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| project name |
IVORYBOAT |
| personal name |
Kenji Aramaki |
| birth |
June 9 at
Tokyo |
| instruments |
MIDI
programming/electric and acoustic guitar |
| body data |
height 179cm,
weight 60kg, blood type B |
| favorite hobby |
reading, working,
meditation, going
to movie and art gallery, watching Kick Boxing and MMA match. |
| favorite artist |
Dream Theater, Pat
Metheny, John Coltrane, Frank Zappa, Chick Corea, Yes, Steve Vai, Frank Gambale, Shawn
Lane, Greg Howe, Jeff Beck, Yoko Kanno, HΛL, ELT, J.S.Bach, Toru
Takemitsu etc. |
| history |
He started playing
the guitar at the age of 13 by himself. When he was in high school,he got to perfect pitch sense by self education. At the age of 18,he began to product of demo tapes and join so many school bands, rock, jazz, R&B and more. After the graduation from the university,he began to take lessons of jazz guitar playing and score-reading. From the age of 25,he wrote songs for sound track of video-animation and TV/PC game.He learned pop music arrangement skill and MIDI programming technique from these studio works. And he started out a instrumental solo project named IVORYBOAT. IVORYBOAT means a symbol of musical inspiration. It is discribed in lylic of a Japanese famous nersary song "canary". In the story, the canary remembered songs on a ivory boat floting under the moonlight. |
| discography |
Outdated Future 2008 independent  Don't leave the music alone 2004 Juvenile 2004 Unnatural Gift 2006 MusicTermPresents    For listening to samples and ordering albums Click the jacket pics. |
| Reviews |
3rd album "Unnatural Gift" Reviews Prognaut Proggnosis Dutch Progressive Rock Page |
