Go Hirano // The Habit LP
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東京のピアニストGo Hiranoが、2026年4月にBlack Editionsからリリースしたレコードです。
ピアノをメインソースにしたアンビエント・フォーク〜ポストニューエイジ・アンビエント9曲を収録。
※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ
以下、レーベルによる解説です。
"30年以上にわたる活動の中で、ピアニスト・
その作品に共通するのは、
『The Habit』は、2020年10月5日にPianola Recordsのアップライト・
ピアノ、ピアニカ、ウィンドチャイム、
自然体から立ち上がる衝動をすくい上げる飾らない表現と、
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12" black vinyl. Ask us for digital files.
Tracklist:
1. Echoes In The Sky 06:57
2. Dawning 05:11
3. The Habit 02:33
4. Sleep Valley 05:26
5. Ripplemark 05:10
6. 水の惑星 [Waterland] 04:32
7. Gray Forest 01:15
8. Berry 05:48
9. It will be filled with birds singing someday 04:30
From the label:
"For more than three decades, Go Hirano has developed a quietly enthralling sound world on the peripheries of the Japanese underground. Emerging in the 1990s, Hirano released three albums with the revered PSF Records label and established himself as an artist with a unique sense of melody and atmosphere that was both entrancing and intimate. His work, largely recorded at home and in the field, de-emphasized technical perfection in favor of an unvarnished immediacy that imbued the quiet moments of daily life with a dreamlike splendor.
On The Habit, Hirano brings together recordings that span decades of his playing the piano and other instruments on a daily basis. The core of the album was recorded in 2020 at Pianola Records in Tokyo, while other pieces draw from recordings dating as far back as the late 1980s. Through this span of years, a coherent vision emerges, marked by patient, subtle engagement with repetition, space, and resonance. Hirano works with a restrained palette—piano, pianica, wind chime, percussion, and synthesizer—to develop simple melodic figures that gradually shift in harmony and texture. Spacious piano chords expand through soft synthesizer tones. Near-imperceptible rhythmic frameworks intertwine with tranquil phrases that drift and merge with the sounds of the world around them.
This synthesis of music and the environment in which it is created is critical to Hirano's approach. Rather than isolating the music from its surroundings, he embraces the atmosphere of the moment, the room in which each piece is played, capturing the subtle sounds and artifacts of the artist’s daily experience and the surrounding natural world. For Hirano, these “imperfections” are pathways to vibrant, living expression.
While he may share affinities with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and even Brian Eno, Hirano's dedication to “initial, unadorned expression” and processing the environment through his own particular filter sets him apart. The Habit reveals a meditative, melodic language unfolding over the decades and within the many spaces of a life in music marked by a unique warmth and beauty. "
Artist : Go Hirano
Label : Black Editions
cat no : BE-1011
Release date : 15th April 2026
東京のピアニストGo Hiranoが、2026年4月にBlack Editionsからリリースしたレコードです。
ピアノをメインソースにしたアンビエント・フォーク〜ポストニューエイジ・アンビエント9曲を収録。
※デジタル音源を無料でお送りいたしますのでお気軽にご連絡くださいませ
以下、レーベルによる解説です。
"30年以上にわたる活動の中で、ピアニスト・
その作品に共通するのは、
『The Habit』は、2020年10月5日にPianola Recordsのアップライト・
ピアノ、ピアニカ、ウィンドチャイム、
自然体から立ち上がる衝動をすくい上げる飾らない表現と、
--------------------------------------------------
12" black vinyl. Ask us for digital files.
Tracklist:
1. Echoes In The Sky 06:57
2. Dawning 05:11
3. The Habit 02:33
4. Sleep Valley 05:26
5. Ripplemark 05:10
6. 水の惑星 [Waterland] 04:32
7. Gray Forest 01:15
8. Berry 05:48
9. It will be filled with birds singing someday 04:30
From the label:
"For more than three decades, Go Hirano has developed a quietly enthralling sound world on the peripheries of the Japanese underground. Emerging in the 1990s, Hirano released three albums with the revered PSF Records label and established himself as an artist with a unique sense of melody and atmosphere that was both entrancing and intimate. His work, largely recorded at home and in the field, de-emphasized technical perfection in favor of an unvarnished immediacy that imbued the quiet moments of daily life with a dreamlike splendor.
On The Habit, Hirano brings together recordings that span decades of his playing the piano and other instruments on a daily basis. The core of the album was recorded in 2020 at Pianola Records in Tokyo, while other pieces draw from recordings dating as far back as the late 1980s. Through this span of years, a coherent vision emerges, marked by patient, subtle engagement with repetition, space, and resonance. Hirano works with a restrained palette—piano, pianica, wind chime, percussion, and synthesizer—to develop simple melodic figures that gradually shift in harmony and texture. Spacious piano chords expand through soft synthesizer tones. Near-imperceptible rhythmic frameworks intertwine with tranquil phrases that drift and merge with the sounds of the world around them.
This synthesis of music and the environment in which it is created is critical to Hirano's approach. Rather than isolating the music from its surroundings, he embraces the atmosphere of the moment, the room in which each piece is played, capturing the subtle sounds and artifacts of the artist’s daily experience and the surrounding natural world. For Hirano, these “imperfections” are pathways to vibrant, living expression.
While he may share affinities with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Hiroshi Yoshimura, and even Brian Eno, Hirano's dedication to “initial, unadorned expression” and processing the environment through his own particular filter sets him apart. The Habit reveals a meditative, melodic language unfolding over the decades and within the many spaces of a life in music marked by a unique warmth and beauty. "
Artist : Go Hirano
Label : Black Editions
cat no : BE-1011
Release date : 15th April 2026
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