Cicada - Over The Sea/Under The Water

Cicada - Into The Ocean

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"Farewell" is worldwide debut album of Taiwanese female fronted chamber ensemble Cicada who played with Olafur Arnalds, Rachel Grimes, Balmorhea.
“Farewell” described how someone who went through the cycle of a relationship. It’s about breakup, facing the future alone and also reveals the teenage girls inside us. Cicada selected 14 songs from “Over the Sea /Under the Water”, “Pieces”, and “Let’s Go” With the new recording and production, together they told a story.

Cicada - Lake's End

http://flau.jp/releases/white-forest/

White Forest is dedicated to animals including whales, dolphins, coral reefs, sea turtles, as well as cats in the city and birds in the mountains. Along with “Ocean” is the series of Cicada’s work themed with marine and land.

“Dolphins Leap” proceeds with different speeds to imitate spinner dolphins and risso’s dolphins. “Used to be Home” portrayed the impact of offshore wind energy caused on white dolphin’s habitat from their point of views. “Whale Family” is about humpback whales caring and raising babies. “White Forest” starts from the dreamy coral reef spawning into their bleaching due to seawater warming. Cicada’s attempts are to describe the relationship between human and its impact on ocean and animals.

Cicada - White Forest

Take your hands and never let you go.
Always together.
It's our vivid escape.

lifandi flýja-skær flýja

O p u s 

Vivid Escape

My first time writing a microtonal piece! This is written entirely in 17 Tone Equal Temperament (17 notes per octave instead of the standard 12).

Uncanny Radiance (17 EDO)

Music for Museum Gift Shops

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floating away (piano version)

https://flau.bandcamp.com/album/cocoon

I recorded during the spring storm.　Although it is being distributed at various places, unintentional noise during mastering is included. If you are a noise mania, there.This will be the original version.

Emma gatrill／Cocoon（Machinone Remix）

Cicada's latest single is a special version of the theme song for the movie "Last Painting". They had to cancel the show in Tokyo last minute due to COVID-19 pandemic. The best we can do as musicians in this unprecedented time is to deliver the music.

The song was the main theme of the movie Last Painting which tells the story of a social activist who was found dead in her apartment. The suspicions of her female roommate, a painter, and her best friend, overlay the tumultuous and uncertain times behind the story with the protagonists' struggles with transgenderism and self-contradiction. The original theme song was about how trivial routines fraught with anxiety and fear while giving hope for stability. We are now living in this unprecedented time where every issue of politics and society affects our lives. We have decided to listen to the voices that emerge from within and from without.

Cicada - Dawn after Darkness

twilight was haruka nakamura’s second album, released in the summer of 2010. The album spawned the haruka nakamura classics such as twilight, Ongaku No Aru Fuukei, Curtain Call, Faraway and Hikari. Upon release it was seen (and still is) as a haruka nakamura masterpiece. twilight marks a milestone not only for the artist but also remains the best-selling album on KITCHEN. LABEL in over a decade. Recorded in a studio overlooking the ocean as a tribute to the sight of the expiring sun falling slowly over the horizon at dusk, twilight is a sustained reverie that mirrors the dwindling rays of light at day’s end with its subtle variations in timbre and texture. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, the iconic album will be available for the first time on vinyl and the re-releasing of the much sought after original first press CD + art book edition. Included in the reissue are 8 previously unreleased tracks recorded during the original sessions in 2010. Remastered by long-time collaborator Gen Tanabe, the reissue features artwork faithful to the original design with the addition of liner notes written by Toshhiko Terada of Ameto Kyujitsu. 

haruka nakamura’s twilight 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is available on: 

2LP: Remastered album tracks + 8 previously unreleased tracks. 12-inch double vinyl housed in gatefold sleeves and 4-page insert. 

2CD + Artbook: Remastered album tracks + 8 previously unreleased tracks. Double CDs housed in 48-page hardcover book.

haruka nakamura - 光 (Feat. ASPIDISTRAFLY)

Helios - for years and years

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