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Guiba

South Penguin、Helsinki Lambda Club、Group2、odol、Tocagoなどのバンドで活動するメンバーにより、2022年夏に結成。2023年3月24日、シングル「愛の二段階右折」をリリースし活動開始。歌を主軸としたバンドとして、精力的に活動している。2025年11月12日には、3rd album「万祝」をリリース。

Rasmus Faber

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A Swedish-born producer/DJ/multi-keyboardist. With a father who was a renowned jazz musician, he began learning piano in childhood and started his career as a jazz pianist. He expanded his activities into house music, establishing global recognition with his debut track “Never Felt So Fly” and signature song “Ever After.” In Japan, he gained popularity beyond the house scene with albums like ‘So Far’ and ‘Where We Belong’. As one of the few foreign composers in Japan, he also ventured into anime music production. He gained attention for producing the ‘Platina Jazz’ series, which fuses jazz with Japanese anime music, and is supported as a unique, genre-crossing presence.

Makoto Nagahisa

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和久井沙良

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作曲家 / 鍵盤奏者。東京藝術大学音楽学部楽理科卒業。3歳でクラシックピアノ、9歳で作曲を始め、大学在学中より本格的な音楽活動を開始。2022年にソロプロジェクトを本格始動し、同年シンガーのキャサリンとポップスユニット〈LioLan〉を結成。独自の世界観とアグレッシブなライブパフォーマンスで聴衆を魅了している。サポートミュージシャンとしても幅広く活躍し、Adoの世界ツアーや国立競技場公演、Tempalayの日本武道館公演などに参加。近年はCM音楽の制作や他アーティストへの楽曲提供・アレンジなど、ジャンルを超えて多岐にわたり活動中。

トム・ヒドルストン

#MOVIE

1981 年、イギリス、ロンドン生まれ。『マイティ・ソー』の主人公ソーの弟ロキ役で爆発的な人気を獲得、ロキとして『アベンジャーズ』シリーズでも活躍する。ロキを主人公とした TV シリーズ「ロキ」では、製作総指揮も務める。2026 年末に公開予定の最新作『アベンジャーズ/ドゥームズデイ』にも出演する。その他の主な出演作は、スティーヴン・スピルバーグ監督の『戦火の馬』、『ミッドナイト・イン・パリ』、ジム・ジャームッシュ監督の『オンリー・ラヴァーズ・レフト・アライヴ』、ギレルモ・デル・トロ監督の『クリムゾン・ピーク』、『アイ・ソー・ザ・ライト』、『ハイ・ライズ』、ゴールデン・グローブ賞を受賞し、エミー賞にノミネートされた「ナイト・マネジャー」、『キングコング:髑髏島の巨神』など。

The fin.

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In April 2012, the four-piece band started full-fledged activities in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture, with Yuto Uchino and Kaoru Nakazawa as the core members, They feel loneliness, loneliness, joy, and sadness in foreign pop music such as Metronomy, Tame Impala, Washed Out, and Friendly Fires, which they can relate to as Japanese people. They are active both in Japan and overseas, using the Internet and other media to communicate their music to the world with a sense of synchronicity.

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ROTH BART BARON

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ROTH BART BARON is a Japanese indie rock band led by singer-songwriter Masaya Mifune, and since 2023, the band has had two creative bases: Berlin, Germany and Tokyo, Japan.
The band has performed at festivals abroad, including Big Mountain (Thailand) and PLAYTIME FESTIVAL (Mongolia), and has appeared at many music festivals in Japan, including FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL for the second time in 2023.
In recent years, in addition to album tours, they have organized "BEAR NIGHT," a solo event in which they perform with a special band once a year, and the fourth event in the series was held at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall. The event was a great success.
In 2020, the lead song "Kyokusai|IGL(S)" from their 5th AL "Kyokusai-iro no Shukusai" was selected as the best song of the year by music producer Yoshinori Tsutaya in the TV Asahi program "Kanjam∞ Perfect Burning Show". 2021 will see the release of "BLUE" by A_o, a duo with Aina the End, which was inspired by a Pocari Sweat commercial. In 2022, he composed the music and theme song for the film "My Small Land," which won the Amnesty International Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
In 2023, they will perform their latest work "HOWL" at Showa Women's University's Hitomi Memorial Auditorium in Tokyo for the final leg of their tour, and will release their 8th original album "8" this fall, their 6th consecutive album. This fall, they will release their 8th original album "8", their 8th album in 6 consecutive years, and hold a 13-show national tour, including the "Glass Pyramid" at Sapporo Moerenuma Park in Hokkaido.

Website : https://www.rothbartbaron.com
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/rothbartbaron/
Twitter:https://twitter.com/ROTHBARTBARON
FaceBook:https://www.facebook.com/rothbartbaron

Film director and screenwriter

Born August 25, 1973 in Hamburg, Germany to Turkish immigrants. He won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for "Stronger than Love" in 2004, the Best Screenplay Award at the Cannes Film Festival for "And We Return to Love" in 2007, and the Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival for "Soul Kitchen" in 2009, all in his 30s. In his thirties, he won major awards at the three major film festivals in the world: Berlin, Cannes, and Venice. RHEINGOLD" was his largest grossing film to date, grossing nearly $10 million at the box office.

Norah Jones

Singer and pianist, born March 30, 1979 in New York City and raised in Texas. Her debut album, "Come Away With Me," released in 2002, was a worldwide hit, winning five Grammy Awards, including Best Album at the 45th Annual Grammy Awards. Since then, the band has released nine studio albums, won nine Grammy Awards, and sold over 52 million albums. In 2022, she launched a podcast show, "Norah Jones Is Playing Along," featuring talks and collaborative performances with some of her favorite musicians.

yamamotosuguru

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Writer, director and actor. Representative of Hanzoku Yusyo. Born in Yamanashi Prefecture. With his artistic background in film, literature, music, and art, which he has absorbed since childhood, he has created a theatrical world that vividly reflects today's information society, where ethics are changing at an accelerating pace. The company has a broad repertoire that includes "Theatre on the Other Side," which uses online as a creative platform, "Theatre Series for Adults and Children," which can be enjoyed with children, and workshop programs for youth and welfare facilities. He has also expanded his activities overseas, giving performances, international co-productions, and providing plays in Asian countries and North America. As a grantee artist for "ACC 2018," she will study in New York from September 2019 to February 2020. She won the "Bangkok Theatre Festival 2014" Best Playwright Award and Best Production Award for "Juvenile X." He won the 66th "Kishida Kunio Drama Award" for "Banana Flowers Can Be Eaten". He is a Saison Fellow of the Saison Foundation.

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Taiga Hashimoto

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Singer-songwriter born in 2002. She writes lyrics, composes music, arranges music, and produces music videos based on the concept of “neo-nostalgia,” which is both nostalgic and new. From 2020 to 2022, she will participate in “Enjoy Music!”, a new artist development project planned by Shingo Yasumoto, who has produced SEKAI NO OWARI, Official Mustache Man-dism, and Yuzu. Released the original song “Kono Yoru ga Akariwara” on the compilation album “Enjoy Music New Wave Generations Vol. l”. In 2022, he formed the Bridger Book Band and played in the band until August 2024. Won the audition for “Devil's Child 2022” at Live House Taiyo and Tsuki. Performed at COMING KOBE 2022. Winner of “K.U. ROCK FEVER 2022” at Kansai University. Currently, he is energetically producing songs and music videos as a solo artist. We hope you enjoy his heartwarming music.

Yoko Yamanaka

Born in 1997 in Nagano, Japan. Withdrew from Nihon University College of Art. His self-taught first film “Amiko” was selected for the “PFF Award 2017”. The following year, at the age of 20, he was invited to the “68th Berlin International Film Festival” as the youngest director ever, breaking the festival's record for the youngest feature film director. When the film was screened at Polepole Higashi-Nakano, it set a late show attendance record. Her first full-length feature film, “The Namibian Desert,” was entered in the 77th Cannes International Film Festival Directors' Fortnight and won the FIPRESCI Prize, making her the youngest female director in the history of the festival.

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