Takahiro Kido Composed by Recorded by Mixed by Mastered by Hideharu Masai Art Direction + Design by |
Guitar + Programming + Piano + Glockenspiel + Organ + Melodion
Hideharu Masai Takahiro Kido |
| Track.9 = id | Track.4 = Short Film |
about "Out of Season"
2006年アメリカのImportant Recordsより全世界デビューを果たしソニックユース+坂本龍一+monoを始め多くのアーティストから高い評価を得たAnoiceの2ndアルバム"Out of Season"がついに完成！ピアノを中心にヴィオラ+オルガンなどで構成された、シンプルで美しい計算された楽曲はまさに世界レベル。特に暗闇の中から突如現れるビートは圧巻の一言です！作曲家+演奏家+エンジニア+デザイナーなどとしても活動する６人のメンバーによる、本物の才能を持ったマルチインストゥルメント集団の唯一無二の世界観は、もはやポストロックなどというジャンルでは括れません。マトリョーシカも大推薦する壮大な楽曲は21世紀の音楽の歴史に新たなページを加える事でしょう☆坂本龍一が評価した名曲"Glitch"や"Short Film"などのピアノとヴィオラを中心に静かで美しい楽曲から、圧倒的なギターノイズとリズムを展開する傑作"id"まで、ストイックに貫かれた恐るべき世界観を持った作品。廃墟になったホテル内も使用してレコーディングされた緊張感に満たされた空気感は必聴です！また本作品では同ホテルのロビーに置いてあったピアノの演奏も聴けます。
= Ricco Label
米Importantより2006年全世界デビューし、ソニックユースやMonoらから高く評価されたバンドAnoiceが待望の２作目を自身のレーベルからリリース。ピアノのミニマルかつリリカルな旋律、ヴィオラの使用など、シルヴァン・ショーヴォー、マックス・リクターまたはTypeレーベルの諸作といったポスト・クラシカル的サウンドとも共鳴する室内学的アプローチを主軸とし、時に情動的ポスト・ロックな側面も見せるシネマティックな美しい作品。
= intoxicate
古びた８mmフィルムの切ない懐かしさやトイカメラが写す夕日の穏やかさ。目を閉じると音に対応するように、そんな情景が思い浮かぶ。それはひたすらに美しく心地よい。
= sen - Matryoshka
After the release of the indispensable solo work of Takahiro Kido, here comes Anoice's Out of Season, a project under the terrible pressure of topping 2006's Remmings. Out of Season takes on the dreaded role of the album that comes after the fantastic debut, the one which can supposedly affirm or end the presence of a band. By now firmly implanted in the minds of obscure music listeners, the six members of Anoice make neo-classical music that flirts with the boundaries of experimentation and ambience. If you're put off by the ever-increasing amount of technical terms and genre names and are more attached to emotions and feelings, consider that Anoice makes music that moves you.
In structure, Out of Season does resemble its predecessor, as it is composed of four very melodic songs surrounded by smaller segments that focus on experimentation. While the record as a whole is less accessible, and sees the band dare to wander off of the beaten path more openly, it still revolves around the same formula: Anoice's music is so beautiful that each note is as a still from a movie projected onto your closed eyelids. The comparison to great film scorers is an obvious one: where "Glitch" reminds of Max Richter's best pieces, the opening of "Short Film" has the passion of a sonata by Michael Nyman. Anoice's favorite pastime is to make you travel to places you haven't been, or put you in situations you haven't experienced, through their music. In "ID," you find yourself hiking through plains that extend as far as the eye can see. "Short Film" lays you on a bed of sakura petals, in the midst of an afternoon in Kyoto's spring.
Yes, the feeling of Remmings is still there. Nonetheless, the means have changed. Remmings rocked, Out of Season gently pitches forwards and backwards. The bass that grooved so often in the past now hums, the piano oscillates between loud melodies and low, caressing backgrounds. The drums are less heard, yet more present. The sound is liberating to the listener because you can feel that the musicians made the conscious decision to be more free in their song-writing.
Unfortunately, this venture into mixing both sides of their music takes a lot of strength out of the experimental glimpses that seperate each "big" track. Once again, it feels a bit like these tracks are only filler material, and it hits even harder when the experimentation is done just as well in the core of their majestic pieces.
Freedom, especially in music, paradoxically needs to be channeled for the listener to feel the same pleasure the artist did when he wrote and recorded his creations. It asks for the utmost precision, for more concentration. Bottom line, it is more time and effort-consuming than a more restricted approach. But when it's done well, nothing can top its creativity. If the members of Anoice hadn't already nearly proved to be capable of such an accomplishment, I would just say that Out of Season is a excellent album. In the present situation, I feel compelled to say that this is an album that, had it been given more thought and more polish, would have been capable of reaching greater heights. Maybe Takahiro Kido and his pals, having spent most of last year writing and performing for side-projects, have lost focus on their main band and it somehow damaged this new album, making it only excellent when it could have been truly amazing. Then again, if you've listened to Fleursy Music, you'll side with me when I say that it's a loss I'm willing to take.
= Samy Bennaoui - The Silent Ballet
One of Japan's premiere instrumental acts, Anoice stunned The Silent Ballet staff in 2006 with its debut release, Remmings. Two years later Out of Season is feeding our hunger for new Anoice material, but it comes with a bit of a surprise. What was previously a balanced mix of post-rock and neo-classical genres has veered into experimental territory. The new album sheds the conservative sounds of its predecessor and fully embraces the compositional oddities of its members, allowing them to be fully expressive and Out of Season greatly benefits as a result. While neo-classical music is currently getting a lot of attention this year, no one has produced a work as distinctive as Anoice, who continually prove to be on top of the genre.
= The Silent Ballet
With guitars, bass, viola, keyboards and drums, the six Anoice succeed to create incredible atmospheres between Sigur Ros, Arvo part and Rachel's.
= Rockerilla
Even when all of them are going at it hammer and tongs they act more like an orchestra with each player adding their own element to the melody. Anoice hit all the blissful and joyous emotions and only rarely dip into melancholy like most bands of the same ilk.
= Brainwashed
Anoice have produced something entirely different and original, a mature record of great beauty and attention to detail that rises above any clichés and should by all accounts establish them as one of the leading artists today.
= Rockarolla
Anoice Remmings (Important) This Tokyo-based sextet make some really sublime instrumental music. Monumental and subtly nuanced; they all allow plenty of room for each other. Mixing guitars, programming, viola, bass, piano, drums, mandolin, and synthesizer, into the nine varied sonic excursions presented here. Mesmerizing soundtracks to nonexistant films that bloom in the center of your mind. Ranging from very small and soft spoken, to toweringly grand and vast. Some pieces have the feel of chamber music renditions of Mogwai or Spacemen 3 songs; others feel like an accurate aural description of loneliness.
= Dream Magazine
I was sold this record on the promise that Anoice are “like Rachel’s…but they rock…” But isn’t that Godspeed? Well, no because whereas Godspeed dangle you worringly over a cliff for the duration of an album, Anoice frequently drop you, pick you up again and occasionally even make you float. What’s more, there’s often more of a rhythmic framework here. The bass isn’t afraid to groove, the drums do ‘Bolero’ behind the cascades of passionate viola and hammered piano. Anoice, in fact, are as adept at approaching the rock/classical thing from the rock end as the classical end, which gives them more than one string to their bow and potentially makes for some celestial live performances. In places, they sound like an instrumental Arcade Fire. In others – particularly the incredibly beautiful tracks 5-8(Remming) – they sound as good as any living film composer worth his salt. If track 6 (Liange) doesn’t astound you, you are a glacier. There’s a readymade market for evocative, anthemic, cinematic stuff like this, of course, be it on the bill of All Tomorrow’s Parties or soundtracking some intense French film noir, with Emanuelle Beart running down the steps of la Basilique du Sacre Coeur in torrential rain. Even so, Anoice have that something special that could elevate them even beyond that. This is not a group, as such. These people are modern composers.
= Glen Johnson - Piano Magic
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2004年に東京で結成された６人組インストバンド。2006年にボストンのImportant Recordsから"Remmings"で全世界デビュー。ソニックユース+ピアノマジック+坂本龍一+monoなど多くのアーティストから高い評価を得る。メンバーのTakahiro KidoはPLOPよりドイツのチャートで８位を記録したアルバム"Fleursy Music"などをリリース。音楽エンジニアやデザイナーも務める。Yuki Murataはピティナグランミューズなど多くのピアノコンクールにて優勝。クラウンやインターナショナルのタイトルに参加する。Utaka Fujiwaraもヴィオラ奏者として様々なオーケストラで世界を股にかけて活動。Takahiro MatsueはTakahiro KidoとRicco Labelを設立。音楽機材などのプロダクトデザインも行う。Tadashi Yoshikawaは映像ディレクターでもある。
Anoiceのオフィシャルウェブサイトはこちら▶www.fleursy.com/anoice