Ice Mermaid, by Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata, Kenji Azuma

Ice Mermaid

by Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata, Kenji Azuma

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Ice music made from ice.

This is a collaboration single entitled 'Ice Mermaid' made by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, music composers who also are active as members of Anoice, RiLF, and Films, together with Kenji Azuma, an ambient music artist who plays a range of unusual instruments.

This song is based on an illustration featuring a mermaid in the ice world painted by MATSURICA who also takes charge of the artworks for some of the releases from Anoice, Yuki Murata, and Films, and is divided into four parts; the ground, the sea, the seabed, and the finale. The most notable point is that the basis of the sounds of the song are created from materials which are related to ice and water. The sounds of stepping on snow, waves, breathing, whale calling and mermaid's singing. You can feel the cold sea via the sounds expressed by the ice and water.

Also, with each participant take charge of playing their main instrument one after another on each part of the song, it makes possible for this song to expressively convey the world on ice with dignified air to the bottom of the ocean where no sound from the earth’s surface can reach. Not only the beautiful tones of a piano, guitar and celesta, or EOX Drum, a kind of steel drums, but also the unique sound of the 'ice marimba' that is an original instrument made up of various sizes of ice, are worth listening.

You should begin on a fantasy journey with the mermaid while looking at the illustration.

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released December 8, 2023

Produced by Ricco Label
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Takahiro Kido: Guitar, Synthesizer, Glockenspiel, Marimba
Yuki Murata: Piano, Celesta, Flute, Harp, Ice Marimba, Breath
Kenji Azuma: EOX Drum, Futujara, Ice Marimba, Karimba, Tuning Fork, Bell

Composed by Takahiro Kido, Yuki Murata, Kenji Azuma

Recorded by Takahiro Kido
Mixed and Mastered by Takahiro Kido

Illustration by MATSURICA
Art Direction and Design by Takahiro Kido

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