Keiichi Suzuki


Keiichi Suzuki is a Japanese musician, singer, and record producer who co-founded the Moonriders, a group that became one of Japan's most innovative rock bands. He is known to audiences outside Japan for his musical contributions to the video games EarthBound Beginnings/Mother and EarthBound/Mother 2, both of which have been released on several soundtracks. More recently, he has composed film scores including The Blind Swordsman: Zatōichi, Tokyo Godfathers, Uzumaki, Chicken Heart, as well as Takeshi Kitano's Outrage trilogy.
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Career

Suzuki was born in Tokyo, Japan, the son of actor Akio Suzuki. He has a younger brother, Hirobumi Suzuki. In the early 1970s, Keiichi became involved with the Japanese band Hachimitsu Pie, who released one album in 1973. Later in the 1970s, Suzuki functioned as the occasional leader and regular singer of the Moonriders — the group's first album was in fact credited to "Keiichi Suzuki and the Moonriders". The band included his brother Hirobumi on bass. Afterward, he collaborated with Yellow Magic Orchestra co-founder Yukihiro Takahashi as the duo The Beatniks. He was also a member of the trio Three Blind Moses.
As an actor, Suzuki appeared in the 1980s films; Body Drop Asphalt, Shunji Iwai's Swallowtail, and Love Letter, as well as other films from the late 1990s and early 2000s.
In 1989, Suzuki cowrote the soundtrack to the video game EarthBound Beginnings/Mother. In 1994, he would write more music for the game's sequel, EarthBound/Mother 2. A few years after EarthBound/Mother 2, Suzuki provided the music for the audio game Real Sound: Kaze no Regret.
His song "Satellite Serenade" was remixed by The Orb and was later featured on Sasha & Digweed's Northern Exposure and The Orb's Auntie Aubrey's Excursions Beyond the Call of Duty compilation.
In February 2008, Suzuki released a new solo album Captain Hate & First Mate Love in collaboration with Keiichi Sokabe, touring together in late spring 2008. The follow-up Pirate Radio Seasick appeared in 2009, and the third part In Retrospect in January 2011.

Influences

Suzuki cited John Lennon of the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Van Dyke Parks, Andy Partridge of XTC, Godley & Creme, Miklos Rozsa, and Harry Nilsson as influences, particularly on the tracks he composed for the Mother series.

Discography

with Hachimitsu-Pie

  • ''Sentimental Dohri''

with Moonriders

  1. MOONRIDERS
  2. Istanbul mambo
  3. NOUVELLES VAGUES
  4. MODERN MUSIC
  5. CAMERA EGAL STYLO
  6. Aozora Hyakkei
  7. MANIA MANIÈRA
  8. AMATEUR ACADEMY
  9. ANIMAL INDEX
  10. DON'T TRUST OVER THIRTY
  11. Christ, Who's gonna die first?
  12. A.O.R.
  13. Moonriders No Yoru
  14. Bizarre Music For You
  15. GetsuMen Sanka
  16. dis-covered
  17. Dire Morons TRIBUNE
  18. P.W Babies Paperback
  19. MOON OVER the ROSEBUD
  20. Tokyo7
  21. Ciao!
  22. ''it's the moooonriders''

The SUZUKI (with his brother Hirobumi Suzuki)

  • The Suzuki meets GREAT SKIFFLE AUTREY（1990）
  • The Suzuki ’95（1995）
  • The Suzuki meets 栗コーダーカルテット（1998）

No Lie-Sense (with Keralino Sandorovich)

Controversial Spark

  • After Intermission

Suzuki-Matsuwo (with Kiyonori Matsuo)

  • One Hit Wonder（2023）

Solo studio albums

  • Hyi No Tama Boy
  • S.F.,
  • Suzuki White-Report
  • Tokyo Taro Is Living in Tokyo
  • Satelliteserenade – as Suzuki K1 >> 7.5cc
  • Yes, Paradise, Yes | M.R.B.S. – as Suzuki K1 >> 7.5cc
  • No.9 – with Moonriders
  • Captain Hate & First Mate Love
  • Pirate Radio, Seasick'
  • In Retrospective
  • Keiichi Suzuki: Music for Films and Games
  • Records and Memories
  • ''Mother Music Revisited''

Filmography

Film

Swallowtail Butterfly Uzumaki The Blind Swordsman: Zatōichi Tokyo Godfathers Chicken Heart For the Plasma His Last Letter Just Remembering, NaguraCall Me Chihiro, old musicianPlastic Kyrie Ghost Cat Anzu, buddhist monk Paradise of Solitude Gosh!! BAUS: The Ship's Voyage Continues, Takuo1st Kiss

Television

Bullets, Bones and Blocked Noses, Shimura