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as released on the split album Day Has Ended with Aaron Martin

Today Has Been Alright

Composed by 高木正勝

staff credit:
creative direction and project management: artless Inc.
planning, art direction, curation, interview : shun kawakami, artless
web design and programming: logram Inc.
video: GLMV
client: Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co.,ltd.
web: www.kyowa-kirin.co.jp/10_sounds/artist/masakatsu_takagi/

Cosmos Piano - for 10 SOUNDS OF LIFE SCIENCE Ver by 高木正勝

BLUE MOMENT "Zen"(2015)

violet trefusis (2015)

canako inoue 2015 AW
http://canakoinoue.com/

夜を行く舟(2015)

From the album Sometimes out November 13, 2015 on Western Vinyl.  Vinyl LP format will be out on January 22, 2016.

CD/LP http://westernvinyl.com/shop/wv138
Bandcamp http://goldmund.bandcamp.com/album/sometimes
iTunes hyperurl.co/d3h29c
Amazon hyperurl.co/56ffvu

Rare live performance in New York on November 27th at Le Poisson Rouge w/ Lubomyr Melnyk

Golmund:
Label page http://westernvinyl.com/artists/goldmund
Twitter https://twitter.com/Goldmund
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/keith.kenniff
Instagram https://instagram.com/kenniffs/
Artist site http://www.unseen-music.com/

Live Performance:
November 27, 2015 - New York, NY • Le Poisson Rouge w/ Lubomyr Melnyk 

Raised in the rural town of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Keith Kenniff aka Goldmund started playing piano at age 20, while studying percussion at Boston’s Berklee College of Music.  Though he may not be a household name, Kenniff's evocative, distinctly American music has become quietly ubiquitous in the past few years, often appearing on NPR, in films, on TV, and in ads for Apple, Facebook, and Google among others.  As an artist who spends a great deal of his time producing music for others, it might be surprising to find out that when he has the opportunity to relax and re-center himself, he often chooses to produce music for himself.  Recorded over the course of three years, the material on his new album Sometimes functions as a journal, documenting brief moments in Kenniff's day when he could turn to the piano as a source of solace and unending creative possibilities.  Kenniff wrote and recorded everything on the album with the exception of the track "A Word I Give", which is a collaboration with preeminent Japanese pianist Ryuichi Sakamoto, who once described Goldmund's music as “…so, so, so beautiful…”.  

Kenniff's pseudonym is taken from the Herman Hesse novel Narcissus and Goldmund in which the Goldmund character leaves the cloister where he was living and studying in search of meaning for his life.  The story resonated with Kenniff when he was searching for a moniker to represent his solo piano work, "I think the way I approached the piano was in the same way: impulsive—searching and feeling things out in the dark."  On Sometimes he continues his explorations in the dark; each of the album's 17 pieces were improvised, and recorded in one or two takes, often late at night, after work-for-hire was finished, and the kids were in bed.  In an interview with NPR's Weekend Edition Keith Kenniff discussed his appreciation of Civil War era music, and it's ability to covey "…so much story in so few notes."  Similarly, these improvisations manage to be richly evocative despite their technical and compositional simplicity, using subtle details and dynamics to express what might otherwise be inexpressible.  

Throughout Sometimes, Kenniff fully employs the wabi-sabi aesthetic that has always defined Goldmund recordings.  "I like mistakes, I like when things don't go perfectly. I do have a tendency to want for things to be perfect and precise, but I have to also realize that a lot of things I like about music and art are very rough and impulsive, the slight imperfections that give something or someone a unique voice," says Kenniff.  He goes on to explain that these pieces served as a way for him to "step outside of whatever I was doing and return back to a place of discovery very much like when I first started playing."  As we follow him on his path of discovery, we get a glimpse into the world of a young man expressing his myriad feelings and experiences with honesty, and inherently imperfect gestures, which is part of what makes them so relatable and powerful — the local, for a few moments, resonating with the universal. 

Goldmund - "A Word I Give (featuring Ryuichi Sakamoto)"

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Koji Maruyama released his 1st EP "Reminiscence/Segmentation" from Somehow Recordings in UK in 2012, and has been releasing his music on several labels and on the web. His music also appear in TV commercials, animations and films, and sound installations in group exhibitions. In 2018, he was featured twice in the radio program "Radio Sakamoto（Ryuichi Sakamoto)" at 81.3 FM J-WAVE. 

In December 2018, "Cradle" was selected as the album that the manager of Tower Records Shibuya store recommended right now.

Currently, "cradle" and "lisianthus" are used on Tokyo MXTV's Healing Time and Headline News.

2020 cradle
2021 cyanos
2023 eyes
2024 Lisianthus
2025 ponder

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