Depapepe

DEPAPEPE

The first song that i heard from this duo acoustic group is “Pachelbel’s Canon, a song that very familiar to me. They re-arrangement and make it much more comfortable on my ear. You can see the video in here.

Who are Depapepe?
They are Takuya Miura (born April 5th, 1983) and Yoshinari Takuoka (born on July 15th, 1977). The duo formed in November 2002. They released three indies before their major debut, which collectively reached sales figures of about 100,000. They made their major debut in 2005 with their album “Let’s Go!!!”, and ranked within the top 10 of Oricon’s Instrumental Artist Debut Chart.

The band’s name was cobbled together by combining the Japanese word for overbite, ‘deppa’, because of Miura’s overbite, and the name of Takuoka’s previous band ‘DERUPEPE’. Contrary to a popular rumor circulating among their fans, the two guitarists are not brothers. They are signed onto Sony Music Japan.

Tokuoka gives full play to his talent as melody maker, while Miura sensitively yet boldly embodies his emotions with help of his guitar. With catchy melodies, great strumming rythmns and energetic style, Depapepe’s songs are seemingly popular across all genders, ages and languages. With their quick interchanges, skilfully smooth and melodic solos and synergistic accompaniment so brilliant that even without vocals, the song feels complete even for instrumental newbies. Depapepe has a very well-rounded range of guitar techniques and sometimes, they apply very basic stuff such as harmonics, tremelo etc aptly to augment the song. Their songs aren’t technically difficult but the two guys just do it very well.

Albums

Album	Release Date
「 Acoustic Friends 」	February 5, 2004
「 Passion Of Gradation 」	December 2, 2004
「 Let’s Go!!! 」	May 18, 2005
「 Hi！Mode！！」	October 19, 2005
「 Ciao! Bravo!! 」	April 19, 2006
「 BEGINNING OF THE ROAD ～collection of early songs～」	May 1, 2007
「 DEPACLA ～depapepe plays the classics～」	November 28, 2007
「 HOP! SKIP! JUMP! 」	April 2, 2008
「 Depanatsu Drive! Drive! Drive! 」	July 30, 2008
「 Depafuyu 」	November 26, 2008
「 Do! 」	June 3,2009

Singles

Single	Release Date
Summer Parade	July 20, 2005
Spur – Winter Version 05 / Swingin Happy X Mas	November 30, 2005
Lahaina	March 15, 2006
Night & Day	October 11, 2006
Sakura Kaze	February 21, 2007
KATANA	April 22, 2009