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Midori

(For the Japanese jazz-punk fusion band formed in Osaka, see ミドリ.) There is more than one artist under this name: 1. Midori Goto (五嶋みどり, Gotou Midori, born on October 25, 1971 in Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese violinist.
She is known in music circles as one of the most brilliant and exciting violinists of our time.
Usually referred to simply as Midori (she dropped the surname in response to the dissolution of her parents' marriage), she was first taught the violin by her mother, Setsu Goto, who discovered her daughter's innate musicality at the age of two...

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MV & EE With The Golden Road

Still riding high on the glorious steed that was Green Blues (heads are still processing its smoked grooves and wild-at-heart paeans to love and kosmiche carnality), Matt Valentine and Erika Elder entered a Western Mass studio armed with enough fresh material to choke a whole team of horses. You may ask, "how can this be?" Well, since recording their Ecstatic Peace debut the duo has toured extensively, all the while writing tunes, scavenging esoteric guitar equipment & revamping their backing band to suit the environment of Gettin' Gone .

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Yuki Koyanagi

Yuki Koyanagi (小柳 ゆき, Koyanagi Yuki?, born January 26, 1982 in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan), is a Japanese pop singer. Her height is 154cm, and her blood type is 'B'. She released her first single, 'Anata no kisu o kazoemashô - You Were Mine' on September 15, 1999. This song was a huge hit in Japan and made the 17-year-old a sensation overnight. Her second album 'EXPANSION', sold over 1.3 million copies. She has done several albums (in English) of cover songs, including disco and movie standards. After a break of several years, her latest album 'Sunrise' was released in March 2007.

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Treasure

1. Treasure is the one-man band of young London resident Hari Ashurst, who claims to be influenced by Fleetwood Mac, Beach Boys, Lou Reed, Afro-beat, etc. and writing "the kind of chorus that Hall and Oates would have". Starting as an experimental project in the summer of 2009, he is currently working on an full-length album to be released via Waaga Records in 2010.
http://www.myspace.com/treasuretheband 2. Treasure is a band from Brooklyn, NYC.

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Hal

There are several artists using this name: 1) Ultra-hooky, dramatic vocal harmony-drenched tunes. Echoes of the Beatles, Harry Nilsson, the Beach Boys, and Phil Spector are everywhere. Hal go beyond imitation and use their influences, as a good band should, as guides and not blueprints. Tim Sendra-All Music Guide.
Dublin 3-piece, Hal, formed in 2003 and were signed by Jeff Travis to Rough Trade Records in 2004. Their eponymous debut album was produced by Tears for Fears’ Ian Stanley, and released to critical acclaim in 2005, producing two UK and Irish top 40 chart hits.

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Quake

There are at least three artists with this name: 1) a metal band from Chicago, Illinois
2) a house band from the U.K.
3) a Canadian rapper 1) Quake (Chicago)
http://www.facebook.com/QuakeIL
http://quakeband.bandcamp.com A metal band from Chicago formed in the summer of 2012.
First EP released in July 2013
In the works of a full length album, to be released in late 2014 2) Quake (U.K.) Real Name: Ian Bland & Rob Tissera
Aliases: RT Project
Members: Ian Bland, Rob Tissera 3) Quake (Canada)

Read more about Quake on Last.fm.

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maru

Maru is a chiptune musician from Japan. He was part of the Game boy techno group Portalenz with artist USK before the group disbanded. He played with Portalenz at the 2006 Blip Festival along with the many other chiptune artists that were invited. His CD "Lo-bit Music Of The Fairy Tale Insane" was distributed in japan though some copies made it over seas.

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Bo

There are various artists with the name Bo. 1. Bo is a greek hip-hop artist. 2. Bo is an american rapper from West Coast. 3. Bo is an american DJ from Seattle, specializing in house music, and is part of the http://www.myspace.com/unitedhousefront, UnitedHouseFront collective. 4. Bo is the artistic nickname of Bojana Bulatovic, a Belgrade singer/song-writer. She is a vocalist, a guitarist, and a harmonica player, who combines her self-made acoustic approach in the vein of Patti Smith...

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Nobuo Uematsu

Nobuo Uematsu (Born March 21, 1959) is best known for his composition for the Squaresoft (now Square Enix) games company throughout the 1980s and 1990s, most notably on the Final Fantasy series of games. Composing all his work on the keyboards, he has been hailed as one of the most popular and beloved composers of video game soundtracks. Uematsu enjoyed commercial success with the track “Eyes on Me” from Final Fantasy VIII, performed by Hong Kong singer Faye Wong (Wang Fei - 王菲).

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