● Tango Kuroneko Special

The taste of Tango Kuroneko's music varies. He shows his interest in any kind of music: serious music, rock, jazz, and traditional music around the globe. In this selection, Persian and Japanese music is given a focus and his movies are also featured. We hope you will enjoy them.

Since summer 2007, he joined Second Life with the name Hiroshi Kumaki and gives live performance there. Please feel free sending IM to Hiroshi Kumaki for details.

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● HIRO Special

HIRO is a pianist and also gives lessons to children. As the traditional etudes bore them sometimes, she writes her own etudes which are easy and fun to play. She thinks the most important thing is to share the joy of playing music, not to be a professional pianist. She names her lesson studio as "Enjoy Music Center."

The piano music here in this issue were written for that purpose and recorded 2004-2005, with the ones for bands, for Monthly DAICHI Music Webzine Japanese Edition. I hope you will enjoy the beautiful world of her piano sounds.

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● COSMO Special

COSMO's music makes people happy. In her music, she expresses the joy of being here and now. And she also dreams of a world full of love. Her love of such fantastic world make her write about mythical beings -- gods around the world!

Five pieces of music included in this issue were recorded in 2005 for Monthly DAICHI Music Webzine Japanese Edition. I hope you enjoy fantastic and mythical world of COSMO and feel happy.

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● Toshiyuki Sekine Special

The best pianist in Japan -- this is how I describe Toshiyuki Sekine in a short and humble way. In fact, I'd rather say the best pianist in the world! You cannot listen to his music without being fascinated by his brilliant piano sound. Moreover, his music is filled with romanticism as well as urban cool feelings.

Five pieces of music included in this issue were recorded in 2005 for Monthly DAICHI Music Webzine Japanese Edition. Each piece is very much fascinating and differs from each other in style, showing Sekine's musical variety. I hope you enjoyed them all.

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● International Edition Published!

Phew! The first issue of Monthly DAICHI Music Webzine International Edition was published at last! As we started Japanese edition aiming to make our music known to as many people as possible, the international edition had been desired by our musicians. But I felt it was not the time taking into consideration the internet environment in 2004. A new year 2008 began and I judged "Now's the time!"

International Edition will be published on third Saturday every month and will include 4 or 5 pieces of music. All the music are the originals by the DAICHI musicians and you cannot find them anywhere else but on this site. So please look forward to the coming issues.

It would be highly appreciated if you would send us your comments and suggestions by e-mail.

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