#Yumiko Morioka

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#yumiko morioka #銀​の​船 #resonance #sunday morning music #Bandcamp #music #ambient

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Très bel album de piano, saupoudré d'effets discrets et aquatiques...

#Yumiko Morioka #Piano #Japon #Spotify

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Blog post and linked up tracklist [HERE].

Kinder Scout - Interlude (Home Normal) Charles Bukowski - Go All The Way (Read by Tom O' Bedlam) David Cordero & Miguel Otero - Dolores (Archives) Slow Meadow - We Can Only Love Through Suffering (Hammock Music) Agnes Obel - Stretch Your Eyes (Ambient Acapella) (Late Night Tales) Endless Melancholy - Lost (Hidden Vibes) William Ryan Fritch - VII: In A Sense Of Ether (Lost Tribe Sound) Sven Laux & Daniela Orvin - A Moment Of Silence (Dronarivm) Luke Howard Trio - I Think It's Sinking In (Lukktone) Yumiko Morioka - Moon Road (Métron Records) Owl - Glimpse Of Decline (Silent Season) Steven Kemner - Sleep Well (Facture) Olga Wojciechowska - To Feel Much More Than Now (Self Released) Daniela Orvin - Sudden Farewell (Dronarivm) SiJ - Memories Lost In Time (Hidden Vibes) A Veil Of Water - Frailty (Hidden Vibes) Brambles - To Speak Of Solitude (Serein) Warmth - You're Not Here (Archives) Hania Rani - Today It Came (Gondwana Records) A Winged Victory For The Sullen - All Farewells Are Sudden (Erased Tapes) Walter D Wintle - State Of Mind (Read by Tom O' Bedlam) Adrian Lane - An Occasional Hushed Word (Preserved Sound)

Download available via [HEARTHIS].

#mixamorphosis #dj mix #soundcloud #ambient #music #downtempo #electronica #contemporary jazz #Kinder Scout #Charles Bukowski #Tom O' Bedlam #David Cordero #Miguel Otero #Slow Meadow #Agnes Obel #Endless Melancholy #William Ryan Fritch #Sven Laux #Daniela Orvin #Luke Howard Trio #Yumiko Morioka #Owl #Olga Wojciechowska #SiJ #A Veil Of Water #Brambles #Warmth #Hania Rani #A Winged Victory For The Sullen #Walter D Wintle

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Liked on YouTube: Akira Ito ‎(伊藤詳) - Marine Flowers (Science Fantasy) (1986) FULL ALBUM - Green & Water ‎– R28X-1003 (Japan, 1986) https://ift.tt/ou1IJgL 00:00 A1. 序章 華やぎ / Prologue, Into The Beauty 12:55 A2. 水色の聖地 / W・A・T・E・R 18:06 A3. 気の舞�� / Dancing Spirits 21:04 A4. 精美 / Essence Of Beauty 25:54 B1. 神がみの遊び / Where Spirits Play 26:57 B2. 祈り / Prayer 38:53 B3. 生生流転 / Life Goes On 42:31 B4. 終章 青き久遠 / Epilogue, Out Of Endless Blue Producer, Composed By, Arranged By, Synthesizer, Electric Bass, A. Piano, Percussion, Engineer, Mixed By – Akira Ito Oboe – Heitaro Manabe Percussion – Izaba Saxophone – Koichiro Kami E. Violin – Takashi Toyoda Vocals – Mineko Soundtrack to the Laser Disc of the same name. There is a time in any good musician’s life when they absolutely nail down whatever they had to place. Akira Ito, one time keyboardist for influential Japanese psych rock outfit The Far East Band, could have stayed with that group rehashing “out there” musical troupes – variations on psychedelia with The FABs or Kitaro-like, Jean-Michel Jarre-aping electro-prog as in his early, solo career – or he could, you know, grow the hell up, and accept that music evolves, and so must he. There’s only so much Ummagumma aping one can do in a lifetime. That’s what makes Marine Flower his first release under his own Green & Water record label truly interesting. It shows his shift to a particular electronic aesthetic that his country was cultivating at the time. Marine Flower (Science Fantasy) was far more minimal and exploratory than anything he’d ever done before. It appeared that Akira was taking influence from German elektronic kosmische music of Cluster, Manuel Göttsching, and Neu and trying to chisel it down through a Japanese aesthetic – essentially using the more holistic, environmentally conscious, spacial aware ideas of other Japanese electronic New Age artists like Hiroshi Yoshimura etc. as a sifter/filter to temper the influence of that kind of music. It was/is a beautiful set of electronic mood music with meditative overtones of nostalgia, comfort, and sweetness for good reason. Album highlight “Essence of Beauty” puts all these feelings of aware reflection into full view. Essentially written as part of a musical series called “Music For Inochi”/Music for Life on his label, each album in this series attempted to carry along intently a specific mood. Water-based music, forest-based music, macro-life music like Yumiko Morioka’s Resonance – simple ideas that took all those far out, less inviting, explorations into far more personal and focused pieces. Although Marine Flower (Science Fantasy) was meant for the New Age market, it ventures far outside the genre. Drum machines, saxophones, electric violin, and all sorts of assorted mallet percussion find ways to make their presence felt in what really is supposed to be a set of percolating “floating” synthesizer music. Not entirely perfect – but what is? – it does have so much to offer as another important piece in this whole structure of Japanese electronic music we’re uncovering (with our Western ears) piecemeal.

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Yumiko Morioka / Resonance

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Yumiko Morioka - Resonance (Reissue)

Label: Métron Records

Release date: 2020

Design: Jack Hardwicke

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Yumiko Morioka - Resonance

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Luna Park Synergetic Voice Orchestra, MIOS (1989 / 2021 Remaster)

#Synergetic Voice Orchestra #Yumiko Morioka #MIOS #tonights weed smoking by the window album.. peace and love goodnight 💗 #m #Bandcamp

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Synergetic Voice Orchestra - MIOS - I took this for 80s pastiche at first, but it is an actual reissue: pristine world-classical-synthpop from Japan, 1989 (kudos to Brandon Hocura for the remaster)

In 1989, pianist and composer Yumiko Morioka put together a group of diverse street musicians and semi-professional players for a project that would come to be called the Synergetic Voice Orchestra. Inspired by Yumiko’s love of different musical cultures from around the globe, the band drew on influences from India, Ethiopia, Mali, Korea and China to create an album that merged these sonic identities with more traditional sounds from the southern Japanese city of Okinawa. Having released her solo piano record Resonance a couple of years earlier, Yumiko was thrilled when offered the chance to make an album of ‘any kind of music she wanted’. She pulled together artists she knew or had seen playing from in and around Tokyo, many of whom were self-taught and could not read music. It wasn’t always easy for Yumiko, a classically taught musician, to work with others who lacked her formal training. But by employing the synergetic principles of American architect and theorist Buckminster Fuller, she fostered an environment where the results of the group had a larger impact than that of the individual. This approach brought a real energy to her compositions and the resulting recording sessions produced MIOS, an exploratory, creative work that felt alive with free-wheeling creativity. Nothing was off limits. The drummer, who ran a vegetable stall by day and practiced in a cemetery at night as to not disturb his neighbours, utilised old washing machine parts for some of the percussive elements. Although Synergetic Voice Orchestra would eventually morph into a new band, leaving MIOS to exist as a singular moment in time, the album remains as one of Japan’s true hidden treasures. Originally a CD only release, MIOS now comes to vinyl for the very first time, complete with brand new artwork by Elvis Barlow-Smith and remastered in 2021. An initial pressing of 700 will be available from July 7th 2021 in multiple colourways via Métron’s Bandcamp page, and through their distributors Hot Salvation (EU) and Light In The Attic (US).

Composed By Yumiko Morioka Directed By Mikio Tajima, Shigeo Ohwa Produced By Shigeo Ohwa, Yumiko Morioka Recorded By Tatsuya Sakamoto Remastering By Brandon Hocura Drums Masahiro Iwamoto Engineer Isao, Susumu Shigeto Executive Producer Katsuji Okamoto, Kuniji Nakai Flute Shunji Yamamoto Keyboards Yumiko Morioka Koto Mitsuko Nakabayashi Percussion Katsuaki Yoshiguchi, Yujin Harada Performer [Ohayashi] Naojiro Kato Sitar Motoyasu Tatsuno Vocals Mami Tanaka, Norico, Samala

#Synergetic Voice Orchestra #Yumiko Morioka #japan #1989 #80s #reissue #electronic #world music #pop #synthpop #female vocal #metron records #2021

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Yumiko Morioka『銀の船』

#Yumiko Morioka #classical #meditative #japanese music #instrumental #2020

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Release Day Picks: 4/17/20

Sorry I’m ignoring the Fiona Apple-sized elephant in the room and going with these release picks instead. Enjoy!

Blushh - R.I.P. Apathy (Self-Released)

- R.I.P. Apathy is just a great punky indie guitar rock album. These songs will get stuck in your head, I promise you that.

https://blushhmusic.bandcamp.com/album/r-i-p-apathy

Hollow Comet - CUES VOL. 1 (Self-Released)

- Second album from the solo project of Strange Ranger’s Isaac Eiger and it’s an unexpected foray into ambient/electronic waters that sounds perfectly natural and right on time.

https://hollowcomet.bandcamp.com/album/cues-vol-1

Chad Matheny - United Earth League of Quarantine Aerobics (Dreams of Field Recordings)

- Chad Matheny aka Emperor X returns with a new digital EP continuing his eclectic blend of folky political punk rock.

https://emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/united-earth-league-of-quarantine-aerobics

Matthewdavid - Experimental Bliss (Umor Rex)

- Title kinda sums it up honestly. Blissed out ambient drone on the great Umor Rex label.

https://umorrex.bandcamp.com/album/experimental-bliss

Yumiko Morioka - Resonance (Métron)

- Beautiful ambient piano album from 1987 re-released by the Métron label (home to two of my favorite albums from last year, OCA & Meitei).

https://metronrecords.bandcamp.com/album/resonance

Ruven Nunez - Within Dreams, Without Dreams (Longform Editions)

- The spiritual nature of Nunez’s guitar playing is a perfect fit for a Longform Edition.

https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/within-dreams-without-dreams

Adam Oko - Diet Of Germs (Music From Memory)

- Originally released in 2015 this is some nice chilled out ambient with a bit of a tropical flare that fits perfectly on the always reliable Music From Memory label.

https://music-from-memory.bandcamp.com/album/diet-of-germs

perila - tracking stones within four walls / air of spring in lungs (self-released)

- Coming completely off the radar for me, this is some deep crackling ambient dub with occasional soft spoken word over the top. This one goes on my best of 2020 list real quick.

https://perilazone.bandcamp.com/album/tracking-stones-within-four-walls-air-of-spring-in-lungs

Shy Layers - Composition For Loud Magic (Longform Editions)

- Shy Layers has been one of my favorite projects over the last couple of years. This new piece for the wonderful Longform Editions project is the most ambient work done by Shy Layers and frankly it suits him well.

https://longformeditions.bandcamp.com/track/composition-for-loud-magic

#Shy Layers #Longform Editions #Blushh #perila #Métron #Yumiko Morioka #Chad Matheny #Emperor X #Dreams of Field Recordings #Strange Ranger #Isaac Eiger #Hollow Comet #Adam Oko #Music From Memory #Ruven Nunez #OCA #Meitei #Matthewdavid #Umor Rex #release day picks

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Yumiko Morioka - Moon Ring

#yumiko morioka

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Great Newage Soundscapings...Masters !...

#Bandcamp

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Yumiko Morioka - Resonance

#album #music #oldschool #pop #rap #musical #singing #sing #song #cover #old

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Futari wa Precure: Overview

What follows is my incomplete draft of the overview of FWPC that I attempted in summer of 2018 after finishing the first series. I eventually gave up on writing this in favor of continuing Max Heart and Splash Star, and when it came time to assess all of them collectively I decided to start from scratch, although you will find similar patterns of thought in both, because what I wanted to say didn’t really change. It ends abruptly when I couldn’t figure out where to go with it and didn’t want to revise what I already had, because it was consuming a lot of my time (sound familiar?). I have been sitting on this for over a year now, unsure of what to do, but I have finally decided to release it in this state, so you can get a look behind the scenes at my writing process.

Alright, it’s finally time. I’m going to look back over the entire FWPC series that I’ve just finished watching and evaluate it. What worked? What didn’t? What conventions were established that would be reused in future shows? Let’s dig in.

Main Characters

Nagisa and Honoka are really great characters to follow. Nagisa in particular breaks the protagonist mold a lot. She doesn’t really want to be a superhero, she just wants to go to school and laugh with her friends and play lacrosse and eat She wants an average life, and that’s commendable. However, she never once hesitates to put herself on the front lines when danger rears its head. When it comes to protecting her friends and family, she’s a mama bear. The contrast between her protective and easygoing sides may seem jarring, but I think it helps make her a more admirable, realistic character. Honoka, meanwhile, is not your everygirl protagonist, but represents a common archetype of the smart, bookish girl. She’s not quiet but she’s not outgoing like Nagisa, either. She loves to see people learn new things and readily shares her knowledge and passion on various subjects. What sets her apart from the stereotype is that she can be assertive, especially when she’s upset, and this is demonstrated well during her fight with Nagisa in episode 8, and again after she scolds Kiriya for being rude in episode 18. Superficially, the pair seem like a tomboy and girly-girl duo but to describe them as such does no favors to either of them. Nagisa wants to wear more mature, feminine clothes but finds that they don’t often suit her. Honoka, similarly, is not quaint and demure. She speaks her mind freely and gets caught up in some of Nagisa’s silliness. Both of them are deeply compassionate, with Nagisa being more protective and Honoka more nurturing.

Side Characters

Two of these girls would graduate to full Cure roles in subsequent seasons

Nagisa takes more of the show's focus and consequently so do her friends. Shiho and Rina appear much more frequently than Yuriko, and even Natsuko and Kyoko start popping up more often in the second half. I'd prefer a bit more balance, there were a bunch of named characters who only got one episode in the spotlight, and some didn't even get that. I'm thinking mainly of the lacrosse team captain Yumiko, who didn’t register with me when she was around and I didn’t even recognize her as the same character when she wasn’t in her lacrosse gear. (a brief aside, having two side characters with such similar names is very confusing). Ironically, despite being the most frequent recurring side characters, I remember the least about Shiho and Rina’s personalities. Shiho is memorable for her speech quirk of saying everything twice, but she and Rina only get one episode of focus and it’s a soft copy of episode 8, the big fight. What we get out of that one is that Shiho is very self-conscious and Rina can be a bit too hard on her teammates without meaning to. It’s something but it doesn’t really come through in most of their appearances before or after that episode. still, they’re fun to have around. Natsuko and Kyoko also always appear as a pair and are good with crafts, which aside from their cosplay episode, comes in handy during the class play and when they’re all making Ms. Yoshimi a quilt. The rest can be summarized quickly:

Kasiwada Mayu: Looks like Nagisa, likes art

Odajima Yuka: Good at everything, worried about her reputation

Taniguchi Seiko: Likes Kiriya, a little shy, can use the library

Morioka Yui: A bit outgoing, likes Fuji-P, can use the library

Fujimura Shougo: Good at soccer, nice

Kimata: Fuji-P’s friend. Open and shut.

Hasekura Kazuki: Overly assertive, womanizing. I think this is the first time I’ve actually used his name

Fairies

Mepple started out as kind of a jerk, and the whole overly lovey-dovey with Mipple schtick got old really quick. Thankfully, except for Max Heart, I don’t remember any subsequent seasons featuring romance between the mascots (Y5GG opted for Pretty Cure-Mascot relationships instead) so they learned their lesson on that front. Anyway, despite his immaturity, Mepple, like his partner, had a heart in the right place and was willing to put his life on the line occasionally. Sometimes. One time. Anyway, by series’ end I didn’t find him especially annoying, and of course I was sad at the part where he went to sleep for a week forever. (no I am not letting that go) Mipple is the more endearing of the two but aside from occasional good advice to Honoka she 

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yumiko morioka -- resonance [album, 1987]

#1980s #ambient #modern composition #piano #yumiko morioka