1. Christopher John Mosdell was born on 9 November 1949 and is a British lyricist, poet, author, composer, vocalist and illustrator based in Tokyo, Japan, and New York City, United States.
26 Facts About Chris Mosdell
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Chris Mosdell has collaborated with an extensive array of musicians and artists, though he is especially known for his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and the poet Shuntaro Tanikawa.
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Chris Mosdell has written lyrics for Sarah Brightman and Boy George; co-written lyrics with Michael Jackson, had his work covered by Eric Clapton, worked with the West African kora player Toumani Diabate and the calligraphy artist Juichi Yoshikawa; and wrote the verse dance drama Amaterasu, the Resurrection of Radiance, that was performed with the City Ballet of London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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Chris Mosdell was born in Gainsborough, England and grew up in North Wales.
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Chris Mosdell moved to Tokyo in 1976 after completing a BSc from the University of Nottingham and withdrawing from a master's degree in pathology at the University of Exeter after realising his scientific leanings were at odds with his poetic interests.
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In 1977, a series of Chris Mosdell's poems, published in the Japan Times, came to the attention of the drummer for the Sadistic Mika Band, Yukihiro Takahashi.
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Chris Mosdell wrote the lyrics to the "Crazy Kimono Kids" and "Tokyo Taste" for their Sadistics album.
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Takahashi continued to be a prime collaborator for Chris Mosdell, inviting him to participate as the lyricist in his next musical endeavour, Yellow Magic Orchestra, who would go on to major success not only in Japan, but be one of the few Japanese acts to become known overseas as influential innovators in the field of popular electronic music.
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In 2008 Chris Mosdell teamed up with long-time collaborator Kazuhiko Kato for a new glam-rock band, Vitamin Q, releasing one album 'Vitamin Q featuring ANZA'.
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Chris Mosdell opened the show for their debut live performance at Shibuya AX.
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In 2010 Chris Mosdell began working with the photographer Yuriko Takagi on an adaption of the 10th-century Japanese poetry anthology Hyakunin Isshu, producing a new "Shibuya version".
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The PV features a collection of hundreds of fan messages singing the track Chris Mosdell originally wrote with the Yellow Magic Orchestra.
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Chris Mosdell worked with Uwe Schmidt to write Beethoven in Antennae, a song for Coppe's upcoming album.
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November 18,2022 ushered in the release of both Michael Jackson's anticipated Thriller 40, featuring the Chris Mosdell co-authored demo recording of "Behind the Mask", as well as an independently-produced spoken word recording in collaboration with E23, entitled Consumed By Ecstatic Cargoes.
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Chris Mosdell words were used in alternative forms when he wrote the lyrics to Shake the Whole World to Its Foundations, a work that has evolved from a mixed Japanese-Western orchestral setting to an electronic techno version.
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In 1988 Chris Mosdell collaborated with the poet Shuntaro Tanikawa on a deck of 77 cards in the omikuji fortune-telling tradition of Shinto shrines.
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Chris Mosdell wrote a "distractive" poem for each "oracle" in English, while Tanikawa wrote the reverse side in Japanese.
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Musician Yu Imai then worked alongside other studio performers with Chris Mosdell to create 77 audio sketches using Chris Mosdell's VISIC compositional method.
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Chris Mosdell was commissioned to write the theme song for the Social Democratic Party of Japan for the 1990 political election, resulting in the single "One World", an ensemble piece featuring an assortment of vocalists and session musicians.
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Chris Mosdell again collaborated with the calligraphy artist Juichi Yoshikawa, producing a bilingual publication, The Erotic Odes: A Pillow Book.
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Yoshikawa and Chris Mosdell further collaborated on the full text printing of Shake the Whole World to Its Foundations.
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In 1999 Chris Mosdell was asked by producer Shozo Tsurumoto to convey through sound the prehistorical view set forth by Graham Hancock in his book Fingerprints of the Gods.
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In 2000 Chris Mosdell was invited by the Institute of Tagore Studies and Research at Visva-Bharati University for a six-month sojourn at India's "Abode of Peace", established by Rabindranath Tagore as an experimental school for literature and dance.
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Chris Mosdell performed and under the spell of the lush and colourful environment wrote a new series of poems based on the 108 names of Krishna and the tripartite mystical utterance of the Upanisads.
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Chris Mosdell was commissioned to script the theatrical scenario for an updated Anglo-Japanese variation of the ancient Japanese epic, Amaterasu.
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Under the nickname "Mozz", Chris Mosdell has produced a series of three books under Goofy Guru Publishing, based in Boulder, Colorado.