Composer: Yoshihiro Kanno
Performer: Noriko Ogawa
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BIS2075
Release: 2015
Size: 248 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. The Remains of the Light III “Angel’s Ladder”
02. A Particle of Light
03. A Particle of Water
04. A Particle of Rainbow
05. Lunar Rainbow
06. Prelude (From “Angel’s Egg”)
In his compositions Yoshihiro Kanno bases himself on three idioms: Western instrumental music, Japanese traditional instruments, and computer music. Combining these various elements freely, as in the recent work Himiko – Memories of the Sun Goddess which fuses Western classical music and Japanese traditional music with Kabuki and Japanese classical dance. The pianist Noriko Ogawa is a champion of Kanno’s music and has commissioned three of the works on the present disc, including the so-called ‘Particle of Piano’ series. The ‘Particle series’ is framed by two works which both incorporate computerized sounds – in the case of the opening Angel’s Ladder it is the sound of the piano itself which at crucial points is processed, and in Lunar Rainbow it is that of a toy piano. The disc closes with the brief Prelude for Angel, composed in 1985 for the animated film Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no tamago) by Mamoru Oshii.