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Browse piano sheets by ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION on Zen Virtual Piano. ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION started as a college band, formed after three people realized they shared similar musical tastes and decided to start their own band. Drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi joined them later on after parting with another college band he was in. Apart from Ijichi, the members had taken up their instruments only three months before the band formed, and this was the first band they had put together. A drummer who arrived later and members who had only just begun their instruments may point to a lineup that came together in stages. The band performed original songs with all-English lyrics, mainly in their hometown Yokohama. They released a series of independent EPs with lyrics mostly sung in English. In 2002 they released their major-label EP debut Hokai Amplifier, and from that point sang their lyrics in Japanese. One way to hear this is to set performing mainly in their hometown Yokohama beside a song that gained huge popularity at home and abroad: music heard well beyond one city. Playing live energetically in Shibuya, Shimokitazawa, Kichijoji and other places, the band released the mini-album Hokai Amplifier in November 2002, their first official recording. Its track Haruka Kanata was chosen as an opening theme for the anime Naruto. The mini-album yielded no singles, yet Haruka Kanata, its intro track, gained huge popularity at home and abroad once Naruto adopted it as the second opening theme. Masafumi Gotoh wrote all the lyrics on the mini-album and composed all the music except Rashinban, which Gotoh composed with Takahiro Yamada. If live work in Shibuya, Shimokitazawa and Kichijoji and a Best Music Video award for Kimi to Iu Hana both belong to the band's story, then it may have been active in both live venues and music video. At the SPACE SHOWER Music Video Awards the band took Best New Artist as 2004 began, and Kimi to Iu Hana earned Best Music Video for its clip. The group played several summer festivals at home, but through 2007 it pulled back further and further, and appearances nearly stopped, with the annual Nano-Mugen festival among those missed. A Best New Artist award as 2004 began and the missed Nano-Mugen festival by 2007 may suggest that recognition from the awards and public activity did not rise and fall together.
Browse piano sheets by ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION on Zen Virtual Piano.
ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION started as a college band, formed after three people realized they shared similar musical tastes and decided to start their own band. Drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi joined them later on after parting with another college band he was in. Apart from Ijichi, the members had taken up their instruments only three months before the band formed, and this was the first band they had put together. A drummer who arrived later and members who had only just begun their instruments may point to a lineup that came together in stages.
The band performed original songs with all-English lyrics, mainly in their hometown Yokohama. They released a series of independent EPs with lyrics mostly sung in English. In 2002 they released their major-label EP debut Hokai Amplifier, and from that point sang their lyrics in Japanese. One way to hear this is to set performing mainly in their hometown Yokohama beside a song that gained huge popularity at home and abroad: music heard well beyond one city.
Playing live energetically in Shibuya, Shimokitazawa, Kichijoji and other places, the band released the mini-album Hokai Amplifier in November 2002, their first official recording. Its track Haruka Kanata was chosen as an opening theme for the anime Naruto. The mini-album yielded no singles, yet Haruka Kanata, its intro track, gained huge popularity at home and abroad once Naruto adopted it as the second opening theme. Masafumi Gotoh wrote all the lyrics on the mini-album and composed all the music except Rashinban, which Gotoh composed with Takahiro Yamada. If live work in Shibuya, Shimokitazawa and Kichijoji and a Best Music Video award for Kimi to Iu Hana both belong to the band's story, then it may have been active in both live venues and music video.
At the SPACE SHOWER Music Video Awards the band took Best New Artist as 2004 began, and Kimi to Iu Hana earned Best Music Video for its clip. The group played several summer festivals at home, but through 2007 it pulled back further and further, and appearances nearly stopped, with the annual Nano-Mugen festival among those missed. A Best New Artist award as 2004 began and the missed Nano-Mugen festival by 2007 may suggest that recognition from the awards and public activity did not rise and fall together.
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ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION started as a college band after three people realized they shared similar musical tastes, with drummer Kiyoshi Ijichi joining later.
The band's early original songs and independent EPs used English lyrics, and from their 2002 major-label EP debut Hokai Amplifier they sang in Japanese.
Haruka Kanata is the intro track of the band's mini-album Hokai Amplifier, and it became the second opening theme for the anime Naruto.
The band won Best New Artist in 2004, and the SPACE SHOWER Music Video Awards also gave Best Music Video to its Kimi to Iu Hana clip.