Kazuhiro Miyatake Part 1: Pageant

Keyboardist / Composer Kazuhiro Miyatake is the mastermind or leader of my overall favourite Japanese band, Mr. Sirius (apart from Bi Kyo Ran that is).  He was also in Mugen which followed after.  I love Mr. Sirius to death: it's the classic-prog old-school inimitable Genesis Symphonic style with a highly impressive and agreeable mix of classical music and rock sounds perfectly intertwined.  

I didn't realize that late in the 1980s he created another band called Pageant who then went on to put out a handful of CDs, last one in 1994 it seems.  Unfortunately the subsequent band, very much in the Mugen symphonic style, has less of the crazy creativity one finds in the original Mr. Sirius from 1987 and Barren Dream, I'm not sure why, since it's still just Miyatake as composer, as the time period in question is roughly the same.

From the 1987 album of the same name, the lovely female vocals of Kamen no Egao:

Lapis Lazuli from 1989's Pay for Dreamer's Sin: