Beautiful

Asakusa_01

Relax

A few selections from a pair of documentaries, "In the Shadow of the Towers" and "What Happened on September 11th", by HBO that I had the honor of scoring. 

https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/in-the-shadow-of-the-towers-stuyvesant-high-on-911

https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/what-happened-on-september-11

In the Shadow of the Towers/What Happened on September 11th (OST)

Calm2

sleep

Download: https://iketa.bandcamp.com/album/shelter-ep

Bird

Astronauts 'In My Direction' - single released 19/1/15. 

One of the highlights from the debut Astronauts album ‘Hollow Ponds’, ‘In My Direction’ is a gorgeous, cascading slice of dark, folky pop, with Dan’s breathy vocal harmonies - and call-and-responses with his friend and collaborator Michael Cranny – floating reassuringly over an intertwining acoustic guitar flow and taut percussive backbone. As with all the best Astronauts material, it’s hooky, emotionally involving, and mildly unsettling, all at once. 

The brilliant video for the song was conceived and made by Armenia-based production company Manana Films, after they approached Dan about collaboration earlier this year. The result is an idiosyncratic, unforgettable video starring Armenian actor Andranik Lavchyan rhythmically wending his way around the capital Yerevan, confusing everyone he encounters. 

‘In My Direction’ is backed with a remix of the ‘Hollow Ponds’ track ‘Everything’s A System, Everything’s A Sign’ from Kieran Mahon, a minimal/ambient composer and long-time friend of Dan’s, who creeps up silently behind the original and injects it with a swirling, insistent menace. 



In My Direction

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I felt that I wanted to go back to a more soulful feeling with this track - the vocals and string ideas combine to create a full emotional sound. 

I'm starting work on a new album this month!! - but as I am releasing independently it would be a great help to have you support it, donations will help for administration, distributing the album to different online stores and obviously chocolate bars, link below to donate: https://www.youtube.com/user/sizzlebird1/about

Hope you guys like it! 
Peace.

Free

Beating Heart [Free Download]

Happy Friday to you all :)
This is the title track - from my new album!

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Enchanted

Taken from the album 'niji', to be released worldwide on December 24, 2015 on Kitchen. Label

Order on 3CD here: 
www.kitchen-label.com/ki017-ironomi-niji/

Tracklist: 
1-1 風草 (Feat. 沢田穣治)
1-2 茜空 (Feat.今西玲子)
1-3 水藻 (Feat. hofli)
1-4 紫陽花 (Feat. ASPIDISTRAFLY) 
2-1 光旅 (Feat. haruka nakamura) 
2-2 舟月 (Feat. ARAKI Shin)
2-3 睡蓮 (Feat. Rie Nemoto) 
2-4 楓 (Feat. Coupie)
3-1 朝靄 (Feat. 中島ノブユキ) 
3-2 碧空 (Feat. 内田輝)
3-3 箒星 (Feat. 沢田穣治)
3-4 日向 (Feat. haruka nakamura)

Following 2010’s release of the Kitchen. Label classic “sketch”, ironomi returns with their long awaited seventh album, a 3CD 164 minutes collection entitled ‘niji’ (English Translation: Rainbow). Joining pianist Junya Yanagidaira and programmer Yu Isobe are a stellar line-up of their most loved collaborators and contemporaries. In ‘niji’, the record is marked by the same tranquility and fleetingness of their sound but also offers a slight departure from the traditions of ironomi’s previous recordings with the addition of other instruments (Saxophone, Contrabass, Koto, Violins etc) contributed by the guest musicians on each of the 12 tracks - Featuring Nobuyuki Nakajima, Jyoji Sawada (Choro Club) as well as members of the Kitchen. Label family ASPIDISTRAFLY, haruka nakamura, ARAKI Shin, Akira Uchida, Rie Nemoto among many others.

ironomi has a sound which is almost enigmatic to describe. One could listen to their albums on an ambient level and just let the music flow through. Or one could listen closer and find a detail in the sound that is intricate and palatable. ironomi’s impressionistic ripples of piano fragments generate the cumulative feel of a gently flowing river or the shifting play of light through the leaves of trees. ironomi is like nature, a sound of nature that has existed from the beginning and free from any judgement.

The duo’s music is distinctively less about conventional compositional structure than it is about the creating and sustain of mood. For each of the recordings in ‘niji’, improvised sessions were recorded and the best takes were kept intact with very minimal post production. The works showcase ironomi’s capacity to construct compelling music in real-time, their melodic-harmonic imagination as an improviser and ability to consistently find and shape new forms with each of their collaborators also sharing the same strong sense for the dialectics of sound and silence. A wishful charm imbues this entire recording of pieces which, though not written together, seem to have been predestined for each other in this album.

The latest album is highlighted by almost 40 minutes worth of music recorded together with haruka nakamura on classical guitar, whom he had spent his early formative years touring and collaborating with the duo on numerous occasions. In the collaboration with April Lee and Ricks Ang of ASPIDISTRAFLY, voices are striving to be heard and a song was unexpectedly born from the improvisational session. The result is perhaps the most strongly lyrical piece of ironomi’s releases to date.

“niji” is available on 3CD and digital formats on 24th December 2015. The physical CD copy comes in a customised letter-pressed folio. The cover is designed with a unique holographic foil which cause a refraction that creates constantly changing light reflections and prismatic colors. All linking back to the symbolic representation of the miraculous hues of ironomi’s sound world, trapping the listeners in a peaceful space of pure sound and sonic allusions.

Released & distributed by Kitchen. Label
Ⓟ & © 2015 Kitchen. Label

MORE INFO:
www.kitchen-label.com

ironomi - 紫陽花 (Feat. ASPIDISTRAFLY) (niji, 2015) - preview

Sound for the soul and something to keep you relaxed at night :)
Download for free here on soundcloud.
Peace.

Full Discography 

Lying Awake [Free]

Längtan

Quickie cos I'm bored and cos i love Bill Evans. Took around 10mins to sling together, gotta love Bill Evans.

Mellow Jazzhop (headphone mix)

The first track from the album Imagine - Out in March!
I plan on making CD's, support SizzleBird directly:
https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=CFX3SX2NMRBZ6

Hey, this is my first big work of 2016. The album incorporates my feelings of late and the ideas that have come up in my head from different sources and genres. 

I wanted to take more time over the instrumentation here and I hope you guys enjoy the journey! 

Out in March.


Glide

Hey guys, this is Hold On Me.
Taken from the album "Imagine" :)
Peace.

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Hold On Me

This is a spontaneous and simple track I composed for the second Piano Day ever (http://www.pianoday.org), which we'll celebrate on 28 March, 2016. Hope you enjoy it and happy piano day!

Photo by:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/solea/14164105589

Closer (for Piano Day)

Bildet er tatt av Ich bin dann mal raus hier fra Pixabay

A Song For You

takin it easy

Takin it Easy

그 긴 밤

Lovewave - 그 밤 (tomppabeats remix)

Thomas Newman - Hauntingly Beautiful ( Delectatio Remix )

Taken from Piano Cloud - Volume Three 
https://1631recordings.bandcamp.com/album/piano-cloud-series-volume-three
Release day: March 29 (Piano Day)

Akira Kosemura - Resonance

The Forgotten Waltz

duendita & simon eng - another time (world$tar money)

Solace

Moon Night

Taken from the album "Reverie" out on Feb. 1st!
Donate to the project: [ https://tinyurl.com/ogyys7s ]
What is “REVERIE”?
The album Reverie is a way to let go of any preconceptions I have of my music so far, in essence I wanted to create music that resonates to me as a person. As it is 10 years since I came up with the concept of “SizzleBird” I thought this album would be a good way to just be myself and release music with just the ideas on my mind. The beauty of releasing an album without a label or management team is that it does not have to conform to any norms or regulations. It is just simply a way to share my ideas. The only downside to releasing creativity for the sake of creativity is that it is not so easy to promote and market and get the funding to create it in the first place. This is where all of you who have supported and shared my music over the years come into it, you are the core of my growth as an artist and I am very thankful. Give the album a share. Let go of your preconceived ideas and I hope you enjoy the music. 
Thank you.

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Colder Nights

Pulse

a track about never-ending, painfully frustrating, tragically horrid anxiety that plagues your mind until you end up in oblivion with your own nightmarish thoughts

Europa

From the HBO documentary "In The Shadow of the Towers" https://www.hbo.com/documentaries/in-the-shadow-of-the-towers-stuyvesant-high-on-911?fbclid=IwAR1m6NsDCiKfPhINkNPj6re4NBNUV7LJojfkHAQ1-cvyg0rfan4U_d4R_vA

in the shadow of the towers

Story

Jumpers

Islamophobia

First Collapse

Back to School

From the HBO documentary "What Happened on September 11th" www.hbo.com/documentaries/what-…ned-on-september-11

Missing Survivor

Night wood

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Missing Survivor

Keith Kenniff