Tsuneo Imahori

Tsuneo Imahori (今堀 恒雄 "Imahori Tsuneo", born 1962) is a Japanese guitarist and composer. He started to play acoustic guitar aged 12, inspired by British folk music from the likes of Bert Jansch, and later the work of Frank Zappa and Andy Partridge. In 1986 he formed the band Tipographica, with saxophonist Naruyoshi Kikuchi and jazz pianist Akira Minakami. After 4 albums, the group disbanded in 1996.

After providing the soundtrack to "Gungrave" for the PlayStation 2 in 2002, the concept was subsequently developed into an anime series, also scored by Imahori. In addition to scoring the anime series, Imahori composed the music for "Gungrave's" 2004 video game sequel "", also for the PS2. He is perhaps best known in the US as the composer of several anime soundtracks, primarily "Trigun", "Gungrave" and "Hajime no Ippo", though he has also contributed tracks to "Texhnolyze", Wolf's Rain, and "Cowboy Bebop". He's worked with Yoshida Tatsuya of Ruins fame, and also with Yoko Kanno as a member of The Seatbelts.

External links

* [http://www.imasy.or.jp/~mizutani/tipo.html Tipographica homepage] (Japanese)
* [http://www.imasy.or.jp/~mizutani/files_e/tipo.html English version of the Tipographica homepage]
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