twilight, by haruka nakamura (official)

The Light (Feat. Janis Crunch)

twilight

by haruka nakamura (official)

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Pierre_Lapointe A friend of mine told me once that this album was the sound of falling in love. I think it's a pretty close comparison.

The soundtrack of a movie that doesnt exist, beautiful. Favorite track: faraway.

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1. 光 (feat. April Lee of ASPIDISTRAFLY)
2. ニつの風景の消失点
3. 夕景

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Glass-mastered CD housed in 48 pages hardcover book, offset printed, full color on premium matt and newsprint paper

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1.	夕べの祈り 05:20	buy track
2.	harmonie du soir 03:14	buy track
3.	彼方 02:44	buy track
4.	窓辺 02:38	buy track
5.	memoria 02:54	buy track
6.	ベランダにて 02:08	buy track
7.	faraway 08:37	buy track
8.	光景 03:56	buy track
9.	dialogo 03:35	buy track
10.	音楽のある風景 03:04	buy track
11.	twilight (Featuring April Lee of ASPIDISTRAFLY)) 08:40	buy track
12.	カーテンコール 02:54	buy track
13.	The Light (Featuring Janis Crunch) 02:27 video	buy track

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“From the car window, view of streetlamps from atop the hill, like the lighthouse keeper feeding the bonfire with firewood.”

An emerging talent on the Japanese ambient/electro-acoustic music scene, haruka nakamura’s second solo outing refines the lyrical, pastoral imagery that inspired his first album “grace”. Recorded in a studio overlooking the ocean as a tribute to the sight of the expiring sun falling slowly over the horizon at dusk, “twilight” is a sustained reverie that mirrors the dwindling rays of light at day’s end with its subtle variations in timbre and texture.

The brassy shimmer of ARAKI Shin’s sax opens the first track “Yuube no Inori” (M1), swelling languidly as the orchestra slowly unfurls around it like a resplendent sunset. Throughout the album, haruka nakamura coaxes a startling range of tonal color out of piano phrases that twinkle, patter and shuffle through a variety of compositions and tempos – the gentle march of “harmonie du soir”; the somnolent haze of “On the Verandah” (M6) punctuated by drowsy stutters and cicadas muttering all around you; the reverberations of your languishing pulse as night starts to fall in “faraway”. isao saito’s sensitive percussion offers subdued but confident support throughout – dwindling to a hush as the fading rays of the sun dissipate in the crisp night air.

The middle of the album – “Koukei” (M8) and “dialogo”, in particular – wanders off on a short jaunt into looser, ethereal territory. The furtive meandering of the soprano saxophone by akira uchida, roving itinerant chords, airy percussion and carefully-spaced sustain and release of the pedal are reminiscent of acoustic ambient jazz of ECM. Closing the album, however, are two melody-driven vocal tracks: “twilight”, a gentle flicker of a ballad that rises and ebbs with April Lee’s (aspidistrafly) fluttering, half-whispered vocals, and Janis crunch’s acoustic arpeggio-driven elegy in tribute to the dwindling of “The Light”

“twilight” is available on CD + Artbook and digital formats on 15th July 2010. The physical CD copy comes in 48 pages hardcover artbook edition. Artbook is professionally offset printed on non acid free newsprint paper. Within its pages, polaroid photos by haruka nakamura are bound to a hardcover with CD enclosed in an envelope attached to inner back cover. As time passes, the material quality of the paper itself will undergo subtle changes naturally.

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released July 15, 2010

All music by haruka nakamura
Mastered by Ricks Ang

Polaroids by haruka nakamura
Design by Ricks Ang

Ⓟ & © 2010 KITCHEN. LABEL
www.kitchen-label.com

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haruka nakamura (official) Tokyo, Japan

haruka nakamura is a composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Tokyo, Japan. While growing up in the snowy hills of Aomori, haruka learned to play piano and guitar on his own.

In 2020, he released “still life” as his first Mute PIANO SOLO album.(toudai label).

He also has worked with LUCA as “arca”. They will release their new album in 2020 from KITCHEN. LABEL. ... more

harukanakamura.com

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