[rei harakami BIOGRAPHY]
Born in Hiroshima and is now living in Kyoto, Japan.
He is called as "Electronic musician" plays and mixes with Hard Disc recorder.
Rei released his debut album 'unrest' (1998) on the label Sublime Records.
His follow up albums, 'o*paq' (1999) and 'red curb' (2001) releases showcased his skills as an artist and producer.
Rei's growing reputation has resulted in him becoming an in demand producer and collaborator for artists such as UA, Great 3 and Coldcut.
Rei manages to regularly rock the stage at some of Japan's big festival like "Fuji Rock Festival","RISING SUN ROCK FESTIVAL","sonar sound tokyo".
On the international stage, Rei has been actively participating in several music showcases in France and Germany, also "Sonar 2005" in Barcelona, Spain appeared with Shiro Takatani (from performance unit, "dumb type", as a visual collaboration).
His 4th album 'lust' (2005), caught on so quickly in many music circles. He then continued to release the album 'wasuremono' and 'Colors of the Dark (project album for the Guinness recorded planetarium, MEGASTAR-II for National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation = Miraikan in Tokyo)' (2006).
In recent years, he has produced music for Nike+, Oggi, UNIQLO TRY2, TV asahi, HONDA etc. and composed BGM music for the movie "Ten nen Kokekko" (Rei received 2 music awards in the Japanese movie award for this!).
His recent collaboration as an artist and producer on Akiko Yano's album has resulted in widespread recognition and formed official duo called "yanokami", has released 1st Album in August 2007 and performed at Summer festival like "Rock in Japan" and "Summer Sonic", then yanokami's truly original album "yanokamick -yanokami English version-" is released in 2007.
His archives are compiled to the albums titled 'asage' & 'yuuge' such as remix, produce works will be released on March 18th 2009.
Now about to time to see his original new album one day...
広島生まれ、京都在住。
アナログシングル「rei harakami ep」でデビュー後、現在に至るまで数々のアルバムを発表。独自の清廉さと繊細さが織り成す音楽性が国内外の幅広い層から支持される。'01年の3rdアルバム『red curb』以降、矢野顕子、UA、ショコラ等の作品のプロデュースや、くるり、ナンバーガール、Great3等の楽曲のリミックスを手がけ、'05年には4thアルバム『lust』を発表、大きな話題となる。その他、矢野顕子とのユニットyanokamiとして2枚のアルバムのリリースをはじめ、度々の夏フェス出演や地方公演など積極的なライブ活動、映画やプラネタリウムへのサントラ音楽の提供、CM音楽やWEBでの音楽制作等、幅広く活躍する電子音楽家。海外での活動も’05年のSonar（スペイン）出演をはじめフランス、ドイツでのライブなど多岐に渡り、その圧倒的なオリジナリティは世界でも唯一無二。3/18には未CD化音源、初期のリミックス音源、他アーティストのプロデュース/アレンジ作などレア音源をリマスタリングし、アーカイヴした「あさげ」「ゆうげ」を同時リリース。
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