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japanese chill

「Lamp feat. Nujabes」

haruka nakamura
3rd Album 
「MELODICA」

2012 9.6 Release
hydeout productions

special site
http://www.kitchen-label.com/melodica/

Official MV - Lamp feat.Nujabes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHQ-oVSYkeU

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MELODICA

1. Lamp feat. Nujabes
2. AURORA
3. soar feat. Substantial
4. days
5. the sun feat. Cise Starr
6. MELODICA feat. ARAKI Shin
7. enzo
8. Luv（sic）pt2 - Acoustica - feat. Shing02 
9. delight
10. fragrance like home feat. Pase Rock
11. SUNSET LINE feat. Uyama Hiroto
12. let go feat. Nujabes


Lamp feat. Nujabes

13 - All (Paniyolo Remix)

Where Is My Mind  - Piano Cover

Bandcamp:http://stephanfischer.bandcamp.com/album/like-a-leaf
Cover Artwork by KaleylArts

Like A Leaf

BRILLIANT HOPES / [.que]

01. Origin
02. Home
03. Joint feat. affable noise
04. Anew
05. Trivial Lie
06. Himitsu feat. unmo
07. Lullaby feat. petitoto
08. Springlike
09. Misty Moon feat. akira kosemura
10. Curtain
11. Verdure
12. Will
13. Never End

溢れ出しては儚く消える輝きが、宙で結ばれ形を成してゆく。
磨き続けられた希望のかけらは、柔らかな色を纏った結晶となる。
透過と反射が織り成す世界に今、心躍るほどの美しさが広がる。

2015.2.12
Release

schole

http://schole-inc.com/?page_id=23438

[.que] / trivial lie

In my dreams

taken from the album 'Los Griegos creían que las estrellas eran pequeños agujeros por donde los dioses escuchaban a los hombres'

http://www.flau.jp/releases/41.html

Ulises Conti - G

祝 アルバム「かがやき」2014年11月19日発売！

New Album 'Kagayaki' release on 19th Nov. 2014.

かみしゃま - デモ / Kami Shama - Demo

Sakura

DEMO track for 'Oo Yama Emi' Concert.
「大山咲み」コンサートのためのデモ音源です。

「めぐみ」   


【春１】

こぶし
うぐいす
梅
さくらんぼの花
山つつじ
峠の桜

あ～
花びら　風に乗せ
わしの心が　はちきれる


【春２】

みみず
土のにおい
さわがに
おたまじゃくし
ぶと
とかげ
くまんばち
しまへび（の主）

あ～
いのちが　やってきた
大風　吹いてきた


【夏１】

雨
小雨　大雨
虹
かたつむり
田んぼに映える空
かえるのうた
ほたる

あ～
ハマちゃん　傘さして
あじさいの顔が　揺れていた


【夏２】

せみ
ひぐらし
川遊び
入道雲
草刈りの汗 
すいか　 　

あ～
みんなで水　背負って
お掃除に　あがるよ
あなたに　誘われて
よっこらしょと　行くよ


【秋】

高い空
祭
真っ赤な夕陽
稲穂の海
ススキのうた
カキ　栗
たぬき　いのしし　猿

あ～
みなみな　熟されて
私も真っ赤っか
あんたも　真っ赤っか


＜きみが　めぐみは　ありがたき＞


【冬】
白い
白い息　雪
かじかむ手足　  
あしあと
秘かに眠る　山々

あ～
みんなで　縄なって
お蜜柑も　つけるよ
明日は　雲晴れて
雪どけ　みんなで笑ったよ


[English]

This is DEMO version of a song ‘Megumi’.

Takagi Masakatsu 
Title: Megumi (Blessing)


- Spring 1


Kobushi (Magnolia kobus)
Uguisu (Japanese bush warbler)
Ume (Japanese apricot)
Sakuranbo no Hana (Blossoming of cherry tree)
Yama Tsutsuji (Rhododendron kaempferi)
Tooge no Sakura (Cherry blossoms along mountain pass)


Ah__
Hanabira Kaze ni Nose (Let the petals dance on the wind)
Washi no Kokoro ga Hachikireru (That makes my heart overflowed)



- Spring 2

Mimizu (Earthworm)
Tsuchi no Nioi (Smell of Earth)
Sawagani (Japanese freshwater crab)
Otamajakushi (Tadpole)
Buto (Black Fly)
Tokage (Lizard)
Kumanbachi (Xylocopa)
Shima Hebi (Japanese striped snake)

Ah__
Inochi ga Yatte Kita (All the spirits finally came out) 
Ookaze Fuite Kita (Big spring breeze breathed new life into everything)



- Summer 1

Ame (Rain)
Kosame (Light rain)
Ooame (Heavy rain)
Niji (Rainbow)
Katatsumuri (Snail)
Tanbo ni Haeru Sora (Sky reflected in rice fields)
Kaeru no Uta (Songs of Frogs)
Hotaru (Fire Fly)

Ah__
Hama-chan Kasa Sashite (Hama-chan put up an umbrella)
Ajisai no Kao ga Yureteita (Hydrangea swinging her face)



- Summer 2

Semi (Cicada)
Higurashi (Tanna japonensis)
Kawa Asobi (Swiming in a river)
Nyudogumo (Cumulonimbus)
Kusa Kari no Ase (Sweat-soaked by weeding the grass)
Suika (Watermelon)

Ah__
Minna de Mizu Shotte (Carry water together with everyone)
Osouji ni Agaruyo (To the top of a mountain to clean up our shrine)
Anata ni Sasowarete (Because you invite me)
Yokkorasho to Yuku yo (We go up a mountain, shouting ‘Yokkorasho!’)



- Autumn

Takai Sora (Limitless sky)
Matsuri (Festival)
Makka na Yuuhi (Truely red sunset)
Inaho no Umi (Golden waves of rice plants)
Susuki no Uta (Sounds of Japanese silver grasses)
Kaki (Persimmon)
Kuri Chestnut)
Tanuki (Raccoon dog)
Inoshishi (Wild boar)
Saru (Monkey)

Ah__
Mina Mina Jyuku Sarete (Everything got ripened)
Watashi mo Makkakka (I also got ripened to red)
Anta mo Makkakka (You too, ripened to red)

___ Kimi ga Megumi ha Arigataki
___ (We are thankful to your blessing)



- Winter

Shiroi (White)
Shiroi Iki (White frosty breath)
Yuki (Snow)
Kajikamu Te Ashi (Hands and feet numb with cold)
Ashiato (Footprints on snow)
Hisoka ni Nemuru Yamayama (Secretly sleeping Mountain)


Ah__
Minna de Nawa Natte (Twist a straw rope together with everyone)
Omikan mo Tsukeru yo (Put a mandarin orange on a New Year’s decoration)
Ashita ha Kumo Harete (Tomorrow, the sun may come)
Yukidoke Minna de Waratta yo (Melt the snow. We all smiled from our heart)



http://www.takagimasakatsu.com

めぐみ / Megumi (DEMO) (2016)

パーカッショニスト渡辺亮さんとのリハーサルのひとコマ。
Recording on rehearsal with Ryo Watanabe (percussion)

http://www.takagimasakatsu.com

Marginalia #01 - with Ryo Watanabe (percussion)

Awakening / Osamu Fukuzawa × Kazuki Hirashima (Japanese Shamisen Contemporary Music)

08 Um...Toronto vs. You

More Information : http://www.kitchen-label.com

We are pleased to announce the 9th edition of the label, the first full-length album by Evade entitled “Destroy & Dream” to be released on the 30th of June.

Since 2008, artists such as Kitchen. Label’s very own ASPIDISTRAFLY (Singapore) and Flica (Malaysia) have ventured successfully to Japan, presented music made in the Asia Pacific to the rest of the world. Following in these footsteps, electronic trio Evade have been honing their repertoire of sounds crafted from within their immediate surroundings of the urban pastoral landscapes of former Portugese colony, Macau. In this much anticipated full-length album entitled “Destroy & Dream”, Evade takes on the view of a distant observer, questioning life, the earth, the universe and the values of its living creatures, yet with the consolation of dreams, seclusion and shelter.

Evade was born in the summer of 2004. Formed by Sonia Ka Ian Lao (vocals), Brandon L (guitar) and Faye Choi (sound), the trio released their first EP “Evade” in September 2009. Despite the fact that it was released on a small Macau-based label, with the help of Kitchen. Label producer Ricks Ang (who also mastered the EP and this album), the band attracted critical notice in Japan for their inventive and original style of electronic music, described by some as a wayward blend of minimalist electronic and dubstep combined with an ethereal pop sensibility. In August 2010, Evade was invited by Japanese independent music label PROGRESSIVE FOrM to perform at their curated event “New Sounds of Tokyo Vol.6″. Evade has also toured Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, and Singapore, and has lent support to Kashiwa Daisuke, ASPIDISTRAFLY and Flica’s Asian tours.

Evade builds tension through sustained silences and broken down electronic arrangements by Faye Choi, electronic whiz kid and producer of the band. Sonia Ka Ian Lao, an award-winning poet and novelist, pens poignant mantras and softly expresses them in layers of arresting whispers in her native Mandarin dialect Cantonese in “Forgetting”, “Endless” and “God”. As much an imagist as a writer, she creates these characters and Freudian dream-like scenarios that seem circle each other in unpredictable rhythms, intersecting without premeditation. In “Crush”, a carefully-crafted dream pop elegy, Brandon L strums the guitar so languidly as if in acceptance with the disenchantment of the world, and all is swallowed beneath a symphony of bit crushed synths and white noise.

What seems like a continuous vision of despair is destroyed as if the Looking Glass has shattered – in “Love”, all self-seriousness and heroism is clean forgotten now as disorienting, idiosyncratic elements are spasmodically injected – these are puzzling as they are almost self-depreciating, for here lies what really makes Evade so elusive. In “Seeking Mr. Freud” and “Pavillion”, textures are unconventionally amalgamated with minimalist beat loops, traditional oriental instrumentation and fragments of sounds sampled from old Hong Kong films. Despite the mélange of growing-up influences such as Cocteau Twins and Slowdive, Evade may be just what you get when James Blake meets Cocorosie. A slowing burning eruption on all counts, the moments in “Destroy and Dream” are excruciatingly intimate one moment and hauntingly deconstructed the next, yet these are powerfully sequenced images, with flashes of light that cut through the haze of illicit memories.

This album also features three remixes by three acclaimed producers/musicians from Japan. For Kitchen. Label fans, FJORDNE pushes the boundary of his constantly evolving jazz piano in the remix of “Pavillion”, and it may very well provide a glimpse of his future work. Lastly, Serph from established Japanese independent label noble and arguably one of the brightest new talents in the Japanese electronic music scene adds his masterful interpretation of “Love”.


EVADE - Untitled Dream (Destroy & Dream, 2012)

More Information : http://www.kitchen-label.com

We are pleased to announce the 9th edition of the label, the first full-length album by Evade entitled “Destroy & Dream” to be released on the 30th of June.

Since 2008, artists such as Kitchen. Label’s very own ASPIDISTRAFLY (Singapore) and Flica (Malaysia) have ventured successfully to Japan, presented music made in the Asia Pacific to the rest of the world. Following in these footsteps, electronic trio Evade have been honing their repertoire of sounds crafted from within their immediate surroundings of the urban pastoral landscapes of former Portugese colony, Macau. In this much anticipated full-length album entitled “Destroy & Dream”, Evade takes on the view of a distant observer, questioning life, the earth, the universe and the values of its living creatures, yet with the consolation of dreams, seclusion and shelter.

Evade was born in the summer of 2004. Formed by Sonia Ka Ian Lao (vocals), Brandon L (guitar) and Faye Choi (sound), the trio released their first EP “Evade” in September 2009. Despite the fact that it was released on a small Macau-based label, with the help of Kitchen. Label producer Ricks Ang (who also mastered the EP and this album), the band attracted critical notice in Japan for their inventive and original style of electronic music, described by some as a wayward blend of minimalist electronic and dubstep combined with an ethereal pop sensibility. In August 2010, Evade was invited by Japanese independent music label PROGRESSIVE FOrM to perform at their curated event “New Sounds of Tokyo Vol.6″. Evade has also toured Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, and Singapore, and has lent support to Kashiwa Daisuke, ASPIDISTRAFLY and Flica’s Asian tours.

Evade builds tension through sustained silences and broken down electronic arrangements by Faye Choi, electronic whiz kid and producer of the band. Sonia Ka Ian Lao, an award-winning poet and novelist, pens poignant mantras and softly expresses them in layers of arresting whispers in her native Mandarin dialect Cantonese in “Forgetting”, “Endless” and “God”. As much an imagist as a writer, she creates these characters and Freudian dream-like scenarios that seem circle each other in unpredictable rhythms, intersecting without premeditation. In “Crush”, a carefully-crafted dream pop elegy, Brandon L strums the guitar so languidly as if in acceptance with the disenchantment of the world, and all is swallowed beneath a symphony of bit crushed synths and white noise.

What seems like a continuous vision of despair is destroyed as if the Looking Glass has shattered – in “Love”, all self-seriousness and heroism is clean forgotten now as disorienting, idiosyncratic elements are spasmodically injected – these are puzzling as they are almost self-depreciating, for here lies what really makes Evade so elusive. In “Seeking Mr. Freud” and “Pavillion”, textures are unconventionally amalgamated with minimalist beat loops, traditional oriental instrumentation and fragments of sounds sampled from old Hong Kong films. Despite the mélange of growing-up influences such as Cocteau Twins and Slowdive, Evade may be just what you get when James Blake meets Cocorosie. A slowing burning eruption on all counts, the moments in “Destroy and Dream” are excruciatingly intimate one moment and hauntingly deconstructed the next, yet these are powerfully sequenced images, with flashes of light that cut through the haze of illicit memories.

This album also features three remixes by three acclaimed producers/musicians from Japan. For Kitchen. Label fans, FJORDNE pushes the boundary of his constantly evolving jazz piano in the remix of “Pavillion”, and it may very well provide a glimpse of his future work. Lastly, Serph from established Japanese independent label noble and arguably one of the brightest new talents in the Japanese electronic music scene adds his masterful interpretation of “Love”.

EVADE - Crush (Destroy & Dream, 2012)

eleven

Unknown Coordinates (Dom Mino'+ Akira Kosemura)

remix by 
aspidistrafly
http://www.aspidistrafly.com/

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original track

「graf」 + 「Luz」
by haruka nakamura

「graf」  from  - afterglow -
&
「Luz」  from - grace -

vocal / April Lee

kitchen.label
http://www.kitchen-label.com/

Luz  -aspidistrafly remix-

flower   (electric piano arr. - akira kosemura)

Manon Theme, from the contemporary dance theatre choreographed by Kimiho Hulbert in Japan 2012.
Sync/Licensing inquiry to: info@schole-inc.com

official site: https://akirakosemura.com/
bandcamp: https://akirakosemura.bandcamp.com/
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4n1lW38WKgyPEIZowQ3AND?si=gwGM3HyeRACgj5z4pSVlug
itunes/apple: https://itunes.apple.com/artist/akirakosemura/216327255

Bandcamp

Manon Theme (2012)

Akira Kosemura - Vision Of A Dream

This is the second sketch for sound track "Ookamikodomo no Ame to Yuki (Wolf Children)".

細田守監督の「おおかみこどもの雨と雪」の映画音楽のスケッチ。１つ目のすぐ後に録りました。初々しいです。

Ookamikodomo - sketch #02

Light Dance, from the solo album "how my heart sings" in 2011.
Sync/Licensing inquiry to: info@schole-inc.com

official site: https://akirakosemura.com/
bandcamp: https://akirakosemura.bandcamp.com/
spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4n1lW38WKgyPEIZowQ3AND?si=gwGM3HyeRACgj5z4pSVlug
itunes/apple: https://itunes.apple.com/artist/akirakosemura/216327255

esperanza(short ver.) with paniyolo

yoshinori takezawa