Showing posts with label Midi Creative / Noble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Midi Creative / Noble. Show all posts

Monday, January 14, 2008

[World's End Girlfriend|The Lie Lay Land]謊言之城


Artist:World's End Girlfriend
Album:The Lie Lay Land
Release Date:2005-02-25
Label:Midi Creative / Noble
Country:Japan
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style: Glitch, Modern Classical, Post Rock

Tracklisting:

1
Phantasmagoria Moth Gate (6:00)
2
We Are The Massacre (5:45)
3
Satan Veludo Children (8:39)
4
Garden In The Ceiling (6:39)
5
The Owl Of Windward (5:20)
6
Scorpius Circus (10:17)
7
Song Cemetery (3:27)
8
Give Me Shadow,Put On My Crown. (12:02)
9
Black Hole Bird (14:06)
10
Unspoiled Monster (6:30)

簡介。。。。。。
We have released two albums of a now internationally acclaimed next-generation musician, world's end girlfriend, as the noble's launching artist. With the unprecedented success of his two albums,farewell kingdom and dream's end come true, he bridged genre gaps and was widely praised by the fans of techno, abstract, post-rock, avant pop and electronica. His musical career includes the performance in Sonar 2002, the biggest European festival of progressive music and multimedia arts held in Barcelona, Spain, and the successful tour in Taipei, Hong Kong and Macao in 2004.

He now returns with a band of freaky raw drums, horns, piano and a bass guitar, and tens of layers of guitar noise while retaining his well known style: excessive editing, collage and elegant strings arrangement. In self-produced The Lie Lay Land, his first album in two years, he created another grandeur fiction, 10 tracks, 80 minutes long.Listening to The Lie Lay Land resembles watching the films, say, by Emir Kusturica or Jan Svankmajer who portray a fleeting fantasy ludicrously and poignantly at the same time, or the films of Lars von Trier and Gaspar Noe who always sway our emotions with a relentless and extremely demanding story progression. His music, like those films, shows us a fictional world as a finished work.

The artwork on the cover of The Lie Lay Land, the illustration of a well-known author of picture books, komako sakai, visually portrays world's end girlfriend's vision of the world.(from Nobel)

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。推薦指數:8.2/10
THE LIE LAY LAND中WEG再次透過聲音編織出一個龐大複雜的音樂景觀,當中不乏強烈作者風格的戲劇性修飾與拼貼,從流麗的管弦編曲、環境錄音到數十支吉他疊製的強大噪音牆──他還親自往返大阪東京兩地指揮室內樂團作現場錄音──在在建構出高度個人的視覺化音樂語言。從艾米爾.庫斯杜力卡(Emir Kusturica)和楊斯凡克梅耶(Jan Svankmajer)式黑色幽默與荒謬;到拉斯馮提爾(Lars Von Trier)和加士伯奈爾(Gaspar Noe)式執拗與即興,WEG那夢境般的音樂場景穿插著激進的自由爵士、弦樂時而優美彷彿天籟,時而淒厲令人毛骨悚然,典型的後搖秋風掃落葉吉他飆奏導入節拍方正的行進,或抑鬱如送葬進行曲或狂亂如夢魘遊樂場的圓舞曲,生鏽的旋轉木馬失控停不下來而闖入遍地清寥的幽寂...... 這次專輯封面特別邀請日本著名繪本作家酒井駒子繪製,可以說將WEG的世界觀以圖像方式傳神表達。(引自節點)
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Friday, December 28, 2007

[Kazumasa Hashimoto|Euphoriam]歲末感受了幸福


Artist:Kazumasa Hashimoto
Album:Euphoriam
Release Date:2007-12-14
Label:Midi Creative / Noble
Country:Japan
Genre:Electronic
Style:Indie,Modern Classical,IDM,Ambient

Tracklisting:

01. Count My Sheep
02. Lonesome Girl
03. Euphoriam
04. Velvet 36
05. Londo
06. Vagrantones
07. Ballad
08. White Butterflies
09. Endless
10. Perhaps I Never Meet You
11. Goodbye Miss Wiggie

簡介。。。。。。

The Japanese Noble label, home to luminaries such as TENNISCOATS, continue their releases of albums dedicated to the concept of "music for a daily life". Readers of these pages know that Noble is very dear to us, and we consider it Japan's prime label for astute alert music. Some of you might also know that KAZUMASA HASHIMOTO is our favourite Noble samurai. We are therefore eager and thrilled to be able to offer you "Euphoriam" - the new album by Japan's brightest burning star - the warm, mystical and talentful Tokyo composer, digital alchemist and pianist KAZUMASA HASHIMOTO.

The new album, "Euphoriam" is Hashimoto's fourth album, follow up to "Gllia" (Noble, 2006), "Yupi" (Plop, 2003) and "The Second Epitaph" released in May of 2004 - the latter was reviewed in over 40 publications in Europe and America, with Germany's best music monthly DE:BUG awarding it 5/5 stars, and Hashimoto's works were also extensively used by BBC TV. On all three works, he showed his talent to initiate an astonishing fusion of rich acoustic and electronic sounds, with found sounds and field recordings, which found welcoming homes also outside of Japan. After a tour in Japan, and in the East Asia, followed by collaborations with World Standard and Shione Yukawa, "Euphoriam" is here released - an undertaking that took 18 months to complete.

We have come to love Kazumasa Hashimoto for his warm genre-transcending music, his delicate combination of academic musical theory, unrivaled creativity and digital alchemist skills. “Euphorium” sees Hashimoto take a more "traditional" shape, wherein he brings his light experimental softness to a more melodic pop body - pop music that is new yet nostalgic at the same time. Hashimoto plays and produces most of the instruments, from the piano, guitar, bass to drums accompanied by several guest artists playing violin and cello, and features more vocal tracks including M-5, featuring Gutevolk. The pop melodies and the elegant and sophisticated arrangements of the tracks stun, with their beautiful and breathtaking harmony.

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數:8.2/10
Noble于14日發行了這張歲末壓軸唱片,日本音樂家橋本和昌(Kazumasa Hashimoto)的《Euphoriam》(幸福感)。這張唱片延續《Gllia》中巧妙結合電音與古典和輕搖滾的創作路線,以鋼琴為核心加上靈巧的嗶叭噪音所刻劃出的蔥鬱個人聲音世界,配合大量弦樂與管樂器增加音色的溫潤度,深具空間感的電聲處理,音樂滿佈雅致與多元的聲音亮點,加上這次大量使用美妙人聲吟唱,的確讓人聽出幸福的感覺,也讓樂迷更清楚感受到他努力追求的“futuristic pop”到底是什麼。

從《Yupi》、《Epitaph》、《Gllia》到這張《Euphoriam》,明顯可以感受到橋本對處理人聲的興趣一張比一張大,今次整張11首曲目當中演唱曲目就佔了8首之多,除了上回在《Gllia》中合作愉快的Uma Torrini繼續獻聲,日本女唱作人Hirono Nishiyama (Gutevolk) 也為曲目[Londo] 操刀演唱(橋本今年為Gutevolk專輯擔任製作人)、而專輯主題曲目”Euphoriam”則邀得Escalade樂隊的主腦Greg Sullivan友情獻唱。除了大量使用人聲,橋本音樂另一個重要變化是越來越甜蜜,《Euphoriam》更是開宗名義要你感受他音樂傳遞出的無比幸福感,不管是“Lonesome Girl”、“Euphoriam” 、“Velvet 36” 、“Perhaps I Never Meet You”等曲目,都滿溢如春天般悠揚愉快的氣息,我深信只有每天活在愉快氣息當中、樂天又帶點純真的人,才會創作出這樣子的音樂出來,並希望分享給大家。(引自節點)
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

[Kazumasa Hashimoto|Gllia]五光十色動物園裏的美麗回憶

Artist:Kazumasa Hashimoto
Album:Gllia
Release Date:2006-03-10
Label:Midi Creative / Noble
Country:Japan
Genre: Electronic
Style: Modern Classical, IDM, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1
Theme (1:47)
2
Mr. Gleam (5:21)
3
Monochrome Prome (6:17)
4
001 (Far) (1:59)
5
Ne Connissons (4:40)
6
Ruinruin (3:59)
7
Gllia (6:15)
8
002 (Esbia) (1:38)
9
Milmils (4:17)
10
Drama (3:39)
11
The Happy Days Passed Like A Dream (2:39)
12
Curtainfall (1:55)

簡介。。。。。。
Noble label releases albums under the concept of "music for daily life" and is very pleased to announce that a new artist has joined us. The 11th release from the label is Gllia by this internationally acclaimed composer kazumasa hashimoto known for his warm musical style you could describe as a blessed honeymoon of classical music and electronica.

With his last two successful albums, the first album yupi released in April of 2003 and the second epitaph released in May of 2004, he showed his talent to initiate an astonishing fusion of rich acoustic and electronic sounds and field recordings and immediately caught listeners' attention in and outside of Japan. After a tour in Japan and in the East Asia and collaborations with world standard and Shione Yukawa, he released the first full album in 22 months.

The graceful ensemble of various acoustic instruments: the keyboard instruments such as the piano, the glockenspiel, the vibraphone and the marimba, the stringed instruments such as the violin, the cello and the guitar, the wind instruments such as the clarinet and the trumpet and the drums. Somewhat melancholic vocals and poetry reading. Scratching noise gentle to the ears. He arranges these diverse musical elements and does deep space processing of sounds for his orchestra full of elegant and universal illumination, which is unbearably beautiful. Gllia, in which kazumasa hashimoto shows his talent as a new generation composer by developing his own style and revealing a rather personal aspect, is undoubtedly his masterpiece at this moment.

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數:8.0/10
這張專輯在鋼琴的旋律之外,大量地用了以前也使用過的似機器似真人的聲音,還有吉他、大提琴等弦樂。從Theme開始,Kazumasa Hashimoto用豐富的配器和層次演繹了一段美好時光,悠揚、令人放鬆,仿佛與最好的朋友或者最愛的人在一起的時光。直至The Happy Days Passed Like A Dream,達到了高潮,也有些傷感,這首曲子真的讓我當時的心情為之一顫,我非常喜歡這個track,雖然它很短。於是就在這個似乎代表永恒的曲調中Curtainfall。。。
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Saturday, December 15, 2007

[Tenniscoats|The Ending Theme]窗上的冰淩折射了陽光


Artist:Tenniscoats
Album:The Ending Theme
Release Date:2002-06-22
Label:Midi Creative / Noble
Country:Japan
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Experimental

Tracklisting:

1
In My Blood River (5:25)
2
Red Haired Eric (1:22)
3
Mou Mou Rainbow (5:35)
4
Horses (1:28)
5
Castaneda (6:09)
6
The Sky Is Inhaling The Smoke (0:57)
7
In The Sun (4:18)
8
The Ending Theme (2:59)

簡介。。。。。。
Recently featured as part of the This is our music series in MTV and Swedish Television, we are happy to bring you Japanese lo-fi DIY-pop wonder TENNISCOATS - the best thing since you were a kid, eating icecream on the beach the first day of your summer holiday. As is the case with Maher Shalal Hash Baz, the mentor and spiritual leader of Tenniscoats, this duo is about innocence, trial and error and a deep fascination for ordinary sounds in everyday life, neglected sounds that are forgotten and are revolting as they rise in unison to crave to be fucking big upped! Clickety-rickety-boom-tjoff-clacks made by human activity. The Hummings while you do the dishes sound world (it's vast!).

"The Ending Theme" is this duo's third album. Tenniscoats consist of Saya and Takashi Ueno, who also runs the Majikick label and are members of the great Maher Shalal Hash Baz. Saya does the vocals and keyboards and Takashi Ueno plays the guitar and saxophone.

Tenniscoats is pastoral and nostalgic, innocent and simple melodies, driven by deep strong stoicism based on the powerful sincerity towards music."Tenniscoats"” is Saya-Japanese for "Tennis courts".

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數:8.3/10
Tenniscoats是由Saya和Takashi Ueno兩個日本人組成的團體,之前還聼過他們今年的新唱片Tan-Tan Theraphy,The Ending Theme是他們的第三張專輯,發行于02年,很久了。Tenniscoats的音樂folktronica外,還很后搖,讓人想起sigur ros,想起mum。不過Tenniscoats的音樂更多的是溫暖與明亮,有著空靈的氛圍、田園詩般的美好與和諧。而且Saya的嗓音親切純淨,像柔和的陽光。The Ending Theme真的很適合在這樣的冬天聆聽哦。
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Friday, November 09, 2007

[Piana|Eternal Castle]白色城堡裏傳來了寧靜的歌聲


Artist:Piana
Album:Eternal Castle
Release Date:2007-06-08
Label:Midi Creative / Noble
Country:Japan
Genre: Electronic,Rock
Style: Downtempo, Synth-pop,IDM, Post Rock, Experimental, Ambient

Tracklisting:

1
With The Sea (1:32)
2
Norway (4:23)
3
Two Of Us (5:56)
4
Snowflakes (6:54)
5
Ancient Note (4:41)

Violin - Gen Saito
6
Hydrangea (3:29)
7
Beyond The Season (6:30)
8
Prayer (3:29)

Piano - Kyo Ichinose

簡介。。。。。。

Piana的歌聲依舊有著洗淨人心的效果,可以聽得出來,她內心裡的小女孩已經轉變為成熟女子,昔日的稚嫩羞澀已漸漸散去,顯得自信、從容而穩定, Piana已完成從實驗電子到飄渺美聲的蛻變。

從朝生暮死到永恆城堡,我們相信,只有音樂能重新喚醒沈睡的自己,將轉瞬即逝的思緒與感受凝固起來,找到瞬間的永恆。

Piana上一張專輯「Ephemeral」後,已確立歌聲為主導的表現形式,佐佐木直子(Naoko Sasaki)甜美而純淨、天使般的氣音獲得迴響,在歐洲各城市展開錄音活動,並進行兩次亞洲巡迴演出。2007年的第三張專輯「Eternal Castle」由日本音樂廠牌Noble發行,如同前張專輯,弦樂部分非常優秀,Seigen Tokuzawa的大提琴、Gen Saito與Mio Okamura的小提琴搭建起令人感到異樣平靜的音響世界。Piana的歌聲依舊有著洗淨人心的效果,可以聽得出來,她內心裡的小女孩已經轉變為成熟女 子,昔日的稚嫩羞澀已漸漸散去,顯得自信、從容而穩定,Piana已完成從實驗電子到飄渺美聲的蛻變。

聆聽「Eternal Castle」裡"Norway"、"Two of Us"、"Beyond the Season"這些歌曲時,不禁浮現起一個畫面,身著白色衣裳的Piana,雙手如翅膀般張開,在耀眼陽光照射下,鞋子撩撥起飛舞的葉片。儘管,她在音樂 裡持續捕捉憂傷與心碎,專注地凝視世界,仍帶著一抹柔和而源源不滅的光輝,讓人記取美好的事物,對未來保持希望。

我的碎碎唸。。。。。。評價指數:8.6/10
真的很好聽,而且氛圍更加廣闊,覺得比前兩張還好聼。尤其喜歡Norway。真是喜歡這個女生啊。
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