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BenkeiKi - Main Title -" This song was written as a theme song for the original radio drama "Kodan-style Taiga Radio Drama Benkei Ki" on FM TANABE, a community radio station in Tanabe City, Wakayama Prefecture.

The radio drama was broadcast from Monday, March 7 to Friday, May 27, 2022,
24th JCBA Kinki Area Community Broadcasting Award, Grand Prize winner
60th Galaxy Award, Radio Division, Excellence Prize
The 49th Hoso Bunka Foundation Award, Radio Division, Grand Prize, Planning, Direction and Script Award
and many other awards.

The wind and brass instruments in this song were played by a local brass band and members of a junior high school brass band.

*"Benkei" is a Japanese historic warrior monk. He was known for his remarkable strength and legendary status during the Heian period and the Genpei wars.

Artist Profile

  • Taro Okada

    Taro Okada Born in 1988 in Hirakata City, Osaka. Started his musical activities with a band when he was a teenager. In 2011, while a student at Ritsumeikan University, he encountered performing arts such as theater and dance and began challenging himself with diverse musical expressions. In recent years, he has been working not only on stage, but also in film and television, and providing and producing music for artists, and expressing himself with his own band Giraffe John. His music is influenced by black music such as SKA, REGGAE, and FUNK, and his compositions and arrangements are based on Dub techniques. He has been performing in a wide range of genres of music.

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