J. A. Seazer

YES Seazer (Japanese J · A ·シーザー, JA Shiza for Julious Arnest Seazer; born October 6, 1948 in Miyazaki Prefecture ) is the pseudonym of a Japanese musician and composer Takaaki Terahara (寺 原 孝明, Terahara Takaaki ).

Work and style

Seazer is mainly known for his close cooperation with the died 1983 film and theater director Shuji Terayama in Europe and America. For the films as well as for many theater performances of his troupe Tenjo Sajiki (天井 桟 敷), he composed the music, which can be partly assigned to the progressive rock. After Terayamas death he co-founded a theater group called Banyu Inryoku (万有引力, also known by the English translation of universal gravitation), which is still active. With its Asian Crack band he had recently made ​​some appearances after he was over 30 years no longer performed live.

Seazer frequently alternates between rock sounds with epic, operatic vocals ( with some very cryptic lyrics ) and quiet, melancholic and traditional Japanese parts (for example, shamisen sounds ). He is also not a trained composer, taught himself skills so autodidactic on.

Famous Works

He is, among others, for the soundtrack of the internationally renowned film The Fruits of Passion ( with Klaus Kinski in a Leading Role ) is responsible; he also composed the music for an anime film adaptation of the never released in Germany Comics Midori, the camellias girls (少女 椿; Shōjo Tsubaki ) Suehiro Maruo ( a publication, however, was planned). The rock opera Shintokumaru also comes from a collaboration with Terayama.

Seazer also composed the hymns of the anime series Utena. Revolutionary Girl, and together with Shinkichi Mitsumune and Hideato Amari the soundtrack of the anime film Utena - The Movie.