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432HZ MUSIC JAPAN432Hz MUSIC JAPAN by Heigo Yokouchi
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Heigo Yokouchi is a multi-talented musician. Born to a musical family in Tokyo,
he grew up with a deep love of music. Many of his ancestors and relatives were
professionally involved in musical art. His father was a prominent jazz
guitarist from the 20th-century Japan. The sound that Heigo creates with the
same type of special analogue audio equipment as that of Isao Tomita's studio
has a distinctive organic 3D ambience.
Heigo made his debut as a professional musician in his teens. He has since been
actively involved in many fields of music, ranging from composition, arrangement
and performance to audio recording and mixing.
For his unit of "Kaze Ni Gakusho," he does the whole production process of its
albums by himself, from musical composition through audio mixing.
In his professional career, Heigo has written, arranged and played music for
advertisements, films and documentaries. One example is "Shall We Dance?" that
is the 1996 winner of the Japan Academy Prize for the Picture of the Year and
whose Hollywood remake version was released in 2004. He has provided his works
regularly to in-flight music service of Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways.
Heigo also operates a duo called "Godai" with Japanese painter Shikandai
Shingetsu. They were joined by Maurice White of "Earth, Wind & Fire" in the
recording of the duo's album which took place in Los Angeles, California.
Heigo collaborates with other musicians as well. He has worked with Keiko
Matsui for a number of her recordings and stage performances as a musical
arranger and performer. Keiko Matsui is a Japanese pianist specialized in
smooth jazz whose first album "Deep Blue" took her in 2001 to the number one
sport on Billboard's Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart and held the position
for three weeks.
Heigo Yokouchi launched his musical experiment in 2001 as he moved his base to
the mountains of Shinshu, central Japan. He tries to keep his works away from
commercial music and creates sounds in harmony with nature at a self-made
outdoor stage in the woods. He set up a unit called "Yatsugatake 432Hz Music
Club" to provide elderly people in nursing homes with music. It was renamed as
"432Hz Music Japan" later on.
"432Hz Music Japan" avoids the use of digitally-changed 432Hz sound sources as
much as possible. It basically relies on musical instruments and recording
equipment that are originally tuned to 432Hz to create a variety of musical
compositions and software.
"432Hz Music Japan" avoids the use of digitally-changed sound sources as much as
possible. It basically relies on musical instruments and recording equipment
that are originally tuned to 432Hz to create a variety of audio works in pursuit
of the possibility of music. Its musical arts range from zen music, holiday
music, alternative music, sound track, chill out music to smooth jazz.
Genre: zen music, holiday music, alternative music, sound track, chill out music, smooth jazz.Active Area: Worldwide
432Hz Music Japan