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Colorful Mannings (KOSEN)

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Record labels
  
Warner Music Group, VAP

Birth name
  
Yuichiro Kosen (古銭 友一郎)

Born
  
April 29, 1984 (age 32) Tokyo, Japan (
1984-04-29
)

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, producer, vocalist

Instruments
  
Guitar, vocals, multi-instrumentalist, Modular Synth, Synthesizer

Associated acts
  
The Beatmoss (2012–present) Sophia Girma RIP SLYME Peaky SALT(2008-2010)

Website
  
http://colorfulmannings.com/

Albums
  
Moso Kanojo (Original Soundtrack)

Genres
  
Indie rock, Electronica, Synthpop, Techno, J-pop

Similar
  
The Beatmoss, Stephen Cooper, Keisuke Ogihara

KOSEN (Colorful Mannings) (古銭 友一郎, Yuichiro KOSEN, born April 29, 1984) is a Japanese recording artist, producer, composer for Film and TV, and best known as a member of the hip-hop rock band THE BEATMOSS. He currently pursues a solo career that is called, “Colorful Mannings.” His sound is influenced by 80’s New Wave/Techno and also 90’s alternative rock /grunge music.

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Career

KOSEN(Colorful Mannings) was born and raised in Tokyo. In 2003, He had moved to San Diego in the U.S to study making film. After he graduated from college in U.S, he made his debut as a member of the Japanese rock band Peaky SALT. House Foods Corporation featured songs of the band in their TV commercial. The band also played in a lot of famous Japanese TV shows. KOSEN scored three singles and two albums in two years until the band broke up.


Following the disbandment of Peaky SALT in 2010, KOSEN started scoring hip-hop/rock songs with Finnish-Japanese rapper/vocal ILMARI, who is best known as a member of RIP SLYME, and they formed a band THE BEATMOSS with bassist YAS and drummer SOHNOSUKE (also known as a member of jazz quartet “Quasimode”). The band’s second single “SUPERSTAR” was chosen as a campaign song for world-famous brand “adidas originals” -Unite All Originals -Rashisa wo Butsukero-.


Besides recording with THE BEATMOSS, he currently pursues a solo career that is called, “Colorful Mannings.” He has already scored as “Colorful Mannings” for two feature films (“Koikarassa”(2013), “Happy Landing”(2014)) and serial drama (“MOSO Kanojo”(2015)).

Colorful Mannings

  • Moso Kanojo Original Soundtrack (2015)
  • Sarah / Sarah -Nu Disco Remix- (2016) – feat. Sophia Girma

    • The Beatmoss

  • The Beatmoss vol.1 (2012)
  • The Beatmoss vol.2 (2013)

    • Peaky SALT

  • Ituwari Typhoon No.3 (2009)
  • Peaky SALT (2009)

    • Other works

  • GOLDEN TIME (2013) by RIP SLYME – Co-Writer for M2 "FAKE"
  • Be My Guest (2014) by DJ Souljah – Co-Writer for M12 "Believe That"

    • Film

  • Koikarassa (2014)
  • Happy Landing (2014)

    • TV series

  • Moso Kanojo (2015)
  • Neko Neko Nihonsi (2016)

    • Songs

    Sarah -Nu Disco Remix-2016
    I'm YoursMoso Kanojo (Original Soundtrack) · 2015
    Sarah2016

    References

    Colorful Mannings (KOSEN) Wikipedia
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