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Musicians ミュージシャン
All about the singers and artists involved in creating the music featured in ARIA.
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Band name: Choro Club
Members:
笹子重治 Shigeharu Sasago (guitar)
秋岡欧 Ou Akioka (mandolin)
沢田穣治 Jouji Sawada (double bass)
Website:
Choro Club homepage
Information:
Choro Club composed and performed the background music you'll hear in both
series of ARIA. Some pieces are collaborations between Choro Club and Takeshi
Senoo.
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Name: 妹尾武 Takeshi Senoo
Birthday: 26th December
Birthplace: Hyogo
Website:
Takeshi Senoo Official Web Site
Information:
Senoo-san is an accomplished composer and pianist. Alongside Choro Club, he
composed and performed the background music for both series of ARIA. The
majority of the pieces he composed were performed predominantly on piano.
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Name: 牧野由依 Yui Makino
Birthday: 19th January
Birthplace: Tokyo
Blood type: O
Hobbies/likes: swimming, playing the piano
Website:
Yui Makino @ Sunmusic
Information:
Makino-san sings the opening themes for both series of ARIA, which are 'Undine' and
'Euforia' respectively. She also sings several insert songs which appear at
various points in the anime, the most notable of which is 'Symphony' (Animation
ep. 11).
Makino-san is also a seiyuu; her most
famous role is that of the main character Sakura Kinomoto from the series 'Tsubasa
Reservoir Chronicle', for which she also recorded an insert song and the theme
song for the film, 'Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle: Torikago no Kuni no Himegimi'.
She has also recorded songs for the series 'NHK ni Youkoso!' and 'Sousei no
Aquarion'.
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Band name: ROUND TABLE featuring Nino
Members:
伊藤利恵子 Reiko Ito (keyboards & backing vocals)
北川勝利 Katsuoshi Kitagawa (guitar & bass)
Nino (vocals)
Website:
ROUND TABLE official web site
ROUND Table featuring Nino
Information:
ROUND TABLE featuring Nino are responsible for both ending themes of ARIA;
'Rainbow' from ARIA the Animation and 'Natsu Machi' from ARIA the Natural.
Similarly to Yui Makino, they also recorded insert songs for both series,
including 'Just For You' (Animation ep. 13) and 'Shiosai' (Natural ep. 9).
ROUND TABLE featuring Nino are most
famous for the theme tune to the anime series 'Chobits', 'Let Me Be With You'.
They have also recorded music for 'NHK no Youkoso!', '.hack//DUSK', 'Uninhabited
Planet Survive' and 'Top wo Nerae 2'.
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Name: 河井英里 Eri Kawai
Birthday: 8th May
Birthplace: Tokyo
Website:
Eri Kawai on the web
Information:
Kawai-san is the real-life counterpart behind Athena Glory's singing voice. In the
role of Athena, she performed the songs 'Barcarole' (Animation ep. 6) and 'Coccoro'
(Natural ep. 13). She also composed the lyrics for 'Undine', the opening theme
song of ARIA the Animation.
She has also performed theme songs
for the anime series 'AIR', 'Strange Dawn' and 'Utawarerumono'.
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Name: 窪田ミナ Mina Kubota
Birthday: 5th February
Birthplace: Fukuoka
Information:
Kubota-san is the composer for both 'Undine' and 'Euforia', the opening themes for
the two ARIA series. She also composed one of the insert songs in ARIA the
Natural.
Kubota-san has also composed for other
anime series, including 'Kaleido Star', 'Kannazuki no Miko' and 'Kyoshiro to
Towa no Sora'.
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Name: KAORI; a.k.a. 川菜翠 Midori Kawana
Birthday: 28th February
Birthplace: Kanagawa
Blood type: A
Website:
SpunkyStrider official web
Information:
KAORI, born 川菜明子 Akiko Kawana, is a member of Japanese rock band SpunkyStrider.
As a solo artist, she recorded the opening theme for the ARIA Playstation2 game,
'ARIA the Natural ~Tooi Kioku no Mirage~', 'BLUE BLUE WAVE'.
She is also a seiyuu, and most known
for her roles as Nana 'Hachi' Komatsu in the series 'NANA' and Haruka in the
series 'Pokémon'.
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