Henning Schmiedt - 25 to 7

Henning Schmiedt - Piano Miniatures
When playing the pieces from Piano Miniatures, I felt like I was back to my childhood.
I was back to the games of that time, how I made trees, horses, small locomotives, mini castles, and entire miniature cities from building blocks. It was so exciting to do it all myself. To be completely immersed in the game and to look at and design everything from above simultaneously.
That is still my ideal when playing the piano, and it is in this spirit I created my piano miniatures.
The fifteen titles are works in small format, music as if viewed under a microscope: small film scores, mini sonatas, songs, tiny symphonies.

Henning Schmiedt - Since

HIMOROGI is the tenth album by ironomi. Divining Japanese mythology and its relationship with nature, the new album is an aural pastorale that fosters deeper territory in the realm of spiritual searching through dreamy, drifting piano, 17-string koto (jūshichi-gensō) and new form electronic processing. 

ironomi’s desire to commune with mother Earth and its season’s colors has always served as a continual inspiration for their music. In HIMOROGI, the duo delves into a more spiritual focus in their journey towards musical impressionism. Japanese culture has long held the idea that heavenly spirits live in many elements of the natural world, such as mountains, rocks, trees, and the sea. The album title comes from the Japanese word Himorogi (神籬), which in Shinto terminology is translated as "divine fence," which refers to sacred areas that a celestial spirit enters.

Six songs were created in chronological order, ama-saki (Bloom in the Sky), yume-asobi (Playing in Dream), sakura-ame (Cherry Blossom Rain), hibiki-sora (Echoing Sky), ama-yadori (Rain Shelter), chumu (Abstract Nil Space). On each, they move organically in the nature they were recorded, as rain connects the sky with the Earth, giving life to it with blossoming flowers. Once the hues of autumn bid their farewell, another life cycle begins. Rather than arriving at a state of tranquility, the idea is to reach a state of ‘nothingness’ as suggested in the zazen-inspired chumu. 

Junya Yanagidaira’s sublime, elegant phrasing of subtle polyphony and melodic piano lines fall like rain through a picturesque blue horizon over calming koto sways by multi-instrumentalist Yu Isobe. Flashes of sunlight momentarily refract through the water’s surface in the form of bright starlit keyboards, at times weaving child-like melodies of enchantment. The lightest touch of koto strings seems to hover and balance the murmur of a garden stream. It beckons you closer as the gentle caress of the music awakens your inner senses. HIMOROGI will remain timeless because the duo created music that absconded with time and place with their endless visions of beauty. 

ironomi releases HIMOROGI on 24 February 2023 via KITCHEN. LABEL. Available on clear vinyl LP, CD and digital formats, with artwork by Japanese photographer Kisei Kobayashi and design by KITCHEN. LABEL founder Ricks Ang. Katsunori Fukuoka mastered this record at Flysound in Japan.

ironomi - 天咲 (himorogi, 2023)

津田貴司『湿度計』2020年度リイシュー盤。

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ⓒ 2008 Takashi Tsuda All Rights Reserved
originally released by STARNET MUZIK as STARNET MUZIK 014
executive producer : Kohshi Baba
reissued by PNdB atelier
jacket design : Kaname Kawamoto
ⓟ 2020 Takashi Tsuda All Rights Reserved

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Solo Piano - Chris Bright

arrive in time - 5:1:24, 6.05 PM

"A natureza é o mais completo instrumento musical que existe. Com o projeto EcoMúsica, busco aproximar as pessoas da beleza sonora do Brasil". (Fábio Caramuru)

EcoMúsica | Conversas de um piano com a fauna brasileira traz um registro sonoro inovador, no qual o pianista apresenta um diálogo entre o piano e os sons de aves, insetos e um anfíbio, obtidos na Fonoteca Neotropical Jacques Vielliard (FNJV), da Unicamp.

Temas originais, criados especialmente por Caramuru, foram  agregados e amalgamados cuidadosamente aos sons captados em diversos locais do país, resultando em um trabalho artístico que homenageia com reverência e delicadeza a natureza brasileira. Piano e os sons dos bichos operam no mesmo status, em tempo real, indo além do conceito de solo/acompanhamento, podendo ser observados nas 14 faixas do CD, diferentes procedimentos de criação musical, tais como imitação, contraste, contraponto, melodia acompanhada, atonalismo, referências modais, blues, jazz, entre outros.




5 - Fábio Caramuru - Quero-Quero

Taken from 7" single "一週間歌（Week）" released on 15th October 2017 from Sweet Dreams Press, Tokyo.

一週間歌（ICHI）

ICHI - 一週間歌（Week）

"Snow Hills 2AM" by Jimanica feat. Anna Yamada
2013 Jeminic records

Dedicated for this beautiful snowful night in Tokyo

Snow Hills 2AM

Fábio Caramuru - Uguisu

This collection is outtakes from "monologue". 
https://tomotsugu.bandcamp.com/album/harvest

Attention: If you already got or reserve vinyl version "monologue" from Qrates, it is already included as bonus tracks of the vinyl.

5 - Fábio Caramuru - Quero-Quero

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