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Keiichiro Shibuya released 14 song piano solo album for the first time in 11 years from the album "for maria". He reconstructed the soundtrack he wrote for the film Midnight Swan (starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi and directed by Eiji Uchida) into a piano solo. The entire two-hour film was composed and recorded in one week, all by himself in his own studio. Assigned John Davis from Metropolis Studios in London as a mastering, who worked on FKA twigs and U2. Finally, a next level of solo piano album was born, with a perfect combination of three-dimensional acoustics, sound pressure intensity and microscopic precision. The 14 fragments here will never leave your ears and memory.
Keiichiro Shibuya (b. 1973) is a Japanese composer, musician, and artist. His work encompasses cutting-edge electronic music, piano solos, operas, film scores, and sound installations. Through his music compositions and collaboration with artists and scientists, he challenges the boundaries between humans, technology, and life and death. In 2002, he founded the music label ATAK, working across live performance and recorded music. In 2021, he composed the opera Super Angels, commissioned by the New National Theatre Tokyo, which brought together an android, opera singers, chorus, ballet dancers, and the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra. In March 2022, he presented MIRROR, a new Android Opera in collaboration with Buddhist chanting and a local UAE orchestra, at the Dubai Expo. In June 2023, a 70-minute full version premiered at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, with a Tokyo performance scheduled for June 2024. In April 2024, he presented his sound installation Abstract Music at the Lexus exhibition for Milan Design Week. He has also composed numerous film scores, including the music for the film Midnight Swan (2020), directed by Eiji Uchida and starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, for which he won the 75th Mainichi Film Concours Music Award and the 30th Japan Film Critics Award for Best Film Score. In 2022, he composed the score for xxxHOLiC (directed by Mika Ninagawa) and provided the music for the short film KAGUYA BY GUCCI. Through his works, he continues to explore the boundaries of technology, life, and death.
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