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KASHIWA Daisuke (柏 大輔) is a Japanese musician, composer, and a mixing and mastering engineer based in Tokyo, Japan. He is best known for composing music for the 2013 Japanese anime drama film The Garden of Words. His works include piano compositions, such as the 2011 album 88, to more experimental music, such as the 2007 album program music I.

Biography
KASHIWA Daisuke began is career as a musician in 2001, as a composer and guitarist for the post-rock band Yodaka. He began working as a solo artist in 2004.

His first album, april., was released in 2006 under the German label Onpa, a division of Mittemusique. He continued to release his second album, program music I, in 2007 and his third album, 5 Dec., in 2009, both under the Noble label.

In 2011, KASHIWA Daisuke released his fourth album, and first piano composition album, named 88 after the 88 notes on a standard piano, on Virgin Babylon Records. It received a rating of 8 out of 10 from Jordan Dowling of the England-based magazine/webzine Contact Music, stating "It wanders throughout at a pedestrian pace /---/ yet it still carries a considerable emotional weight".

He released his fifth album, Re:, in 2012 under the label Virgin Babylon Records.

In 2013, he composed most of the musical scores for the Japanese animated film The Garden of Words, many of which were new recordings of compositions from his earlier album 88.

KASHIWA Daisuke, as part of the rock band Yodaka, released their only album as a group on February 5, 2016.

Discography

 * Albums
 * april. (February 13, 2006)
 * april. (April 18, 2007), a Remix Album of april.#02.
 * program music I (August 24, 2007)
 * 5 Dec. (20 February 2009)
 * 88 (July 29, 2011)
 * Re: (November 24, 2012)
 * april. (January 21, 2014), the 2006 album reissued under the Japanese Noble record label.
 * 9 Songs (November 1, 2014)
 * program music II (April 23, 2016)


 * With yodaka
 * Betrayal and Reincarnation (February 5, 2016)