JAM Project ("JAM" standing for "Japan Animationsong Makers") are a Japanese anison band founded on July 19, 2000, by anison singer Ichirō Mizuki. The band is composed of many vocal artists well known in the anime music industry. Aside from the many anime, tokusatsu, and video game theme songs the band has performed together, each member is famous for their own solo performances of Japanese theme songs. JAM Project is known to worldwide audiences for their theme music contributions to Garo and One-Punch Man.
Top Tracks
Releases in the Catalogue
- JAM Project - JAM Project Hurricane Tour 2009 Gate of the Future -
LABM-7056(2009) - JAM Project - Symphonic Concert 2011 -
LZM-2050(2011)
Members
Current
Former
History
Translated from the ja.wikipedia article JAM Project (CC BY-SA 4.0), revision 110581202.
Overview
JAM Project was formed in response to Ichirō Mizuki's call to “preserve the good old ‘anime song spirit’ for the 21st century.” Behind its formation was a sense of doubt regarding the trend at the time of its establishment of using tie-in songs by popular artists for anime and game theme songs that were generally unsuitable for the content of the works, although all anime and game songs are tie-ins between works and artists.
Its official name is Japan Animationsong Makers Project (ジャパン・アニメーションソング・メイカーズ・プロジェクト).
Its sound has been strongly influenced by the presence among its early members of Eizo Sakamoto, who had been active in ANTHEM and Animetal, as well as by Kageyama of Lazy, a band that also had a period of pursuing a hard-rock-oriented style. Many of its songs are therefore quite close to Japanese heavy metal and hard rock. Its live performances are also high-energy and resemble the intensity of heavy metal concerts. Among those with experience as backing-band members are many figures connected to hard rock and heavy metal, including Yogo Kono, Munetaka Higuchi, Soul Tohru, Atsushi Yokozeki, Koichi Terasawa, Hiroya Fukuda, Nuno Bettencourt, and Akira Takasaki.
Its producer is Shunji Inoue, the representative of Lantis and keyboardist of Lazy.
More recently, it has been active not only in Japan but internationally as well, undertaking world tours and holding joint live performances with Animetal USA.
Members
Current regular members
Hironobu Kageyama (initial period–present) Masaaki Endoh (initial period–present) Hiroshi Kitadani (joined June 2002) Masami Okui (joined March 2003) Yoshiki Fukuyama (joined March 2003)
Semi-regular member
Ricardo Cruz (participates irregularly since "Nekketsu! Shippuu! Cybuster")
Former members
Ichirō Mizuki (initial period–August 2002, when he declared himself a "non-full-time member"; died in December 2022) Rica Matsumoto (initial period–April 2008, when she declared a hiatus from activities) Eizo Sakamoto (initial period–March 2003, when he "graduated")
Sources
- Wikidata entity Q939311.
- en.wikipedia, JAM Project (revision 1362621825), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- ja.wikipedia, JAM Project (revision 110581202), CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Photograph: JAM Project.jpg - Press shot via Deezer (artist 6372).