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Miharu Koshi (コシミハル , 越美晴, Koshi Miharu, born January 3, 1960) is a Japanese popular musician. Her career started in the late 1970s performing Japanese new music. By the mid 1980s she was performing music with electronic instruments (genre know as technopop) with many albums produced by Haruomi Hosono. Her later work has led to European classical music, French chanson and early 20th century European Jazz, which she sings in several languages (most often French). Discography: Toy Box Vol. 1 Omocha-bako - Dai ichi maku 1979 Lovestep / Arabian Rhapsody 1979 Kimagure Highway (Fantasy Highway) / Gogatsu no kaze (The...

Kosheen are a Bristol-based trio formed in 1998 by Sian Evans (vocals), Darren "Decoder" Beale and Markee "Substance" Morrison (both producing, mixing, guitars etc.). Kosheen achieved international success with their debut single Hide U, which reached #6 in UK official chart. Their debut album "Resist" (released in 2001), a powerful mixture of drum'n'bass, trip-hop, chillout, hip-hop-inspired beats and traditional singer-songwriter production, was warmly accepted by both critics and audience and later went "platinum" in the UK. With their second LP "Kokopelli", Kosheen changed their music style and turned to more rock-oriented tunes mixed with electronica & trip-hop. The first single...

Nikita Koshkin (born February 28, 1956) is a classical guitarist and composer born in Moscow. His early influences included Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Prokofiev, as well as rock music. As with those composers his music is characterised by rhythmic appeal, immediacy and wide range of colours, and well-thought-out dramatic content. Koshkin first came to prominence with his suite The Prince's Toys, completed in 1980 and first performed by the Czech-born guitarist Vladimir Mikulka. It depicts the fairytale world of a child in which his toys come to life and, eventually, abduct him to some other dimension. The suite incorporates numerous sound-effects...