Amazing, wow... the atmosphere is so lovely!!! It's terrible that the physical release is sold out, would buy it straight away...

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“As I sit here
Waiting and wanting
Surrounded by the ambient blur of the city lights
Waiting at a stop sign
Wanting to go beyond.”


It is exactly this longing to go beyond, beyond the solitary musical journey, that brought these two very gifted artists from Kyoto to cross each other’s’ paths. Marihiko Hara and Masumi Muranaka (Polar M), the 2 seasoned musicians from Kyoto, after 10 years of admiring each other works, decided to take on a voyage together, and sailed beyond the charted territories of their music. And thus, the beautiful result from this wonderful voyage - a special collaboration album entitled “Beyond”, was born.

In this album, both artists went beyond their own borders, over their perceived views, across existing ideas and ways of thinking, to allow their emotions to flow freely in the music making process. As a result, Marihiko, with his gorgeous piano touches, and Masumi, with his heart-felt guitars, jointly crafted the 10 delicate, and breath-takingly beautiful music pieces.

Traces of elegant post-classical, sweet-sounding folktronica, dreamy ambient, and even blue-ish jazz, can be found in this sound-rich album, with all elements masterfully blended together to create an exquisite music listening experience. Piano melodies that drifted in like fireflies at night, layers of guitars that painted the backdrop soundscapes, drips of tiny electronics, spaces between the notes…. The exquisiteness in music that created by Marihiko and Masumi’s wonderful talents are simply beyond words.

Mia Cabalfin, the renowned contemporary dancer from Philippines, who befriended the artists when they composed the music for her residency performance in Kyoto in 2012, lent her beautiful voice in spoken words for 3 amazing tracks. The album is mastered by Tokyo’s renowned musician and sound engineer, Chihei Hatakeyama, and features photos by prominent Japanese photographer Marisa Shimamoto, and designs by Itsuka Sato of sonihouse.

http://www.mu-nest.com/release-info.php?f=mnc014

Dream Bird / Marihiko Hara & Polar M

Short Movie "ORANGE" closing theme

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pray (demo)

潮音 〜 shione

Takeo Toyama - Minority

"ethereal froth scudding across the sky
the sunset cleanses today, leaving it glowing
shining water, silent waves"

aspidistrafly is a Singapore-based unit comprising of April Lee (vocal, programming) and Ricks Ang (guitar, programming). Since 2006, their participations in media art installations &amp; performances have gained attention for their sound and visual works. aspidistrafly have been regarded as one of the new wave of artists to emerge from Asia other than from Japan.

"i hold a wish for you" is their anticipated first full album. Drawing references to Banana Yoshimoto's literary classic "Moonlight Shadow", aspidistrafly weaves through the solitary atmosphere of the novel with their own narratives inspired by several excursions outside the confines of their immediate surroundings.  This latest release invokes delicate moments with nine tracks that combine acoustic instrumentation across April's warm vocal harmonies, soft floating textures and binaural field recordings. "i hold a wish for you" is an invitation to travel with sound through lyrical melodies and pastoral sonic scapes.

'Refined and robust, these well organized aural assemblages give ample animation and seriousness to the light and prosaic elements of the everyday' – Cyclic Defrost (Australia)

'Lovely collection on both sonic and visual grounds. aspidistrafly's transporting music glistens like sunlight passing through a spider web on a damp summer morning. Listeners whose taste runs from Sawako to Akira Kosemura will do themselves a grave disservice if i hold a wish for you doesn't immediately become a part of their collections' – Textura (Canada)

'With an eye for details like Taylor Deupree, it's in the vain of the Japanese musician Piana. "i hold a wish for you" is an overall a nice album which with the amazing artwork becomes something not to miss out on.' (8/10) – EARLabs (Netherlands)

'it feels like a soundtrack of sorts to the wonderful literary universe of Murakami in a sense – both present and down-to-earth, unassuming and kind, yet also retaining some mysterious, delicate qualities to distinguish aspidistrafly’s music from their peers' – Soundscaping (Norway)

'Its not easy to pin down aspidistrafly’s music into a specific genre, which of course is a good thing. Can you imagine Richard Chartier playing dreamy pop music? With some female vocalist? Well, there you go. I’d say aspidistrafly is microsound and pop.' – Vital Weekly (Netherlands)

'music like this would get assigned mawkish adjectives such as “ethereal”, “dreamy” and every other word used to describe a dimension beyond this one—except that in aspidistrafly’s case, the dimension is very much Planet Earth, and its lifeblood is the fountain of human imagination that refreshes all who draw from it.' - Junk Magazine (Malaysia)




aspidistrafly - common colors in the air (i hold a wish for you, 2008)

SCHD-009
after the rain - Schole Compilation Vol.4

July 5 2019 release

01. Kieli - The Time
02. akisai - speachrow(feat. itoko toma)                               
03. K-Conjog - Find your way
04. daisuke miyatani + yutaka hirasaka - kind of blue  
05. Jochen Tiberius Koch (with Gunnar Skrocki) - another world
06. dakota suite, quentin sirjacq & Velladon - the sea has many voices  
07. Quentin Sirjacq - Augustine                               
08. Tim Linghaus - Wish I Were With You
09. Haythem Mahbouli - 希望 (hope)
10. Itoko Toma - Fly                             
11. Flica - Every
12. Akira Kosemura & Dom Mino' - a song from the past
13. Paniyolo - fish


produced by itoko toma & shin kikuchi
a&r: akira kosemura
artwork: yoshinori takezawa
mastering: hiroshi iguchi

production management: schole inc.


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SCHOLE HOPE PROJECT 2
平成３０年７月豪雨災害・平成３０年北海道胆振東部地震災害支援プロジェクト

平成３０年夏、日本で大規模災害が度々発生し、各地に甚大な被害をもたらしました。
被災された皆様に謹んでお見舞い申し上げます。

これらの災害を受けて、SCHOLEとして可能な限り長期的で継続的な支援活動ができればという思いから本プロジェクトを立ち上げました。
SCHOLEと繋がりのある素晴らしい音楽家達による、本プロジェクトのための書き下ろし楽曲をデジタル配信いたします。復興の助けになればと作られた魅力的な楽曲群をお楽しみ頂くことができます。
音楽を必要とする全ての方に音楽を届けていくこと、また本プロジェクトが、日本だけではなく世界中で発生する自然災害の被災地のために、今できることを考えるきっかけになればと思っています。音楽の力を借りることで、希望の輪を皆様と作っていけたら本望です。今回の企画に賛同し、音楽を提供して下さる全ての音楽家の皆様に感謝致します。

皆様にお聞き頂くことにより集まる収益から制作費を除いた全額を、被災地復興の支援のための義援金として、日本赤十字社ならびに、復興活動をしている団体にお渡しさせて頂きます。３ヶ月に一度、弊社経理にて金額を集計し、送金させて頂きます。


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About SCHOLE HOPE PROJECT 2(Relief project for Western Japan rain disaster in July 2018 and Hokkaido Eastern Iburi Earthquake 2018.)


On the summer of 2018, large-scale disasters frequently occurred in Japan, which left a great damage to various places. We would like to express our heartfelt sympathy to all the victims of these natural disasters.
 
SCHOLE launched this project from the spirit of continuous and long-term support for the recovery from these disasters.

Wonderful musicians from our SCHOLE label and friends composed music especially for this project, and they will be digitally released. We hope listeners will enjoy these beautiful musical pieces to help support the steps toward a recovery.

Hope this project gives an opportunity to think what we can do now for the areas affected by natural disaster, not only in Japan but throughout the world, from listening to music we deliver. We appreciate to all the musicians/artists whom contributed music to support this project, and the label wishes to construct the circle of hope through the power of music.

By listening to the music, all the profit (excluding the cost of production) will be sent as donation to Japan Red Cross Society and disaster recovery organizations. Our label accountant will calculate the amount and transfer the money every once in three month.


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Itoko Toma - Fly

Haruka Nakamura 主宰の注目バンド 「kadan」の1stアルバム。 『schole compilation vol.1』やschole主宰のAkira Kosemuraとのスプリットアルバム
『Afterglow』、1STアルバム『Grace』で大きな注目を浴びているHaruka Nakamuraが 主宰する音楽団、nica改め、kadanの1アルバムが完成。 柔らかく温かいシネマティッ クな楽曲達は、Haruka Nakamuraの音楽性を残しながらも、バンドメンバーもKadanの 音楽性に色濃く影響を与えている。美しく、繊細な音の触感に心動かされるアルバムとなった。

Kadan casa

05 clock

06 a la musique

"By deathly pale light, silent is the night."

Established within the cultural nexus of Tokyo and tracing its origins to Singapore, KITCHEN. LABEL stands as the home for artists traversing the realms of ambient and transcendent musical expressions.

Founded by Ricks Ang in 2008 and named with an essence drawn from the magic realism of Banana Yoshimoto's novel "Kitchen," the independent label has gone on to release music by haruka nakamura, ASPIDISTRAFLY, ironomi, Meitei, sonicbrat, Kin Leonn, Hiroshi Ebina and more.

aspidistrafly - common colors in the air (i hold a wish for you, 2008)

KITCHEN. LABEL

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