Where the Thistle Grows

HAIKU MUSIC CHALLENGE

Naviarhaiku 540

Face of the winter pond
doesn't reflect
even a leaf...

Nakamura Kusatao was born in Xiamen (China) in 1901 and moved to Japan in 1904.

He was influenced by contemporary Western philosophy, mostly Friedrich Nietzsche, and his poetry focused on themes of life and humanity. Together with Shuson Kato and Ishida Hakyo, Nakamura Kusatao was a member of the “Human Exploration School”, a group of poets who used haiku to explore and highlight "how human beings should live".

Nakamura Kusatao launched the magazine Banryoku in 1946, and his major collections include Chōshi, Hi no shima, Biden, and Toki.

haiku by Nakamura Kusatao

picture by Miguel Alcântara

Submission deadline: 15th May 2024

To find out more and participate, visit https://www.naviarrecords.com/haiku-music-challenge/

Reflect

Reflect (naviarhaiku540)

#3805 (731 left): May. 15, 2024: Then methought the air grew denser perfumed from an unseen censer  (from Edgar Allan Poe Poems from Mar. 5, 2024) 
Today's pure primal piano music here. Happy if this music makes you feel peaceful.. : )
Looking for absolute natural beauty every day for Piano Ten Thousand Leaves. Target number is 4536 and 3805(83.88%) (Only 731 pieces remain) achieved today. Find my project.. : )
This piece may might have good 1/f fluctuation characteristic although I stopped investigating it each piece.

My new message: "Does it make sense to preserve it for 1000 years?

Today's cover ART is created by #Midjourney (Art Generating #AI), according to my wish. Happy if you like it.

spotify playlist 18 hours 449 songs, makes you fully relaxed.
 https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RCxA8SaySzoFzpQmTCLfo?si=92c44191513340ff


Weekly Piano Ten Thousand Leaves Magazine ; super beautiful video .. 
https://youtu.be/jo5_klWyFc4?si=1wN2Sf63b35Abgv5

I'm now making Archive site of Piano Ten Thousand Leaves project by utilizing #wordpress. Basically nice direction I've already gotten.. : )
Currently 1100 pieces already achieved. 
But this week I need to do something else, so I'm going to stop this task for a bit.


######## NEW 26th SELECTION ALBUM JUST RELEASED ########
"Into the Forest" - the 26th selection album of piano ten thousand leaves

youtube: FULL VIDEO with 20 full songs in very high quality sounds
https://youtu.be/C-7ML6MatDs?si=idZWqcfzpG_4ZI6O

spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/intl-ja/album/2zzv5XkXoAHxDCU7xTm1nX

appleMusic:
https://music.apple.com/jp/album/into-the-forest/1745857531

amazonMusic:
https://www.amazon.co.jp/music/player/albums/B0D3XMX85F?&_encoding=UTF8&tag=tcjaz-22&linkCode=ur2&camp=247&creative=1211

all music streaming services:
https://linkco.re/zaQxDzNt?lang=en

Then Methought The Air Grew Denser Perfumed From An Unseen Censer - #3805 By Chair House 240515

Unreleased duet, live in the studio, performed by
Bobby Rangell: flute
Daniel Diaz: electric bass
Recorded in Paris, early April 2024.

Edited, mixed, and shared on May 2024 for this haiku:

heat in waves ̶
in the stones
angry reverberations 

By Katō Kyōtai 

Photo by DD

@naviarrecords

Stone Reverberations (flute and bass live duet) naviarhaiku541

Summer Cicadas

The old leather bound book smells of crusted honey. Flecks of dust and dried parchment rain from it's interior as you open it. Ancient hieroglyphs and diagrams point the way to the obsidian gate. 

A year later you walk through long forgotten caverns with lantern lit. You've finally found the underground lake. A tired face stares back at you from it's reflection. The air taste sweet down here and in the distance flutes echo of a buried civilization. The feeling of dread washes over you. This is your last chance to get her back from the underworld. 

Dark bass drone rumbles in the caverns under long forgotten cities. Ager Sonus has succeeded in creating an Egyptian backdrop that is accentuated with flutes and atmospheric layering. Occult and ethereal, this album is for lovers of Necromancy and the unexplored ruins beneath the sands of Egypt.

Book of the Black Earth

Bandcamp

Ager Sonus - The Dead City

Available everywhere:
Spotify - https://spoti.fi/2u9ZxQT 
Apple - https://apple.co/2L2KLTd
Amazon - https://amzn.to/2L2vuoE
Cover licensed through CD Baby.

Delicate

Delicate - Taylor Swift cover by Phil Larson

Этот трек является не моим, этот трэк часть саундтеков написанных к игре
Horizon Zero Dawn — компьютерной игре в жанре Action/RPG с открытым миром,
разработанная нидерландской студией Guerrilla Games и изданная Sony Interactive Entertainment
для игровой консоли PlayStation 4 в 2017 году. Композиторы саундтреков:   
Йорис де Ман
The Flight 
Нильс ван дер Лист
Джонатан Уильямс

(This track is not mine, this track is part of the soundtracks written for the game
Horizon Zero Dawn is an open-world action/RPG computer game,
developed by Dutch Studio
 Guerrilla Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment
for PlayStation 4 
game console in 2017. Soundtrack composers:   
Joris de man
The Flight
Nils van der Liszt
Jonathan Williams)

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Victory (feat. Julie Elven) - Part 1 - Motherland

Learn more: www.spitfireaudio.com/originals/#intimate-strings/

Delicate - Taylor Swift cover by Phil Larson

Phil Larson | Composer