Good morning Kitchen Label, I have been listening to the music on your page this morning and wanted to let you know how much I am loving it. A lot.

Beautiful textures.  Reminds me of crackling fires and birds flight

be calmdown

Pool

From the album "A LITTLE FABLE" (KI-007, KITCHEN. LABEL)

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ASPIDISTRAFLY - GENSEI (A LITTLE FABLE, 2011)

All songs written and performed by Sean Lam
Recorded and mixed at home sometime between Apr - Jun 2011.
Mastered by Victor Low of The Observatory.

(p) & © 2011 Hanging Up The Moon. The copyright in these sound recordings as well as the accompanying design and concept is owned by Sean Lam (Hanging Up The Moon). All rights reserved. Unauthorised copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performances and broadcasting prohibited.


Thedrunkard

Hanging Up The Moon

Winners All

I VIEW THIS WORLD SO DIFFRENT NOW WOAH :0

My Heart

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

Junya Nishimura × no11room

piano & photo : Junya Nishimura（jun)
https://soundcloud.com/junj6
guitar：no11room

春の庭、記憶の彼方 〜 remember spring garden 〜 Junya Nishimura × no11room

Improvisation×Looper×Oceansound

©︎enonimu

full video version please check here.
youtu.be/QMI_yfWaVbg

夏、海と足音。〜 Summer , Ocean &  Walking Sound

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

a simple piano piece for this year's totokoko label (JP) Christmas Compilation album. Will be available for free download on 01/12/2012 

Hope you guys will like it...

invisible snow

the gentle morning dew
rests and collects in humility
being, temporal arrest
till it over runs, pulled by gravity
glinting descent... my leaves bidding longing goodbyes

[xylophones + violin bow + guitar + electronic-bow]


morning dew

Pedestrian

Blinkered eyes and stone of heart,
What brings the news today?
I haven't been thinking lately,
should I keep it that way?

They say talk is cheap
Been made a fool both you and me,
still it's what we choose to see.

Crowds of people pass,
but no one's looking back where they came.
Climbing over one another,
just to touch the sky,
even though it's just passing clouds.

I gotta get there.
I will give back when I get there.
So I'll beg steal and borrow,
hollow. 

Dean: Drums, Tambourine and additional Toms
Leslie: Acoustic Guitar, Voice
Sean: Voice, Acoustic Guitar
Victor: Bass

All songs written and composed by Hanging Up the Moon
Drums recorded by Victor Low at Affixen
Mixed by Victor Low
Produced by: Victor Low and Hanging Up the Moon
Mastered by: James Plotkin

01. Pedestrian

By deathly pale light, silent is the night 🪡

ASPIDISTRAFLY - GENSEI (A LITTLE FABLE, 2011)

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