Artist description Orient Oriented is a debut CD by a Japanese artist, composer, and producer, Yaz Kawasaki. Yaz has created soundtracks for computer graphics (CG) animations by talented Japanese CG artists such as Ryoichiro Debuchi. Debuchi has won awards at SIGRAPH and other international events. He contributed to this album quite a lot so that he is credited as co-producer. The cover of the album is his original computer graphics he contributed. Orient Oriented features compositions created mainly for these CGs which have a variety of flavors especially from Okinawan, Celtic, and Arabic music. Yaz has successfully combined world music and western music by using state-of-the-art equipment and technologies. In Japan, Yaz also composes for popular TV themes as well as for computer games including the best selling Nitendo game,

Music Style World Music, New Age, Electronic

Musical Influences The Beatles, Jeff Beck, Vangelis, Burt Bacharach, Toru Takemitsu, Akiko Yano, Oyunna

Similar Artists Kitaro, Vangelis

Group Members Produced by Yaz Kawasaki Co-Produced by Ryoichiro Debuchi

Instruments Synthesizers, Electric Guitars, Traditional Okinawan Instruments

Albums Orient Oriented

Location San Mateo, CA - USA

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