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IkizukuMORI

Takuya KOMABA

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Release Date: 2024/03/20

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IkizukuMORI
Plants, flowers, insects and animals that live in this soil
Feeling the same wind as them and becoming a forest

Composition & Performance, Art : Takuya KOMABA

The place that someone named and everyone calls a forest. What is a "forest"? Is it a coexistence of different things and a rich assembly of life full of diversity? There are flowers blooming in many colors. Some seeds sit in the soil for years, waiting to sprout. Some of them end their lives without ever seeing the light of the sun. A forest is a place where life is reborn.

When listening to it and playing same time, I suddenly feel like I am the forest. The melting snow flowing through the stream, the sound of fresh green leaves woven by the wind, and the scent of the earth. Sometimes, I feel like I can have a conversation with the birds. Breath meeting the sound of the rain, healed by komorebi*, looking up at kazahana* and sleeping in winter. Living and playing music, sharing and returning to nature.

komorebi* : dappled sunlight
kazahana* : the flurry of snow in a clear sky

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IkizukuMORI

iTunes Store • Instrumental TOP ALBUMS • Japan • TOP 1 • 31 Mar 2024 iTunes Store • Instrumental TOP ALBUMS • United States • TOP 4 • 21 Mar 2024 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Switzerland • TOP 43 • 10 Aug 2024

Artist Profile

  • Takuya KOMABA

    Art_Music_Design Takuya Komaba is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans painting, music, sculpture, and design. Engaging in creative expression from an early age, he explored physicality and improvisation through dance and design. His work expanded into visual expressions of painting sound through album artwork created in collaboration with musicians from Japan and abroad, as well as live painting performances. He later began composing and performing on the piano as part of his own artistic exploration, seeking forms of expression that emerge where sound and image, body and space resonate with one another. Since 2009, he has participated in the Abiko International Open-Air Art Exhibition, serving as its executive chair from 2014 to 2016. His international activities include artist residencies, exhibitions, composition, and musical performances in Iceland and Lithuania. In 2019, he relocated to Saku, Nagano, Japan. Incorporating materials found in everyday life, such as earth, stone, wood, animal glue, and silkworm cocoons, he continues to deepen his artistic practice through an engagement with layers of accumulated time and the natural world, embracing both its strength and stillness. His practice crosses disciplines, encompassing painting, sculpture, installation, design, piano improvisation, and composition. He also seeks to cultivate new ways of living and spaces for creative expression at the intersection of art and everyday life.

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