CD Album

Life,Love

HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI

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Release Date May 30, 2008
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Catalog No.DAKLLCD-1018
JAN/ISBN 4948722353416
Product Type CD
Number of Discs 1

Description

[Machine Translation] Hiroshi Watanabe has gained worldwide acclaim for his work under the name KAITO, which is unprecedented for a Japanese producer, through the release of his work on the popular KOMPAAKT label based in Cologne, Germany. This is the first album under his own name in two and a half years since his first album "GENESIS" released in 2007, and is produced by Hiroshi Watanabe, who also heads the independent rock label <ROSE RECORDS> and recently released "Kira Kira! This album is the first album by the artist since the release of his own label, <ROSE RECORDS>, and features Keiichi Sogabe, the leader of the independent rock label <ROSE RECORDS>, as the vocalist. Sogabe, who has never hidden his strong love for dance music in his works released on his own label <ROSE RECORDS> and in interviews, and Hiroshi Watanabe, who grew up in a musical family and studied at Berklee College of Music, but was drawn to house music. It was inevitable that these two musicians would hit it off and realize a special collaboration. The album starts with a good track with Sogabe's husky voice floating over a four-beat beat that is filled with synth sounds that showcase Hiroshi Watanabe's true potential, and then continues with M2, which is 11 minutes long with English vocals from the second half. M2 develops into an 11-minute-long shoegaze sound with vocals in English. M3, a four beat track, gives a sense of uplifting techno music, and M4, an ambient track, draws you in with Sogabe's vocals as he speaks quiet words. Their collaboration culminates in M8, a 14-minute epic. Hiroshi Watanabe, who has been popular mainly in the house music scene since his first release on <King Street> in 1996, has been working without being bound by genres, crossing over folk, rock, disco, etc., and through his encounter with "Poet Keiichi Sogabe," he presents an acoustic approach that can be called his own roots. The sound has the minimalistic euphoria of original techno and the fantastic world of progressive house, which can be considered a post-shoegazer sound that has become one of the mainstream of dance music in recent years, coexisting with Sogabe's guitar and vocals.

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Life,Love / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI

ドイツ・ケルンに本拠地を構える人気レーベル<KOMPAAKT>からリリースされるKAITO名義の著作品より、日本人プロデューサーとしては異例といえる世界的評価を得た、ヒロシ・ワタナベ。本人名義としては、2007年リリースのファースト・アルバム「GENESIS」から約2年半振りとなる今作は、なんとインディペンデント・ロック・レーベル<ROSE RECORDS>の主宰であり、先頃も曽我部恵一バンド「キラキラ!」をリリースしたばかりの曽我部恵一をボーカリストに迎えた渾身の1枚となっています。自身のレーベル<ROSE RECORDS>からリリースされる作品群やインタビューなどでも、ダンス・ミュージックに対しての強い愛情を隠さず表現して来た曽我部と、音楽家の家庭に育ちバークリー音楽院に留学しながらもハウス・ミュージックに惹かれて行ったヒロシ・ワタナベ。そんな2人が意気投合、スペシャルなコラボレーションが実現したのは必然と言えるかもしれません。アルバムは、ヒロシ・ワタナベの本領が発揮されたシンセ音がジワジワと盛り上がる四つ打ちビートに、性別をも超えたように感じさせる曽我部のハスキーボイスが浮遊する好トラックに始まり、続 ュM2では後半より英語詩でのボーカルが入る11分にも及ぶシューゲイザー・サウンドへと展開。四つ打ちトラックのM3ではテクノ・ミュージックの高揚感を感じさせ、アンビエント M4では静かな言葉を綴る曽我部のボーカルに思わず引き込まれます。そして最初のハイライト M5はヒロシ・ワタナベのビート&メロディと曽我部の憂いのボーカルが昇華することに成功した壮大な作品。14分にも及ぶ大作M8で彼らのコラボレーションは最高潮を迎えます。96年<King Street>からのリリースに始まり、ハウス・ミュージック・シーンを中心に人気を集めてきたヒロシ・ワタナベが、フォーク/ロック/ディスコなどを横断し、ジャンルにとらわれずに活動して ォた"詩人/曽我部恵一"との出会いを経て、自身のルーツとも言える音響的アプローチを聴かせてくれる今作。そのサウンドには本来のテクノが持つミニマルな陶酔感と近年ダンス・ミュージックの主流の1つとなっているポスト・シューゲイザー・サウンドとも捉えることができるプログレッシブ・ハウスの幻想的な世界が同居し、曽我部のギター/ボーカルを包み込むことで、新しくも

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    Tracklisting

    1
    Brightness,Darkness / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI
    2
    Life on the Earth / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI
    3
    We are here / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI
    4
    Song for a Family / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI
    5
    Alone / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI
    6
    Last Memorial / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI
    7
    Today / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI
    8
    Life,Love / HIROSHI WATANABE feat.KEIICHI

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