with Klaus Kinski in a leading role); he also composed the music for an anime film adaptation of the comic book Midori, which was never published in Germany , the Camellia Girl ( 少女 椿 ; Shōjo Tsubaki ) by Suehiro Maruo (a publication was planned, however). The rock opera Shintokumaru also comes from a collaboration with Terayama.
Seazer also composed the chorales for the anime series Utena. Revolutionary Girl , as well as the soundtrack of the anime film Utena - The Movie together with Shinkichi Mitsumune and Hideato Amari .
Web links
- J. A. Seazer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- J. A. Seazer at Discogs (English)
- Official Myspace page
- Official site of Banyu Inryoku
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- ↑ In- depth interview with Seazer (only in Japanese)
- ↑ Interview with Henrikku Morisaki, an employee of Terayama's troupe
- ^ Official forum of the publisher
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seazer, YES |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | J ・ A ・ シ ー ザ ー (Japanese); Seazer, Julious Arnest; 寺 原 孝明 (Japanese, real name); Terahara, Takaaki (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Japanese musician and composer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 6, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Miyazaki Prefecture |