Kyohei Tsutsumi

Kyohei Tsutsumi – Cembalo Deluxe, Vol. 2 (1969) [Japan 2014]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 31:27 minutes | Scans included | 570 MB
or DSD64 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans included | 1,27 GB
or FLAC (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/44,1 kHz | Scans included | 373 MB

Kyōhei Tsutsumi (筒美 京平) was a Japanese composer, record producer and arranger. Tsutsumi began his career as a songwriter circa 1966, and he came to prominence as a composer of Ayumi Ishida’s chart-topping hit “Blue Light Yokohama” in the late 1960s. He has released nearly 3,000 compositions to date, over 500 of which have entered the Japanese Oricon singles chart. Tsutsumi is the most commercially successful composer of the Japanese popular music of last five decades, selling over 76 million units on the country’s singles chart from 1968 onwards. Tsutsumi himself has also won the awards for best songwriting category five times. Recognized for his long-term contribution to establish Japanese popular music, Tsutsumi received the Medal of Honor with Purple Ribbon by the Government of Japan in November 2003. He is died in October 2020.

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