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Stories (Mayumi Iizuka Album)
''Stories'' (released on July 23, 2008) is J-pop artist Mayumi Iizuka's 12th album. Exposition * This is a concept album centering on the theme of "Stories," literally. This album, with an instrumental music and ten songs, expresses serial stories in turn, that is to say; ''prologue'', ''meeting'', ''unrequited love'', ''both love'', ''daily'', ''lost'', ''dream'', ''meeting again'', ''growing'', ''happy end'' and ''story.'' * This album also has an additional DVD with promoting movies of three songs, "Sincerely" (#2), "Wasurenai." (#6), and "Kitto Zutto" (#8). Track listing # Stories 〜prologue〜 #* Composition: Shinichi Asada #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Sincerely #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Shinichi Asada #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Ashita Hareta nara (明日晴れたなら / If it is Fine Tomorrow) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka and Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Hajimete no Ichi-page ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayumi Iizuka
is a Japanese actress, voice actress, singer and disc jockey who was born in Tokyo. She is currently affiliated with Across Entertainment and her label is Lantis. She is an instructor at the Stay Luck training school Follow-Up. For her singing activities, she uses the alias . Her well-known roles as a voice actress include Kasumi (Misty) in the ''Pokémon'' series, Tron Bonne in the ''Mega Man Legends'' series and Claiomh Everlasting in the ''Sorcerous Stabber Orphen'' series. Career In 1980, at the age of three, Iizuka joined Theater Company Wakakusa through an acquaintance of her grandfather. The reason she joined the group was to learn etiquette. The company was stricter about greetings and etiquette than her lessons, and she remembers crying when she was told off. The following year, on January 11, 1981, she made her debut as a child actress playing the role of Tomiko in the TV drama ''Haru no Urara no Monogatari'' (TBS Television Toshiba Sunday Theater). At Theater Company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced ''kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on ''Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other trends ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokuma Japan Communications
is a publisher in Japan, headquartered in Shinagawa, Tokyo. The company was established in 1954 by Yasuyoshi Tokuma in Minato, Tokyo. The company’s product portfolio includes music publishing, video game publishing, movies, anime, magazines, manga and books. Companies that were part of Tokuma Shoten include Studio Ghibli, Daiei Film and the record label Tokuma Japan Communications. After the founder of the company, Yasuyoshi Tokuma died on September 20, 2000, an asset management occurred. Tokuma Shoten executed a corporate spin-off with Studio Ghibli, turning the company’s anime division as a separate company again in 2005. Tokuma Shoten sold off Tokuma Japan Communications to Daiichi Kosho in October 2001, and Daiei Films was purchased by Kadokawa Corporation in November 2002. Since 2005, the company has streamlined itself to focus solely on the publication of print media and the airing of its adapted properties to TV and feature film. On 17 March 2017, the company was ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystal Days
is J-pop artist Mayumi Iizuka, Mayumi Iizuka's 11th album. Exposition * The first released CDs have a rhinestone made by Swarovski. * Song #1, #3, #5, #6 and #7 are lyrics by Mayumi Iizuka, and Song #6 is composed by HoshiMai (星舞), the pen name of Mayumi Iizuka. Track listing # Crystal Days (クリスタルデイズ) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka #* Composition: cota #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Dear #* Lyrics: Tombow and Yuya Tsunagawa #* Composition: Yuya Tsunagawa #* Arrangement: Masa Takumi, Masanori Takumi # Mawaridasu Kimochi (まわりだす気持ち / The Rolling Feeling) #* Lyrics: Kohei Dojima and Mayumi Iizuka #* Composition: Kohei Dojima #* Arrangement: Masanori Takumi # Baby, Dance with Me #* Lyrics and composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Tomofumi Suzuki # Only You #* Lyrics: Kohei Dojima and Mayumi Iizuka #* Composition: Kohei Dojima #* Arrangement: Tomofumi Suzuki # Sotto (そっと/ Tenderly) #* Lyrics: Mayumi Iizuka #* Composition: HoshiMai (Mayum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fight!!
is J-pop artist Mayumi Iizuka's 13th album. Exposition * This, Mayumi Iizuka's 13th album, was released with love and thanks for the fans. This work mainly consists of up-tempo numbers that would cheer her listeners up. * The actual greatest hits album "Mayu Natsu Selection" (means "Best Summer Selection by Mayumi") with 15 songs is also enclosed herewith, splendidly. * "Tobou yo!" (#11) and "Tsuki to Kaerimichi" (#14), both contained by "Mayu Natsu Selection", are initially selected for an album. Track listing CD1 - Fight!! # Prism (プリズム) #* Lyrics: Shinichi Asada #* Composition: Shinichi Asada #* Arrangement: Michiaki Kato # Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! #* Lyrics: Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement: Ruka Kawata # Befriend #* Lyrics: Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Ruka Kawata #* Arrangement: Makoto Miyazaki # Kimi wa Kimi no Mama de (君は君のままで / You As You Are) #* Lyrics: Sora Izumikawa #* Composition: Sora Izumikawa #* Arrangement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Concept Album
A concept album is an album whose tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually. This is typically achieved through a single central narrative or theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, or lyrical. Sometimes the term is applied to albums considered to be of "uniform excellence" rather than an LP with an explicit musical or lyrical motif. There is no consensus among music critics as to the specific criteria for what a "concept album" is. The format originates with folk singer Woody Guthrie's ''Dust Bowl Ballads'' (1940) and was subsequently popularized by traditional pop/jazz singer Frank Sinatra's 1940s–50s string of albums, although the term is more often associated with rock music. In the 1960s several well-regarded concept albums were released by various rock bands, which eventually led to the invention of progressive rock and rock opera. Since then, many concept albums have been released across numerous musical genres. Definiti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instrumental
An instrumental is a recording normally without any vocals, although it might include some inarticulate vocals, such as shouted backup vocals in a big band setting. Through semantic widening, a broader sense of the word song may refer to instrumentals. The music is primarily or exclusively produced using musical instruments. An instrumental can exist in music notation, after it is written by a composer; in the mind of the composer (especially in cases where the composer themselves will perform the piece, as in the case of a blues solo guitarist or a folk music fiddle player); as a piece that is performed live by a single instrumentalist or a musical ensemble, which could range in components from a duo or trio to a large big band, concert band or orchestra. In a song that is otherwise sung, a section that is not sung but which is played by instruments can be called an instrumental interlude, or, if it occurs at the beginning of the song, before the singer starts to sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song
A song is a musical composition intended to be performed by the human voice. This is often done at distinct and fixed pitches (melodies) using patterns of sound and silence. Songs contain various forms, such as those including the repetition and variation of sections. Written words created specifically for music, or for which music is specifically created, are called lyrics. If a pre-existing poem is set to composed music in classical music it is an art song. Songs that are sung on repeated pitches without distinct contours and patterns that rise and fall are called chants. Songs composed in a simple style that are learned informally "by ear" are often referred to as folk songs. Songs that are composed for professional singers who sell their recordings or live shows to the mass market are called popular songs. These songs, which have broad appeal, are often composed by professional songwriters, composers, and lyricists. Art songs are composed by trained classical compose ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prologue
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος ''prólogos'', from πρό ''pró'', "before" and λόγος ''lógos'', "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information. The Ancient Greek ''prólogos'' included the modern meaning of ''prologue'', but was of wider significance, more like the meaning of preface. The importance, therefore, of the prologue in Greek drama was very great; it sometimes almost took the place of a romance, to which, or to an episode in which, the play itself succeeded. Latin On the Latin stage the prologue was often more elaborate than it was in Athens, and in the careful composition of the poems which Plautus prefixes to his plays we see what importance he gave to this portion of the entertainment; sometimes, as in the preface to the ''Rudens'', Plautus rises to the height of his genius in his adroit and romantic prolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unrequited Love
Unrequited love or one-sided love is love that is not openly reciprocated or understood as such by the beloved. The beloved may not be aware of the admirer's deep and pure affection, or may consciously reject it. The Merriam Webster Online Dictionary defines unrequited as "not reciprocated or returned in kind". Psychiatrist Eric Berne states in his book '' Sex in Human Loving'' that "Some say that one-sided love is better than none, but like half a loaf of bread, it is likely to grow hard and moldy sooner." However, the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche contends that "indispensable...to the lover is his unrequited love, which he would at no price relinquish for a state of indifference." Unrequited love stands in contrast to redamancy, the act of reciprocal love. Analysis Route to unrequited love According to Dr. Roy Baumeister, what makes a person desirable is a complex and highly personal mix of many qualities and traits. But falling for someone who is much more desirable t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dream
A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, although the dreamer may perceive the dream as being much longer than this. The content and function of dreams have been topics of scientific, philosophical and religious interest throughout recorded history. Dream interpretation, practiced by the Babylonians in the third millennium BCE and even earlier by the ancient Sumerians, figures prominently in religious texts in several traditions, and has played a lead role in psychotherapy. The scientific study of dreams is called oneirology. Most modern dream study focuses on the neurophysiology of dreams and on proposing and testing hypotheses regarding dream function. It is not known where in the brain dreams originate, if there is a single origin for dreams or if multiple regions of the brain are i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
