Takahiro Kido

Yuki Murata

Kenji Azuma

Memories of the Stone

into the cave

lure

dance on the wall

out of dream

A breathtakingly beautiful record performed with 20-piece orchestra.

This is a collaboration album by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, who are members of the cinematic instrumental music band, Anoice, and its side projects, RiLF and Films, and also Japan's two representative music composers of modern classical music.

This album includes 10 songs chosen from not only Anoice, but also their solo projects, which were recorded together with the chamber orchestra, CAGMO, made up of eight violinists, three violists, three cellists, two bassists, and a flutist and harpist. Takahiro Kido took charge of the conductor role for the orchestra and Yuki Murata played the piano for all the songs. This perfect collaboration has succeeded in pushing the beauty and spectacularity of the original versions to their highest level.

'Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra' includes some masterpieces such as Anoice's 'liange' and 'ripple', Takahiro Kido's 'where time goes', and Yuki Murata's 'red owl' which are representative songs from each project. You can feel the long stretch of the sound, shimmer, thickness, and each instrument player's breathing, which only a real orchestra can express. Anoice's 'the light' and Takahiro Kido's 'roads' have especially spread their gentleness further, like the magnificent natural landscape. Yuki Murata's 'ice flower' has risen the tension, and Anoice's 'colder than thermite' and 'drops' have increased the aggressiveness, and all are worth listening.

The recording process was executed at a recording studio in Moscow in one week in 2019, before the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, and just before the coronavirus pandemic spread around the world, and the instrument players from some countries including Russia and Ukraine joined. 'Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra' is part of the culmination of Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata's entire career, and also the monumental work in which they show their attitude towards music again.

Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra

INSOMNIA

Anoice

northern waltz (feat. Anoice)

insomnia (feat. Anoice)

mizu amane

films

rasen (feat. Anoice, films, Takahiro Kido & Yuki Murata)

The sound of the wind that echoes into the moon.

This is the third collaborative work, and the second EP, by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, music composers who also are active as members of Anoice, RiLF, and Films, and ambient music artist, Kenji Azuma, who plays a range of unusual instruments.

The first single 'Ice Mermaid' featured the sounds of an ice and water and their first EP, 'Memories of the Stone' used the sounds of a stone and limestone cave. This time the trio chose the wind element as the theme of the sound for this EP. Just like their previous works, the illustrator, MATSURICA who also takes charge of the artwork for some of the releases from Anoice, Yuki Murata, and Films, painted the beautiful cover in tandem with the music production and each song included in this EP expresses four scenes; from a desolate desert into a lush greenery grassland, a noisy caravan passing by the oasis, a propeller airship flying from the grassland to sky with many birds, and the night flight toward the moon, by the colorful sound.

Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata created the base of each song with their instruments such as a piano, guitar, synthesizer, marimba, and vibraphone, and then Kenji Azuma added his performance on wind instruments from around the world such as futujara from Slovakia, wot from Thailand, Khlui Lib from Thailand, Khene from Thailand and Laos, and bawu from China, Thailand and Vietnam. You should be able to feel 'wind' that is the theme of this EP from the fantastic, dream-like, and exotic sound. Also, string players and a percussionist including Utaka Fujiwara and Tadashi Yoshikawa who are members of Anoice, joined. Their collective support touts this EP to be the most spectacular work in this trio's releases.

Enjoy the lovely and fairytale-like painting together with the music.

Gone with the Wind

Coffee and Doughnuts

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Memories of the Stone

Song List

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