Hitotose

[Machine Translation] The first full-length album by the singing husband-and-wife duo Hakoniwa. The album features 12 songs based on the theme of "Hitotose," or the four seasons of Japan, and is a colorful expression of Hakoniwa's world of song, featuring 8 guest musicians. The album includes lighthearted songs such as "Koyomi" and "Yama ni Kuraseba," covers of children's songs, and ballads such as "Gyojin" and "Yumemado," Hakoniwa's most famous song. <profile>A couple living in Kyoto, Tetsuya Sekiguchi (vo,gt) and Aiko (vo) formed the duo quietly around 2010, with Aiko in charge of cooking humming in the kitchen, and Tetsuya in charge of tasting, adding chorus and accompaniment. Tetsuya switched from a shoji to a microphone and chopsticks to a guitar, and began to perform in earnest. In addition to their original songs, they also cover and arrange songs that are not bound by any genre but are dear to their hearts, and deliver "songs" that emphasize the overlapping of their two voices.

うたう夫婦デュオ・箱庭のファーストフルアルバム。日本の四季、「ひととせ」をテーマに12曲を収録。8名のゲストミュージシャンを迎え、箱庭のうた世界を彩り豊かに現した一枚。新曲「こよみ」「山に暮らせば」などの軽快な楽曲から、童謡のカヴァー、箱庭の代表曲「行人」「夢窓」などのバラードまで、ほのぼのとしたなかにも様々な風景が織り交ぜられている。<プロフィール>京都在住、関口哲也(vo,gt)と藍子(vo)による唄う夫婦デュオ。2010年頃、料理担当の藍子が台所で口遊む鼻歌に、味見担当の哲也がコーラスと伴奏を添え、ひっそりと結成。2012年頃より、藍子はしゃもじをマイクに持ち替え、哲也はお箸をギターに持ち替え、本格的に活動開始。オリジナル曲の他、ジャンルにとらわれず自ら思い入れのある曲もカバー・アレンジし、ふたりの声の重なりを大切にした「唄」を伝える。