is a Japanese

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the prod ...

. The Giza Studio started as an indie label in the late 1990s under the name Garage Indies Zapping Association, but soon Being Inc. bought it as their sister label company. Giza Studio is located in

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, Japan and has been producing successful artists such as Mai Kuraki,

Garnet Crow Garnet Crow (stylized as GARNET CROW) was a Japanese pop/rock band formed in 1999 and associated with the Giza Studio record label. Members include Yuri Nakamura, Hitoshi Okamoto, Nana Azuki, and Hirohito Furui, with Nakamura leading on vocals ...

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, etc. since their commercial service on September 1, 1998. Along with other Being Group's sister labels (Zain Records, Rooms Records, B-Gram Records, BMFC, Vermillion Records and Northern Music), the studio's main task is to create music productivity by hiring talented artists, composers and engineers. The label's creative design (such as CD-jacket, photography, cinematography) is handled by Mod's House, while J-Disc is in charge of all the distribution and promotion of the sales. Giza's artists have had provided numerous opening and ending themes for

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television series such as Meitantei Conan,

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and

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Sub-labels

*Giza Studio (GZCA) 1999- *Tent House (TCR) 1999- *Garage Indies Zapping Association (ICR) 1999-2000 *WEEDS (WRC) 1999 *O-Town Jazz (formerly known as Giza Jazz; GZCA) 1999- *Giza USA (GZUC) 2000-2001 *Styling Records (GZCS) 2002-2006 *UNDOWN (UCR) 2003 *Blue-Z (GZCB) 2004 *D-Go (GZDC) 2012- *Crimzon (CCR) 2014- *Rozetta (RCR) 2014

Active artists

Giza Studio

* Chicago Poodle *

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* d-project * Marie Ueda (植田真梨恵) * dps * Sard Underground

D-GO

*Sensation * Wands

Crimson

*Amai Bouryoku (甘い暴力) *Shintenchi Kaibyaku Shudan-Zigzag- (-真天地開闢集団-ジグザグ)

Giza Jazz / O-town Jazz

*Aoki Hikari (青紀ひかり) * Natsuki Morikawa (森川七月) *Yuki Okazaki (岡崎雪)

Former artists

* Grass Arcade (1998–1999) * 4D-JAM (1998–2001) *

New Cinema Tokage New Cinema Tokage (New Cinema 蜥蜴) was a Japanese rock-band under Giza Studio label active in years 19972002. Their management office was Ading. Members *Motoari Funaki (舩木基有) - vocalist and lyricist *Yuuichiro Iwai (岩井勇一郎 ...

(1998–2002) *

Sweet Velvet Sweet Velvet was a Japanese pop band under Giza Studio label, formed in 1998 and disbanded in 2001. Biography In 1998, the band formation began. As inspiration for music production they used French pop from the '60s. The band title Sweet Velvet ...

(1999–2001) * Jason Zodiac (1999–2002) *

Rumania Montevideo Rumania Montevideo is a Japanese pop band under the Giza Studio label. They were active from 1998 to 2002 and reformed in 2019. The band name comes from the combination of the Latin spelling of Romania and Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. ...

(1999–2002) * (1999–2006) * WAG (1999–2006) * (1999–2007) * (2000–2002) * Nothin' but love (2000–2002) *

Soul Crusaders Soul Crusaders was a Japanese pop and soul group, formed in 2000 and disbanded in 2002 under Giza Studio label. Biography In October 2000, they've made major debut with the single Safety Love which became their smash hit, ranked #30 in Oricon W ...

(2000–2002) *

Ramjet Pulley Ramjet Pulley (Japanese: ラムジェットプーリー) was a Japanese J-pop band active from 2000 to 2003 under the Giza Studio label. Personnel *Akiko Matsuda (松田明子) - vocalist *Satomi Makoshi (麻越さとみ) - bassist, lyricist *Ka ...

(2000–2003) * (2000–2010) *

(2000–2013) *

Les Mauvais Garçonnes Les Mauvais Garçonnes (レ・モーヴェ・ギャルソンヌ) was Japanese cover rock band under the Giza Studio label in years 2001-2002. History On 9 May 2001, they've made debut with cover single ''Ai no Sanka'' (愛の賛歌). The original ...

(2001–2002) * (2001–2002) * (2001–2003) * (2001–2004) * The★tambourines (2001–2009) * (2001–2010) * (2002–2006) * (2002–2007) * U-ka Saegusa in dB (2002–2010) * (2002–2011) * (2003–2008) * (2003–2008) * (2003–2009) * OOM (2005–2009) * (2005–2008) * (2005–2012) * (2006–2009) * (2006-2010) * (2007–2009) * (2007–2010) * Naifu (2007–2009) * Gulliver Get (2007–2011) * (2008–2009) * PINC INC (2008–2009) * (2008–2012) * Caos Caos Caos (2008-2018) * (2009–2010) * Grram (2010–2015) * Natsuiro (2012-2016) * WAR ED (2014–2015)

Composers and arrangers

* Aika Ohno * Akihito Tokunaga * Hiroshi Asai *

Yoshinobu Ohga is a Japanese musical arranger and guitarist in distributors Being Inc., mainly in their label Giza Studio. In years 2000-2002 he was part of the Japanese soul band '' Nothin' but love'', in years 2004-2009 part of Japanese pop band ''OOM'' an ...

* Hirohito Furui *

Hitoshi Okamoto is a Japanese guitarist, composer, arranger and the former member of the J-pop band Garnet Crow in years 1999-2013, as well as some of his own solo releases. Biography Since the release of Okamoto's 2010 solo album "Now Printing...", he has used ...

* Makoto Miyoshi * Kūron Oshiro *Yuuichirou Iwai *Kenji Gotou *Satoru Kobayashi

Compilation albums

References

External links

Giza studio website

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