Akira Kosemura - Grassland (2010) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Modern Classical, Electronica, Ambient, Experimental, Japan
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Tracklist :

01 Grassland
02 Petrarca
03 Light
04 Marriage
05 Xiao Ge Er
06 Little Dipper
07 Ballet
08 Over The Horizon
09 Just A Few Minutes
10 Amour
11 Ensemble

Akira Kosemura’s (Tokyo,Japan) latest pop miniature for Someone Good, Polaroid Piano, shares this hazy filmic impression. It’s a snapshot of his increasingly personal and evocative piano and electronics pieces, tinted with field recordings (recorded in various locations including recordings from Brisbane and Hobart by Lawrence English) and offered as a series of small but gloriously rich auditory phrases. Played notes and the mechanism of the piano itself share equal presence in the compositions – Kosemura’s physicality evident throughout the album.

Just to confuse matters there's two different versions of the new Akira Kosemura album. There's a regular single CD version which contains all the kinds of things you'd find in that kind of package (ie cardboard sleeve and shiny musical face mirror thing). There's also a CD/DVD version which is six quid more and features the aforementioned goodness plus an extra DVD which I've not seen yet. So I'm not sure if it's worth the extra quid for the seven track DVD. Maybe if I get some time soon I'll watch it and let you know somehow through some modern medium like Twitter or something else equally as stupid. Here Akira creates a more organic sound featuring the likes of Paniyolo, Haruka Nakemura, Aspidistrafly etc. It still features all the twinkles and the like... the things you come to expect from a new CD on Schole. It seems less electronic that previous releases I've heard from him. There's still lots of micro electronics and piano but there's plenty of acoustic guitar poking it's head around pastoral corners. It's all very pretty and nice, perhaps too nice but I'm not sure if anything can really be too nice. The vocals that pop up on the odd track are also refreshing and the collaborative efforts here make this an interesting (yet nice) release. Lovely. ~NormanRecords

Akira Kosemura - Polaroid Piano (2009) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Modern Classical, Electronica, Ambient, Experimental, Japan
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Tracklist :

01.Hicari
02.Faire
03.April
04.Would
05.Sign
06.Tale
07.Look
08.Tyme
09.Guitar
10.Venice
11.Ein Lied

Akira Kosemura’s (Tokyo,Japan) latest pop miniature for Someone Good, Polaroid Piano, shares this hazy filmic impression. It’s a snapshot of his increasingly personal and evocative piano and electronics pieces, tinted with field recordings (recorded in various locations including recordings from Brisbane and Hobart by Lawrence English) and offered as a series of small but gloriously rich auditory phrases. Played notes and the mechanism of the piano itself share equal presence in the compositions – Kosemura’s physicality evident throughout the album.

Polaroid Piano, like the film from which its name is drawn, captures a moment but does so with a shimmer of the unreal and the imagined.

Akira Kosemura - Tiny Musical (2008) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Electronica ,Ambient, Experimental
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Tracklist :

1. Overture
2. Departure
3. Parterre
4. Seaside
5. Lete
6. Light dance
7. Sky
8. Glim
9. Moon
10. Shorebird
11. Light dance - home
12. Remembrance
13. Just a Few Minutes
14. Smile

The leader of schole, and a Tokyo-resides musician started his career from 2005 and had participated in many label compilation album / remix pieces.
In 2007, Akira released his 1st full album from an Australian urban pop label which is managed by Lawrence English, the most important experimental artist in and a music critic.
In this album “It’s On Everything,” Akira definitely showed his new shape of daily music by putting the field recordings, electronics, and acoustical instruments together while composing his minimal tunes mainly with piano.
At about the same time, Akira displayed his tune “TERMINAL” at Airport Symphony of Queensland Music Festival 2007 in Australia, which was cosponsored by Brisbane International Airport and an Australian label ROOM40.
Also, a split album which has released on September is still highly evaluated.
Akira also shows his talent as a producer by designing sounds of picture medias or web contents for both inter/intranationally.

THANKS TO : Miha Polak (folktronica) & Joi6760 !!!

[me]Akira Kosemura new album. Beautiful !!! Thx to sir Mayo @ IP :)

Akira Kosemura & Haruka Nakamura (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Ambient, Electronica

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Akira Kosemura & Haruka Nakamura - Afterglow (2007)





Akira Kosemura - It's On Everything (2007)





Haruka Nakamura - Grace (2008)


Akira Kosemura & Haruka Nakamura are ambient/electronica artists from Tokyo, Japan. Their music is soothing, calm and minimalistic, often building on clear piano melodies. While Haruka sometimes incorporates acoustic guitar (and in the case of her solo album, the vocals of Janis Crunch) into her songs, Akira tends to concentrate more on on the sampling and electronica.

Their collaboration album includes two tracks from them as a duo, and four tracks from each solo. All the albums are well worth checking out, especially Afterglow.