Sunday, August 4, 2013

Supercell & Egoist Band Profile

Supercell is a Japanese 11-member J-pop music group led by songwriter Ryo, which formed in 2007 as a dōjin music group. The other 10 members are artists and designers who provide illustrations in album booklets and music videos. Supercell started out by making use of the Hatsune Miku Vocaloid singing synthesizer to produce vocals for songs submitted to the Nico Nico Douga video sharing website. The popularity of the songs led the group to release their independent self-titled album Supercell (2008). Supercell later signed to Sony Music Entertainment Japan and had a professional release of their Supercell album in March 2009, which was updated with more songs.
Supercell made a transition to vocalist Nagi Yanagi with their debut single "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari" (2009). Two more singles featuring Yanagi were released in 2010, followed by Supercell's second album Today Is A Beautiful Day (2011), which was Yanagi's last contribution with Supercell. Following Yanagi's departure, Supercell held auditions for vocalists, and two girls were chosen out of about 2,000 candidates: 15-year-old Koeda and 17-year-old Chelly. Both vocalists sing the theme songs for the 2011 anime Guilty Crown, and released their first singles with Supercell in 2011. Chelly sings under the alternate name Egoist.
Supercell and Today Is A Beautiful Day were awarded a Gold Disc by the Recording Industry Association of Japan for having exceeded 100,000 copies shipped in a single year, and Supercell was chosen as one of the best five new Japanese artists of 2009 during the 2010 Japan Gold Disc Award competition.




EGOIST is a fictional band featured in the anime series Guilty Crown led by main character Yuzuriha Inori. Voiced by chelly (recruited by supercell leader Ryo), EGOIST performed both the series' ending theme "Departures - Anata ni Okuru Ai no Uta" and the insert song "Euterpe". Then Egoist appeared to fill the ending song for the anime Psycho-Pass with the song Namae no Nai Kaibutsu and All Alone with You. Egoist also already has one album titled Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities. Can be spelled, Egoist is the side project of ryo.

Members
Other members
Former members

Official Pages

Discography



Ryo(Supercell) 
Albums
Collaborations
  • [2010.7.14]  "Kotchi Muite Baby / Yellow" (with Kz of Livetune) [Vocalist: Hatsune Miku]
  • [2011.8.31]  "Sekiranun Graffiti / Fallin' Fallin' Fallin'" (with Dixie Flatline) [Vocalist: Hatsune Miku]
  • [2012.8.29] "Odds & Ends / Sky of Beginning" (with Jin)   [Vocalist: Hatsune Miku]
Others 
  • [2012.12.19] Love Me Gimi [Vocalist: Tia]
  • [2014.03.12] Noragami (Anime)" Outro Theme: Heart Realize [Vocalist: Tia]


Egoist
Albums
  •  [2012.9.19] Extra terrestrial Biological Entities [Vocalist: Chelly]
Singles
  •  [2011.11.30] Departures ~あなたにおくるアイの歌~ (Departures ~ anata ni okuru ainouta ~) [Vocalist: Chelly]
  • [2012.3.7] The Everlasting Guilty Crown [Vocalist: Chelly]
  • [2012.12.5] 名前のない怪物 (Namae no nai kaibutsu) [Vocalist: Chelly]
  • [2013.3.6] All Alone With You [Vocalist: Chelly]

Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Who's Supercell?
A: supercell is a musical group / circle led by ryo, which is the main brain of the supercell that acts as a composer, songwriter, etc., although it could be called a music group, supercell does not consist of the instrumental players and consists of only 10 people ryo and illustrator, among others, Huke, Shirow miwa, redjuice etc.

Q: Who's Ryo?A: As explained in the first question, Ryo is the main brain, the genius behind the supercell, songwriter, composer, arranger carpenters songs etc., ryo's very good at keeping the shape, face, and the shape is still a mystery to the fans supercell. ryo was once featured in a show at NHK but it was seen only one-hand, sound, and his office room on the screen. There has been speculation that pianist in PV My Dearest, Kokuhaku, and ODDS & ENDS is ryo itself.


Q: Who is the main vocalist supercell?
A: supercell does not have a the main vocalist or vocalist fixed. Hatsune Miku initially used for vocals supercell and so are in some songs until now. Then, Nagi Yanagi had used the services as a guest vocal supercell. Currently, as a guest vocalist who is koeda [for supercell] and chelly [for Egoist]. In one of TamStar Records album release at Comiket 83 [December 2012], supercell donate a song with Yuzuki Yukari as a vocalist.


Q: Who's Hatsune Miku?A: Hatsune Miku is a vocalist of character Vocaloid, a program / ​​vocal synthesizer software developed by Yamaha. Software from this itself Miku was developed by Crypton Future Media. For more details, please go to the official web Vocaloid 


Q: Who's Yanagi Nagi?A: Yanagi Nagi, was born on 31 May 1987, is a former Niconico Douga Utaite / Singer (name Gazelle), who has been involved in various doujin music album and have several times as a guest vocalist for the supercell in single Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari , Sayonara Memories, Utakata Hanabi, and also in the album Today is a Beautiful Day. Since the year 2012, she has started to get a major label with the name of Nagi Yanagi and have released four singles. For more info, please go to the official web Yanagi Nagi


Q: Who's Koeda?
A: koeda is supercell guest vocalist at this time selected through auditions in 2011. Being a guest vocalist in the following single, My Dearest, Bokura no Ashiato / Kokuhaku, Gin-iro Hikousen, and The Bravery. 


Q: Who's Chelly?
A: chelly also a guest vocalist with koeda selected on an audition in 2011. However, chelly projected to fill Yuzuriha Inori vocals, vocalist Egoist, which appeared in the anime Guilty Crown. Together with Egoist, chelly involved in single Departures ~ anata ni ai no uta ~ Okuru, The Everlasting Guilty Crown, Namae no Nai Kaibutsu, and All Alone with You. In addition, it is also involved in the album Extra Terrestrial Biological Entities. 


Q: That's Yanagi Nagi in Sayonara Memories PV, isn't it?
A: No, That's all just demonstrated by the models, and the girl who became lead singer was also models [forgot her name].


Q: Is Ryo has worked in addition to supercell?A: In addition to making songs for supercell and Egoist, ryo also have contributed to creating songs for other singers. Some of them are as follows:  
- Rapbeat x clear x ryo - Ashita e [the album TamStar Records Collection Vol. 0] 
- Kotoko - Light My Fire 
- Claris - Naisho no Hanashi 
- Tia - Love Me, Gimme

Q: Had supercell shown live perform?A: in the event MikuFES '09 with Hatsune Miku as vocal [name also MikuFES]. But even when it put the name of supercell looks like it is not original supercell personnel and just add players. Indeed, each of time pause the song there is ryo voice  that greets the audience but it was just his voice while ryo didn't seem at all [may be he speaks behind the stage].

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