Unlike the two previous composers we've profiled, Joe Hisaishi's career was consistently geared towards music, starting from a very young age. He started taking violin lessons when he was five and the passion that he developed for music would eventually propel him to enroll in the Kunitachi College of Music. There, he discovered the joys of composing Minimalist music and pursued that area of interest by majoring in music composition. To gather experience, he worked as a typesetter alongside other composers.
Upon graduation, Hisaishi found himself in a time where a wave of western influence in the form of electronica and new age was shaping the Japanese music scene. Hisaishi wasn't immune to these tides. Though it would not surface in Hisaishi's first commercial success, some of his later works like the appropriately-titled Techno Police would feature this blend of contemporary music.
But we're getting a bit ahead of ourselves here. Hisaishi's first success, Hajime Ningen Giatrus , was an anime set in prehistoric times. This soundtrack, released in 1974, features mostly quiet, mellow cues like “Yatsura no Ashioto no Ballad's,” which features peaceful woodwinds and period vocals. As with most prominent anime composers' first works, the music is enjoyable enough but wasn't outstanding to the point that the signposts towards future greatness were clearly marked.
Mamoru Fujisawa (藤澤守 Fujisawa Mamoru?) mejor conocido como Joe Hisaishi (久石 譲 Hisaishi Jō?) (n. Nagano, Japón, 6 de diciembre de 1950), es un prolífico compositor japonés y director de orquesta, responsable de más de 100 bandas sonoras. Considerado uno de los compositores más importantes de todo oriente.http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Hisaishi
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