Release Date: 03 March 2017
Label: No Format
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3298494630170
Genres: Classical World Music
Release Date: 03 March 2017
Label: No Format
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 3700398715995
Genres: Classical World Music
Description
'Lift' is an album in which Young Japanese pianist/composer KOKI Nakano constructs his own musical world. Piano and cello combine in a selection of beautiful pieces, where Nakano draws on his classical background whilst weaving in other influences, using repetitive and rhythmic elements of jazz and creating layers of sound inspired by pop and electronic music.
Vincent and Koki worked on the album in a tiny studio in the Les Buttes Chaumont neighbourhood of Paris, finding a way to communicate through music, as Vincent describes it: "it's a wonderful thing to spend hours rehearsing the music of Koki Nakano without being able to talk to him in any serious way: no Japanese, no French, no English, no diplomacy, just a territory – the art of Koki Nakano".
Koki Nakano was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1988 and studied at the prestigious music school Toho Gakue and at Tokyo's University of Arts where he formed electro-rock band Gas Law whilst also composing classical pieces for fashion shows and ad campaigns. He now lives in Paris and performs all over the world. Vincent Segal is a conservatoire musician with a highly successful career. Born in Reims, he studied at the National Music Academy of Lyon and is well-known for his many outstanding collaborations with artists such as Ballake Sissoko, Elvis Costello, Carlinhos Brown, Sting, Salif Keita and now, Koki Nakano.
Description
Spending hours rehearsing the music of Koki Nakano without being able to exchange a serious conversation is wonderful. No Japanese, no French, no English, no diplomacy, just one territory: the Art of Koki Nakano.
The piano and the cello are summary tools but they have a memory, a DNA, a history and these venerable tools, voluminous and impractical at the time of the dematerialization are wonderful magicians. Thanks to them, without exchanging a word, there are questions, sweat, ardor, laughter, acrobatics, annoyance, fear of doing wrong, the art of doing well, Of plenitude.
In the tiny studio of the Buttes Chaumont where Koki resided, I could with my bow touch the right piano and with the left hand warm water, but on leaving I felt like I was on Mars, Of a lake, in a loft of Berlin, with fairies. The music means nothing and yet it's a matter of life and death for Koki Nakano." - Vincent Segal
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
Sissoko Segal Parisien Peirani
Oumou Sangare
Natascha Rogers
Piers Faccini
Nicolas Repac
Blick Bassy
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal
Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Segal
Koki Nakano
KOKI NAKANO
Koki Nakano
