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, Japanese electronica composer

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Discography

Solo and collaborations

* (1982) ''Rice Music'' - album * (1983) ''Alone'' - book with flex disc records * (1985) ''Tokyo Ballet'' - album * (1986) ''Life In Mirrors'' - album * (1988) ''Horizon'' - album * (1989) ''Time Passenger'' - album * (1998) ''Forest People'' - album * (2013) ''Swan Dive'' - EP

Contributions

* (1982) Kim Wilde, " Select" - composer of the song "Bitter is Better" * (1983) Japan, "

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" - guitar and keyboards * (1985) Arcadia, "

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" - guitars, violin * (2004) dr jan guru (

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), "Planet Japan" - guitar * (2004)

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, '' Ai no Wakusei'' - composer of the song "Shingetsu" * (2019)

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, '' 9999'' - co-arranged "Kono Koi no Kakera" and "Kegawa no Kōto no Blues"

Other work

* ''

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'' (December 21, 2005, "Mienai Mono o Miyo to Suru Gokai Subete Gokai da") * '' Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth-'' (December 19, 2007, "Moon")

References

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