Masao Akashi

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Masao Akashi
明石昌夫
Also known asMax Brightstone
BornMarch 25 1957
Japan
Genres Japanese pop, Rock
Occupation(s)Music arranger, Producer, Bassist
Years active1988-1998
Labels B-Gram Records
Formerly of Wands, B'z, Zard, Manish

Masao Akashi (明石昌夫, Akashi Masao) is a Japanese musical arranger in distributors Being Inc., mainly in their label B-Gram Records.

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In 1988, he debuted as arranger in debut single Dakara Sono Te wo Hanashite by Japanese hard-rock band B'z. Until 1998 his arrangement work has been involved with many Being artist including Manish, Wands and Zard. [1]

Although Masao is no longer working for Being Inc., he sometimes provided producing job for various artist such as Naomi Tamura, [2] Maria, [3] Color Bottle [4] and Sonoda Band. [5]

List of provided works as arranger

★ album ☆ single/coupling

B'z

Zard

Manish

Wands (band)

Tube

BAAD

Keiko Utoku

Miho Komatsu

Maki Ohguro

Field of View

Yumiko Morishita

T-BOLAN

Mi-Ke

Seiichirou Kuribayashi

KIX-S

V6 (band)

Siam Shade

Fairy Fore

Nobuaki Kakuda

Tomomi Kahara

TUNE'S

Maria (band)

Yuko Nakazawa

Yoko Minamino

Hiroko Anzai

Under Graph

List of provided works as producer

Maria

Naomi Tamura

Color Bottle

Hekiru Shiina

Manish

Sonoda Band

List of works as a supportive musician

B'z

Gackt

Wands

Television appearance

In Music Station as bassist:

In online television Infinite Colors

Magazine appearance

From J-Rock Magazine:

From E-cube Magazine:

From Sound&Recording Magazine:

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