Kensuke Ushio


Kensuke Ushio is a Japanese composer, rock and EBM musician who performs under the moniker agraph..
He is a member of Japanese rock band Lama. Together with Lama he released two full-length studio records New! in 2011 and Modanica a year later. Both albums charted on the Japanese Albums Chart.
As an EBM musician he released three albums, all of which peaked in the Japanese Albums Chart. He wrote and composed soundtracks for several anime television series and movies such as A Silent Voice, Space Dandy, Devilman Crybaby, Boogiepop, Ping Pong, Liz and the Blue Bird and Sanī/32.

Career

As a child Ushio learned playing piano. He studied arts and music at University. At the same time he learned the usage of the audio editor software Pro Tools. At the age of 20 Ushio got his first contact with electronic music such as techno.
He started his solo career in 2007 under the moniker agraph. and creates electronic music. His debut album A Day, Phases which was produced by Takkyu Ishino was released in December 2008. Two years later his second album Equal was released which ranked in the Japanese Albums Charts.
In 2011 Ushio and some former musicians of bands like Supercar and Number Girl formed a rock band called Lama. The band released two albums which both ranked on the official Albums Charts of Japan.
Due to his involvement in Lama, Ushio's third album named The Shader was released in 2016, six years after his second album. Ushio works as composer of film music as well. He worked on music for animation TV series and movies such like A Silent Voice, Devilman Crybaby, Space Dandy, Liz and the Blue Bird and several more.

Discography

Solo