Release Date: 2025/01/25
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Takehiro's new 2025 album is based on the theme of "A Day in the Life of a Cat."
It is a funny depiction of a scene that unfolds in one day of a cat that is kept as a pet in a certain house.
In addition to new songs, the songs composed in the past have been re-recorded with new arrangements, and all songs have been newly recorded for the first time in a long time.
It should be noted that composer Takehiro re-recorded the theme song of the drama ", ARIGATO" produced and released in 2015 on the occasion of 10 years later.
Born in Saitama Prefecture in 1983, he is a composer, arranger, and player of the piano and synthesizer. After leaving his position as a school teacher (Japanese language) due to health issues, he founded WATATAKE Sound Co., Ltd., where he managed sound assets and engaged in music and video production from 2013 to 2017. In late 2017, he signed a contract with TuneCore to distribute his original music both domestically and globally. He gained recognition for a collection of Japanese nursery rhyme covers released in 2018 since then, he has continued to release arrangements of traditional nursery rhymes and songs, as well as humorous original compositionsoften featuring animal themes. He also creates easylistening music, a genre he has been familiar with since childhood. Influenced by masters of the easylistening genre (such as Paul Mauriat and Franck Pourcel), legendary film composers (including Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, and Francis Lai) and icons of Brazilian music such as bossa nova pioneer Antonio Carlos Jobim and Ivan Lins he crafts music that resonates with a wide range of generations. Following a hiatus due to health concerns, he resumed live performances in 2026, with further events scheduled for 2027. A staunch opponent of AI in creative work, he handles every aspect of his musicfrom composition to arrangemententirely on his own.
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