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MASAHIDE SAKUMA

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01 Mar.1952 born at Tokyo Japan
Known as a one of the best recording producer in Japanese music society. Also known as a composer / arranger for rock, pop music, movie scores, commercial films and TVs etc.
As an artist, he was a member of Japanese rock legend “ YoninBayashi ”
and “The Plastics”.
He released 4 solo albums too. He performed guitars, basses, keyboards and other instruments for a lot of recording sessions and live stages including the biggest concert with GLAY for 200,000 people at Makuhari 1999.
As a producer, his career started from 1979 for producing “P-MODEL” ‘s first album [in a model room]. After that he produced over 100 artists including BOOWY, The Blue Hearts, The Street Sliders, Jun Sky Walker(s), GLAY, Judy and Mary, Misato Watanabe, TOKIO, Hysteric Blue, The Elephant Kashimashi, L’arc en ciel, NiNa, Kuroyume, Kyosuke Himuro, 175R etc.
His own project,
"Ces Chiens" with Yoshio Hayakawa
“NiNa” with Kate Pierson (The B-52’s), Yuki (ex.Judy and Mary) , Mick Karn (ex. Japan), Steven Wolf and Takemi Shima (ex. The Plastics)
“The d.e.p” with Vivian Hsu, Gohta Yashiki, Masami Tsutiya and Mick Karn.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/27/2007
Band Website: masahidesakuma.net
Band Members: MASAHIDE SAKUMA : Guitars, Bass , Keyboards , Ukulele , Sanshin & other stringed instruments. Computer.
Influences: Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Strauß II, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, George Gershwin , Michio Miyagi, Rentaro Taki, Kiyoshi Nobutoki, Charles Camille Saint-Saëns, Claude Achille Debussy, Erik Satie, John Philip Sousa, Glenn Miller, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Daniel Armstrong, Kyu Sakamoto, The Peanuts, The Crazy Cats, Hibari Misora, Keiko Fuji, Saburo Kitajima, Shelley Fabares, Elvis Aron Presley, The Carpenters, The Beatles, The Monkeys, Yuzo Kayama, The Ventures, Sadao Motoyama, The Fingers, Cool Five, The Tigers, Jacks, Yoshio Hayakawa, Astrud Gilberto, Yumi Matsutoya, James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix, Sly & The Family Stone, Larry Graham, John Dawson Winter III, David Bowie, Wendy Carlos, Al Kooper, Led Zeppelin, EL&P, Greg Lake, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, YES, Yonin Bayashi, Janis Lyn Joplin, SPARKS, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, The B-52's, Brian Eno, Robert Fripp, Devo, The Plastics, Yutaka Mogi, Michael Zimmerling, Tom Durack, George Martin, Harvey Phillip Spector, Tony Visconti, Nile Rodgers, Alex Sadkin, Junichi & Nobuko Sakuma
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

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PIANOTEQ

Is there anyone using "PIANOTEQ", VST/AU plugin instruments?(http://www.pianoteq.com/index)I've just purchased yesterday via download and I tried it for recording just today.I can say..... JUST AMAZIN...
Posted by MASAHIDE SAKUMA on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:26:00 PST