Fukuyama Masaharu の Heart

Hatsukoi (”はつ恋” First Love)
Music / Lyrics: Fukuyama Masaharu

This desire
Even though I know it will engulf you in pain,
Even if it should hurt you so, I still want to have you
The bliss that we’ve only just grasped in our hands
Has now been ripped apart, by these same hands
There is a place (we have) to return [...]

An Elegant Talk with Koike Teppei

We are in the last stages of summer! The August TamaRadi is into the final week of its theme “The Ikemen Month” (Ikemen: Handsome men). And the most suitable person to come just before we wrap up, is the young ikemen, Koike Teppei. Koike–san is in the middle of [...]

The New Fukuyama Masaharu, by Goofy Mori-san
~Published in BROS Fan Club Newsletter (2006.03) Issue 70 ~

From recording, to concerts and CMs etc, Goofy Mori-san has always been there with the multi-disciplinary creative talent, Fukuyama Masaharu. Having known Fukuyama for 14 years, what does Goof Mori-san think about the “new Fukuyama Masaharu”?

■ First, can you [...]

Goofy Mori, 10 Years with Fukuyama Masaharu (2000)

Mutual Trust. The essence between an artist and his Producer. Fukuyama Masaharu’s Producer, Goofy Mori-san talks about his “10 years with him”

■ When and under what circumstances did you get to know Fukuyama-kun?
G: The first time I met him was on 1991.02.16 in the narrow waiting [...]

The 20th Year Sign Post

■ But you’re basically an introvert. How do you handle your own emotions when you’re writing songs of the past that are so full of regret?
F: I let myself get as depressed as possible (laugh). It’s not exactly like the “Runner’s High”*1 that athletes experience. For me, you can [...]

The 20th Year Sign Post
Part 1 is posted here.
■ The latest original album was released after a long gap from the last one. It’s called “Zankyo”( 殘響 Reverberations / Echoes in the Heart). Perhaps he wanted to close off a chapter, now that he’s reached his 10th album. Things with sounds; things which were [...]