Garnet Crow

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Garnet Crow
From left to right: Nana Azuki, Hitoshi Okamoto, Yuri Nakamura, Hirohito Furui
Background information
Origin	Japan
Genre(s)	Pop
Years active	1999–present
Label(s)	GIZA studio
Website	www.garnetcrow.com
Members
Yuri Nakamura Nana Azuki Hitoshi Okamoto Hirohito Furui

Garnet Crow is a four-piece Japanese band consisting of a vocalist, two keyboardists and a guitarist. The unique composition of the band, along with Yuri Nakamura's deeper vocals than her contemporaries, makes this band stand out from other Japanese bands. What also makes this band unique, is that each member is successful in their own right. Although it is Nakamura and Azuki who are usually in the limelight, Furui is a well sought after music arranger (One of the highest paid in Japan) and Okamoto has a successful solo career.

Contents 1 History 2 Members 3 Discography 3.1 Singles 3.2 Albums 3.3 Mini-albums 3.4 DVDs 3.5 Remix albums 4 External links

[edit] History

The four members of Garnet Crow first met in a recording studio of GIZA studio in 1999. A mini-album was released near the end of that year on December 4th. Causing a major hit in the indies scene, GIZA studio quickly signed them up onto their label and has since been doing quite well. They have provided numerous theme songs for the two animes, Case Closed (better known as Detective Conan) and MÄR.

Their major hit came in 2002 with their 10th single, Yume mita ato de, a featured theme song for Case Closed. Thanks to live performances on television music networks, sales rocketed upwards and is currently the best selling single in Garnet Crow's history. Since then, they have done numerous other live performances on music networks and shows to help promote their releases.

They have, to date, released 24 singles, 1 mini-album, 5 albums, 1 best album, 1 remix album, and three DVDs.

[edit] Members

• Yuri Nakamura (vocals, music composition)
• Nana Azuki (keyboard, lyrics)
• Hirohito Furui (keyboard, Music Arrangement)
• Hitoshi Okamoto (guitar)

[edit] Discography

A detailed discography containing information and tracklist of each disc can be seen in Garnet Crow discography.

[edit] Singles

1. [2000.03.29] Mysterious Eyes (Detective Conan 7th op (ep 168-204))
2. [2000.03.29] Kimi no uchi ni tsuku made zutto hashitte yuku
3. [2000.05.17] Futari No Rocket
4. [2000.09.27] Sen ijou no kotoba wo narabete mo...
5. [2000.10.25] Natsu no maboroshi (Detective Conan 10th ed (ep 205-218))
6. [2000.11.29] flying (Tales of Eternia opening theme)
7. [2001.05.09] Last love song
8. [2001.08.08] call my name (Project Arms 2nd ed)
9. [2001.11.21] Timeless Sleep (Project Arms 3rd ed)
10. [2002.03.13] Yume mita ato de (Detective Conan 14th ed (ep 266-287))
11. [2002.08.14] Spiral
12. [2002.12.11] Crystal gauge
13. [2003.07.23] Nakenai yoru mo nakanai asa mo
14. [2003.09.10] Kimi to iu hikari (Detective Conan 18th ed (ep 329-349))
15. [2004.01.14] Bokura dake no mirai
16. [2004.06.16] Kimi wo kazaru hana wo sakasou (Monkey turn ending theme)
17. [2004.11.17] Wasurezaki (Detective Conan 20th ed (ep 377-397))
18. [2005.05.18] Kimi no omoi egaita yume atsumeru HEAVEN (MÄR 1st op)
19. [2005.11.23] Haredokei (MÄR 2nd op)
20. [2006.03.01] Rai Rai Ya
21. [2006.07.05] Yume Hanabi (MÄR 3rd op)
22. [2006.08.15] Koyoi Eden no Katasumi de (MÄR 6th ed)
23. [2006.09.06] Maboroshi
24. [2007.02.21] Kaze to Rainbow / Kono te wo nobaseba (MÄR 4th op / 8th ed)

[edit] Albums

1. [2001.01.31] first soundscope ~mizu no nai hareta umi e~
2. [2002.04.24] Sparkle ~sujigakidoori no sky blue~
3. [2003.11.12] Crystallize ~kimi to iu hikari~
4. [2004.12.08] I'm waiting 4 you
5. [2005.10.26] Garnet Crow Best
6. [2006.10.04] The Twilight Valley

[edit] Mini-albums

1. [1999.12.04] first kaleidscope ~kimi no uchi ni tsuku made zutto hashitte yuku~

[edit] DVDs

1. [2003.02.26] first live scope and document movie
2. [2004.06.16] Garnet Crow livescope 2004 ~kimi to iu hikari~
3. [2005.07.20] "le 5 ème anniversaire" L'Histoire de 2000 à 2005

[edit] Remix albums

1. [2004.01.21] Garnet Crow Remixes Cool City Production vol.8

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) Garnet Crow official website
• (Japanese) GIZA studio's official website
• (English) GC Soundscope
• (English) Garnet Crow Fansite - 7 Seas
• (French) Jmusic.fr.tc biographie et discographie, section jmusic (fr)