is a Japan

Japan

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ese musician

Musician

A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....

 and multi-instrumentalist

Multi-instrumentalist

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. He plays primarily keyboards and guitar.
Horie is one half of the Shibuya-kei

Shibuya-kei

is a sub-genre of Japanese pop music which originated in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. It is best described as a mix between jazz, pop, and electropop.- Overview :...

 duo Neil & Iraiza, and is known for his work with artists such as Kahimi Karie

Kahimi Karie

Kahimi sings in English, French, and Japanese with whisper-like vocals.-Albums:* 1997 - Larme de crocodile * July 15, 1998 - K.K.K.K.K. * May 24, 2000 - Tilt...

 and Cornelius

Cornelius (musician)

Cornelius is a Japanese recording artist and producer.-Career:Oyamada's first claim to fame was as a member of the pop duo Flipper's Guitar, one of the key groups of the Tokyo Shibuya-kei scene...

 (as a member of the Cornelius Group).

Biography

While a student of Tama Art University

Tama Art University

is a private university in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. The predecessor of the school was founded in 1935 as a spinoff from what is today Musashino Art University...

, Horie participated in many musicians' live performances and in recording sessions as a session keyboardist.

Horie has been very active as a musician, having performed and/or recorded with Japanese and international artists including Acrobat Bunche, American Rock

American rock

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, Billy No Mates, Chocolat

Chocolat (singer)

is a Japanese singer from the greater Tokyo area in Japan. Chocolat debuted in 1997 on Epic Records with her first single Chocolat a la mode. Chocolat is a twin, her younger sister heaco is a singer as well. In 1998 Chocolat married musician Akito Katayose from the band GREAT3 in Maui, Hawaii...

, Cocco

Cocco

is a female Ryukyuan folk rock singer who debuted in 1996 with a self-titled EP titled Cocko. A track from the EP, "Sing a Song ~No Music, No Life~", was used in an advertising campaign for Tower Records Japan. In March 1997, she released her major label debut single "Kauntodaun" and a full-length...

, Cubismo Grafico, Curly Giraffe, El-Malo, Freedom Suite

Freedom Suite

Freedom Suite is a the fifth studio album by rock band The Rascals, released in March 1969. It peaked at number 17 on the Billboard Top LPs chart and also reached number 40 on the Billboard Black Albums chart, the last Rascals album to appear there.-History:Freedom Suite was an ambitious effort...

, Great3, Hideki Kaji, Kaela Kimura

Kaela Kimura

, born , is a Japanese pop rock singer, songwriter, model, and TV presenter.- Career :Born in Adachi, Tokyo, Japan to a British father and Japanese mother, Kaela started working as a model in 2002 for the Japanese magazine Seventeen...

, Kahimi Karie, Love Psychedelico

Love Psychedelico

is a Japanese band. In Japan they are often called Delico for short. They are widely popular not only in Japan but also Hong Kong and Taiwan.- Members :* Kumi – lead vocals, guitars, etc....

, Master Low, Pizzicato Five

Pizzicato Five

Pizzicato Five was a Japanese pop group best known to audiences in the West in their later incarnation as a duo of Maki Nomiya and Yasuharu Konishi...

, Plagues, Quruli

Quruli

is a popular Japanese music group formed in 1996. As of March 2007, the lineup consists of Masashi Satoh and Shigeru Kishida. Their music is produced and distributed by Victor Entertainment.- Career :...

, Snapshot

Snapshot

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, Studio Apes, and many others.

Horie has been a long-time collaborator with Keigo Oyamada (Cornelius), performing live as a member of his Cornelius Group. The two have worked together for over 15 years, since the time that Oyamada still presided over his record label Trattoria Records

Trattoria Records

Trattoria Records is a Japanese record company. The record company was founded by Keigo Oyamada in 1993 and is currently owned by Polystar, a group of independent record labels.- Current roster :*Keigo Oyamada*Louis PhilippeThis label no longer exists....

.

In 1995, Horie formed Neil & Iraiza with Gakuji Matsuda, serving as a vocalist and the group’s keyboardist.

In 2005, Horie formed Singer Songer with Shigeru Kishida of Quruli, Cocco and others, releasing one single and one album.

In the summer of 2007, Horie was invited by Yukihiro Takahashi

Yukihiro Takahashi

Yukihiro Takahashi is a Japanese musician, who is best known as the drummer and lead vocalist of the Yellow Magic Orchestra, and as the former drummer of the Sadistic Mika Band.-Biography:...

 of Yellow Magic Orchestra

Yellow Magic Orchestra

Sakamoto first worked with Hosono as a member of his live band in 1976, while Takahashi recruited Sakamoto to produce his debut solo recording in 1977 following the split of the Sadistic Mika Band...

 to form the pop electronica

Electronica

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 band pupa

Pupa

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.

Horie is a member of the band the Hiatus

The Hiatus

The Hiatus is a Japanese rock band formed by Takeshi Hosomi; the former lead vocalist of Ellegarden. Their official site defines The Hiatus as "a project of music and art, depicters."...

. In 2009, he joined the group as its keyboardist. He produced all the group’s songs in collaboration with Takeshi Hosomi, the former lead vocalist of Ellegarden

Ellegarden

Ellegarden is a Japanese rock group formed in December 1998 in Chiba, Japan. Ellegarden consists of drummer Hirotaka Takahashi, vocalist Takeshi Hosomi, guitarist Shinichi Ubukata, and bassist Yuichi Takada...

, and performed with the band live at concerts and festivals.

He is featured on the song "One Thousand 20th Century Chairs" from Kahimi Karie's album K.K.K.K.K..

Discography

American Rock

• Light in the Darkness (1997)

Billy No Mates

• C'monletmeseeyoupogo (2006)

Chocolat

• À la Mode (1997)
• Twinkle Starberry (1998)
• One Too Many (1998)
• Hamster (1999)

Cocco

• Cocco-san no Daidokoro CD (2009, produce)

Cornelius

• 69/96 (1995)

Cubismo Grafico

• Untitled (But One Wish) (2002)

Hideki Kaji

• Muscat E.P. (1996)
• Mini Skirt (1997)
• Eggstone (Single Version) (1997)
• Koibito ga Matteiru (1997)
• August E.P. (1998)
• Tea (1999)
• 15 Angry Men (1999)
• Ivy Ivory Ivy (2000)
• My Love, My Milk (2001)
• From Café Scandinavia With Love~For Café Après Midi (2001)
• Separate Ways (2001)

Kahimi Karie

• K.K.K.K.K. (1998)

Neil & Iraiza

• I ♥ NY (1996)
• Je suis ému E.P. (1997)
• Johnny Marr? (1997)
• Juillet (1999)
• Wasted Time (2000)
• New School (2002)

Pizzicato Five

• Romantique 96
  Romantique 96
  -Track listing:# "Potpourri" - 1:29# "The Awakening" - 2:34# "Welcome to the Circus" - 5:46# "Flying High" - 5:07# "Romantique 96" - 0:37# "Icecream Meltin' Mellow" - 6:39# "The Sound of Music" - 4:09# "Contact" - 4:23# "Nata Di Marzo" - 2:55...
  
  (1995)
• Sister Freedom Tapes (1997)
• Pizzicato Five (1999)

pupa

• floating pupa (2008)

Singer Songer

• Barairo Pop (2005)

Snapshot

• Icerink (1996)

The Hiatus

• Trash We'd Love (2009, produce)

External links

• [ Hirohisa Horie's at allmusic]
• Hirohisa Horie at Shibuyalink