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23 oct. 2002 · View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 2002 CD release of "Japanese Girl" on Discogs.
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23 févr. 2024 · Akiko's first album from 1976. It didn't like it too much at first but it grew on me and I do like Little Feat. It is definitely a different Akiko than just ...
Japanese Girl [2002] by Akiko Yano released in 2002. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
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18 janv. 2021 · 坂本龍一の元妻としても知られる、日本が誇る奇才女流音楽家の1976年デビュー作。 すでにこの人の強烈なオリジナリティは確立されていますね。 A面はLittle FeatとLos Angelesで録音したAmerican Side、B面がティン・パン・アレーやはちみつぱい～ムーンライダース、あがた森魚あたりのメンバーが参加している日本面というアルバム構成。 Little...
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Early life
Akiko Yano was born Akiko Suzuki in Tokyo in 1955. She grew up in Aomori, Japan, and learned to play the piano when she was three. She dropped out of high school and moved to Tokyo at the age of fifteen to become a professional musician, quickly became involved in the jazz scene, and by seventeen was working as a studio recording artist for hire. She also performed with the band Tin Pan Alley.
Solo career
Yano's debut album, Japanese Girl, was released on July 25, 1976, was a major hit in Japan, and gave Yano overnight success. The album was recorded in Los Angeles with Little Feat, and of the album's ten tracks, she wrote nine of them. The album has been praised for its unique blend of different musical styles such as jazz, pop, blues, and traditional Japanese folk music, and "still sounds fresh today", according to Paul Bowler of Record Collector magazine. The success led to her self-produci...
Other projects
Yano's credits extend beyond her album projects. She was showcased by Japanese animation film company Studio Ghibli, which is known for works such as Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. Yano composed the music for the film My Neighbors the Yamadas (as well as performing a minor role as Fujihara-sensei) and created and performed the sound effects using only her voice for two short films Yadosagashi and Mizugumo Monmon by animation director Hayao Miyazaki. Both films were shown at the Ghibli M...
Yano married and soon after divorced Makoto Yano, the producer of her first recording. In 1975, her son Fuuta Yano was born. She later married fellow musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, with whom she had a daughter, Miu Sakamoto. The young couple can be seen playing a duet on the piano at home in the 1985 documentary Tokyo Melody. Yano separated from him in...
Akiko Yano est une pianiste et chanteuse japonaise, née le 13 février 1955, au style très original entre rock, pop, jazz et musique traditionnelle japonaise [1]. Ayant commencée sa carrière au milieu des années 1970, elle a souvent été comparée à la chanteuse Kate Bush [2], [3]. Elle a été l'épouse du compositeur ...
Enregistrées dans le légendaire studio Onkyo Haus à Tokyo, les sessions associent sensibilité pop et folk à des sons et des instruments japonais traditionnels tels que la flûte traversière shinobue, le koto ou le tambour à main Tsuzumi joué sur « Hekoriputaa » par le percussionniste de légende Kisaku Katada, nommé trésor national ...
