Yoshihiro Kanno: Light, Water, Rainbow… [Noriko Ogawa, Piano] 2015 VBR WEBRIP

Composer: Yoshihiro Kanno
Year: 2015
Format: MP3, vbr low quality webrip

In his compositions Yoshihiro Kanno bases himself on three idioms: Western instrumental music, Japanese traditional instruments, and computer music. Combining these various elements freely, as in the recent work Himiko Memories of the Sun Goddess which fuses Western classical music and Japanese traditional music with Kabuki and Japanese classical dance. The pianist Noriko Ogawa is a champion of Kanno’s music and has commissioned three of the works on the present disc, including the so-called ‘Particle of Piano’ series. The ‘Particle series’ is framed by two works which both incorporate computerized sounds in the case of the opening Angel’s Ladder it is the sound of the piano itself which at crucial points is processed, and in Lunar Rainbow it is that of a toy piano. The disc closes with the brief Prelude for Angel, composed in 1985 for the animated film Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no tamago) by Mamoru Oshii.

Tracklisting:
1. The Remains of the Light III, ‘Angel’s Ladder’
2. A Particle of Light
3. A Particle of Water
4. A Particle of Rainbow
5. Lunar Rainbow
6. Prelude for Angel

Total runtime: 1:12:08

Quality hovers around 60-80kbps, but because this is mainly solo piano, it actually sounds fairly decent. Excellent new works from Kanno, and a nice new performance of the Prelude from Angel’s Egg.

LINK:
https://mega.co.nz/#!aUMCgLzJ!-oqBmwkuI1OG-8m_zRkWgocXOYkZYw7XLeno-vT8L8k

Thanks.

Kudos to the BIS label for recording and releasing this, and thank you for the upload. I’m pretty sure this is the first disc to feature only Kanno’s music on any western label.

I wish I could get into his music more but I don’t find him anywhere nearly as good as Takemitsu or his contemporary Hosokawa. Maybe I haven’t given his music enough chance… so hoping to find something good here.