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Eternal Melody
Eternal Melody is the first classical studio album by Japanese musician Yoshiki. It was released on April 21, 1993. Overview In 1991, Yoshiki released his first album, classical compilation ''Yoshiki Selection'', which included various classical works together with orchestral arrangements of songs by his band X Japan. In 1992, inspired by Keith Jarrett's album ''The Köln Concert'', he began learning about jazz improvisation and orchestration. Eternal Melody was recorded in February, 1993, at the Air Lyndhurst Hall recording studio in London, owned by English record producer Sir George Martin, and mastered at Abbey Road Studios. The music was written by Yoshiki, produced by George Martin, co-arranged with Gavin Greenaway and , and performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Besides including orchestral arrangements of X Japan songs, the album also contains two new songs, "Overture" and "Amethyst." Eternal Melody was followed by ''Eternal Melody II'' in 2005. Release ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiki (musician)
, known as Yoshiki, is a Japanese musician, songwriter, composer and record producer. He is best known as the leader and a co-founder of the visual kei rock band X Japan, for which he is the drummer, pianist and main songwriter. He has been described by ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' as a "musical innovator" and named "one of the most influential composers in Japanese history" by ''Consequence of Sound''. Yoshiki's solo career includes several Contemporary classical music, classical studio albums and collaborations with artists such as George Martin, Bono, will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson, St. Vincent (musician), St. Vincent, Stan Lee, Roger Taylor (Queen drummer), Roger Taylor and Brian May of Queen (band), Queen, Gene Simmons and Kiss (band), KISS, Nicole Scherzinger, and Sarah Brightman. In 1999, at the request of the Japanese government, he composed and performed a classical song at a celebration in honor of the tenth anniversary of Akihito, Emperor Akihito's enthronement. Yos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eternal Melody II
Eternal Melody II is the second classical studio album by Japanese musician Yoshiki. It was released on March 23, 2005. Overview In 1993, Yoshiki recorded his first classical studio album, ''Eternal Melody'', in London at the studios owned by English record producer Sir George Martin, who produced and co-arranged the album, with the music performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. It mostly included orchestral arrangements of songs from his band X Japan. This second album was recorded in the Los Angeles County, California; in his own Extasy Recording Studio, O'Henry Sound Studios, and Paramount Pictures Scoring Stage M facility. All songs were written and composed by Yoshiki. Composition The albums contains two songs from his first single "Amethyst", the title track and "Ima wo Dakishimete". The second song was also released as a single in karaoke adaptation, in 1994 was the 35th annual best-selling single, and won the "Excellence Award" at the ''36th Japan Record Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoshiki (musician) Albums
Yoshiki is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yoshiki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *義樹, "justice, tree" *義基, "justice, foundation" *義機, "justice, opportunity" *義起, "justice, to rise" *義希, "justice, hope" *吉樹, "good luck, tree" *吉基, "good luck, foundation" *吉機, "good luck, opportunity" *吉起, "good luck, to rise" *吉希, "good luck, hope" *善樹, "virtuous, tree" *善基, "virtuous, foundation" *善機, "virtuous, opportunity" *善起, "virtuous, to rise" *善希, "virtuous, hope" *芳樹, "virtuous/fragrant, tree" *芳基, "virtuous/fragrant, foundation" *芳機, "virtuous/fragrant, opportunity" *芳起, "virtuous/fragrant, to rise" *芳希, "virtuous/fragrant, hope" *良樹, "good, tree" *良基, "good, foundation" *良機, "good, opportunity" *慶起, "congratulate, to rise" The name can also be written in hiragana よしき or katakana ヨシキ. Notable people ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Classical Albums
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1993 Debut Albums
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Tears (X Japan Song)
"Tears" is the ninth single by the Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, released on November 10, 1993. Overview The song was debuted/first performed on December 31, 1992, on a broadcast of NHK, NHK's Kouhaku Uta Gassen and featured all singers on this episode. Hideto Matsumoto, Hide, their guitarist, had the idea to distribute the lyrics starting on the first stanza with Akiko Wada's voice. It is the band's first single to be released under the name X Japan and the first to feature Heath (musician), Heath on bass. The ballad was written and composed solely by Yoshiki (musician), Yoshiki about the death of his father, but he co-credited it to the alias because he was concerned how fans would react to a softer song from the band. It would later appear on the album ''Dahlia (album), Dahlia'' and was also used as the theme song for the Japanese TV drama . The B-side is the lyric-less classical music, classical version of the song, which was previously on Yoshiki's solo album ''Etern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Week End (X Japan Song)
"Week End" is a single released by X Japan (then named X) on April 21, 1990. Summary Differences between this single edit and the album edit, found on '' Blue Blood'', include an alternate guitar solo and an additional piano bridge. The B-side is a live performance of "Endless Rain" recorded on February 4, 1990 at the Nippon Budokan. A live performance of "Week End" was included as the B-side of their 1996 single " Crucify My Love". Commercial performance The song reached number 2 on the Oricon charts, and charted for 16 weeks. In 1990, with 291,440 copies sold was the 32nd best-selling single of the year, being certified Gold by RIAJ. Track listing Personnel ;X * Toshi – vocals *Pata – guitar * hide – guitar *Taiji – bass *Yoshiki Yoshiki is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yoshiki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are some examples: *義樹, "justice, tree" *義基, "justice, foundation" *義機, "jus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silent Jealousy
"Silent Jealousy" is a single released by X Japan (then named X) on September 11, 1991. Summary The song's structure is comparable to " Kurenai", opening with a calm intro, performed on a single instrument, followed by a speed metal composition with symphonic elements. It also includes a short excerpt of Tchaikovsky's " Swan Lake" during the piano-driven bridge. Yoshiki described the song as very fast and very hard to play, and said that while people may call the guitar riff heavy metal, he thinks of it as punk. On its composition he explained, "I really love punk rock, and I wanted to have it as punk as possible, but as melodious as possible. Which is very contradictory. Punk rock never really sees the orchestra, but I tried to combine those two aims." The single's B-side is an alternate version of "Sadistic Desire", originally featured on the band's debut album '' Vanishing Vision''. Live recordings of "Silent Jealousy" can be found on the "Say Anything" single and various ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Say Anything (X Japan Song)
"Say Anything" is a single released by X Japan on December 1, 1991. Summary It is the band's last single released under the name X and the last to feature Taiji on bass. The B-side is a live version of "Silent Jealousy", recorded on November 12, 1991, at Yokohama Arena. Both songs were originally featured on the album ''Jealousy''. A cover of the title song appears on the album ''Global Trance 2'', by the pop band Globe, of which Yoshiki was briefly a member. It was also used as the theme song for the TV drama . Commercial performance The song reached number 3 on the Oricon charts, and charted for 25 weeks. In 1992, with 537,790 copies sold was the 33rd best-selling single of the year, being certified Platinum by RIAJ. Track listing Personnel ;X * Toshi – vocals *Pata – guitar * hide – guitar *Taiji – bass *Yoshiki Yoshiki is a masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Yoshiki can be written using many different combinations of kanji characters. Here are so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Endless Rain
"Endless Rain" is the fourth single released by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan (then named X) on December 1, 1989. It is their second single on a major record label and reached number 3 on the Oricon chart. Summary The title track is taken from the group's breakthrough album '' Blue Blood'', and is their first ballad released as a single. The B-side is a live version of the song "X", recorded on June 10, 1989 at Hibiya Yagai Ongaku. Yoshiki said that "Endless Rain" is the first ballad he ever wrote, previously he was only writing heavy music and thrash metal. He explained that after members of Sony saw him play a composition by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky on piano while X was waiting to play at a club, they asked him to write a ballad. The resulting song was "Endless Rain". Yoshiki said the song became a hit and was a shock to their fans, but they eventually came to like it and it became "X Japan's theme song." ''Rolling Stone'' referred to the song as "November Rain, minus t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurenai (song)
is a song by Japanese heavy metal band X Japan, written by Yoshiki. One of the band's oldest songs, they have been performing "Kurenai" since 1985, and several versions have been released, most significantly as their major-label debut single on September 1, 1989. Background and release "Kurenai" was first released on X's June 1985 live demo tapes, which were titled "Live" and "Endless Dream". The lyrics are entirely in Japanese, while the next version, released on their April 1988 debut album ''Vanishing Vision'', is entirely in English and begins with an intro played by hide on guitar. A flexi disc included within the June 1988 issue of ''Rockin' f'' magazine, contains "Kurenai (Original Japanese Version)". It begins with an intro played by Yoshiki on piano and contrary to the title, was mostly in English. The version on 1989's '' Blue Blood'' begins with an orchestrated piece, then the guitar intro, and is mostly in Japanese, with only the opening lyrics in English. Only a few ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japan Record Awards
is a major music awards show, held annually in Japan that recognizes outstanding achievements in the Japan Composer's Association. Until 2005, the show aired on New Year's Eve, but has since aired every December 30 on TBS Japan at 6:30 P.M JST and is hosted by many announcers. EXILE holds the record for most wins, with four awards. Nihongogo, Jeffrey To This is a unique achievement in the Japanese music industry. Grand Prix shield The shield itself, designed by painter .Categories The Japan Record Awards include, but are not lim ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
