Yuka, your music is wonderful, i’ve been a huge fan of all your work for such a long time and your collaboration with Alex is incredible! I hope to see more original music from you on here! Never stop doing what you do! You are amazing!

I agree with the above commentor's sentiment. You are truly amazing.

This is absolutely stunning in it's adventurous journey. Couldn't be a more fitting name as well.

Yuka Kitamura and Alex Roe present Seasons, a collaboration of easy listening and emotive compositions portraying each season. It's been a few years since we first talked about the idea of working together but in 2021 we were finally able to do it, and to my surprise it became a small album! I think now was the perfect time to do it and I hope everyone enjoys this album as much as we enjoyed writing it. 

It's not the usual collaborative effort either. We first chose which were our favourite seasons: Kitamura chose Spring and Winter and I chose Summer and Autumn (although I think we had to discuss that a bit haha). It starts with Spring which Kitamura started and we passed the song back and forth like a relay. And I started Summer which we passed back and forth too. I wonder if you can tell who takes over from who? Then for the other two seasons we wrote the songs ourselves but tried to emulate the other persons style, so I tried to write an Autumn song in Kitamura's style and she wrote a Winter song in my style. I'm very proud of the result and it was a really fun way to work together, I would be very honoured to work together again some day.

Follow Yuka Kitamura on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yuka_kitamura

Album artwork kindly provided by junkyjunco
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/junkyjunco

Seasons by Yuka Kitamura & Alex Roe: Summer ~ The Coastal Road ~

Demo Song #1 - World-

Demo Song #2 - Easy listening -

Demo Song #3 - Electronic-

“Spring ~ A Journey of Water ~”

This is a collaboration song with Alex Roe.(https://soundcloud.com/roetaka)
And it’s one of the song from the album “Seasons” that we made. 

“Seasons” has 4 tracks and we decided to make “Spring” and “Summer” like a relay. 
It was just like a jam session, each person wrote a short section about 1~2 minutes, then passed back them like a baton.

It was very fun for me and I really learned many things from his music.
Please enjoy the difference in our style.

※If you want to know more about our collaboration,
Please visit the Alex’s Youtube channel, 
there are more description that written by Alex.

[Full album] on Youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZFpMiHTkRw&ab_channel=AlexRoe
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この曲は作曲家Alex Roe氏とコラボして制作しました。
コラボアルバム「Seasons」の中の１曲です。

「Seasons」には４曲のトラックがあり、「春」、「夏」の楽曲は
各々が1〜２分の短いセクションを書き、それらをリレーの様に受け渡しながら制作していきました。

「春」は私が主導、「夏」はAlex氏が主導の元、制作しています。

楽曲リレーを行おうとAlex氏から提案を頂いた当初は、
今までひとりで１楽曲を完成させることが当たり前だった私にとって
とても難しいことに感じていました。

曲の接続の仕方も自由で、盛り上げたところで渡してみたり、
もっと聴きたい！という流れの中で次の番が回ってきたりと、
ジャズのアドリブまわしの様な創造的な体験でした。

彼の音楽から学ぶことは多く、とても楽しい経験となりました。
私たちの作風の違いを、ぜひ聴き分けながらお楽しみください。


※上記Youtubeに全曲掲載されています。
※楽曲は下記「Bandcamp」より無料ダウンロード可能です。

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Alex Roe on Twitter - https://twitter.com/RoeTaKa​
Download my albums on Bandcamp - http://alexroe.bandcamp.com​

Album artwork kindly provided by junkyjunco
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/junkyjunco​

Spring ~ A Journey of Water ~

“Winter ~ Memories of Home ~”
 
Alex Roe and I made a collaboration album titled “Seasons”.
This is the song for Winter, and I tried to wrote this song emulate his musical style.

[Full album] on Youtube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZFpMiHTkRw&ab_channel=AlexRoe

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Alex Roe氏とのコラボアルバム「Seasons」の中の１曲です。
コラボということで、リレー楽曲以外の２曲「秋」と「冬」は、
お互いの音楽スタイルを取り入れて曲を書いてみることにしました。

Alex氏は多くのPianoを用いた心地よい曲を書いており、今回は
そこからインスピレーションを得て書き始めました。
普段自分では使わない、４拍子のゆったりとしたテンポ感の中で展開を考えるのも
楽しい時間でした。
サブタイトルはAlex氏がこの曲を聴いたインスピレーションから付けてもらいました。


※楽曲は下記「Bandcamp」より無料ダウンロード可能です。
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Alex Roe on Twitter - https://twitter.com/RoeTaKa​
Download my albums on Bandcamp - http://alexroe.bandcamp.com​

Album artwork kindly provided by junkyjunco
Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/junkyjunco​

Winter ~ Memories of Home ~

Demo Song#4 - Easy Listening -

Demo Song #5 -Cellos and Vocal- ("Winter" Short Ver.)

Richard's christmas themed version of my 2004 instrumental "Mishapen Fields"... i was listening to a lot of the icelandic group Múm at the time but this sounds way more like them than is tolerable but i am pretty sure Richard hadn't heard them when he made this? i need to ask him lol

i wrote this on a casiotone. richard remade it in protools.

Previously Unreleased / Rarites

James Earthenware - Snow On Mishapen Fields (Xmas version by Richard Payne)

海の中から見た光をテーマに。
It is a song of sunlight that we can see from under the water.

Thetis

Remix by my self :)
I hope you all like it!

i try hard to translate the lyrics of INORI in English.
———INORI remixed by Garcy———
　
来て、来て　ここに居て
手を繋いだままで居て
Come here, and stay here.
Please keep holding my head.
　
聞かせて、消えないで
溢れた　涙に映るは
Let me hear your voice, Don't go.
Something is refracted in my tears.
　
来て、来て　側に居て
翳りに怯えたまま
Come here, and stay here.
Dark figure chasing me.
　
光に見放され、見えない
あなたはどこに・・・
Where's the right,
I can't see anything.
　
　
今も、心を蝕むは
明日も、生きられぬ嘆きに
I should have live in the present more.
It still stuck in my heart.
視界は、光を無くしていた
The light go out of my eyes.
　
過去に、囚われた心
未来も、色褪せた世界に
祈りを、答えを、求めていた
I'm dwelling on the past.
"Lord, I want to hear the answer "
I pray for this pale world.
　
　　
来て、来て　見出して
答えて…（聞こえないの）
Come here and find me,
Please,say  anything...(I can't hear you)

心がざわついて、怖いの
My heart becomes lestless,
I'm scared...
　
　
来て、来て　慰めて
無くした心を埋めて　
Come here, stay here.
I'm looking for my heart that I have lost.

目を見て、側に来て
二人で隠れていたい
翳りに飲み込まれるまで
あなたと、嗚呼…
Please, come closer to see my eyes.
Let's hide just two of us, till we drown in darkness...


今も、頬をなでる風にただ
明日も、心を溶かして
私は、あなたを探していた
I was looking for you days after day,
Sending my heart on the wind.

過去も、過ちを全てただ
未来も、塗り替えてあなたと
とわに、祈りを捧げていたい
To Reprint all the mistake in my past, and make the future.
I want to pray with you.

INORI -prayer- remix

デモ作品集を公開しています。

Spring ~ A Journey of Water ~

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