DEPAPEPE

Depapepe (デパペペ), is a music group originating from Japan. The acoustic guitar duo is composed of Takuya Miura (born 5 April 1983) and Yoshinari Takuoka (born on 15 July 1977), who formed in 2002.

They made their major debut in 2005 with their album “Let’s Go!!!”, which generated sales figures of about 100,000 and ranked within the top 10 of Oricon’s Instrumental Artist Debut Chart. Before that, they had released three indie albums.

The name itself comes from the combination of both short names of the band members, by combining the Japanese word for overbite, ‘deppa’, and the name of Takuoka’s previous band ‘DERUPEPE’. Contrary to a popular rumour circulating among their fans, the two guitarists are not brothers. In their 2002 formation the pair joined with the Sony Music. They also worked on some guitar pieces for the "Honey and Clover" anime series.

DISCOGRAPHY :

Indy

• Sky! Sky! Sky! (15 July 2004)

• PASSION OF GRADATION (2 December 2004)

• ACOUSTIC FRIENDS (20 July 2005)

Single

• SUMMER PARADE (20 July 2005)

• Spur - WINTER VERSION'05/Swingin' Happy X'mas (シュプール －WINTER VERSION'05/Swingin' Happy X'mas) (30 November 2005)

• Lahaina (ラハイナ) (15 March 2006)

• Sakura Kaze (桜風) (21 February 2007)

• KATANA (22 April 2009)

Albums

Let's Go!!! (18 May 2005)

Hi！Mode！！ (19 October 2005)

Ciao! Bravo!! (19 April 2006)

BEGINNING OF THE ROAD ～collection of early songs～ (25 April 2007)

デパクラ (DEPACLA)　～DEPAPEPE PLAYS THE CLASSICS～ (28 November 2007)

HOP! SKIP! JUMP! (2 April 2008)

デパナツ (DEPANATSU) ～drive!drive!!drive!!!～ (30 July 2008)

デパフユ(DEPAFUYU)～ 晴れ 時どき 雪～ (26 November 2008)

Do! (3 June 2009)

デパクラ2～DEPAPEPE PLAYS THE CLASSICS 2 (2 December 2009)

ONE

Soundtrack

• Night & Day - Depapepe meets Honey and Clover (ハチミツとクローバー) (11 October 2006)

1. Night & Day
2. パステル通り Pastel Street
3. ハチロク
4. 光ノサキへ First Light
5. Korean TV show Coffee Prince OST
• Official site : www.sonymusic.co.jp/depapepe