Naruyoshi Kikuchi

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Naruyoshi Kikuchi ( Japanese 菊 地 成 孔 , Kikuchi Naruyoshi ; born June 14, 1963 in Chōshi ) is a Japanese musician ( saxophone , singing, composition) in the field of jazz and film music as well as an author .

biography

Naruyoshi Kikuchi began his musical career in 1985 and worked with Yōsuke Yamashita and in Tsuneo Imahori's band Tipographica . In 1992 he founded the J-pop band Spank Happy . In 1999 he co-founded the Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden (DCPRG) group, which played jazz with strong influences from techno and house . In 2004 his solo album Dégustation à jazz was released .

In addition, he worked with a large number of mostly Japanese bands and musicians, such as the bands Ruins and Ground Zero , the singer UA , the Art Bears Revisited project and with the jazz musicians Hiroshi Minami, Otomo Yoshihide and his New Jazz Quintet and Tōkyō Zawinul Bach ( 東京ザ ヴ ィ ヌ ル バ ッ ハ , Tōkyō Zavinuru Bahha ).

In addition to his musical activities, he regularly publishes books and essays. He also teaches at various Japanese universities, e. B. from 2004 to 2005 at the University of Tokyo and 2008 at the Keiō University .

He plays avant-garde, post-modern jazz z. Sometimes with electronic effects. In addition to playing the saxophone, he also sings on some of his pieces himself.

His older brother is the novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi .

Discography

Albums

  • 2004 A Jazz tasting
  • 2004 A Jazz - Chansons Extraites tasting
  • 2005 Elizabeth Taylor En Amérique Du Sud
  • 2006 Cure Jazz , with the singer UA
  • 2006 La Pensée Sauvage , Naruyoshi Kikuchi y Pepe Tormento Azucarar
  • 2007 The Revolution Will Not Be Computerized , Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet
  • 2008 In Tokyo , Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet
  • 2008 Estudios De Síntoma De Pérdida de Memoria , Naruyoshi Kikuchi y Pepe Tormento Azucarar
  • 2008 Dub Orbits , Naruyoshi Kikuchi Dub Sextet
  • 2009 New York Hell Sonic Ballet , Naruyoshi Kikuchi y Pepe Tormento Azucarar
  • 2009 Flowers and Water , Naruyoshi Kikuchi & Hiroshi Minami

Film music

  • 2003 10 Minutes Older ("Sonic abstracts, based on the motion picture"), together with Combo Piano
  • 2005 Wait Until Dark
  • 2006 The Pavillion Salamandre
  • 2009 Pandora No Hako

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Yuichi Hirayama: 「無理 く り 大人 に さ せ ら れ た 感 じ」 . (No longer available online.) In: web R25, Vol. 179. Recruit, Yahoo Japan, February 14, 2008, archived from the original on October 15, 2014 ; Retrieved November 6, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / r25.yahoo.co.jp
personal data
SURNAME Kikuchi, Naruyoshi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 菊 地 成 孔 (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Chōshi , Japan