Gerard is a Japanese
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
band.
The current members are :
*
Toshio Egawa
Gerard is a Japanese progressive rock band.
The current members are :
* Toshio Egawa : keyboards
* Kenichi Fujimoto (Ken☆Ken) : drums
* Atsushi Hasegawa : bass
Biography
Gerard is led by the keyboardist Toshio Egawa. After being a member of ...
: keyboards
* Kenichi Fujimoto (Ken☆Ken) : drums
* Atsushi Hasegawa : bass
Biography
Gerard is led by the
keyboardist
A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instr ...
Toshio Egawa. After being a member of Rumble in 1976, Fromage in 1976, Scheherazade from 1976, which became
Novela in 1979 after a line-up change, he founded Gerard in 1983 with
Yukihiro Fujimura (vocals and guitar), Masaki Tanimoto (drums), and Yasumasa Uotani (bass). The band made several gigs before recording their first album in spring 1984.
The band released a second album in 1985. In 1986, their label King Records stopped supporting progressive music, and the band dissolved. Toshio Egawa joined the hard rock band
Earthshaker.
In 1990, Toshio Egawa reformed Gerard with Yukihiro Fujimura, Toshimi Nagai (bass) and Kota Igarashi (drums) for the album ''Irony of Fate''.
After musical divergences with Yukihiro Fujimura, Toshio Egawa released, under the name "Tohio Egawa's GERARD", a solo album called ''Save Night by the Knight'', with Toshimi Nagai, Kota Igarashi and Taku Sawamura (guitar).
After Earthshaker disbanded, Toshio Egawa decided to reform Gerard in late 1994. He recruited Masuhiro Goto (drums) from
Ningen Isu
is a Japanese heavy metal band formed in Hirosaki in 1987. The band's current line-up consists of co-founders Shinji Wajima (guitar, vocals) and Ken-ichi Suzuki (bass, vocals) alongside Nobu Nakajima (drums, vocals), who joined in 2004. All thre ...
, Atsushi Hasegawa (bass), both musicians from the metal scene, and Robin Suchy (vocal). They released ''The Pendulum'' in 1996 and ''Pandora's Box'' in 1997, before Robin Suchy's departure. The band released the following albums as a trio, the vocal parts being sung by Masuhiro Goto and guest musicians.
In 2003 and 2004, Atsushi Hasegawa joined progressive keyboardist and video game composer
Motoi Sakuraba
is a Japanese composer and keyboardist. He is known for his numerous contributions in video games, such as for '' Tales'', ''Star Ocean'', ''Mario Golf'', ''Mario Tennis'', '' Golden Sun'', and ''Dark Souls'' series, as well as several other ani ...
for two concerts, as well as performing on music for the Director's Cut of ''
Star Ocean: Till the End of Time''.
In 2004, after the release of ''Power of Infinity'', Masuhiro Goto left the band to join
Ars Nova; he was replaced by Kenichi Fujimoto.
Since 2006, Atsushi Hasegawa and Kenichi Fujimoto have performed with the band
Sound Horizon
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.
Discography
* 1984 : Gerard
* 1985 : Empty Lie, Empty Dream
* 1991 : Irony of Fate
* 1994 : Save Knight By The Night
* 1996 : The Pendulum
* 1997 : Pandora's Box
* 1997 : Evidence Of True Love
* 1998 : Meridian
* 1999 : Live in Marseille
* 2000 : The Ruins Of A Glass Fortress
* 2002 : Sighs of the Water
* 2004 : The Power Of Infinity
* 2010 : Ring Of Eternity
* 2011 : Visionary Dream
External links
Official websitefan site
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Japanese progressive rock groups
Japanese rock music groups