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Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata : Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra (to be released on 15th December, 2025)
A breathtakingly beautiful record performed with 20-piece orchestra.
We will release a collaboration album, 'Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra' 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' will be released on a number-limited 15cm square-sized box version with the cover taken by the photographer, Anastasia Ilina. It includes 14 photographs of the making-of album and candid photographs taken by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata themselves together with a copy of CD.
| 1. greenfield | from Yuki Murata 'Gift' | Takahiro Kido: Conductor | ||
| 2. colder than thermite | from Anoice 'The Black Rain' | Yuki Murata: Piano, Organ | ||
| 3. liange | from Anoice 'Remmings' | |||
| 4. ripple | from Anoice 'The Black Rain' | Guest Players | ||
| 5. red owl | from Yuki Murata 'Piano Fantasia' | CAGMO: Violin, Viola, Cello, Contrabass, Flute, Harp | ||
| 6. where time goes | from Takahiro Kido 'in my Time' | |||
| 7. ice flower | from Yuki Murata 'Piano Fantasia' | |||
| 8. roads | from Takahiro Kido 'Fairy Tale' | |||
| 9. drops | from Anoice 'The Black Rain' | |||
| 10. the light | from Anoice 'Ghost in the Clocks' |
| Composed by Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata |
| Recorded at CineLab |
| Mixed and Mastered by Takahiro Kido |
| Cover Photo by Anastasia Ilina |
| Included Photo by Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata |
| Art Direction and Design by Takahiro Kido |
| Produced by Anoice, Ricco Label, Neoclassica |
| BandCamp | https://riccolabel.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-piano-and-chamber-orchestra | |
| Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, etc. | https://linkco.re/Mu4XEGCb |
