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Ice music made from ice.

This is a collaboration single entitled 'Ice Mermaid' made by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, music composers who also are active as members of Anoice, RiLF, and Films, together with Kenji Azuma, an ambient music artist who plays a range of unusual instruments.

This song is based on an illustration featuring a mermaid in the ice world painted by MATSURICA who also takes charge of the artworks for some of the releases from Anoice, Yuki Murata, and Films, and is divided into four parts; the ground, the sea, the seabed, and the finale. The most notable point is that the basis of the sounds of the song are created from materials which are related to ice and water. The sounds of stepping on snow, waves, breathing, whale calling and mermaid's singing. You can feel the cold sea via the sounds expressed by the ice and water.

Also, with each participant take charge of playing their main instrument one after another on each part of the song, it makes possible for this song to expressively convey the world on ice with dignified air to the bottom of the ocean where no sound from the earth's surface can reach. Not only the beautiful tones of a piano, guitar and celesta, or EOX Drum, a kind of steel drums, but also the unique sound of the 'ice marimba' that is an original instrument made up of various sizes of ice, are worth listening.

You should begin on a fantasy journey with the mermaid while looking at the illustration.

Past Rank In

Ice Mermaid

Apple Music • Instrumental Top Songs • Bahrain • TOP 16 • 15 Nov 2024

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Ice Mermaid

Apple Music • Pure Focus • 8 Feb 2024

Artist Profile

  • Takahiro Kido

    Takahiro Kido is a Tokyo based music composer. He debuted as a member of the cinematic music group Anoice, by releasing their first album, 'Remmings' through Important Records, Boston in 2006. In 2015, Anoice released their 4th album 'into the shadows' recorded in not only Tokyo, but also London, Paris, Warsaw, and Moscow. One of the album tracks 'old lighthouse' became the #1 trending track on Spotify as Japanese artists, and 'invasion' was used as the credit roll tune of 'Girl Lost', a US movie which was the #1 trending movie on Amazon Prime Video. In 2019, Anoice released their 5th album, 'Ghost in the Clocks', made from lovely melodies and magnificent orchestral sounds, which Anoice wrote as a soundtrack to a world that followed their 3rd album, 'The Black Rain' which details life after the atomic bombs. This album, and each song within the album, became the #1 and top 10 most streamed/downloaded instrumental music on Apple Music and iTunes Store in over 20 countries. Other than Anoice, he began to be active with his solo project, and also launched side projects from Anoice such as; RiLF, Films, Mizu Amane, Cru, and Tokyo Ambient Collective, and released many works via not only domestic but also international music labels such as Ricco Label, Important Records, 1631 Recordings, PLOP, Noble Label, Flowers Blossom In The Space, and Shochiku Records. As for his solo project, he had been creating basically warm and catchy music, but in 2025, released his 6th solo album 'INSOMNIA' which expressed the mentality of people who are living in the current information-filled society magnificently, beautifully, and sometimes cruelly. Its neoclassical-based sounds consist of mainly a piano and string instruments and has drastically changed the fantastic atmosphere which his past solo albums possessed. He also holds European and Asian tours as not only his solo project but also his bands, Anoice and Films every year. In addition, Takahiro Kido has taken charge of composing music for many commercial adverts such as Armani, Louis Vuitton, Google, YAMAHA, TOYOTA, Mazda, Johnnie Walker, Ballantine's, Heintz, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and etc, and some projects produced by the Japanese government agencies such as Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Also, he created the soundtracks of some movies such as 'Tsukiji Wonderland' directed by Naotaro Endo, 'Olivier Zahm: Digital Provocateur' directed by Can Evgin, 'Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story' directed by Robin Bain, and 'Hikikomori: A Deafening Silence' directed by Dorothée Lorang and David Beautru, and some TV programs produced by NHK, WOWOW, TV TOKYO, and etc. Some film works awarded at Venice Film Festival, Prix Italia, National Arts Festival in Japan, Cool Japan Matching Award, Japan Movie Critics Award, and Japan World's Tourism Film Festival, and Takahiro Kido himself received the Best Original Score Prize at Sapporo International Short Film Festival. Also, he took charge of creating music for some events such as a film produced by Armani which was screened at Milan Fashion Week, a ballet 'Tanzbrucke 2011' performed at Janáček Theatre in Prague, an installation by SYN in Kyiv which was displayed at Moscow International Biennale, and an exhibition 'Black Rain Hibakusha - Out of the Shadow' by Thomas Damm in Berlin, and has been creating over 100 songs every year as the music composer and producer.

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  • 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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  • Kenji Azuma

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