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Ryoji is a Grammy winning mastering engineer based in New York. In 2022, he mastered Masa Takumi’s album “SAKURA” which won the Best Global Music Album for 65th Grammy Awards.
Born in Japan in 1971, Ryoji started his career in audio engineering in 1995 at Looking Glass Studios. During that time, He was involved with album recording for David Bowie’s album “Earthling” and “Hours”, Dave Navarro’s “Trust No One”, Duncan Sheik’s “Phantom Moon” Marc Cohn’s “Burning the Daze“ with producers like Kevin Killen, Tony Visconti, Mark Plati, John Leventhal and so on. He has also worked with number of soundtrack written by Philip Glass such as films like Kundun directed by Martin Scorsese, The Truman Show directed by Peter Weir.
In 2000, he formed his private sound company “Hata Production”,started to freelance based in NYC. He has worked with Edward Norton’s first director movie “Keeping The Faith” recording sound track single “Hart Of Mine” by Peter Salett. In 2001, started to work with song writer Itaal Shur (known as a
songwriter for song “Smooth” for Santana and Rob Thomas). He has a strong tie to a Japanese entertainment community and worked with a band “UNDERGRAPH” for their album “Subarashiki Nichijo” as recording and mixing engineer. The album went to the 4th in Japanese chart. He has also recorded a bunch of Japanese artists performed in NY, such as a LOUDNESS, MIYAVI, VAMPS. Also, mixed Akiko Wada’s 50th anniversary concert in BUDOKAN Tokyo for WOWOW broadcasting.
In 2010, he started to master records for artist around him, completely fell in love with the process of mastering, then he starts to take his career as a mastering engineer. He formed a mastering engineering service Sound Essence Masters NYC and started to work with artists/composers/producers like Masa Takumi, Brian “Deep” Watters, Joe Kyung Here Cho, Alanna & These Fine Gentlemen, Lauren Sanderson, Eliza Lee, Hysteric Panic, Hypnova, Shin Kawasaki, UNDERGRAPH, S.I., D. Daily, BENZAITEN to name a few.
