Hoppy Kamiyama
Japanese keyboardist and music producer (born 1960)
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Hoppy Kamiyama (ホッピー 神山, Hoppī Kamiyama; born 1960) is a Japanese keyboardist and music producer who has worked with artists such as eX-Girl, The Pugs, Bradford Reed, Bill Laswell, Jan Linton, Marc Ribot, Hugh Hopper/Elton Dean and Damo Suzuki.[1][2]
Biography
His record company, God Mountain, was named after the English translation of his family name.[3] God Mountain was established in 1993 after his frustration with EMI pulling two of his albums from sale.[4]
Kamiyama cites Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio, Iannis Xenakis and Karlheinz Stockhausen as his influences – artists with a "bizarre sense and distorted feel and touch".[5]
His nickname is derived from Hoppy, a cheap Japanese liquor that he drank during his early professional musician days.[3]