Chris Mosdell

クリス・モズデル（Chris Mosdell, Christopher Mosdell）は、イギリスの詩人・作詞家・作曲家。

エリック・クラプトン、ボーイ・ジョージ、坂本龍一、イエロー・マジック・オーケストラ（YMO）などの歌詞を担当。マイケル・ジャクソンとの共作をはじめ、映画音楽や舞台音楽など幅広い分野で作詞活動を展開。東京音楽祭において作詞部門の金賞、ユキ・ハヤシ・ニューカーク詩人賞を受賞。日本社会党選挙用テーマソングの作詞をはじめ、「∀ガンダム」の挿入歌の作詞、「神々の指紋」の著者グラハム・ハンコックの展覧会における環境音楽を作曲。また、“Visic”（歌詞・映像・音楽からなる芸術）の提唱・推進者としてアルバム『Equasian』を発表。

著書に『Ink Music:The Lyrics of Chris Mosdell』、『文字を知らぬ者たちの暴動』(思潮社)、『LAA...The Dangerous Opera Begins and The Yelp House Kantos』など。共著に谷川俊太郎との『気晴らし神籖』など。教材作品に「大学生のための英会話」「A Fork in the Road」など。

Chris Mosdell is a British lyricist, poet, author, composer, vocalist and illustrator, based in Tokyo, Japan, and New York City, USA.

He has collaborated with an extensive array of musicians and artists, though he is especially known for his work with Yellow Magic Orchestra and the poet Shuntarō Tanikawa. His interactive audio-visual album Equasian, featuring an experimentation with "VISIC" (visual music), melded his scientific background into a musical framework, and his Oracles of Distraction, a set of poetic cards set to musical coordinates, further expanded his lyrical idiom.

He has written lyrics for Sarah Brightman and Boy George; co-written lyrics with Michael Jackson, had his work covered by Eric Clapton, worked with the West African kora player Toumani Diabaté and the calligraphy artist Juichi Yoshikawa; and wrote the verse dance drama Amaterasu, the Resurrection of Radiance, that was performed with the City Ballet of London at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane (2001).

As "Mozz", Mosdell has also released a series of award-winning children's books, which he also illustrates.

A film about his life entitled "Ink Music: In the Land of the Hundred-Tongued Lyricist", featuring interviews with many of his collaborators and shot in Japan and the United States, was released in 2009. The documentary bills him as the "Lafcadio Hearn of Lyrics", Long term collaborator Ryuichi Sakamoto describes his interpretation of how Mosdell creates his varied works; "When I read his lyrics, I see him in a high school chemistry laboratory, making Molotov cocktails – his eyes lucid, blue and very clear."