Meanwhile the car manufacturer Hyundai is showing a series of adverts on UK TV with a short music track by Vanessa James based closely on Joe Hisaishi's "Summer" from Kikujiro. Having produced a fantastic score for the video game Ni No Kuni in 2010, we wait with baited breath to see what he'll come up with next. It's yet another side to one of the finest composers working in film today, one who underlines his work with a real sense of compassion. In 1998, he composed music for the Winter Paralympics and he even made his debut as a director with the film "Quartet" in 2001. On a more positive note, Hisaishi has won the Japanese Academy Award for Music 7 times (in 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 20). However, it was a partnership that was to end bitterly, after an argument during post-production on Dolls in 2002. The utterly beautiful piano/string combination in Kikujiro is a notable highlight. Composing for electronics and orchestra where appropriate, Hisaishi showed yet more facets to his musical personality when working for the director. Befitting a filmmaker whose works encompass everything from violent crime to tender lyricism, Hisaishi demonstrated yet further versatility, working on films including Sonatine, Kids Return and Kikujiro. His enormous success with Ghibli has earmarked him as one of Japan's premier anime composers.Īnother key collaborator was actor/director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano. His other film compositions have included the Oscar-winning Departures, The Sun Also Rises and I'd Rather be a Shellfish. Cementing his status as one of Japan's premier anime composers, Hisaishi then initiated his own solo career, creating his own label, Wonder Land Inc. Responding to the environmental and ethical concerns of the narrative, Hisaishi infused the score with a tender, lyrical sense of melody, stylistics that were to underpin his future scores for the studio. Often considered to be the beginning of Studio Ghibli (although it was released before the studio was officially founded), Hisaishi and the film's director Hayao Miyazaki became firm friends, and Hisaishi was to score future Ghibli efforts such as Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service and Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. His path to film music stardom was cemented in 1983 when he was recommended to create an album for a film called Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind. Emboldened, Hisaishi moved increasingly towards orchestral work, presenting his first public performance in 1975 and releasing his first album, MKWAJU, in 1981. His first success was, intriguingly, for an animation entitled Gyatoruzu, in 1974. His first professional experience was as a typesetter, and his initial musical ideas were influenced by the Japanese popular music boom in the 70s. Born in 1950 in Nagano, Japan as Mamoru Fukisawa, Hisaishi began violin lessons at the age of five and later attended the Kunitachi College of Music in 1969. He is also a film director, typesetter, arranger, conductor and head of an orchestra. He is also however a multi-faceted composer, able to skip from genre to genre and with over 100 scores and solo albums to his name. Long identified with the acclaimed works of Studio Ghibli, Joe Hisaishi is one of the finest practitioners of orchestral melody working in film today. Joe Hisaishi - the Spirit of Japanese Anime:
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