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Studio Sessions

Akimi Morinaga

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Release Date: 2026/02/26

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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 blends diverse genres, including MPB (Brazilian popular music) and kayōkyoku, into a contemporary sound. His style, which explores fiction and the realities adjacent to it, recalls the work of self-writing and performing pop artists associated with the New Music movement in Japan. In 2018, he released his first EP, Room of Homage, a six-track work developed over the course of a year from demos he had recorded himself. 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. He also released Minmin TV, produced by Takeshi Namura, known as an early director of KIRINJI. Since the COVID-19 pandemic, Morinaga has continued to create music primarily from his home studio. In 2022, he held his first solo concert, End Stage Act. Beginning in September 2023, he released a new single every month for nine consecutive months. In June 2025, he released his first full-length album, Alfa. The album marked the culmination of his efforts to pay homage to the history of Japanese New Music while reconstructing its legacy through contemporary methods. He subsequently embarked on a release tour, successfully performing three shows in Nagoya, Kyoto, and Tokyo.

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