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Oto, Kioku, by Midori Hirano
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Andi ChorleyKlo:yuri by Midori Hirano, released on Noble in 2008.
"...klo:yuri (2008, noble) received critical acclaim, including praise from TIME magazine, which described her music as “at once familiar and odd, with the ineffable quality of a dream.”
https://www.midorihirano.com/about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRJhVpfpzsk
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LushRush by Midori Hirano, released on Midi Creative in 2006.
"...A native to Kyoto, Japan but making the creative pilgrimage to Berlin in 2008, her productions are based around the use of traditional instrumentation – piano, strings, voice – and augmented with often subtle electronic processing and digital samples creating a rich, rolling sound that is at once warm and melodic while tracing unexpected musical trajectories.
Her first album, LushRush, was released on Noble records in 2006 and was primarily a collaborative affair, seeing her work with a number of guest musicians to create one of those beautiful, sprawling debuts that radiates a hazy blissfulness upon first listen..." Sonic Hits
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Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with Soniscope by Midori Hirano, eleased on Dauw in 2021
“I was fascinated by the combination of the image and sound which well emphasized the stillness with a slight of emotion.” (Midori Hirano)
Midori Hirano wanted to make an album and started envisioning several personal narratives. With Soniscope, Hirano continues in the same vein as her previous albums in which piano and electronic arrangements hold a central place. However, on this record she specifically explored new possibilities in terms of techniques and instruments.
https://midorih.bandcamp.com/album/soniscope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF7NKq4fs48&list=OLAK5uy_ncCq1Xe03GxBYvtI_8UGZv-rNZEUFY_NY
Ended the weekend and started the week after a swim with Water Ladder by Atsuko Hatano and Midori Hirano, released on Alien Transistor in 2021.
Following their recent solo releases Soniscope (Dauw) and Cells #5 (Important Records), Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Midori Hirano and Tokyo based string experimentalist Atsuko Hatano have teamed up for their first collaborative full-length: Water Ladder..
Whereas the title track truly explodes half-way in, the final “Cascade” brings closure to the electro-acoustic six-track collection: the floating continues, but the interlocking musical planes are no longer ruffled or rippling, no longer torn in many directions at once. Instead, the sonic streams merge and eventually disappear like ephemeral water falls after heavy rain or sudden snowmelt.
https://midorih.bandcamp.com/album/water-ladder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfZGxEbQjso&list=RDMfZGxEbQjso&start_radio=1
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Welcomed sleep yesterday and greeted the new day after my swim with Invisible Island
by Midori Hirano released by Sonic Pieces in 2020.
"...Midori's Invisible Island is a safe place. Though it's one full of life and colours : birds, animals, wind and waves, fond memories of lost or unknown places and people that exist only in the hidden edges of this album. This especially comes to light for the albums centrepiece, the beautiful Belong, featuring Christoph Berg on violin. It's as if the protagonist - after roaming around the island for a long period, lost in its intrigue - finally finds what he/she has been searching for. A few tracks later the album ends on the title track, an uplifting ending that seems somehow unreal once the album stops and we ́re back to reality. Though the piano seems to keep performing in ones head with its repeating chorus and slowly drowning theme. An album of true visible beauty." - Bandcamp
https://midorih.bandcamp.com/album/invisible-island
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDLXoG7I9kM&ab_channel=Ambient%232%28duplicates%29
African Paperhttp://africanpaper.com/2025/04/19/midori-hirano-coh-sudden-fruit/
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African Paper | MIDORI HIRANO / COH: Sudden Fruit
Wenn sich die Wege zweier Künstler mit ganz eignen, auf soliden, weitgehend egofreien Fundamenten stehenden ästhetischen Visionen kreuzen, entsteht mitunter etwas Einzigartiges. So auch bei dem Album "Sudden Fruit", einer Zusammenarbeit der japanischen Pianistin und Komponistin Midori Hirano und des russischen Klangarchitekten Ivan Pavlov, bekannt als CoH (was im russischen Traum und zugleich Schlaf bedeutet und Son ausgesprochen wird, die Übereinstimmung der kyrillischen Schreibweise mit den drei lateinischen Buchstaben ist zufälliger Natur). ...
the buff who fell to earthOoo, lovely new collab between pianist/composer Midori Hirano and sound architect CoH (Ivan Pavlov) out today!
Midori Hirano & CoH - Sudden Fruit (2025)
Sudden Fruit, by Midori Hirano & CoH
9 track album