is a Japanese guitarist and composer.

Life

He started to play acoustic guitar aged 12, inspired by British

folk music Folk music is a music genre that includes traditional folk music and the contemporary genre that evolved from the former during the 20th-century folk revival. Some types of folk music may be called world music. Traditional folk music has ...

from the likes of Bert Jansch, and later the work of

Frank Zappa Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, and bandleader. His work is characterized by nonconformity, free-form improvisation, sound experiments, musical virtuosity and satire of A ...

and Andy Partridge. In 1986 he formed the band Tipographica, with saxophonist Naruyoshi Kikuchi and

jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a majo ...

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, j ...

Akira Minakami. After four albums, the group disbanded in 1996. In the 90s he formed the instrumental trio MEATOPIA with

Tadahiko Yokogawa Tadahiko (written: ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese photographer *, Japanese politician *, Japanese judge *, Japanese chemist * Tadahiko Ogawa, Japanese artist *, Japanese politician *, Japane ...

of 4-D mode1 and

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& Osamu Matsumoto. They released one self-titled album under this band in 1993. After providing the soundtrack to '' Gungrave'' for PlayStation 2 in 2002, the concept was subsequently developed into an

anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of ...

series, also scored by Imahori. In addition to scoring the anime series, Imahori composed the music for ''Gungrave's'' 2004 video game sequel '' Gungrave: Overdose'', also for the PS2. He is perhaps best known in the US as the composer of several

soundtrack A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack o ...

s, primarily '' Trigun'', '' Gungrave'' and ''

Hajime no Ippo is a Japanese boxing-themed manga series written and illustrated by George Morikawa. It has been serialized by Kodansha in the ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Magazine'' since October 1989 and collected into 135 ''tank� ...

'', though he has also contributed tracks to '' Texhnolyze, Wolf's Rain'', and '' Cowboy Bebop''. He has worked with

Yoshida Tatsuya (born 9 January 1961 in Kitakami, Iwate) is a Japanese musician; drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as of Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock tri ...

of Ruins fame, and also with Yoko Kanno as a member of

The Seatbelts is a Japanese band led by composer and instrumentalist Yoko Kanno. An international ensemble comprising both a stable lineup of musicians and various collaborators, the band was assembled by Kanno in 1998 to perform the soundtrack music for the ...

References

External links

Tipographica homepage
(Japanese)

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Imahori, Tsuneo 1962 births 20th-century Japanese guitarists 20th-century Japanese male musicians 21st-century Japanese guitarists 21st-century Japanese male musicians Anime composers Japanese composers Japanese film score composers Japanese male composers Japanese male film score composers Japanese rock guitarists Living people Video game composers

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