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A piano note, dropping into a hole in the heart.

Three and a half years have passed since her 4th solo album 'Piano Fantasia' which fascinated music fans in the world by its lovely melodies and piano sounds. The Tokyo-based pianist and member of the cinematic instrumental music band, Anoice, and its side projects, RiLF, Films, and Mizu Amane, Yuki Murata, will release her 5th solo album 'Sunny Spot Story' on April 27, 2022.

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, Yuki has been working energetically with not only new releases under her own projects such as Anoice's latest album 'The Hidden Forest' and RiLF's latest album 'My Beloved Farewell' but also soundtracks for various types of video works; Robin Bain's 'Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story', Joey Fingers's 'Reduction In Force', and Osamu Minorikawa's 'I Eat the Tears', TV drama series such as TV TOKYO's 'My Husband is Sleeping in the Freezer' and MBS's 'Love Phantom', and enlightenment videos produced by Japanese government's organizations such as Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. However, her talent, which is admired by famous Japanese composers, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nobuo Uematsu, and Takeshi Kobayashi, and has left her name in the history books of the three major international film festivals, Cannes, Berlin, and Venezia, is alive here.

This album 'Sunny Spot Story' comes in a set of two CDs; Disc.1 with 14 songs and Disc.2 with 10 songs. The songs included in Disc.1 were recorded at Anoice's studio and a large concert hall, together with the same instrumental players with Anoice's latest album 'The Hidden Forest'. It consists of mainly simple piano solo songs such as the first lead single 'shall we dance' and 'song for brahms', and also beautiful neo-classical songs with warm atmosphere played by a piano and string trio formed by a violin, a viola, and a cello as heard in the second lead single 'with all of my love' and 'my perfect place'. Disc.2 includes improvised solo piano compositions which Yuki played on her own piano with a simple recording equipment while under a state of emergency due to the pandemic and features a more stripped down sound in contrast to the songs on Disc.1.

This is a new masterpiece featuring a piano just like the great works from film music composers Thomas Newman and Alan Silvestri and neoclassical artists Max Richter and Jóhann Jóhannsson.

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Sunny Spot Story

Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Finland • TOP 1 • 3 Feb 2024 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Kazakhstan • TOP 6 • 13 Nov 2023 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Ukraine • TOP 13 • 19 Jan 2023 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Sweden • TOP 17 • 13 Oct 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Viet Nam • TOP 22 • 13 Oct 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Poland • TOP 31 • 20 Jul 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Czech Republic • TOP 37 • 17 Apr 2023 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Singapore • TOP 38 • 27 Nov 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Hong Kong • TOP 56 • 9 Feb 2023 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Spain • TOP 58 • 30 Apr 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Korea, Republic of • TOP 61 • 11 Feb 2023 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Taiwan • TOP 63 • 30 Sep 2024 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Russian Federation • TOP 75 • 1 Sep 2023 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Mexico • TOP 78 • 12 Feb 2024 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Indonesia • TOP 79 • 19 Aug 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • China • TOP 105 • 12 Dec 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Japan • TOP 124 • 28 Apr 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Canada • TOP 127 • 18 May 2022 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Switzerland • TOP 165 • 2 May 2023 Apple Music • Instrumental Top Albums • Italy • TOP 198 • 24 Sep 2022

i'm weeping in the bath

Apple Music • Instrumental Top Songs • Kazakhstan • TOP 168 • 28 Feb 2023

my perfect place

Apple Music • Instrumental Top Songs • Uzbekistan • TOP 25 • 26 Sep 2022

tango in blue

Apple Music • Instrumental Top Songs • Uzbekistan • TOP 66 • 3 Aug 2022

with all of my love

Apple Music • Instrumental Top Songs • Uzbekistan • TOP 56 • 30 Jul 2022

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song for brahms

Apple Music • Pure Focus • 8 Jun 2022

Artist Profile

  • Yuki Murata

    Yuki Murata is a Tokyo-based pianist/composer. Since her childhood, she had been learning various styles of piano and then studied composing music in, not only Japan, but also France and Canada. As a classical music pianist, she was awarded top prizes in various piano competitions such as the PTNA Piano Competition and International Piano Duo Competition. She debuted as a member of the chinematic music group Anoice, by releasing their first album, 'Remmings' through Important Records, Boston in 2006. In 2008, Anoice established their label, Ricco Label. Since then, he has released many music works on not only Anoice but also his own solo project, Takahiro Kido and other projects such as RiLF (an alternative rock band formed by the members of Anoice and Matryoshka's Calu), films (The Tokyo-based dark classical music unit, featuring members of Anoice and two female vocalists in their original languages), mizu amane (Films' side project featuring Japanese languages), cru (The neo-classical music unit formed by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata who is the member of Anoice), and The Frozen Vaults (an ambient music unit formed by Yuki Murata, Dave Dhonau, Tomasz Mrenca, Harry Towell and Bartosz Dziadosz) on some music label such as Ricco Label, Important Records, noble label, 1631 Recordings, Flower Blossom In The Space, VoxxoV. In addition, Yuki Murata has taken charge of composing and performing music for many commercial adverts such as Armani, Louis Vuitton, YAMAHA, TOYOTA, ASICS, ANA, TOSHIBA, UNIQLO, Heintz, and etc. Also, she created the soundtracks of some movies such as 'Tusikiji Wonderland' directed by Naotaro Endo and 'Olivier Zahm: Digital Provacateur' derected by Can Evgin and some TV programs such as NHK and WOWOW. Some film works awarded at Venice Film Festival, Prix Italia, National Arts Festival in japan, and Cool Japan Maching Award, and Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata who are the music composers of Anoice, received the Best Original Score Prize at Sapporo International Short Film Festival.

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