Es VOL.12 心灵问答 FILE.12 Hirohito Furui

●○○From music freak Es Vol.12

This feature is a kind of word-association game: the members are asked to give the things or ideas that spontaneously come to mind in response to 30 words!
This time, it is Hirohito Furui, GARNET CROW’s keyboardist and arranger.

Heart ni Q.

FILE.12
Hirohito Furui

PROFILE-----
In charge of arranging and keyboards for GARNET CROW. He had already been active as a leading arranger before GARNET CROW was formed, and has worked on the arrangement and production of hundreds of songs, including all of GARNET CROW’s arrangements as well as works by ZARD, DEEN, and Miho Komatsu. His glamorous, vivid arrangements bring out the appeal of each melody, while his knowledge of a wide range of music, from AOR to the latest dance numbers, has earned him the deep trust of many artists and staff members. His flexible sensibility, which constantly seeks new styles, gives the songs he works on a profound radiance. He participated as a keyboardist in ZARD’s “What a beautiful memory Tour” held in 2007–2008.

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Q.1: Lucky color
Red

Q.2: Special skill
Driving

Q.3: Weakness
Secret......

Q.4: Essential item
The internet

Q.5: Courage
Beating myself

Q.6: Someone I admire
Many people

Q.7: Jinx
I’ve never thought about it

Q.8: Something unforgivable
Something wrong

Q.9: Cooking
I want to

Q.10: Sport
Live performances

Q.11: Love at first sight
Cats

Q.12: Tears
Humanity

Q.13: Time machine
It would be nice to have one

Q.14: Fate
Something unavoidable

Q.15: Solitude
Create

Q.16: The four seasons
One of the good things about Japan

Q.17: Space
Infinite

Q.18: 100,000 yen
Thank you!

Q.19: 1,000,000 yen
Lucky

Q.20: 10,000,000 yen
Super lucky

Q.21: Live performances
Sport

Q.22: Arrangement
Creation

Q.23: Studio
Memories

Q.24: Yuri Nakamura
Songstress

Q.25: AZUKI Nana
Individuality

Q.26: Hitoshi Okamoto
Prince

Q.27: GARNET CROW
Brand

Q.28: Uplifting song
“Spiral”

Q.29: Healing song
“Marionette Fantasia”

Q.30: 2011
Surely it will be a good year

Additional questions

Q1. [Lucky color = red] Is red also your favorite color? Or is it red because of GARNET CROW?!
A. There is no deep meaning,
　it was just a momentary inspiration~ Sorry!

Q2. [Special skill = driving] Do you go on drives? Is there a place you have driven to that left you thinking, “That was great!”?
A. A drive...... I haven’t been on one lately. I would like to drive along the coast from Hakone!

Q3. [Someone I admire = many people] Could you tell us about someone you admired who inspired you to begin making music?
A. I found myself doing it before I knew it (sweat).

Q4. You answered “cats” for love at first sight. Do you have any pets? (Or, even if you do not have one now, did you have one when you were young?) What is it about cats that makes you fall in love at first sight?
A. I do! Their faces and personalities, I suppose......