Japanese Library Music???

[GialloMusica]

Hi mates, i'm looking for great japanese library music composers such Chumei Watanabe. Any news?
Thanks in advance

[ChunYinZi]

I wonder if you could be referring to this composer

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[Greta]

As far as I know, Chumei Watanabe never wrote any library.
He composed a lot of music for movies and TV, mainly anime. But nothing related to library music.

[Greta]

https://www.discogs.com/artist/3606077-Chumei-Watanabe

[Greta]

Plus, I think GialloMusica is asking for suggestions about similar composers. Am I wrong?

[HighplainsDrifterReturns]

Some of this will depend on how you apply the term library music. Shigeo Sekito released a four album series titled, 'Special Sound' in the mid-1970s. As far as I can see, this music was never labeled "Library', but the music (not to mention the cover art) is unmistakably library in sound. Perhaps he was simply influenced heavily by library music, or perhaps it was employed as such.

www.discogs.com/artist/4218800-Shigeo-Sekito

There is also Yasuaki Shimizu's 'Music For Commercials' from the 'Made To Measure' series (Vol. 12) that you may wish to check out. It was recorded in 1987 and has the occasional Ryuichi Sakamoto circa Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence feel.

https://www.discogs.com/release/579446-Yasuaki-Shimizu-Music-For-Commercials

I assume these can be found easily online, but if not I can surely help out with uploads. I highly recommend all of the above to any library aficionado and would also be interested in hearing about any other Japanese library hiding in the corners of the internet.

[kosmiksoul]

Not Library related but Takayuki Inoue was a great composer! :·)

[Fuzi]

Hadn't heard these Takayuki Inoue, really good!

[HighplainsDrifterReturns]

To add, [Parry Music PML 107] is all Japanese library and in fact one of its two composers, Chuji Kinoshita, is the brother of the legendary film director, Keisuke Kinoshita.