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Klastós (Rework Edition)
by Ginevra Nervi

1. Changing (Chevel rework) 02:25
2. Annihilation (Alev Lenz rework) 03:19
3. Gaslighting (Midori Hirano rework) 04:15
4. Dune (Lara Sarkissian rework) 05:00

KLASTÓS - REWORK EDITION
During this very particular year, Ginevra Nervi understood that one of the most important things to her and to her creative process is creating special connections with other artists from all over the world, and Klastós talks exactly about the connection between everyone and everything. 
The pandemic demonstrated perfectly, more than ever, how humans need to be connected to each other, how humans are not able to stay alone for long times and how this makes us vulnerable. We need to communicate and always interact with something new and different from our personal perspectives of things. 
In this “rework project” I see exactly what the concept represents. 

THE REWORKERS
Chevel said that reworking Ginevra's music came out quite fast and instinctive. He created a strong contrast between her vocal tones and his cold, synthetic and glossy sounds. It's something he always looks for when he produces, giving a contrast of feelings, whether it is with opposite layers or some kind of questions and answers between elements and melodies.

CREDITS

Changing rework : produced by Dario Tronchin, mix and master by Maurizio Borgna

Annihilation rework : produced by Alev Lenz, mix and master by Maurizio Borgna

Gaslighting rework : produced and mixed by Midori Hirano, master by Maurizio Borgna

Dune rework: produced and mixed by Lara Sarkissian, master by Maurizio Borgna

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Gaslighting (Midori Hirano rework)

Full Circle Reworks

Circle 19 (Midori Hirano Rework)

Kioku

Vale (Midori Hirano Rework)

Being (Midori Hirano Rework)

Midori Hirano aka MimiCof is a Berlin-based musician, composer and producer. The basis of her productions are acoustic instruments such as piano, strings, or guitars, subtly melded with an experimental and eclectic mixture of modern digital sounds, electronic processing, and field recordings. Her recent works have been released by labels such as Sonic Pieces, Daisart, Alien Transistor, Longform Editions, Dauw and Karlrecords. Here,  we are honoured to share a mix from Midori of highly intuitive abstract music and minimal electronic music.

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Nailah Hunter - Forest Dwelling [Longform Editions]
Neutral - Amazonia [BGM/TAMURA]
Manja Ristić - Dwellers [Forms of Minutiae]
Natalie Beridze - Be Airborn [Monika-Enterprise]
Svetlana Maraš - Incomplete [Self]
Actress - Angels Pharmacy ft. Zsela [Ninja Tune]
Driftmachine - Drift [Umor Rex]
Marc Leclair - 236e Jour [Mutek_Rec]
SND - Vandyk-k Integ Paradise 1 [DS93]
Aidan Baker - Seeing Past What Things Seem [Karlrecords]
Signal - Robotron [Raster-Noton]
Claire Rousay - Stoned Gesture [American Dreams Records]
Dau - The Death of Smut [Phantom Limb]
Olivier Alary & Johannes Malfatti - I Can't Even See Myself [Shameless Records Rocks]

Ep 307 pt.1 w/ Midori Hirano

Snippets of midori hirano's new tape album "And I Am Here" on staaltape.
https://staaltape.wordpress.com/midori-hirano-and-i-am-here/

1.Before Going To Bed
2.Story Begins
3.Wandering
4.In The Train
5.Forgot The Name
6.Girls In The Park
7.Garbage Collection
8.Dreams
9.Get Off The Train
10.Still Untuned
11.Good Night
12.Asa
13.I Got New Seeds
14.Summer Goes On
15.Pause
16.He Was There
17.Windrum
18.Stop
19.Video Tape In The Water
20.Night Trip
21.To Autumn
22.Traveler
23.Looking Up
24.Secret Aria On The Piano

And I Am Here(snippet)

from Midori Hirano, Nils Mosh - Kaleidoskop M​ü​nsterland (2024)

To listen & buy full tracks:
https://midorih.bandcamp.com/album/kaleidoskop-m-nsterland

Kaleidoskop M​ü​nsterland

Nordwalde

Midori Hirano, Nils Mosh - Nordwalde (excerpt)

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Drifting Echoes

~ Deep Breakfast 281 by https://soundcloud.com/midorihirano ~

Tracklist:
1. Sugai Ken - 環境音 其の壱 - Environmental Sounds At Erosion Control 
2. Andrew Pekler - Sunshower at Sandy Island
3. Pjusk - Seil
4. Animal Magic - Longshore Drift
5. Claire Rousay - discrete (the market)
6. Arash Akbari - You Are Made Of Light
7. Frank Bretschneider and Giorgio Li Calzi - Human-to-Human
8. Jan Jelinek - Do Dekor
9. Soisong - Soisong Broadcast #7
10. Richard Skelton - For The Application of Fire
11. Midori Hirano - Saiboh
12. Aaron Cupples - Blowholes
13. Asuna - Sea Above, Chubby Plane, Sky Below
14. Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden - Other Side
15. Meitei - Okue

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Deep Breakfast Series
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Deep Breakfast 281 ~ Midori Hirano

snippet of YTAMO + MIDORI HIRANO "Time Unbox" 

Format: Cassette & Digital

Limited copies of 60 (30 by YTAMO / 30 by MIDORI HIRANO)

Limited number of copies with hand-crafted covers made of cardboard and origami papers. Each copy has a different colors and patterns. It comes with a download code.
All copies are handmade done by each artists - Midori and Ytamo. You can buy all Midori’s version on her bandcamp site, and if you want to get Ytamo’s handmade verison, please go to :  ytamo.bandcamp.com @ytamo

All tracks & artwork by MIDORI HIRANO and YTAMO.
Recorded in Osaka, Japan 2011
Edited & Compiled in 2016

Review on Vital Weekly:

“…even when this is in a slightly more experimental realm, with all things being a bit more improvised and free, yet never losing that sense of space. You could wonder why they didn’t do a CD version of this, as the material certainly is up for it. Maybe some daring mind should re-issue this, due time, as the long lost item from 2016.
Until then everybody needs to head out and buy it on cassette. It comes in a neat little carton box!”

BUY ONLINE:

@ MIDORI HIRANO (shipped from Germany)

https://midorihirano.bandcamp.com/album/time-unbox

@ YTAMO (shipped from Japan)

https://ytamo.bandcamp.com/album/time-unbox

TIME UNBOX

YTAMO + MIDORI HIRANO "Time Unbox" Snippet

"Moon Synch" by @midorihirano alias MimiCof, featuring the track "Signs", will be out on May 5 through @alientransistor. More info: bit.ly/MimiMoon

Moon Synch

Info

MimiCof - Spins

taken from the latest album "Moon Synch" released by Alien Transistor on May 5th 2017
https://alientransistor.com/shop/mimicof-moon-synch/

Music Video directed by kaliber16
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmLuW85GdEA

Opal

taken from the latest album "Moon Synch" released by Alien Transistor on May 5th 2017
alientransistor.com/shop/mimicof-moon-synch
https://anost.net/en/Products/MimiCof-Moon-Synch

Burning Lights

September 2017 / Mixed by Midori Hirano

01 Deactivating HAL Computer (From 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY by Stanley Kubrick)
02 Mika Vainio / Gear
03 Suzanne Ciani / Concert At WBAI Free Music Store
04 Jan Jelinek / Lithiummelodie 1
05 Félicia Atkinson / Monstera Deliciosa
06 Yair Elazar Glotman & Mats Erlandsson / Orchid Sedation
07 Benedict Drew / Crawling Through Tory Slime (Side B - 1)
08 Malibu / Held
09 Hymie’s Basement / America Won
10 Hymie’s Basement / America Too
11 System / Spy
12 Frank Bretschneider / Other Days, Other Eyes
13 Byul.org / Days & Nights
14 Takeo Toyama / Leo
15 Saroos / Weaver's Cave
16 Shellac / The Admiral
17 Simon & Garfunkel / Bookends

Midori will be playing records and cassettes with Tomorrow's Relics on September 28th 2017 at Oh! Calcutta in Berlin. tomorrows-relics.com.

Guest Mixes

Guest Mix: Midori Hirano

Mimicof "Love Control" ft. hprizm is a cut from '»sichten« vol.1' a compilation from Raster Noton out on September 21st. The Raster label invites friends and colleagues to present music that tends to be out of the focus of current media channels. For the first edition, they’ve invited musician, composer and video artist Frank Bretschneider, whose picked six artists working in multi-textured minimal sounds. MimiCof is the solo project of Midori Hiran in which she explores the realm of experimental music and detailed rhythmic patterns, combined with an idea of drawing melodic shapes and harmonies.
The track premiered on today's episode of Peak Time, live from Funkhaus Berlin, for RBMA20.
www.redbullradio.com/shows/peak-time
@raster_artistic_platform

Sichten 1

Mimicof "Love Control" ft. HPRIZM [PEAK TIME PREMIERE]

Midori Hirano - Close to Life
From the album “Mirrors in Mirrors”

Release date: 5th March, 2019
Pre-order “Mirrors in Mirrors” here: https://daisart.bandcamp.com
© Daisart / daisart.info

From the liner notes:

If you stand between two mirrors facing each other, you’re faced with a curious and unique visual sensation – endlessly repeating reflections bounce off one another into an infinite, spiralling prism. Any movement from your vantage point derails the point of focus, and transforms the illusion in real-time before your eyes. Light bends, and with it, colours slip in and out of dominance, in an
Escherism of endless space, despite no change to the dimensions you inhabit in that ever so concrete space between two mirrors.

Midori Hirano speaks of “waning lights” and “edges blending into fog” as some of the sensory indicators inspiring Mirrors In Mirrors – her debut on Daisart – and these Impressionistic sentiments are deeply imbued within Hirano’s delicate, restrained compositions. The hallmarks of modern classical, electronica and ambient are adopted as an assemblage to explore nuanced tones and techniques less dictated by those stylistic underpinnings, perhaps somewhere hovering between – but never too far away – keenly aware of form and
function.

An emphasis upon the piano is an immediate point of reference for placing Hirano’s work within a broader context, but important to point out is the subtle and careful use of synthesisers and effects processing throughout the record – sometimes providing a more detailed background terrain, sometimes taking centre stage. Whichever instrument she turns her hands to, Hirano has crafted a record with enough dedicated focus and space to allow the listener to immerse oneself in her devised temporal expanse, an Impressionistic liminal space of Mirrors in Mirrors.


Written, produced, recorded and mixed by Midori Hirano in Berlin, Germany 2017-18. 
Mastered by Sean McCann of Recital Program.



“Mirrors in Mirrors” comes in a first edition of 200 x 12inch 145gm black vinyl (incl. download) with Pantone printed inner and outer
sleeves designed by Jeroen Wille and Rudd Ruttens [ruttens-wille].

Midori Hirano - Close To Life

MimiCof at L.E.V. festival 2018
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@mimicof

LEVpodcast - MimiCof (L.E.V. 2018)

Welcome to the 3rd episode of Inner Peace. This time with sound-artist Midori Hirano from her home in Berlin. Midori has created a beautiful journey in music and layered sounds. Enjoy the dive within.

Tracklist:

1: Interview with HAL 9000 Computer (from „2001: A Space Odyssey“)

2. Maria w Horn - Interlocked Cycles I

3. Midori Hirano - Sleeping Under The Raintrees

4. YTAMO - Mantis

5. Gutevolk - Yumekitan

6. Spirit Fest - River River

7. Masayoshi Fujita - Story of Forest

8. Mami Sakurai - Amagoi Odoriuta

9. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions - Feeling Of Gaze

10. Moon Ate The Dark - Ventricles

11. Midori Hirano - Asa

12. Midori Hirano - Forgot The Name

13. Aki Tsuyuko - Noel’s Organ

14. Stars of the Lid - Don’t Bother They’re Here

15. An Average Sadness by Ameni Rozsa (from „Paul Auster Reads the National Story Project“)

Inner Peace with Midori Hirano

Stream the digital version which includes this remix on other platforms & pre-order the CD + T-Shirt (shipping mid December): https://idol.lnk.to/NightMelodyArticulation

Some of London-based electronic songwriter Ryan Lee West’s most recognised work to date comes in the shape of spontaneous EP or so-called mini album releases— clocking in just under the 40-minute mark, keeping their contents urgent, immediate and to the point.

As with his 2013 EP Odyssey and 2014’s Sonne, which were later compiled to a full-length release titled Odyssey / Sonne in 2015, there is a similarly strong synergy between his 2016 mini album Night Melody and this year’s Articulation. Bundled together to one long player under the title Night Melody / Articulation, digital formats including a bonus remix by Berlin-based Japanese pianist and producer Midori Hirano are available from today, November 24, 2020 — with the CD version on pre-order and shipping mid December.

His 34-minute, 6-track mini album Night Melody was born out of and shaped by long hours working into the night. It’s nocturnal in sound; mysterious in the way that the early hours so often are.

The opening statement Pattern Of The North starts off with a collage of spliced synth melodies, inspired by anxiety that accompanies going home for Christmas. It’s followed by Johannesburg, an early sketch gradually filled out during his tour in South Africa. The closing statement What Sorrow is a fitting end to the album, building from gentle melancholia to a joyous crescendo. It’s a sensibility that’s central to the record; joy and sorrow both find their counterpoints.

July 31, 2020 saw the release of his highly anticipated new album Articulation with an equal running time of 34 minutes. Lead track and album centrepiece ‘Articulation’ links the record back to the analogue fluidity and colour of 2016’s Night Melody. The division of varying time signatures, intertwined with a complex structure of notes, creates an expression of a moving structure and conjures a dreamy, motorik energy.

Articulation was conceived with a very visual way of thinking, unusual for the London musician and producer. During the writing process Ryan drew structures, shapes and patterns by hand to try and find new ways of thinking about music, giving himself a way to problem-solve away from the computer. The album title references a piece by the avant-garde contemporary composer Györgi Ligeti, though not for its music, but for the non-traditional graphic score that accompanied it.

The idea of using analogue drawings and tools to bolster digital creations can be heard in the structure of the pieces that make up Articulation from the broody techno opener ‘Vibrations on a String’ all the way to the album’s boundless closer ‘Sudden Awareness of Now’. Rising out of birdsong heard from his studio window, it has a particular urgency about it and seems to perfectly capture a
longing for escape. Built around a simple and repetitive melodic theme, expanding and retracting over the course of its seven-minute odyssey.

Tracklist / Cover Artwork:
1. Pattern of the North
2. Johannesburg
3. Slow Song
4. Lone
5. Night Melody
6. What Sorrow
7. Vibrations on a String
8. Forwardism
9. Melodica
10. Articulation
11. Still Here
12. Sudden Awareness of Now

Night Melody / Articulation

Articulation (Midori Hirano Remix)

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