Kiyoshi Ijichi Kiyoshi Ijichi He met fellow band members Masafumi Gotō, Kensuke Kita, and Takahiro Yamada while attending Kanto Gakuin University in 1996. Unlike the others, Ijichi had prior band experience and was a member of another college band when approached by the three. After parting ways with his old band, Ijichi joined Gotō, Kita, and Yamada to form Asian Kung-Fu Generation and the four have been together ever since. Aside from drumming, Ijichi is a skilled pianist and can be heard playing an excerpt of "Claire de Lune" from Debussy's "Suite bergamasque" for the intro of "Moonlight." He has a degree
Suite (music) or entirely original movements ("Holberg Suite", "The Planets"). Estienne du Tertre published "suyttes de bransles" in 1557, giving the first general use of the term "suite" 'suyttes' in music, although the usual form of the time was as pairs of dances. The first recognizable suite is Peuerl's "Newe Padouan, Intrada, Dantz, and Galliarda" of 1611, in which the four dances of the title appear repeatedly in ten suites. The "Banchetto musicale" by Johann Schein (1617) contains 20 sequences of five different dances. The first four-movement suite credited to a named composer, "Sandley's Suite", was published in 1663. The "classical" suite