“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





Leaves / Marihiko Hara & Polar M

Gentle Places (FULL Album)

Marihiko Hara + Nao Tsuda 
“Stella ‒ Music for Writing Letters”

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LETTER SET: https://papierlabo-store.com/items/641c0931a18e8d002a0964e9

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“Stella ‒ Music for Writing Letters” is music created for people who write letters. Its origin was the installation work “7 + 1 / Look up at the Stars; Dawn of a New Day” (At Noseden Art Line Festival 2021) by Marihiko Hara, musician and Nao Tsuda, photographer. <Stella>, a Japanese-style room with a good mountain view for writing letters, was located at a venue of the art festival. There the music was presented with writing paper, envelopes and post cards made exclusively for that occasion. The <Stella> project began during the covid- 19 pandemic as a place of comfort for people who couldnʼt meet loved ones. Later the music was recreated and we have come to release it.

Stella ‒ Music for Writing Letters | B - 1 "Mille Regretz” by Josquin des Prez (Excerpt)

ironomi - 夏虫色

Even Now 121 (c) sherry steiner 2024
piano improvisation
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Even Now 121

Fábio Caramuru - tico-tico

Marihiko Hara "Mémoire" from the album "Flora" (2013)
Live Recording at Villa-Kamogawa, Jan 27 2018.

www.marihikohara.com


Photo by Yoshikazu Inoue

Mémoire (Concert Version)

Unreleased Works 
"#w edit" (2005/2018)

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《FOR A SILENT SPACE》

会場：安養院 瑠璃講堂 (東京)
日時：2018年6月23日(土)
【昼の部】開場：15:30 / 開演：16:00
【夜の部】開場：19:00 / 開演：19:30

出演：原 摩利彦

照明：吉本有輝子（真昼）
音響：Flysound
主催：night cruising

nightcruising.jp/20180623_marihikohara/

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Marihiko Hara《FOR A SILENT SPACE》

Place: Anyo-In Temple (Tokyo)
Date: 23th June 2018
1) 16h00-
2) 19h30-

More Information: 
nightcruising.jp/20180623_marihikohara/

Unreleased Works 2018 #1

星形の庭『 breath and breadth』

星形の庭（津田貴司：E.Guitar＋林香織：Accordion）

マスタリング：庄司広光
アートワーク：fuuyanm
ライナーノート：西脇一弘

2019年2月リリース
販売価格：2500円＋悪税
フォーマット：全10曲入りCD／活版印刷
発売元／型番：PNdB-atelier HN01

星形の庭『breath And Breadth』-trailer

空想の物語の舞台を 実際に創りあげ、その舞台上で 音楽を奏で 詞を朗読し、まるで映画を観ているかのような空間を表現します

 音楽家・田辺 玄  と 音楽家・ 森 ゆに、そして脚本と舞台演出・ ico の三人編成 「雨がすぎて たそがれとなり」が 音楽 と詞 と物語を紡いだ「舞台映画」として発表いたします。

「 雨がすぎて  たそがれとなり 」

LIVE BGM RECORDING at Ashiya City Museum of Art and History

2020.11.14-23まで芦屋市立美術博物館で開催の「ROOMS」にて、11/15に会場内庭園でBGM演奏をした際の録音です。5時間の演奏から一部を抜粋。

会場：芦屋市立美術博物館・庭園
音響・録音：night cruising

美術と音楽の 9 日間「rooms」
https://www.artagenda.jp/exhibition/detail/5313

OPEN AIR LIVE BGM on Nov 15th, 2020

Marihiko Hara (b. 1983) is a composer residing in Kyoto, Japan. Graduated from the Department of Education, Kyoto University.
His main interest is to compose serene silence in music and to pursue his own texture of sounds, through electric/acoustic sounds and field recordings. He released the album “PASSION”(2020) , “Landscape in Portrait”(2017), mixing melodic piano, electric abstract sounds and Japanese traditional instruments.

On the other hand, he produces agressive abstract electric music for collaborated projects with people involved in many fields, such as Ryuichi Sakamoto for Damien Jalet’s “Vessel”, “Omphalos” and the documentary film “Agniyogana”, Kohei Nawa, Isabel Muñoz, Raphaël Dallaporta, Hideki Noda and Junya Watanabe COMME des GARÇONS.
He has also joined the artist collective “Dumb Type” since 2014.

Stella ‒ Music for Writing Letters | B - 1 "Mille Regretz” by Josquin des Prez (Excerpt)

Marihiko Hara / 原摩利彦

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