Hiroshi Miyagawa

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Maestro Hiroshi Miyagawa (宮川泰), the award-winning pop music composer and creator of the score for Japan’s famous anime series SPACE BATTLESHIP YAMATO (Uchû Senkan Yamato, 1974) died on March 21, 2006 of heart failure. He was 75. Anyone who has ever listened to his work knows that those words barely scratch the surface. It’s a really unpleasant task to sit down and try to write about a world that no longer has Hiroshi Miyagawa in it. I can’t pretend to have known the guy personally, never even having set foot in his home country, but his Yamato music has been one of my closest companions since the first time I heard it. I don’t think a day has gone by in those 26 intervening years when one of those riffs hasn’t surfaced inside my head. Miyagawa had a career before Yamato came along, but I have to be honest and say that I haven’t paid much attention to it. As a jazz/pop musician in the swingin’ 60s, he won a passel of awards and accompanied a long string of Japanese vocalists including “The Peanuts,” a pair of proto-idol singers who rose to international fame as the fairy sisters in Toho’s early Mothra movies. I¹m sure that in this capacity the maestro set many a toe to tapping. But for me his career begins with Yamato. Yoshinobu Nishizaki was a music producer and promoter in the 60s, and for one reason or another he made the jump into anime production in the early 70s. Through artistic connections that must have seemed trivial at the time, he brought Miyagawa on board to wr

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A Streetcar Named Desire 1

Symphonic Suite Yamato

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響け!ブラバン・ヒーローズ

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Pacific Theater of Operations

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Space Battleship Yamato Fukkatsu Hen OST

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BGM #2 - The Comet Empire - (series II) COCC-12870

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Yamato - I Adore the Eternity of Love -

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Quest For Iscandar - Yamato BGM (part 1)

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Space Battleship Yamato 2199 OVA OP Single - Uchuu Senkan Yamato

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Space Battleship Yamato - Background Music Collection Part 2

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Libble Mixtape - Space Battleship Yamato

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The Piano Meets the Anime of the 70's and 80's

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