from the album "waltz in march" 
by Takeo Toyama

WINDBELL wb28
2010

Takeo Toyama "waltz in march"

Henning Schmiedt - 25 to 7

Meadow & Gen Tanabe
EP「Two Lands #1」

Digital Release  June 21 2023
https://linkco.re/g9aQYq4s

【Track List】
1 Four Seasons
2 green grass
3 SHUREI
4 nei
5 cold winter way

All Composed & Arranged by Gen Tanabe & Meadow
All Lyrics by Meadow
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Gen Tanabe (Studio Camel House)

Art Works by Tomohiro Ono

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巡る季節のさまざまな現象や、仄かな気配を音にしたような景色的な音楽。

2022年リリースされたMeadowのアルバムや、田辺玄とharuka nakamuraのユニットorbeのアルバムなどで楽曲を共作するなど、近年共に音づくりを重ねている2人が初のコラボレーション作品をつくった。

大分と山梨。
二つの異なる地で山や里を近くに感じながら暮らし音を紡いできたMeadowと田辺玄が、今作をつくる上での共通言語は”land”
丘や山や土地の空気や気配。
そこにはある一定の冷たさと、巡る季節の仄かなあたたかさを携えている。

雪溶けの水が山を流れる、やわらかな草が風を受けて揺れる、始めの鳥が鳴き始める。
山肌や、土の層、水面に揺れる模様、質感やマテリアル感を感じるサウンドづくりは、
互いの楽曲を持ち寄り、それぞれが色彩をつけ、
軽妙なコンビネーションによって形づくられていった。

楽曲制作、アレンジ、演奏などすべて2人で行い、時にはその場でアイディアとサウンドを出し合い、録音されてゆく。それぞれの個性を発揮しつつも、新たな世界観がどこまでも広がる今作。

それぞれの土地、さまざまな季節や時間。風や温度の中で心地よく響くことを願って。

Meadow & Gen Tanabe  EP「Two Lands #1」 teaser

music diary. Rec date12/03
mix date12/14

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eskimo

Music using keyboards with generative and reverberative treatments.
Title track dedicated to the immense peace in the music the composer Olafur Arnalds.

Sphere For Olafur Arnalds - Part 1

Title : Dance
Artist : Marihiko Hara & Polar M
Cat # : mnc017
Release Date : September 2016
Format : CD / Digital
Genre : Post-Classical / Instrumental Pop 

01. Duo
02. The Season Changes
03. Ray of Light
04. Monologue
05. Dance
06. Ocean of Night
07. Beryl
08. Asia
09. Gone Gone Gone
10. On The Silent Way 

“Laughing, singing, dancing
Laughing, singing, and dancing
Howling, sobbing, shouting
Howling, shouting, sobbing
Laughing, singing, and dancing

Dancing.”

After releasing their critically acclaimed debut album “Beyond”, Kyoto-based Marihiko Hara and Polar M (Masumi Muranaka) have embarked on a series of live performance around Asia region, including Korea, Malaysia and many places in Japan. Each time they performed together, the sense of how their individual sounds complement each other grew stronger. And with these live performances, their interweaving sounds have underwent subtle refinement – they become even more profound and exquisite, and far more interconnected.

While touring, the duo was also actively collaborating with dance choreographers. In early 2016, the duo was again commissioned to compose new pieces for a dance performance. It was during that time, their brand new 2nd album “Dance”, was conceived.

Through their interactions with the talented dancers across Asia, these two very gifted musicians started to explore the meanings of “dance”. Gradually, they have come to realised that, everything in our daily life can be regarded as “dance” – the rhythm of the changing seasons, the subtle movement of time, the weight of words, the shifting of emotion, the cycle of life, all parts that form our lives, are indeed in themselves – a “dance”. And in this gorgeous new album, using their ever delicate sounds, the duo graciously illustrated this aesthetic interpretation of “dance”.

Musically, the duo picked up where they left off in their very successful debut album - traces of refined post-classical, melodic folktronica, floating ambient, and glimpses of jazz, continued to be found in this 2nd album. What is more apparent in this new album is that the guitars had taken a more prominent role. As such, the sound textures and melody movements have become much richer and more diverse, which impeccably reflect the refinement that underwent for the musical style of Marihiko and Masumi.

The duo’s good friend, Mia Cabalfin - a renowned contemporary dancer from Philippines, who lent her wonderful voice in the debut album, continued to feature in this album by performing the hauntingly beautiful spoken words in the album title track. This album is tastefully mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features photo by Ken Furudate, and design by Seitaro Nishioka. In addition, the artist management for the duo is supported by the excellent people from Kyoto’s label and event organiser NightCruising. 

Credits:
composition, arrangement & mixed by Marihiko Hara & Polar M
track 5 : spoken words by Mia Cabalfin

mastering: Chihei Hatakeyama
photo: Ken Furudate
design: Seitaro Nishioka

To enquire about distribution, please kindly email us at info(a)mu-nest.com. Thank you. 

DANCE / Marihiko Hara & Polar M (album preview sample)

Emerging from the then developing electronica scene of Kuala Lumpur back in 2007, musician flica has since released a commendable body of work which had garnered the interest of listeners from outside the insular scene. Debut album Windwane & Window is capricious, twee electronica, one that gained him recognition outside of the country and resulted in the release of sophomore Nocturnal via Tokyo label Schole Records. By third album Telepathy Dreams, flica has shed the saccharine sentimentality of his previous two records in favour of sombre atmospherics – effectively making him a mainstay in the ambient scene.
 
With 2015’s Weekendary, flica’s music returns to the romanticism that underscored his earlier releases, but with the added flair of moody ambience that characterised its predecessor. It was during the tour in China and Japan that his sonic journey continued; collaborating with bassist Kent Lee, flica applied improvisational live looping in his performances that then helped him develop a new direction to sounds and ideas.
 
Presently, flica is intent on revealing to the world the culmination of his musical evolution through forthcoming fifth album sub:side. Also fittingly marking his 10th anniversary as an artiste, the album favours a more lo-fi and minimal approach to ambient that seamlessly mixed the oriental with the experimental without sounding overwrought. The decade’s worth of experience has taught flica how to best convey melancholy – with simplicity.

Aire

Hayama Ambient is a project to make ambient sound collected at Hayama as Ambient Music.

Hayama Ambient

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Klavierraum is the place where my piano is, but it’s also a virtual space and spiritual shelter whenever needed – it immediately appears when I am playing piano, floating in sound and resonating with melodies. In my concerts I feel this ‘Raum’ is embracing and covering me, the piano and my whole audience.

Klavierraum, my very first solo piano album, tells a story of arranging a tea time for a rendezvous. Nachher is like a sequel sometime later on – this time it’s about preparing for a surprise morning coffee with my favorite pancake!

For the new album I used previously unpublished material of the original Klavierraum session. Some parts were recorded later on, but in the same setting and similar spirit. – Henning Schmiedt

Henning Schmiedt - 2 Reife Mangos

Taken from mini album "In Our Hands We've Got Light" released in April 2013 from Sweet Dreams Press, Tokyo.

Rachael Dadd - Wake It

Lake

FLAU is a record label based in Tokyo, Japan.

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