Gikyoku Onsou
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Gikyoku Onsou is a progressive rock
album by Japanese musician Motoi Sakuraba
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Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
album by Japanese musician Motoi Sakuraba
Motoi Sakuraba
is a Japanese composer of video games, anime series, and television dramas as well as independent progressive rock albums.-Biography:Motoi Sakuraba was born in Akita Prefecture, Japan...
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Track listing
- "Humpty Dumpty" – 6:26
- "Tone Access" – 3:46
- "Byzantium" – 6:00
- "Motion" – 8:15
- "Paradigm" – 4:01
- "Narratage" - 5:20
- "Scrap and Build" – 5:43
- "Drama Composition" – 5:44
Gear
Motoi Sakuraba used the following keyboards :- Piano: Yamaha C1 Grand Piano
- Organ: Korg CX-3 with Leslie147
- Synth: Sequential Prophet 600
- Roland D-50
- Roland U-220
- Roland R-8
- Korg Mono/Poly
- Yamaha CS01
Personnel
- Motoi Sakuraba – keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Ken Ishita – bassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Takeo Shimoda – drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
Trivia
- The song " Byzantium " was originally composed for Deja-vu, the band in which Sakuraba played keyboards. The song also appears on Deja-vu's only album, Baroque in the Future, in 1988, after which the band disbanded.
- The painting on the cover was done by Sakuraba's father, Kensuke Sakuraba.
- Sakuraba's wife, Yuko Sakuraba, found the song names.