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Fuyuhiko Early Works "1987-1990"

Fuyuhiko Tani

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Catalog No.DAKJPRG-6
JAN/ISBN 4582500630179
Product Type CD
Number of Discs 1

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[Machine Translation] Fumihiko Tani of "Being & Time", a progressive unit that released a CD worldwide in 2009 and was the only Japanese band nominated in the Best Debut Record category at the ProgAward in Italy, has recorded an album of songs that have been recognized in numerous contests and auditions from 1987 to 1990. The album contains songs that were recognized in numerous contests and auditions between 1987 and 1990. Although she is now a psychologist, this album is a remastered version of the songs she wrote and released as a professional musician before pursuing her academic career. The album contains instrumental pieces with a strong progressive rock element, but also includes some fusion-like pieces. In particular, "Strange Notes" was selected as the representative song for the Kanto Koshinetsu region in the "Roland New Age Music Contest" in 1988, and was a finalist in the audition for the bass player of Hiroyuki Namba's "Sense of Wonder" in 1989. The first song "Strange Notes" and the second song "Freddy" were selected as the best in the "BAD Audition" of "Being", a production company to which many famous artists such as B'z belong. Strange Notes" and "Freddy," the second track, are complex and technical numbers that were especially recognized in contests and auditions. The guitar part is very technical, so please listen to it. In addition to the above two songs, the third song, "Mind Control," shows the fast playing technique learned from Atsushi Yokozeki and the legato technique influenced by Alan Holdsworth and Bill Connors. Freddy" is a complex progressive rock piece influenced by the music of Sense of Wonder, with the beat changing from one bar to the next. The combo singer is Fumihiko Tani, who composed and arranged all of the songs. With the exception of "Still," all of the performances were done by Tani himself, using multiple recordings. Only "Still" was recorded live in a studio by the band Entrance, which he was working with at the time, and features KOSAKA on drums, KATO on bass, and HONDA on keyboards. [While a student at Chuo University's Faculty of Letters, FUYUHICO TANI was selected by audition to replace Takahiro Matsumoto of B'z, who was then a backup guitarist for Junko Mihara at a production company called "Raise Inn", and studied under Atsushi Yokozeki, aka "Jet Finger". He studied under Atsushi Yokozeki, aka Jetfinger. Thereafter, until 1990, he was active in music with the aim of becoming a professional, and was selected in numerous contests and auditions. However, not fitting the logic of the music industry, he decided to pursue an academic career and entered graduate school in 1992, where he studied psychology and received a doctorate in literature in 1997, and in 1999 he became a full-time lecturer at Sagami Women's University. However, he could not give up his yearning for music, and in 2003, he formed a progressive unit called "Being & Time" consisting of guitar and bass with his friend and anesthesiologist, bassist Yutaka Tsukagoshi. They started playing live mainly at Chicken George, a famous live house in Kobe. In 2009, Being&Time released a CD worldwide on the French label Musea and the Japanese label Poseidon. The album was the only Japanese album to be nominated in the Best Debut Record category of the ProgAward 2009, an Italian progressive music award. The CD has received a highly praised comment from Hiroyuki Namba, a professor at Tokyo College of Music and an authority on progressive rock, on its obi and liner notes.

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Fuyuhiko Early Works ”1987-1990” / 谷フユヒコ (Fuyuhiko Tani)

2009年に世界的にCDを発売し,イタリアのProgAwardではBest Debut Record部門に日本で唯一ノミネートされたプログレ・ユニットである「Being & Time」の谷フユヒコが,1987~1990年にかけて,数々のコンテストやオーディションで認められた曲を収録したアルバム。現在では,心理学者ではあるものの,学問の道を目指す前に,プロ・ミュージシャンを志して作成した過去の曲をリマスタリングして,リリースしたアルバムである。プログレッシヴ・ロックの要素が強いものの,フュージョン的なものも含めたインストゥルメンタル曲を収録している。特に,1988年の「ローランド・ニューエイジ・ミュージック・コンテスト」で関東甲信越地区代表曲として選ばれ,1989年には,難波弘之氏の「センス・オブ・ワンダー」のベーシストのオーディションで最終選考に残ったデモ曲である「Strange Notes」。1990年には,「ヤマハ・ワンマン・バンド・カーニバル」において全国大会出場を果たし,B'zなどの多くの有名アーティストが所属するプロダクションである「ビーイング」の「BADオーディション」で優秀者に選ばれた「Freddy」などの曲が収録されている。1曲目の「Strange Notes」と2曲目の「Freddy」は,コンテストやオーディションで特に認められた複雑かつテクニカルなナンバーである。中でも,ギターは非常にテクニカルなので,是非,聴いて欲しい。上記2曲に加え,3曲目の「Mind Control」を含めて,横関敦から学んだ早弾きや,アラン・ホールズワースやビル・コナーズに影響を受けたレガート奏法が聴ける。また,「Freddy」は,センス・オブ・ワンダーの曲に影響を受けて,1小節ごとに拍子が変わるなどの複雑なプログレッシヴ・ロック作品となっている。コンボーザーは,作曲・編曲を含めて,すべて谷フユヒコである。演奏は,「Still」を除き,谷フユヒコが多重録音によって,すべて一人で演奏している。「Still」のみは,当時組んでいたEntranceというバンドによるスタジオ・ライブの一発録りであり,ドラムにKOSAKA,ベースにKATO,キーボードにHONDAが参加している。<プロフィール>谷フユヒコは,中央大学文学部在学中に「レイズ・イン」というプロダクションで行われた三原じゅん子のバック・ギタリストを当時していた現在B'zの松本孝弘の後任オーディションで選ばれ,ジェットフィンガーの異名を持つ横関敦氏に師事する。その後,1990年まで,プロを目指して音楽活動をしており,数々のコンテストやオーディションで選ばれる。しかし,音楽業界の論理と合わず,学問の道を目指して,1992年に大学院へと進学し,心理学を学んで,1997年には博士(文学)の学位を取得する。1999年に相模女子大学専任講師になった後,2000年から神戸大学の教員となり,現在,神戸大学大学院准教授である。しかし,音楽への憧憬は捨てきれず,2003年より,友人で麻酔科医であるベースの塚越裕とともにギターとベースから構成される「Being& Time」というプログレ・ユニットを結成する。そして,神戸の有名ライブハウスであるチキンジョージを中心にライブ活動を始める。その後,「Being&Time」は,2009年にフランスのMuseaレーベルおよび日本のポセイドンからCDを世界的に発売した。このアルバムは,イタリアのプログレの賞であるProgAward2009のBest Debut Record部門において,日本で唯一,ノミネートされた。なお,このCDの帯およびライナーには,東京音楽大学教授であり,プログレッシヴ・ロックの権威である難波弘之氏から絶賛のコメントをいただいている。

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