Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Japanese composer.

Shigeru Umebayashi (梅林茂

Once the leader of Japan's new wave rock band EX, composer Shigeru Umebayashi began scoring films in 1985 when the band broke up. He has more than 40 Japanese and Chinese films to his credit and is perhaps best known in the Westfor "Yumeji's Theme" (originally from Seijun Suzuki's Yumeji), included in director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000). Umebayashi scored most of Wong Kar-wai's follow-up film, 2046 (2004), and House of Flying Daggers. He is also the composer for the music of the first Serbian spectacle, Charleston & Vendetta. Umebayashi received the special "Tomislav Pinter Award" atAvvantura Film Festival Zadar (Croatia) in 2013 during his stay as member of the official Jury.

taro umebayashi

Born on November 14th, 1980. Grew up in Tokyo.
Composer, arranger, artist = milk

Started playing piano in elementary school.
After graduating high school, he entered an era of being influenced by new wave, Serge Gainsbourg, Jon Brion and so on.
He finally learned composition and orchestralation in Tokyo University of the Arts Music Department, During his days in University, he signed to Rallye Label in August 2012 under the name milk.
He released his 1st album "greeting for the sleeping seeds", which featured various artists from the pop scene abroad such as Sally Seltmann (composer of Feist's "1,2,3,4") and Au Revoir Simone from New York, who all fell in love with taro umebayashi's music the moment they heard it.

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