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Somei Satoh
Person · male · Japan · Sendai · born 1947 · recording since 1976
Japanese composer (1947-)
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Also known as Somei Satoh · Somei Sato · 佐藤[so]明 · 佐藤聰明 · 佐藤聰明
Timeline
13 events▣ Album 11◦ Birth 1★ Debut release 1
1940s
1970s
· Debut release
Debut release: 太陽讃歌
First documented Album in the MusicBrainz discography.
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1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Biography
English biography124 words · 3 sectionssource: wikipedia-en · licence CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1351677004
Biography
Somei Satoh (佐藤 聰明, Satō Sōmei; born January 19, 1947 in Sendai, Japan) is a Japanese composer of contemporary music.
Style
Satoh’s compositions mix Japanese court music with European romanticism and electronic music.
Career
His musical career began with an experimental, mix media group called "Tone Field" in Tokyo. He studied at Nihon University of Art in the early 1970s and is primarily self-taught in composition. In 1972 and 1981, Satoh produced two other experimental projects. The latter involved placing eight speakers approximately one kilometer apart on nearby mountain tops overlooking a huge valley. In 1985, he collaborated with theater designer Manuel Luetgenhorst to stage his music at The Arts at St. Ann's in Brooklyn, New York.
He wrote his violin concerto for Anne Akiko Meyers.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 11 | 82.8th |
| Studio albums | 11 | 91.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 13 | 89.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 48 | 89th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (11 release groups · 11 studio albums)
Albums · 11
1976 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 51:23
A1リタニア13:17A2鏡13:35B1太陽讃歌24:311982 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks
AMANDALABSUMERU1988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 56:39
1Mantra23:022Stabat Mater33:371988 · studio album
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Tracklist · 5 tracks · 1:02:52
1The Heavenly Spheres Are Illuminated by Lights11:512Birds in Warped Time II11:103Incarnation II18:234A Gate Into the Stars8:215Litania13:071994 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 43:59
1Kougetsu (Moon)15:142Sanyo (Sun)18:143Kaze No Kyoku (Wind)10:311998 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 1:05:36
1Mandara19:212Mantra23:153Tantra23:002003 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 1:02:56
1Kisetsu16:092Kyokoku21:213Violin Concerto25:262004 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks · 1:03:06
1From the Depth of Silence12:352Burning Meditation12:113Kyokoku23:584Kisetsu14:222009 · studio album
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Tracklist · 3 tracks · 49:39
1Ruika20:342Toward the Night14:383Homa14:272013 · studio album
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Tracklist · 2 tracks · 57:21
1Emerald Tablet26:542Echoes30:272024 · studio album
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Tracklist · 4 tracks
1エメラルド・タブレット2マンダラ3羅鑾幻聲4マントラ
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Somei Satoh head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 8 | 49.7th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 11 | 82.8th |
| Studio albums | 11 | 91.9th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 13 | 89.7th |
| Recording span (years) | 48 | 89th |
| Genres | 3 | 80.4th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
aliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dd3c27db-7089-44cc-a5e8-6f4c435270bddiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dd3c27db-7089-44cc-a5e8-6f4c435270bdcore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q922055seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somei_Satohbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somei_Satoh
Why this artist is in the database
- List of composers by name
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q922055 · MusicBrainz: dd3c27db-7089-44cc-a5e8-6f4c435270bd
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