Nahoko Kakiage – Requiem

Music Album

Nahoko Kakiage -
Requiem

Nov.24.2018 Release

幾重にも重なる声の森に彷徨い

押し寄せる弦楽の大海原に身を委ね

狂気のたどり着く果ては切なくも

懐かしい異郷であった

Orchestra Direction and Production

project

Nahoko Kakiage – Requiem Music Album Orchestra Production

Client

Nahoko Kakiage

Track list

1.幸いなるかな
2.ある晴れた日に(Senyokô Madama ButterflyⅡCM曲)
3.何を残して
4.あたたかな日
5.KO-YA
6.SATELNA
7.Daydream

異端でいてエレガント、異郷でいて懐かしい

エキセントリックオペラ時代より強烈でエレガントな女声多重録音を駆使していた書上奈朋子のソロとなって3作目の作品。今回もアルヴォ・ペルトやグレゴリアンチャント、声明やブルガリアンヴォイスのような分厚いコーラスワークを軸に全曲壮大なストリングスが使われ、バーバーの「弦楽の為のアダージョ」のようなクラシカルな奥行きを持つ。リズムトラックではポーティスヘッドやArcaのようなダークなエレクトロの要素も混在し異端ぶりを発揮。そして日本語の耽美な歌詞は日本語字幕で見るモノクロ映画ともSFとも思え異郷へトリップさせられる。(解説 大伴良則)

Credit

Recorded at Sofia Session Studio (Four For Music Ltd.) 

Senior Engineer: Plamen  Penchev

Producer: Alexander Kostov

Strings: Sofia Solisten Chamber Orchestra

Music Director / Conductor: Plamen Djurov

1st Violins: Yordan Dimitrov (Concertmaster), 

Emil Boshev, Jechko Petkov, Evgeni Nikolov 

2nd Violins: Stoimen Peev, Nikola Varbanov, Petar Ganev

Violas: Ognian Konstantinov, Kiril Hristov, Todor Mitrov 

Cellos: Dimitar Tenchev, Todor Georgiev

Double Basses: Tsvetomir Lazarov, Deian Velikov 

what we did

Orchestra Direction and Production

Globus Sensory Project

Introduction

Large scale music production project for the high-class department store “Globus” a subsidiary of Switzerland’s leading trading company “Migro” with over 300,000 employees. Based on research resulting in the fact that store traffic is greatly influenced by music, weather and temperature, we proposed an “in-store music concept that can control customer service” to the client. Of 48 stores, 28 stores including Zurich’s flagship store had our concept introduced to them.

Weather information in each location, in-store customer traffic, BPM and other information was assembled on the programming patch “MAX.” Music composed of stems, or individual parts of each songs (drums, vocals, guitars, etc,) were provided and programmed into the “MAX” patch. The more traffic increased, so did the cash turnover rate; or when the weather was bad and there were few customers, the “MAX” would adjusted for all these factors.

To ensure high-quality music, Ringmasters recorded an orchestra in Bulgaria arranged to the songs in “MAX.” In total Ringmasters produced 36 songs (about 3 hours 30 minutes) involving ten musicians, vocalists, all suitable for a high-end luxury brand. In addition to that, Ringmasters curated of over 32 hours of songs on the market for Globus stores. 

Client

Magazine zum Globus AG

Production Staff

 

Creative DirectorLukas Frei
Music ProductionRingmasters LLC
Music DirectorDaigo Kawai
MAX ProgrammersCourtney Reed
Jon Conciatori
Composers/OrchestratorVocalistsChloe Brooks
Daigo Kawai
Danny  McCarthy
Enik
Eshericks
Justin DiCenzo
Justin Frieden
Karin Tatoyan
Nahoko Kakiage
Ronny Gallegos
OrchestraSofia Solisten
ConductorPlamen  Djouroff
Orchestra CoordinatorTodor Mitrov
Recording StudioSofia Session Studio  (Sofia, Bulgaria)

OUR ROLE

Music Production / Orchestra Production / Max Programming

KRANE – Away From You / Dim Mak

project

Orchestration for Away from you

Client

KRANE (Dim Mak)

2plus2 Management

Credit

Orchestrator: Daigo Kawai

Recorded at Sofia Session Studio (Four For Music Ltd.) 

Senior Engineer: Plamen  Penchev

Producer: Alexander Kostov

Strings: Sofia Solisten Chamber Orchestra

Music Director / Conductor: Plamen Djurov

1st Violins: Yordan Dimitrov (Concertmaster), 

Emil Boshev, Jechko Petkov, Evgeni Nikolov 

2nd Violins: Stoimen Peev, Nikola Varbanov, Petar Ganev

Violas: Ognian Konstantinov, Kiril Hristov, Todor Mitrov 

Cellos: Dimitar Tenchev, Todor Georgiev

Double Basses: Tsvetomir Lazarov, Deian Velikov 

what we did

Orchestration, Orchestra Production