“As I sit here
Waiting and wanting
Surrounded by the ambient blur of the city lights
Waiting at a stop sign
Wanting to go beyond.”


It is exactly this longing to go beyond, beyond the solitary musical journey, that brought these two very gifted artists from Kyoto to cross each other’s’ paths. Marihiko Hara and Masumi Muranaka (Polar M), the 2 seasoned musicians from Kyoto, after 10 years of admiring each other works, decided to take on a voyage together, and sailed beyond the charted territories of their music. And thus, the beautiful result from this wonderful voyage - a special collaboration album entitled “Beyond”, was born.

In this album, both artists went beyond their own borders, over their perceived views, across existing ideas and ways of thinking, to allow their emotions to flow freely in the music making process. As a result, Marihiko, with his gorgeous piano touches, and Masumi, with his heart-felt guitars, jointly crafted the 10 delicate, and breath-takingly beautiful music pieces.

Traces of elegant post-classical, sweet-sounding folktronica, dreamy ambient, and even blue-ish jazz, can be found in this sound-rich album, with all elements masterfully blended together to create an exquisite music listening experience. Piano melodies that drifted in like fireflies at night, layers of guitars that painted the backdrop soundscapes, drips of tiny electronics, spaces between the notes…. The exquisiteness in music that created by Marihiko and Masumi’s wonderful talents are simply beyond words.

Mia Cabalfin, the renowned contemporary dancer from Philippines, who befriended the artists when they composed the music for her residency performance in Kyoto in 2012, lent her beautiful voice in spoken words for 3 amazing tracks. The album is mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features photos by prominent Japanese photographer Marisa Shimamoto, and designs by Itsuka Sato of sonihouse.

http://www.mu-nest.com/release-info.php?f=mnc014





Modern Tales / Marihiko Hara & Polar M

July - Remind

re:plus - 4 AM (feat. I Hate This Place)

Kare - Kano - Ost - --eshajouri - (d. - Komova)

overthinking

This is by far the prettiest and cleanest cover I've ever completed. Phew~
It's not 100% accurate, but I'm too lazy to go back and redo anything.
Hope you like it!

(Cover) Letter - Yutaka Hirasaka

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Mix/master _ @wish1206 @w0gu0q9061kq

THE PINK MOON

Tony Takitani.02.Solitude

"moss"
we, cote labo make the charity album "moss" .
This album consist of soft and naive musics .
Berlin , Canada and Japan's artists presented us a wonderful songs.
We donate this album to independent music shop in Sendai in the stricken area so that people there could listen to it at all times.
we hope that the people at stricken area can sleep being relieved and relaxed by this album.

various piano songs, song of cello and gloockenspiel, song of simply guitar and voice.
song of violin and ambient, song of cello and piano (recorded at art musium).
moss composed of 5 brand new songs and two unpublished songs can learn artist's "now"
Art work and design by Kayo Nomura.

Recorded by Hauschka
Recorded at studio twei in Dusseldorf

re:plus - 4 AM (feat. I Hate This Place)

ambiguously again