Who knows that the famous electronic music master in Japan is called Xi XX?

Kitaro, a famous Japanese electronic music master.

When it comes to Japanese new era music, Kitaro is the first one. Kitaro has a deep relationship with China. He was one of the first Japanese musicians officially introduced to China and the first Japanese musician to hold a concert in China. He also lived in seclusion in Dunhuang, China for eight years. Kitaro created a series of soundtracks for Japanese NHK TV series Silk Road, which was widely circulated in China as early as 1980s. Kitaro was born in a traditional peasant family, so he was deeply influenced by Shinto and Buddhism since he was a child-this spirit of reverence for life and nature directly influenced his later music creation. Kitaro didn't receive any formal music education and didn't know the staff, but he created countless classic movements with amazing talent. Most of his works are about history, nature and religion. , and contains the meditation and philosophy of oriental culture for thousands of years. His early works were mainly electronic synthesized sound effects. Although he began to use many musical instruments with national and regional characteristics (such as shakuhachi, sitaqin and Taigu). In the middle and late period, the electroacoustic part still accounts for a large proportion. It is worth mentioning that his two scores, "Song Dynasty" and "Heaven and Earth" are his only two scores, which can be described as classics.

Thinkers (S.E.N.S) is a group composed of two musicians, Katsumi Eureka (female) and Akihiko Fukaura (male). When she debuted, her name was S.E.N.S, which included the meanings of Sense and Cense. This name is also the abbreviation of English Sound Earth Nature Spirit. Yukichi Katsumi graduated from the Conservatory of Music, while Akihiko Fukaura came from playing rock music. They are good at classical music and modern music respectively. The works of thinkers can be roughly divided into two categories. One is the NHK documentary soundtrack represented by the Maritime Silk Road and the Forbidden City trilogy. The other is the music created by thinkers for many TV series, including White Paper on Love, Love in Two Thousand Years and so on. In addition, the music made by thinkers for the film "City of Sadness" directed by Hou Xiaoxian of Taiwan Province Province is also famous in Asia.

If Kitaro is the pioneer of the East, then the concentration of God is deep in the Japanese forest. Both of them are also committed to excavating little-known elements of national music and combining them with modern electronic music. Ji Shen's original name is Xingming, and this stage name comes from Jishen Mountain in front of his hometown. 198 1 released his first solo album "Austrian Excellence". In the early days, Ji Shen's writing style was somewhat similar to that of Xi Duolang, and they also collaborated on an album. Comparatively speaking, Kitaro's style is ethereal, emphasizing artistic conception; Ji Shen pays attention to the audibility of music, and the melody has a certain folk flavor. 1994 dongyang Liu is a major turning point in Ji Shen's creation. From then on, Ji Shen's creation began to blend into rope music, and great changes have taken place in both style and form. The rope-writing era refers to a distant era, when Japanese civilization was still in its infancy and was not influenced by the Han culture in China. At present, only Ainu (Ainu, also known as Ainu) in northeastern Japan still retains this primitive rope culture. In fact, this is the real source of Japanese civilization. Ji Shen excavated the rope music that has almost been forgotten by people, and brought this ancient and precious cultural heritage back to the world. His Poem of the Gods is the representative work of this new rope music.

When it comes to Joe Hisaishi, some people will naturally think of Miyazaki Hayao, and Joe Hisaishi has produced countless classic soundtracks for Miyazaki Hayao's animated films. Joe Hisaishi 1950 was born in Nagano. He is one of the most prolific and influential modern musicians in Japan. 1969 studied in the Composition Department of National Music University of Japan, studying modern music composition. He is the only academic representative among the four masters who has received formal professional music training. Joe Hisaishi's music foundation is quite profound, and his piano playing skills and symphony arrangement ability are excellent. In addition to Miyazaki Hayao animated films, Joe Hisaishi is also the exclusive soundtrack producer of the famous Japanese director Kitano Takeshi; Together, he has created outstanding works such as Jinghai, The Sky of the Little Ghost in Charge and the Bad Boy, Fireworks and Summer of Mujiro. He has more than 40 animations, movies and advertising soundtracks, and has published more than 20 solo albums. He won the Best Film Score Award at the Japan Film Awards for four times, the highest film music award in Japan for three consecutive years from 1992, the fourth time from 1999, and so on.