#midori takada

[ambientworld]

Midori Takada - Mr. Henri Rousseau's Dream

#youtube #midori takada #ambient #atmospheres

[go-go-devil]

Just got back from a nice little trip to The Big Apple, so of course I had to go hunting and gathering across all of the record shops nearest to where I was staying and oh man did I score yet again!

After many years, I've FINALLY been able to track down an OG copy of "Trout Mask Replica" for a reasonable price! Usually when I see one pop up at a record convention the vendor wants $90 or more for it, but this one I found here was selling for $50 (still expensive but then again this album ain't exactly easy to find used). And just as a cherry on top of this fish sundae I then turn around and see a pristine reissue of one of my favorite ambient albums, "Through The Looking Glass," staring right at me in the Japanese Imports section <3

"Paris" and "The Present" were two albums I figured I'd finally get for myself since the last store I was at was selling them at a very cheap $6 and $4 respectfully (and because I love Supertramp and The Moody Blues). "How Will The Wolf Survive?" I bought simply because I thought the album art looked cool, so this one will be a surprise for me!

That Metropolis album though... Apparently in 1984, a new restoration of this film was shown in theaters that was edited by this music producer named Giorgio Moroder. For the soundtrack he brought in a bunch of popular artists from the time to record original songs for the edit, featuring artists such as Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Jon Anderson, and Adam Ant among others.

So yeah I need to find myself a cut of the Metropolis Bizarro 80's Pop Rock edition ASAP

#vinyls #music #metropolis 1984 ost #how will the wolf survive #los lobos #trout mask replica #captain beefheart #through the looking glass #midori takada #paris live album #supertramp #the present #the moody blues

[plushberry]

#japanese music #ambient #new age #electronic music #spotify #playlist #ursula le guin #lafawndah #midori takada #k. leimer #steve hillage #boc #boards of canada #ryuichi sakamoto #prince #japan #gigi masin #seefeel #joy o #joy orbison #firecracker recordings #music from memory #lord of the isles #RVNG Intl. #melody as truth

[burlveneer-music]

Midori Takada - You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana - a new album in which she adds musical accompaniment to Buddhist chants

Shomyo of Koya-san & Midori Takada YOU WHO ARE LEAVING TO NIRVANA WRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) are ecstatic to announce a new full length album by celebrated Japanese percussionist Midori Takada (Through The Looking Glass), in collaboration with Buddhist monks belonging to the Samgha group of the Shingon school of Koya-san, led by Reverend Syuukoh Ikawa. You Who Are Leaving To Nirvana is available on half speed mastered vinyl LP, housed in a 350gsm sleeve, with OBI, and liner notes, as well as on digipack CD. Recorded at The Premises Studio (London) and in Tokyo in 2019,You Who are Leaving to Nirvana is a majestic work combining a suite of six Buddhist liturgical chants and a musical creation by Midori Takada. The Buddhist chants come from three types of repertoires: shomyo ("Teisan", "Unga-Bai", "Sange", "Taiyo"), but also goeika ("Kannon-Daiji") and mantra ("Hannya-Singyo"). After supervising the recording of the Buddhist chants, Midori Takada added her own compositions, with subtle layers of percussion and the melodies of her beloved marimba, giving full life to the sacred texts. Reverend Syuukoh Ikawa explains: "Shomyo is a form of declamation of sacred esoteric texts, inherited over many generations. The power of words goes far beyond their mere pronunciation. I think there is something that words alone cannot really convey. If I recite prayers in a musical way, the feeling transmitted will be even stronger than if I say it normally, in everyday language. I think that the musicality of a work carries a hidden power that cannot be expressed in words alone. The setting of the music has an additional power for you and for those around you who listen to it. The words of a song are not just words set to music. They carry an additional hidden power that cannot be expressed in any other way. Listening to Midori Takada's musical performance, the words truly seem to come alive." Original recordings of the Buddhist chants are held in the International Archives of Folk Music (IAFM) at the MEG Museum in Geneva. The album sleeve features an artwork by famed Japanese sculptor Katsura Funakoshi selected by Midori Takada.

#Midori Takada #japan #buddhist #shomyo #ambient #liturgical #2022 #wrwtfww records #new age #environmental music #percussion #marimba

[ravenkings]

through the looking glass || midori takada

#this is SUCH a good album #midori takada #audio

[jacobwren]

Midori Takada・ Masahiko Satoh ‎– Lunar Cruise (1990)

#midori takada #masahiko satoh

[henricamille]

This album is just perfect.

#midori takada #WRWTFWW records #music #album of the day #through the looking glass #Youtube

[mixamorphosis]

Blog post and linked up tracklist [HERE]

Tracklist

Akis - Biofields (Into The Light Records) Cass. - Your Beautiful Look Is Looping Endlessly In My Head (Emotional Response) Suso Saiz - The Hiding Place (El Escondite) (Music From Memory) Vangelis Katsoulis - Liquidity (Utopia Records) Jonny Nash - Lime (Melody As Truth) Mood Hut - Late Mantra (Snaker) Susumu Yokota - Azukiiro No Kaori (Leaf) Steve Cobby - Arvan (Out Take) (Throne Of Blood) Midori Takada - Mr Henri Rousseau's Dream (We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records) 36 - Poekhali (3six Recordings) Mark Barrott - Over At Dieter's Place (International Feel) Lord Of The Isles - Obar Liobhaite (ESP Institute) Talaboman - Midnattssol (R&S Records) Vermont - Ki-Bou (Kompakt) D - City Boy (Ambient Mix) (P&D) Jonny Nash - Retreat (Melody As Truth) Sad City - Limbo (Emotional Response)

Download available via [Hearthis]

#mixamorphosis #dj mix #soundcloud #music #ambient #downtempo #Akis #Cass. #Suso Saiz #Vangelis Katsoulis #Jonny Nash #Mood Hut #Susumu Yokota #Steve Cobby #Midori Takada #36 #Mark Barrott #Lord Of The isles #Talaboman #Vermont #D #Sad City #SoundCloud

[patrickprincipe]

Midori Takada @ Bad Bonn

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#Midori Takada

[c-40]

A-T-3 094 Midori Takada - Mr Henri Rousseau's Dream

Named after Mr Henri Rousseau's most famous painting The Dream. It's the calmest of the four tracks on Midori Takada's highly conceptual debut solo album Through The Looking Glass. The whole album is brilliant and it was reissued by We Release Whatever The Fuck We Want Records (presumably a label with the same ethos as the 2000s Whatever We Want Records but less cool) in 2017. If you look at their catalogue what the fuck they want to release looks like mostly old Japanese records

#1983 #midori takada #ambient #tokyo #japan #80s music

[brudnopis]

#midori takada #the dreamberries

[radiophd]

midori takada -- love song of urfa

#1990s #modern composition #percussion #midori takada

[burlveneer-music]

Midori Takada - Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter - longform interpretation of the traditional Shona "Nhemamusasa"

WRWTFWW Records and MEG Museum (Geneva) are honored to present the first new solo album by renowned Japanese percussionist Midori Takada (Through The Looking Glass) in 23 years, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter, available on vinyl LP, housed in a 350gsm sleeve, with OBI, and liner notes, as well as on digipack CD. Recorded in a live setting and played with instruments conserved in the collections of the MEG Museum, Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter is Midori Takada’s very own rendition of "Nhemamusasa", a traditional work emblematic of the musical repertoire for mbira of the Shona of Zimbabwe, well known worldwide, thanks notably to its version by Paul F. Berliner included on the famed 1973 album The Soul of Mbira. The choice of this title by Midori Takada evokes the links between traditional African and contemporary music which are the foundation of this work, and it also translates the resolutely multicultural vision of the artist. Midori Takada explains: "African music is remarkable for its polyrhythms. Not only are there simultaneously several rhythmic motifs, sometimes as many as ten, but furthermore it may be that the part played by each musician has its own starting point and its own pace, all combining to form a cycle. All the cycles progress at the same time according to a single metrical structure which functions as a reference point, but which is not played by any one person from beginning to end. The structure emerges out of the multi-level parts, all different. With the Shona, the musical system is based on the polymelody: one performs simultaneously several melodic lines which are superimposed, each having its own rhythmic organization. It is truly captivating. In Western classical music, one four-beat rhythm induces some precise temporal framework and regular reference points, which come on the strong beats 1 and 3. But in the logic of the Shona musical system, and in other African music, the melody can begin in the very middle of the cycle and be continued up to some other place in an autonomous manner, as if it had its own personality. It’s very rich." The album comes with in-depth liner notes that include an interview with Midori Takada, a point of view by Zimbabwean scholar, musician and activist Forward Mazuruse, and background information on the project by Isabel Garcia Gomez and Madeleine Leclair from MEG Museum. The sleeve features an artwork by celebrated Zimbabwean painter Portia Zvavahera. Part of the budget for the album was donated to Forward Mazuruse’s Music For Development Foundation whose aim is to identify, nurture, and record young but underprivileged musicians in Zimbabwe.

#Midori Takada #Nhemamusasa #WRWTFWW Records #new age #ambient #japan #jazz #mbira #percussion #2022 #zimbabwe #shona #african music

[ikuhara]

A beautiful new illustration to celebrate the 40th anniversary of "Magical Angel Creamy Mami" by the character designer of the series, Akemi Takada.

#Creamy Mami #Mahou no Tenshi Creamy Mami #Magical Angel Creamy Mami #Akemi Takada #Yuu Morisawa #Megumi Ayase #Shingo Tachibana #Toshio Otomo #Midori Kisaragi #Hayato Kidokoro #Tetsuo Morisawa #Natsume Morisawa #Nega #Posi #LETS GOOOOOOOOOOO #TODAY IS SO GOOD

[post-futurism]

My pet peeve is when people say they love 80s music when they mean 80s pop music not the electronica experimental music made by Midori Takada in Japan in the 1980s or early techno music from Detroit, Chicago or Berlin or ambient music for airports by Brian Eno (technically 1978 but worth mentioning) like you can't say you like 80s music and then be mad when I put on something weird. Say you like everything from that era or be genre specific

#me cancelling my registration for a Pilates reformer class because they're throwing in 80s music #and i just know this normie ass place is gonna be playing pop

[highlyhighlyrecommended]

IM SCHILF DER STADT – Music and ambience selected by That Night.

»Im Schilf der Stadt« is a dreamy, floating and yet in places driving mix with ambience and atmosphere from films that can be assigned to the cyberpunk genre. Listening to it automatically draws pictures in your head – kind of like Moebius drawing Blade Runner and 川井 憲次 playing music while transforming into a Ghibli character.

The 90 minutes mixtape is handdubbed in a limited edition of 25. The TDK SA90 comes with a hand painted black matte top – plus 1c printed inlay in original TDK vintage clear case. (Girl from Kushiro-Shi illusioned by MT Nobo)

>> LISTEN TO THE MIX

Tracklist:

A) Palmbomen II – Hopeful 01 Unknown Me – Gaze On Your Palm Lawrence Lek – In The Game Visons – Segerfalk Pier Luigi Andreoni & Francesco Paladino – Aeolyca Pt.1 Tomaga – Reverie For Fragile Houseplants Futuro Antico – Concrete Music - Oa Oa Geinoh Yamashirogumi – Illusion Hinako Omori – Spaceship Lament Andrew Pekler – Avian Modulations Midori Takada – Mr. Henri Rousseau‘s Dream

B) FSOL – Dead Skin Cells Jeff Mills – The World Of Worlds Model 500 – The Passage Burial – Antidawn Lawrence Lek & Oliver Coates w/ Joni Zhu – Dragons Kenji Kawai – Type 2052 „Hadaly“ group A – Initiation Antenna – They Won‘t Regret Bill Nelson – A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain Star Searchers – Intertidal Shadezones David Whittaker, Tim & Lee Wright – Game Over Actress – Voodoo Posse Chronic Illusion

#mixtape #c90 #that night #südturm records #südturm #cassettte #cassettetape #k7 #kassette