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Studio Sessions

Akimi Morinaga

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A studio live compilation recorded by Akimi Morinaga with various musicians.
Centered around songs from the 2025 album "Alfa", the project presents three distinct arrangements that reinterpret the material from new perspectives.

The solo set reconstructs the original beat-making, refreshing the rhythmic texture and space to give the songs a renewed sense of physicality.
The trio format (Bass: Yoshiro Atsumi, Keyboards: Naruki Numazawa) expands the harmonic and melodic range while delivering an intimate, chamber-like soul atmosphere, where close interplay heightens the emotional depth of each piece.
In the full band arrangement (Drums: Hirotomo Kauai [Yamafutatsu], Percussion: Ryosuke Tomita, Bass: Yoshiro Atsumi, Violin: Yosuke Watanabe, Keyboards: Masaaki Aoki [Suna no Kabe]), rich textures and dynamic contrasts create a vivid and expansive sonic landscape.

Rather than presenting Alfa as a fixed, completed work, this release keeps it in motion - an ongoing act of reinterpretation captured in real time. The project is also available as a visual work on YouTube.

Artist Profile

  • Akimi Morinaga

    A pop music artist based in Tokyo, Akimi Morinaga combines City Pop with diverse influences such as MPB (Brazilian music), kayōkyoku (Japanese popular songs), neo-soul, and disco, creating a contemporary sound. His style, which explores fiction and adjacent realities, resembles the works of self-produced pop artists from Japans New Music era. In 2018, he released his first EP, Room of Homage, a six-track project developed over a year. The following year, performing as Akimi Morinaga & Il Paradiso, he appeared at FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL 19 ROOKIE A GO-GO and Ringo Music Festival 2019, also releasing Minmin TV, produced by Takeshi Namura, known for his work with KIRINJI. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Morinaga has focused on creating music from his home studio, including his first solo concert End Stage Act in 2022 and a nine-month streak of consecutive singles in 2023. In addition to writing, composing, arranging, and performing his own tracks, he has collaborated on pieces such as Koi no Hajimari (arranged by Yukiko Nishii), Kaettekitara Yasashikusurukara (arranged by Yuta Ishikawa), and Akudoi with singer-songwriter Marlion. Exploring new dimensions in pop music, he continues to gain widespread support through digital platforms.

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