Goro Ito, Paula Morelenbaum, Jaques Morelenbaum
Biography Goro Ito, Paula Morelenbaum, Jaques Morelenbaum
Goro Ito
a composer, arranger , guitarist and producer, has been active as a solo artist “MOOSE HILL” and also as member of a bossa-nova duo “naomi & goro”
Along with releasing his own albums and performing at home and abroad, he has written music for movies etc.
While pursuing his own music with profound taste of Bossa Nova, he has played in genre-straddling style of music such as classic and rock, etc. Besides his own work he has collaborated with various musicians including Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Taskahashi. For singer and actress Tomoyo Harada, he has produced many songs and albums.
He has worked with Takashi Hiraide, a poet who won the Best Translated Book Award by his poetry collection “For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut” in USA.
He also has maintained close musical relations with Brazilian musicians such as Jaques and Paula Morelenbaum. With them, Jorge Helder, Rafael Barataand other excellent Brazilian musicians, he has produced the album “Rendez-vous in Tokyo” recorded in Rio and Tokyo.
The album has won the “Disco de Quro da Musica popular Brasileila” best album award in 2014.
Tomoyo Harada(Japanese famous actress and singer) sings two songs in Moose Hill’s second album “desert house”(2006).
He wrote the soundtrack to the movie, “To Pray for Snow”. This movie won 4 prizes including Best Director & Best Male Actor at the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival.
The movie is directed by Kichitaro Negishi and features Yusuke Iseya, Kouichi Sato, Kyoko Koizumi & Kazue Fukiishi.
On August 8th, he produced two CDs, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
tribute album and Penguin Cafe Orchestra Japanese best album. They were released from “commons”, Ryuichi Sakamoto’s label. This tribute CD includes Ryuichi Sakamoto, YukihiroTakahashi, Steve Jansen, Hiroshi Takano, Masakatsu Takagi, and so on. He wrote the inserted song and soundtrack for two short movies, “identify”and”metamorphosis”, directed by Masahiko Nagasawa for Fuji television’s campaign event. ...
