Masa (musician)

Masa (musician)

Masa is the stage name of a Japanese musician. While he is not very prominent in the Japanese music scene, he was member of GacktJOB, Gackt's band. He has also been in the disbanded Spiky, Dizzy Drive and マァマァサ☆ムゥ.

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Biography

Masa was born on the 30th of September, year unknown. After graduating from a vocational school (専門学校?), he went to the U.S.A. alone and took the TOEFL after one year. He then studied music at a university for three years. He learned the English language while living in New York for four years. A day after he graduated from the university, he returned home.

GacktJOB, Spiky, Dizzy Drive and マァマァサ☆ムゥ

Masa worked with Yusuke Asada as support and later backed-up Gackt, joining his project as the electro-, drum-acoustic- and rhythm guitarist of GacktJOB, from which he first rose to fame in the Japanese music scene. There are many stories and rumors circulating about the first meeting between Gackt and Masa; a popular story among fans is that Gackt met Masa in New York and wanted to see him play the guitar, but Masa pretended that he couldn't play and watched Gackt's own guitar playing instead.

Masa decided to leave GacktJOB to work on his own career with Spiky, for which he was vocalist and guitarist. During this time Spiky released 2 singles, 6 maxi singles, 1 album and 2 mini albums. However, the project Spiky came to a halt as Masa left in 2005 to start his very own project, Dizzy Drive. The remaining members tried to recruit a new vocalist and the new formation was supposed to debut on the same day as Masa with DIZZY DRIVE, but it never happened. After two final lives in August 2006 Spiky officially announced their disbanding.

In the beginning of June 2006, Masa announced that with the agreement of all members, DIZZY DRIVE would start over with a new concept; since they couldn't identify with their old band name anymore, they also created a new name. The last concert under the name of DIZZY DRIVE was on the second of July. Masa also started to work as a guitarist again, first with the session band JET STREAM ATTACK (covering BUCK-TICK) in June and then on the second Summer Festival, organized by Seventh Heaven with the session band Sin After Sin (covering Luna Sea) in July; he also performed as a singer with Spiky again in August 2006 in two lives, acoustic and electric, which seemed to have been the end of that project. A break was announced until September 2006, after which he returned with his new project, マァマァサ☆ムゥ, which consisted of the same members as DIZZY DRIVE but with the new concept and style. Instead of the more rock attitude of DIZZY DRIVE, their shows are now quite theatrical and the music has a touch of eighties rock. Junn decided to leave the band in January 2007 but due to Masa's nearly fatal road accident, the announcement was postponed until July. From the time of the comeback concert in October 2007 until the final concert in March 2008, Masanori joined the band for support again, but they remained officially only three members.

On the March 16, 2008, マァマァサ☆ムゥ disbanded and Masa announced that he would take a break for the time being. He does not know if he will return as a singer, guitarist, or both, and has not said when he'll return.

Projects

Masa has participated in several projects since his introduction to the Japanese music scene: GacktJOB, Spiky, Dizzy Drive and マァマァサ☆ムゥ

Spiky

Members:

  • Masa, vocalist/guitarist
  • dai (Dai Okumura), guitar
  • KG (Tanabe Keiji), keyboard/producer
  • Matchy (Matchida Takayuki), bass
  • Toshi (Toshiyuki Sugino, also former GacktJOB), drums
  • YAMACHI, guitar
  • Tomo, bass
  • Matsukichi, drums

Dizzy Drive

Members:

  • Masa, vocalist/guitarist
  • Tak, guitarist(also guitarist for Calmando Qual, an indies band, and Syaranosui)
  • Junn, bass/guitar
  • AKITO, drums
  • Masanori (nori), bass

Their official logo was JETBOY and their official fanclub (shared with Spiky) was known as CHRONICLE.

Discography

Spiky

Albums

Album # Album information Track listing
1st Spiky to be
  • Released: March 19, 2003

Mini-albums

Mini-Album # Album information Track listing
1st silVer
  • Released: July 23, 2003
2nd Scream in the Sky
  • Released: September 22, 2004

Singles

Single # Single information Track listing
1st Spiky On The Way
  • Released: September 28, 2002
  • Maxi single
2nd Confidence
  • Released: December 25, 2002
  • CD single
3rd Create
  • Released: August 3, 2003
  • Maxi single
4th Real
  • Released: August 9, 2003
  • Maxi single
5th Joy
  • Released: August 22, 2003
  • Maxi single
6th n.e.w.s.
  • Released: October 22, 2003
  • CD single
7th アベレイジ
  • Released: March 17, 2004
  • Maxi single
8th Spiky on the Way 2nd Press
  • Released: January 5, 2005
  • Maxi single

Dizzy Drive

1st Demo CD(22 May 2005) (sold at the Kashiwa CLUB ZaX live, limited)

  • GET NAKED
  • REAL

2nd Demo CD(15 July 2005) (sold at the Kumagaya Club Vogue live, limited)

  • Driving High
  • サイレン
  • Curtain Call #1

3rd Demo CD(6 September 2005) (sold at the Fukuoka DRUM Be-1 live, limited)

  • Over The Window
  • [es]

SUPER SONIC(1 March 2006)

  • Super Sonic
  • Monster
  • [es]
  • Love Tricky
  • DC ~Destructed Creation~
  • Driving High

DVDR 1(21 January 2006) (sold at the Takadanobaba CLUB PHASE Fanclub Event, limited)

  • Over The Window
  • REAL

DVD Evolution(14 May 2006) (sold at the YOKOHAMA CLUB 24 live, limited)

  • SUPER SONIC
  • Monster
  • It's killing me
  • Love Tricky
  • [es]
  • DC
  • Excuse
  • Over The Window
  • Ordinary World
  • GET NAKED
  • REAL
  • AGAINST
  • スーパーソニック
  • Driving High
  • Little by little
  • Fanclub Event 'Day of Amuse'
  • スーパーソニック
  • Photoshooting on the other side of the Camera

Presented CD(August 2005) (sent to the Fanclub members as a Good-bye-present)

  • Sign

マァマァサ☆ムゥ

1st Demo CD(2 September 2006) (sold at the Roppongi Morph Tokyo live, limited)

  • 僕のエンジェル

2nd Demo CD(30 September 2006) (sold at the Yokohama Soundhall live, limited)

  • 不埒なプラチナ

3rd Demo CD(20 October 2006) (sold at the Takadanobaba AREA live, limited)

  • 恋はデンジェラス

4th Demo CD(22 November 2006) (sold at the Shinjuku LOFT live, limited)

  • 危険なふたり (Cover-version)

5th Demo CD(2 December 2006) (sold at the Kashiwa ZAX live, limited)

  • 情熱パール

6th Demo CD(10 December 2006) (sold at the Yokohama CLUB 24 live, limited)

  • またたく夜空、今は幻

7th Demo CD(29 December 2006) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited)

  • 7 Colors

8th Demo CD(6 October 2007) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited)

  • Opening
  • 恋はデンジェラス
  • 不埒なプラチナ
  • 僕のエンジェル
  • Ending

DVD-R(6 October 2007) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited)

  • PV of 不埒なプラチナ

9th Demo CD(4 November 2007) (sold at the Ueno SENSATION live, limited)

  • 神様 Loving You

10th Demo CD(2 December 2007) (sold at the Shibuya GUILTY live, limited)

  • Rhapsody

11th Demo CD(27 December 2007) (sold at the Ueno SENSATION live, limited)

  • 星屑の舞踏会

12th Demo CD(26 January 2008) (sold at the Ueno SENSATION live, limited)

  • Excuse

13th Demo CD(24 February 2008) (sold at the Ueno SENSATION live, limited)

  • ひとりじめ

14th Demo CD(16 March 2008) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited)

  • Love Tricky (マァマァサ☆ムゥ Ver.)

Dear.Angel(16 March 2008) (sold at the Roppongi morph-tokyo live, limited, マァマァサ☆ムゥBest)

  • OPENING
  • Excuse
  • Rhapsody
  • 情熱パール
  • 危険なふたり
  • ブルーライト
  • 不埒なプラチナ
  • 恋はデンジェラス
  • 神様 Loving You
  • 星屑の舞踏会
  • 僕のエンジェル
  • 7 Colors
  • ひとりじめ
  • Ending

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