Uploaded July 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Itoko Toma New Album “Beyond the Mountain” available July 12th, 2024.
CD: schole-records.com/products/itokotoma-beyondthemountain
Rainy Music Video directed by Shin Kikuchi
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Pianist Itoko Toma will release a solo piano album.
In the summer of 2023, the album was recorded at the studio library “SALO” located in Oiso, Kanagawa, Japan. A collection of piano works composed by her fingers, guided by the tone of an upright piano meticulously tuned by a piano tuner.
This collection of composed piano pieces were inspired by the works of Shin Kikuchi, Schole Records art director, exhibited at SALO during the recording period. It has an image concept of one walking along the path in the deep mountain surrounded by fog and imagining an invisible landscape as one surrenders to the silence.
The sound of the piano were made even softer by the felt work, which helps to expand a tranquil soundscape, as if flower petals or fresh white snow gently falling.
Please enjoy listening as an accompaniment to a relaxing moment, as if lighting a lamp or enjoying a fragrance.
Itoko Toma New Album “Beyond the Mountain” available July 12th, 2024.
CD: schole-records.com/products/itokotoma-beyondthemountain
Rainy Music Video directed by Shin Kikuchi
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Pianist Itoko Toma will release a solo piano album.
In the summer of 2023, the album was recorded at the studio library “SALO” located in Oiso, Kanagawa, Japan. A collection of piano works composed by her fingers, guided by the tone of an upright piano meticulously tuned by a piano tuner.
This collection of composed piano pieces were inspired by the works of Shin Kikuchi, Schole Records art director, exhibited at SALO during the recording period. It has an image concept of one walking along the path in the deep mountain surrounded by fog and imagining an invisible landscape as one surrenders to the silence.
The sound of the piano were made even softer by the felt work, which helps to expand a tranquil soundscape, as if flower petals or fresh white snow gently falling.
Please enjoy listening as an accompaniment to a relaxing moment, as if lighting a lamp or enjoying a fragrance.
![【MV】[.que] - flora](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_WRHnamU9_Q/mqdefault.jpg "【MV】[.que] - flora
2013/05/11 RELEASE
[.que] - drama
Buy on Bandcamp
https://que-naokakimoto.bandcamp.com/album/drama
flora [Music Video]
directed by Shin Kikuchi
これまでに自主制作の作品を含む二枚のアルバムを発表し、以降、数多くのイベントに出演するなど、着々とその音楽性を磨いてきた若干25 歳の若き音楽家、柿本直によるソロ・プロジェクト [.que]。
昨年より、SCHOLE が行う東日本大震災支援プロジェクト「SCHOLE HOPE PROJECT」への参加や、SCHOLEレーベ ル五周年記念コンピレーションアルバム「Joy - schole compilation vol.3 -」への楽曲提供などを通じて、確かな音楽的飛躍を遂げてきました。
アコースティック・ギターを基調とした清涼感溢れるサウンドとメロディ、シンプルに聴かせながらも綿密に計算されたビート、そして要所に配置された女性コーラスなど、フォークトロニカ世代の新たな旗手として繊細で巧みなサウンド・プロダクションを発揮した本作は、[.que]という音楽家が迎えた一つの到達点であり、また彼のこれからを多いに期待する 素晴らしい作品に仕上がりました。
レーベルメイトでありギタリストのPaniyolo も参加、共同プロデューサーとして小瀬村 晶、ミックス・マスタリング・エンジニアに 井口 寛、アートワークを菊地 慎が担当。 日常のあらゆる場面を少しだけドラマティックに演出する、フォークトロニカの傑作と呼ぶに相応しい作品「drama」がここに誕生しました。
1. sunset
2. air
3. comet
4. bud
5. flora
6. daybreak
7. rest
8. uncertain
9. drops
10. decide
11. paddle
12. rotation
13. ending
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