Silent Winds (NOooooHN et Kawa)

Piano Improvisation Poet Hiroshi Kawase's Original Composition: "Silent Winds
(The Wind Blows Gently)"
This song was composed during my high school years and released as a single in 2022 from a collection of improvised arrangements.
Finally, on September 26, 2026, at the Tsurumi Salvia Music Hall's "A World Expanded by Wonderful Music That Resonates in the Heart! Vol. 34," a recording (featuring unmic'd vocals and live piano performance) was released as Hiroshi Kawase''s 11th single-marking the first time this piece was presented as a "NOooooHN et Kawa" collaboration (Vocals: Non Sugaya & Piano: Piano Improvisation Poet Hiroshi Kawase).
"<Lyrics> My thoughts turn to the stones by the riverbank-the days spent in the meadows that have passed.
Red stones, blue stones-the sound of them rolling fades into the distance; in the quiet moments, the mountains seemed lonely and hazy.
On the path by the riverbank, music that resonates in my heart-there is always, forever, music.
The flowers of the Japanese milkwort-pale and poignant-floated in my heart
To ward off the dark current that looms on the horizon someday
The wind blows quietly..."The lyrics were written based on a certain poetry collection.

The cover photo was finally found and photographed in August 2024 by Rossi-Kawase (Hiroshi Kawase, the piano improvisational poet-his nickname as a photographer) in August 2024. It depicts a mountain stream near the nostalgic Zao Boys' Nature House (now: Miyagi Prefecture Zao Nature House), where I once went stream-climbing during a sixth-grade nature camp.

I hope this song brings you, even just a little, hope for tomorrow, as well as a sense of nostalgia and peace.