Masami Tsuchiya is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician. He came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and guitarist in the group Ippu-Do. His subsequent output includes solo

Solo (music)

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 work and collaborations. Tsuchiya has worked with artists as diverse as English New Wave

New Wave music

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 rockers Japan

Japan (band)

Japan were a British New Wave group, formed in 1974 in Catford, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement .- History :The band began as a group of friends...

 and Bill Nelson

Bill Nelson (musician)

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, Japanese electronica

Electronica

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 composer Ryuichi Sakamoto

Ryuichi Sakamoto

After working as a session musician with Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi in 1977, the trio formed the internationally successful electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1978. Known for their seminal influence on electronic music, the group helped pioneer electronic genres such as...

, Duran Duran

Duran Duran

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 side-project Arcadia

Arcadia (band)

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, and Japanese rock

Rock music

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 band Buck-Tick

Buck-Tick

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.

In March 2008, Tsuchiya formed the rock band Vitamin-Q along with Kazuhiko Kato

Kazuhiko Kato (musician)

, nicknamed , was a Japanese record producer, songwriter, and singer. He sometimes used the spelling of "Kazuhiko Katoh".As a member of the Folk Crusaders, Kato launched his recording career in the mid 1960s...

, Gota Yashiki

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, Rei Ohara and Anza. However, after Kato's suicide on October 17, 2009, the fate of the group is uncertain.

In June 2010, following news of former collaborator Mick Karn

Mick Karn

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's (former Japan

Japan (band)

Japan were a British New Wave group, formed in 1974 in Catford, South London. The band achieved success in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when they were often associated with the burgeoning New Romantic fashion movement .- History :The band began as a group of friends...

 bassist) cancer diagnosis, Tsuchiya reunited with former bandmates Gota Yashiki

Gota Yashiki

Gota Yashiki is both an independent acid jazz artist and drum player, as a member of the band Simply Red. He was born in Kyoto, Japan, on 26 February 1962, where at a young age he learned how to play traditional Japanese drums. This interest in drumming propelled him into the music scene, and he...

, Vivian Hsu

Vivian Hsu

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, and Masahide Sakuma (of Japanese new wave group Plastics) and recorded two songs for a proposed September 2010 release to raise funds for Karn and his family. The musicians had recorded together as The d.e.p. in the early 2000s, releasing the album "Shinkei Stop" in 2001.

Ippu-Do

• (1979) Normal - album
• (1980) Real - album
• (1981) Radio Fantasy - album
• (1982) Lunatic Menu - compilation album
• (1983) Night Mirage - album
• (1984) Live and Zen - album

Solo & collaborations

• (1982) Rice Music - album
• (1983) Alone - book with flex disc records
• (1985) Tokyo Ballet - album
• (1986) "Life In Mirrors" - album
• (1988) Horizon - album
• (1989) "Time Passenger" - album
• (1998) Forest People - album

Contributions

• (1983) Japan "Oil on Canvas
  Oil on Canvas
  Oil on Canvas is a live album by the British band Japan, released in 1983 by Virgin Records. Although it is a live recording of their established material, the album also contains three new studio tracks , recorded separately by Sylvian, Sylvian/Jansen and Barbieri respectively...
  
  " - guitar and keyboards
• (1985) Arcadia "So Red the Rose
  So Red the Rose
  So Red the Rose is the platinum-selling album by the Duran Duran-spinoff group Arcadia, which was released in 1985 — the only album the band ever released...
  
  " - guitar
• (2004) dr jan guru (Jan Linton
  Jan Linton
  Jan Linton is a singer, musician and producer from Warrington, England, who helped internationalize the music scene in Tokyo, Japan.-Biography:...
  
  ) "Planet Japan" - guitar
• (2004) Sakurai Atsushi, "Ai no Wakusei
  Ai no Wakusei
  Ai no Wakusei is the first solo album by Sakurai Atsushi of Buck-Tick. Released in 2004, the album was packaged in a special long box, packed with a photo book, though it is also now out of print. On the album, Sakurai wrote all lyrics and provided all vocals while the music was composed by a...
  
  " - Composer of the song "Shingetsu"

Other work

• Parade -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick-
  Parade -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick-
  Parade -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick- is a Buck-Tick tribute album, released on December 21, 2005. It collects cover versions of their songs by various artists.- Tracklisting :...
  
  (December 21, 2005, "Mienai Mono o Miyo to Suru Gokai Subete Gokai da")
• Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth-
  Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album
  The Luna Sea Memorial Cover Album -Re:birth- is a Luna Sea tribute album released on December 19, 2007. It collects cover versions of Luna Sea songs performed by various artists. The release of the CD coincided with Luna Sea's one-night reunion concert on December 24.-Track listing:...
  
  (December 19, 2007, "Moon")