rimacona-lab blog

"Prosa" with Tomas Phillips available on 2nd Nov!!!

2010-09-10T17:02:00.000+09:00

I am very very happy to announce this release as well!! "Prosa" with a great composer Tomas Phillips on Tench Recordings.

"Prosa" | Tomas Phillips + Marihiko Hara

Tracklist:
prosa I
     i   (5.23)
     ii   (8.42)
prosa II
     i   (5.36)
     ii   (4.06)
     iii   (3.56)
     iv   (4.05)
     v   (3.09)
     vi   (2.34)

tomas phillips :  laptop
marihiko hara :  piano - laptop
recorded :  raleigh nc usa + kyoto japan
photography :  m. ostermeier

We started our collaboration in 2008. I was really impressed his works and contacted with him via email.
It took over 2 years to have this album released but I am very proud of this album.
Please enjoy it.

You can listen to some samples there:
http://www.tenchrec.com/TCH02.html

And from Oct, you can also pre-order.

I really appreciate Tomas and I have to say thank you very much to Marc on Tench Recordings.
He works very much and things were going very rapidly, which made us excited and happy.

Best regards,

Marihiko Hara

rimacona's new album "tasogare to piano" available on Oct 10th.

2010-09-10T16:53:00.002+09:00

My pop group "rimacona" (with a vocal, Natsuko Yanagimoto) finished our first full album. We have been working for this album during this summer. And now, we are very happy and proud to announce its information like this.. "tasogare to piano" has 11 songs. (If we say it in English, it is "Piano in the Dusk".)

"tasogare to piano" | rimacona

01. metronome
02. tell me
03. après-midi
04. tu trouves quoi?
05. tasogare to piano
06. Gray sky
07. In a twinkle
08. small night
09. a bed in the sea
10. fish
11. at eventide

label: Parade (http://www.paradeparade.com/)

The label "Parade" is a new label in Japan founded in this year 2010.

You can listen to some samples there:

http://paradeparade.com/release00.html

You can order the album on HMV in Japan. Here is an English page!
http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/product/detail/3909512

Best regards,

Marihiko Hara

REVIEW on a French magazine "REVUE & CORRIGÉE" (2010 juin)

2010-07-29T04:15:00.000+09:00

A collaboration work (Frédérique Bruyas + marihiko hara) "le soleil noir de la mélancolie" reviewed on a French magazine "REVUE & CORRIGÉE" (2010 juin)

Official website→http://www.revue-et-corrigee.net/
Available on→METAMKINE (http://www.metamkine.com/?monlabelrec=26)

Frédérique Bruyas : http://www.bruyas.net/

deep:art 2010 ::: NON/PLACES

2010-06-01T01:34:00.000+09:00

Natsuko Yanagimoto, a vocal of rimacona, is taking part in the group exhibition "deep:art 2010 ::: NON/PLACES". She is also a photo-based artist and submitting photography called "memoria".

deep:art 2010 ::: NON/PLACES
6/3-29
19:30-23:00
Galleria Comunale "Sala Negrisin" ::: Muggia (TS) Italy

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The deep:art artists come from different countries of the world and use different artistic techniques to represent what mostly unites them, the creativity and the need to travel.

Deep:art or "The art of departing" is actually the arrival point of the project itself: each of the artists, including photographers, graphic designers, musicians, journalists, painters and sculptors, describes through a different artistic technique their own departure - on what is due, and what are the feelings that a departure causes.
This year's main theme are "NON/PLACES" coined by Marc Augé to refer to places of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places".
“If a place can be defined as relational, historical and concerned with identity, then a place which cannot be defined as relational, or historical, or
concerned with identity is a non-place.”

Come join us, and remember:
"there is a time for departure, even when there is no certain place to go"

D.K & C.B

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If you can get there, please enjoy Natsuko's work and we would be very happy if we get any feedbacks!

rimacona's "message" appears on "clicks & cuts" on Mille-plateaux

2010-05-23T15:13:00.000+09:00

Mille-Plateaux which has recently relaunched announces a new "clicks & cuts" and
rimacona's "message" is feautured on "clicks & cuts 5.0" (CD only) and "clicks & cuts 5.1".

Also rimacona's album will be released on its sub label.

You can get more information on:

http://vertical.fm/promo/269.htm
http://vertical.fm/promo/270.htm

Dimanches après Mimi

2010-05-03T13:12:00.000+09:00

It was the first live (!?) of rimacona in 2010 and the third time to play at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto, a residence for artists from France. This locates on the mountain, a very quiet place. I guess this is a wonderful surroundings for creation.

We had a session with Milkymee at the end of the gig.

As rimacona is currently working for a new album, a bit gigs,,,

a new archive POSTED...

2010-05-03T02:03:00.003+09:00

I posted 2 photos of the dance performance by BOVE Taro in 2009.

http://rimacona-lab.blogspot.com/2009/03/2-photos-of-dance-performance-by-bove.html

"nostalghia" available now!

2010-04-27T00:23:00.000+09:00

I have been waiting for the day my album "nostalghia" is released for over 2 years... So I am very very happy to announce this news to you all. As I mention following, I was inspired by the transparent films taken by my grandmother. The photo used for the cover-art is one of them..

"nostalghia"

1) nostalghia : motif 1
2) nostalghia : 1967
3) echo
4) nostalghia : vein
5) lacus
6) insula
7) empty garden
8) nostalghia : motif 2
9) coda

Composition: Marihiko Hara (2007-2009)
Design: Natsuko Yanagimoto
Photography: Etsuko Hara

レーベル: audiomoves (http://www.audiomoves.com/label.htm)

Available on:
iTMS

boomkat

amazon.co.uk

emusic

"I composed this album "nostalghia" after being inspired by several transparency films my grandmother had left me. ...The films were taken in 1967 during her travels in Britain, France, Italy, Denmark, Germany, the Soviet Union, USA and so on. She had rarely told me about her travels, (I am not sure why), except for a few funny stories. Nostalghia is the process of my efforts through composition in approaching a memory embraced in those films. The image of this album was designed by my partner Natsuko Yanagimoto (a vocalist of "Rimacona", she is also a photo-based artist). She designs with an unique method; scanning the films, printing them on cloths or papers, sewing them and re-scanning. Some of tunes within this album have been used in contemporary dance performance."
by Marihiko Hara

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Review: "Prosa Ⅱ" a collaboration work with Tomas Phillips on RifRaf Musiczone

2010-03-06T02:45:00.002+09:00

I am very happy to inform you that my collaboration work with Tomas Phillips "Prosa Ⅱ" was shortly reviewed on RifRaf Musiczone (free bergian music magazine).
This work is just 3-minute version and its full version is not released.

Direct link to PDF : http://www.rifraf.be/e-zine/online-ezine-fr.pdf (8/45)

And you can listen to "Prosa Ⅱ" on Fluid Radio.

Mixed by M.Ostermeier
http://www.mixcloud.com/FluidRadio/m-ostermeier-exclusive/

Have a nice weekend!

SOBA Dinner with Milkymee!

2010-03-01T02:46:00.000+09:00

Sunday evening, Natsuko and me invited Milkymee (http://milkymee.com/) to SOBA restaurant , who is currently residing at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto to work for her new album. This album will be released in April. We had a very wonderful time.

Rimacona loves SOBA, one of the most famous japanese noodles , and we have 2 restaurants we strongly recommend in Kyoto. One is older, called Masutomi and the other is very new, called Takumiya. Both are really nice and each has own aesthetics.

Maybe rimacona will play with Milkymee in Kyoto...

Very slow but steady progress to rimacona's new album

2010-02-20T03:24:00.000+09:00

Always we feel it very difficult to compose songs... Rimacona is working on the new album. So far we made demo version of whole album, but we are changing all arrangement and composing more songs. Natsuko sings mainly in Japanese but also in English.
Now we are not sure if it will be completed but we are making steady progress. It is sure.

Working for "Nostalghia".

2010-02-14T03:17:00.000+09:00

I have been working for my next album "Nostalghia". This work had been once finished and decided to be released in 2008, but unfortunately, because of the label's reasons it went down. So I found a new platform for its album and added some new compositions for it.

I was inspired to compose this album by some transparency films which my grandmother took in 1967. She traveled over the world.

The release day is maybe in April. I will post its information when it's done! Please look forward to it!

This is one of the picture designed by Natsuko.

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

2010-01-01T03:15:00.000+09:00

A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010!

human mistake

2009-12-06T04:01:00.001+09:00

My work "ripple" is used for "human mistake" by *creative_lab.

from 01:53~

This "ripple" is from my album "cesura" on zymogen.
http://www.zymogen.net/releases/zym016/

Crazy about Mushrooms...

2009-11-12T03:45:00.002+09:00

Didn't we tell you Natsuko Yanagimoto is crazy about Mushrooms?? This year we have composed 6 Mushrooms songs! and played them..

Watch carefully... On Marihiko's chest, Natsuko's cloths, on the desk and hair cuts.. You can see several mushrooms are there...

working for "KISS" by dots

2009-09-30T03:32:00.000+09:00

From August I have been working for this performance. It was held in GARDEN OF FINE ARTS in Kyoto and it is Tadao Ando's architecture. How much I composed for it and I did my best. Thanks to you, over 750 people came for 5 days, which made us very happy..
It is true that it was really hard and there was a lot of problems but it was a truly nice experience for me.

You can see some photos on http://andart.jp/feature/091104/ but only Japanese...

photos from Ken Furudate (http://d.hatena.ne.jp/anagma/)

Rurihiko Hara "Arabesque Pond"

2009-07-21T03:50:00.001+09:00

"Arabesque Pond" a new album of F-OUNTAIN by Rurihiko Hara is available on Natural Media in Argentina.

01) over the window
02) yarimizu
03) handrail
04) eaves
05) arabesque pond
06) hana no en
07) i think
08) hashi
09) ryotei
10) sailing theatre
11) garan no koto
12) even (marihiko hara remix)

Download: http://www.archive.org/details/Nm012RurihikoHaraArabesquePond

Here is one review: http://yamanotedreams.blogspot.com/2009/12/rurihiko-hara-arabesque-pond-xprmntl.html

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I should tell you one thing. Rurihiko is my younger brother. Very complicating, isn't it? Even in Japan people confuse us!!

2009-07-12T21:00:00.002+09:00

My work "unrhymed" will be part of this exhibition.

Leerraum [ ] Listening Space

07/11 - 09/27
Tuesday to Sunday 11:00 − 14:00 / 17:00 − 20:00
Free entrance
Guided tours: 620 767 095
http://www.tabakalera.eu

Artists:
Achim Wollscheid
Pe Lang
Will Schrimshaw
?SONE
Marcello Liberato
Juan Jose´ Aranguren
Patxi Araujo
Mikel Arce
Edwin Van der Heide
Leerraum [ ] Listening Space
Featuring Asher, Andy Graydon, Richard Garet,
Kenneth Kirschner, Mahmud Refat, Mise en Scene,
Yuzo Kako, Fourm, Pe Lang, Marihiko Hara & Zimoun

Performances:
Charlemagne Palestine
Francisco Lopéz

Project by Xabi Erkizia

As I can't be there, I would like to have some feedbacks!

2009-05-07T14:23:00.002+09:00

3th May:

During the vacance, I visited my brother's house in Tokyo. The purpose is to participate ATAK NIGHT 4 held in UNIT. Though I went that event in Kyoto, I decided to go to UNIT!! Overwelming performance!!! I could have a very very important experience there and was inspired a lot.

5th May:

Composing for the collabration with Frédérique and rimacona's new album all day. Many hours in front of the laptop is not good for my eyes and got very tired... But in May, there are a lot of things to compose..

2009-05-07T14:20:00.002+09:00

29th April

"ekran" on visual performance

2009-05-02T16:11:00.003+09:00

The first live after the tour. It was held at Cafe Independants in Kyoto. I played a very different set from usual!

video by Yuji Kondo, who also played there. Thank you!

2009-05-02T15:55:00.003+09:00

7th April

This day is the first and the last "free" day... We didn't buy anything to our friends in Japan, so that is today's mission! In the morning, we bought somethings but we couldn't buy less than we had planned...
Around noon, we met Filippo in front of the IRCAM. And we got a lunch and had a nice small tour in IRCAM!

Rimacona-lab always has a good dinner for the last night in tour. In New-Caledonia or Okinawa, we did so. In Europe, too. Filippo's friend introduced us a nice Restaurant in Paris, and we went there! The dinner was incredible! Super!!!! We talked a lot about music, life, culture, language.... etc...

After the dinner, we went to Palais de Tokyo and saw a Tour d'Effel. As we couldn't have enough time to do sightseeing. It was a nice present for us.

The station of Bastille, rimacona had to say good-bye to Filippo... Rimacona is really missing Filippo. He did a great job and very very kind for us, which brought us a great success of our first tour in Europe. We can meet again soooon! can't we?

Next evening, we came back to Japan...
We had been in EU for just 10 days. It sounds really short, but is it so truly? I don't know. We can regard it short, but, the other hand, long. Only thing that we can say is "we had a great experience in Europe, thanks to many people".

We will be back sooon!

2009-04-25T03:37:00.003+09:00

le 6 Avril

Aujoud'hui est le dernier concert. Alas... Le temps passe très vite...
On a joué avec ieva et GoGooo à RIGOLETTO. Il y avait quelque probrems a props de le system de sons etc.. mais c'est bien passé.

Merci beaucoup, Samuél, Gogooo et Jérome encore.

C'est un peu peur de prendre le métro dans la nuit, environ 0 am... Mais nous avons pu revenir à l'hotel!

:-)

2009-04-25T03:26:00.003+09:00

le 4 Avril

Nous sommes arrivés à Paris avec Filippo. Ca nous fait très plasir. Natsuko et moi, nous avons fait le check-in. L'hotel était prés de la gare de Nord. Cette nuit, nous sommes allés voir "némo festival". BYETONE et Frank Bretschneider ont joué dans cinema. COOOL!

le 5 Avril

Le concert d'aujoud'hui avait lieu à l'appartment de Elisa. Oui, c'est un "private party"! Dans la chambre, rimacona a joué, mais la condition de sons était très bien. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais c'était ça!

Lisa, Elisa, et Natsuko

Merci beaucoup! Jérome, qui a organisé un concert et Merci Elisa. Ta maison est très joli et toi aussi!!

rimacona

2009-04-25T03:15:00.004+09:00

3rd April

Natsuko and me were in Modena! Here we met a nice guy, Filippo who organized the gig for us. He is an owner of the fine net-label called "zymogen". My first album "cesura" was released on his label. It was in 2007. So we could meet earlier than we had expected, which sounds really nice.

Modena is really beautiful...Very inspiring...

Our live was held at CLUB mattatoio. It is a great place.
And that night, we could do one of the most emotional, dynamic performances, thanks to the audience. They were interested in us and listened to our music very carefully!

Wonderful night as well!

WE LOVE MODENA!

P.S: Needless to say, we bought aceto balsamico!! CERTO!

2009-04-21T02:51:00.004+09:00

1st April

Rimacona had a wonderful night on this day. Giuseppe (a.k.a con_cetta
www.myspace.com/concettamusic) and Danilo invited us for a dinner. They cooked for us!! Giuseppe is a really fine sound artist, however, he is not only an artist but also a great cook!

Giuseppe and Natsuko

We talked a lot. About music, culture, Japan, art... etc.. Wonderful night!

2009-04-20T00:37:00.005+09:00

31st March

Getting up very early in the morning, Natsuko and me moved to Milan by train. It took about 5 hours (maybe...) At once we arrived in Milan station, we got taxi to esterni, the place of our first gig!

We had lunch with the staffs there, the atmosphere was really friendly! After the lunch, we took some rest for the live.

This gig was on Tuesday. I heard that they organize some events every Tuesday with dinner. So we played after the dinner, like a "dinner-show"! It was really interesting for us!

We were so happy to be listened very carefully by a lot of people! This night we had an acoustic piano.
After the show, we could drink some glasses of white wine. Bianco!

Very wonderful night...

Thank you very much! Danilo (basemental.it), Lorenzo (esterni.org), Sylvio, Giacomo and all staffs at esterni!!

2009-04-20T00:21:00.002+09:00

Rimacona-lab finished our first tour in Europe with a great success thanks to a lot of people who surpported us!

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On 30th March.
We arrived in Roma early in the morning. It was hotter than we had expected. We took the train from the airport to Termini by train.
After check-in, we went to Vatican. It was my request. It was a really great experience for us to see it and be there... Overwhelmed!! Incredible...

Unfortunatly we had only 1 day in Roma.. We had to move to Milan next day...

marihiko

2 photos of the dance performance by BOVE Taro.

2009-03-20T01:49:00.003+09:00

Photo: Kenki IIDA

A dance performance "in statu nascendi" by BOVE Taro was held in 2009 at The Setagaya Art Museum in Tokyo. As you see those photos, it was a very simple but strong place. (This is an entrance hall as usual.)
I composed music and played the piano with very simple notes...

Composition, Choreography and Dance : Taro BOVE
Music : Marihiko HARA
Lighting : Motoki FUKASE
Costume : Yukari SUNADA

Produced By : Setagaya Art Museum

photo : Kenki IIDA