My new album "Deep Blue and Orange Hours" is now available for Mp3 download in my internet store and streaming from various major sites. Although the music is created in a different way from the previous album "Manipulated Dreams", the soundtrack album for the movie "Dream Manipulator MUGEN", I think I have created a sentimental, nostalgic, and poetic music that brings to mind a poetic view. I am happy and proud of it. I hope that many people would enjoy it. Background The goal of this album is always "music that can invite the listener to an inner voyage",  but I had a few other ideas behind the album. Idea 1 "Layering Sound" First of all, I had a series called "Imaginary Journey" that was on youtube in 2020. ↓↓. This was a series I was working on confinement period in France, creating improvised ensembles by layering my own sounds on the PC. I was having a lot of fun discovering and improving, but I wanted to revisit and dev...

Background I made this soundtrack back in 2006, right around the time I was making arrangements to move to Paris.... I was also a member of the music team for the creation of "Mnemosne" (I forget the exact title...), a collaboration with Theatre Galassi, just before Ku Na'uka joined SPAC. As part of the promotion of the omnibus film "Ten Nights of Dreams" which was distributed by a major film company at the time, I was asked to create soundtracks for the "First Night" in the omnibus film "Ten Nights of Dreams: Pirate Edition"  which was by independent film directors as a counterpart to the major one. I had been a fan of Soseki Natsume's works since before this request, and had been thinking "I'd like to create music for this someday...", so it was a nice situation for me. To be honest, I don't know if the film itself was a success or not, and information about the independent version is almost nonexistent nowadays.  Rega...

Since the end of last year, I have been practicing with a Brazilian percussionist, Brenda Ohana, and we have started to think of having a concert... and shooting this video was a part of it. She is Brazilian and I am Japanese. The common thing between us is " we were not born and raised in the country where jazz originated " and " we did not start playing music because of being fascinated by jazz ". By the way, we both are rock fans.  That is to say, we are complete strangers about  "tradition" of Jazz because of our musical roots and back born .  But I don't think this is a negative thing in the culture of jazz. Because the reason we are still  fascinated by jazz and it is an art  that has the dynamism to take what these "outsiders" do and turn them into a creative power generator, I think.  What should we do as "outsiders"?  This is one of the themes that both Brenda and I have had since before we started playing together. My thou...