Joe Hisaishi

Joe Hisaishi (born Mamoru Fujisawa in 1950 in Nagano Prefecture) is a Japanese composer. He started out in the 1970s drawing on minimalism, electronic music and Yellow Magic Orchestra, and later moved toward orchestral writing. He is best known for scoring nearly all of Hayao Miyazaki's films, from Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind to Spirited Away and The Boy and the Heron. Joe Hisaishi released MKWAJU in 1981, followed by the electropop and minimalist Information in 1982.