Susumu Hirasawa

Mixing elements of progressive rock, spacy new age atmospheres, and electro-pop, Susumu Hirasawa is known for his time in bands including the chart-topping new wave group P-Model, as a soundtrack composer, and as a charting solo artist. After hitting number one in Japan with P-Model's second album, Landsale, in 1980, he made his solo debut with 1989's Water in Time and Space. Hirasawa maintained a solo career thereafter and branched into anime, scoring with projects like the '90s series Berserk, while continuing to release music with P-Model, the latter issued their final album, Music Industrial Wastes: P-Model or Die, in 1999. With a vibrant style that's playful as well as intense, Hirasawa's scoring work in the decade to follow included Berserk-franchise video games and the anime film Paprika (2006). In the meantime, his 11th solo album, 2009's Planet Role Call, cracked Japan's Top 50. Still climbing the charts in his sixties, he reached a solo career-high number 32 with 2015's The Man Climbing the Hologram, his 13th solo album.

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