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Fumito Iwai
, is a Japanese people, Japanese musician. Debuting as a member of the Hokkaido rock band Galileo Galilei (band), Galileo Galilei in 2009, he left to form a new musical unit, Folks (band), Folks. Biography Iwai was born in Eniwa, Hokkaido in 1990. In junior high school, he and his friends formed a band called Guild in 2007. The group performed at rock events in Sapporo from 2007 onwards, and self-produced an extended play, , in August 2008, followed by a self-released single called in February 2009. The band entered the ''School of Lock!'' national teenage rock contest, ''Senkō Riot'', in 2008, and performed at the round three Sapporo semi-finals. The band did not make it to the national finals, but met the semi-final winner, Galileo Galilei (band), Galileo Galilei. In 2009 after Folks went on hiatus, Galileo Galilei vocalist Yuuki Ozaki told Iwai to come to Wakkanai, Hokkaido, where Galileo Galilei members were going to high school, as their guitarist, Sōhei Funaya, had lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newtown (EP)
''Newtown'' is the second extended play by the Japanese band Folks, released on February 12, 2014. It was the band's first major label release under Ki/oon Music. Writing and production ''Newtown'' was recorded in Sapporo at Hit Studio and Geimori Studio in 2013. The album has four of the five songs on ''Take Off'', along with three new compositions. Fumito Iwai is the main songwriter and vocalist for the album, writing every track except "River", which was written and sung by Katsutoshi Iwai. "Good-bye, Friends" was composed by all members of Folks, with lyrics written by Fumito Iwai. Their self-produced 2012 extended play ''Take Off'' was produced and arranged by Fumito Iwai alone. After performing the album live for a year, it began to feel like their own album as well and not just Fumito Iwai's. On ''Newtown'', all the members contributed to the arrangement and production. The arrangements of ''Take Off'' songs were changed after the band performed them in front of live audi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Japanese Singers
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People From Eniwa, Hokkaido
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Musicians From Hokkaido
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Living People
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Japanese Male Musicians
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Japanese Guitarists
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1990 Births
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Hometown Story (song)
"Hometown Story" (stylised as "HOMETOWN STORY") is a song by Japanese band Folks. It was released as their first physical single on September 3, 2014, seven months after their major label debut extended play '' Newtown'' under Ki/oon Music. Background and development Folks first formed in 2013 when former Galileo Galilei members Fumito Iwai and Kazumasa Noguchi moved back to their birthplace of Hokkaido to start a band. Iwai and Noguchi asked former Guild member Yoshitomo Kobayashi to join their band, and they moved to Sapporo, renting a house with Iwai's older brother Katsutoshi Iwai and his friend Masatsugu Takahashi, who later joined Folks. The group based themselves at their hometown of Eniwa, Hokkaido, and released their first extended play '' Take Off'' in March 2013, and performed at the Rising Sun Rock Festival, on August 17, 2013. In February 2014, they made their major label debut with Ki/oon Music. After the release of ''Newtown'', the band members moved into the sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asu E
is a song by Japanese band Galileo Galilei (band), Galileo Galilei. It was used as the first opening theme song for the anime ''Mobile Suit Gundam AGE'', and was released as their sixth physical single on December 7, 2011. Background and development After the release of their first full-length album ''Parade'' in February 2011, Galilei Galilei performed their first one-man live concerts. In spring, the band moved into a single house in Sapporo, creating a private studio in their home to create music. The band released a single in June, "Aoi Shiori", which served as the opening theme song for the anime ''Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day'', and is currently their only single to be certified gold by the RIAJ. In September the band released "Sayonara Frontier", co-composed by band bassist Hitoshi Sakō, and used as the theme song for the TV drama adaptation of ''Arakawa Under the Bridge''. Writing and production All members created the music together, with the lyrics and mel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ki/oon Music
is a Japanese record label, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Japan. Artists Their artists include L'Arc-en-Ciel, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Home Made Kazoku, Puffy AmiYumi, Polysics, Supercar, Pushim, Chatmonchy, Denki Groove, Tomoe Shinohara, The Babystars, DOES, KANA-BOON, Guitar Wolf, Miki Furukawa, Nico Touches the Walls, plingmin, Joe Inoue, Sid, Merengue, Acid Android, Piko, Domino, Prague, Lama, Group Tamashii, Totalfat, Hemenway, Negoto, Unicorn, Chara, Folks, Scenarioart, Blue Encount, Lenny Code Fiction, FlowBack, and Ive. Labels * Haunted Records * Ki/oon Music (main) * Ki/oon Overseas * Loopa Neosite Discs(typeset NeOSITE DISCS) - founded in 1996. VOCALOID In December 2010, Ki/oon Records released their own Vocaloid product Utatane Piko. See also * List of record labels * I Say Yeah! "I Say Yeah!" is a single released by all five of the signed artists of Neosite Discs, a sub-label of Ki/oon Records dedicated to R&B, hip hop and regga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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