#schole records

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Akira Kosemura - Jack Jeanne Original Soundtrack | Schole Records | 2022 | Clear

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Miho Ota & Paniyolo - 空と花 (Sora to Hana) - gentle voice and acoustic guitar from Schole Records

Paniyolo, whom released many guitar albums from Schole Records, is releasing an duo name album with a vocalist Miho Ota, who has been active in music scene using her own unique singing style, such as collaborating with Norwegian traditional music “Joik”, and founded a female choir group “CANTUS” to tell the beauty of church music which Japanese are not familiar with. On the sunny day of May 2021, in the woods located 1000m above sea level of Nagano Prefecture, the music was recorded with the birds chirping in between the songs. Ota’s singing characteristic is known as her powerful and straight tone voice, but she sealed using this method in this album. She purposely controlled her voice to mp (mezzo piano) and sung calmly and closely with Paniyolo’s guitar. Most of the songs were composed by exchanging mails, Paniyolo sends the guitar riff and Ota responds by adding the vocal to it. In this conceptual album, listeners will feel the solid emotions overflowing in our daily life from these quiet and calm music pieces. Music : Muneki Takasaka, Miho Ota Vocal : Miho Ota Guitar : Paniyolo

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Akisai - Landscapes - breezy pastoral pop-jazz (or “resort music”) from Japanese duo (Schole Records)

The fourth album by “akisai”, a Sound/Visual project by Yo Suzuki and Koichi Nakaie, will be released. Suzuki, a sound composer of akisai, he has been actively composing music for other projects without limiting music genres; piano arrangement and performance for soundtrack piano collection of the game “NieR:Automata” released from Square Enix, also the ambient music composition for the theatre piece. In this album, all his background has reflected in this new album, so it’s not just only an iconic freshening electronica or folktronica sound, but it also includes some music combining these elements with the band music which gives new impression to listeners. Although this album consists wide variety of musical elements, it includes the essence of resort music style shown in their previous album “Travelers”. Also their wonderful arranging and mixing skills leads to put both ambient and band sound together in a well-balanced manner in this latest release. Following previous album, this new album’s artwork was also produced by Nakaie, who constructs the worldview of akisai with visuals.

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Akira Kosemura - Diary 2016-2019 - evocative piano & chamber music by the founder of Schole Records (and incidentally, an exemplar of the label’s aesthetic)

“Diary 2016-2019” is a first music archive compilation of Akira Kosemura’s music composed between 2016 and 2019, selected by the artist himself. All the music included in the album are the first time to be released on CD, and not been released on either CDs or records previously.

As this album titled as “Diary”, all the tracks are listed in time order, which includes the original sound track for "Konatsu and Hiyori" (Kansai TV Production), a music composed for the ending scene of French movie “Mais vous êtes fous (Losing It)”, a short composition series ‘In Moonlight’ produced during the score production for “Chūgakusei Nikki” (TBS TV Drama), ‘You’ which was used as a theme song for an American TV Drama “Love Is __”, a rework version of ‘Someday’ featuring Devendra Banhart, and 2 unreleased tracks ‘Red Diary’ and ‘Late Night Tales’. With total of 17 songs included in the album. This album can be an introductory piece for piano music lovers, but also can be recommended to soundtrack fans. It is a music diary written with a piano, colored with his sensitive emotions.

music composed, arranged & performed by Akira Kosemura produced by Akira Kosemura violins, viola: Atsuki Yoshida (tr01-03, tr05, tr07) cello: Yumi Shimazu (tr01-03, tr05) clarinets: Keiko Shinozuka (tr01, tr03, tr05, tr07) programming: Dom Mino' (tr11) vocal: Devendra Banhart (tr12) piano, synthesizer & programming: Akira Kosemura

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After the Rain - Schole Compilation Vol.4 - ambient / new age with a smidgen of synthpop

This compilation album is released to benefit for disaster relief of Western Japan floods and heavy rain disaster and Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake occurred in July, 2018. This SCHOLE’s fourth compilation album is compiled with new music and unreleased tracks. On the summer of 2018, large-scale disasters frequently occurred in Japan, which left a great damage to various places. We would like to express our heartfelt sympathy to all the victims of these natural disasters. SCHOLE launched this project from the spirit of continuous and long-term support for the recovery from these disasters. Wonderful musicians from our SCHOLE label and friends composed music especially for this project, and they will be digitally released. We hope listeners will enjoy these beautiful musical pieces to help support the steps toward a recovery. Hope this project gives an opportunity to think what we can do now for the areas affected by natural disaster, not only in Japan but throughout the world, from listening to music we deliver. We appreciate to all the musicians/artists whom contributed music to support this project, and the label wishes to construct the circle of hope through the power of music. By listening to the music, all the profit (excluding the cost of production) will be sent as donation to Japan Red Cross Society and disaster recovery organizations. Our label accountant will calculate the amount and transfer the money every once in three month.

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Haythem Mahbouli - Catching Moments in Time - piano, electronics, & orchestral strings

Haythem releases his first full album from Schole Records. He seamlessly blends orchestral parts with sound textures and design elements with a desire to create a minimalistic theatrical composition. “I don’t want to predefine my genre or have an instrument-centered composition (e.g. piano). I see music as a mix of sounds that create emotions. Emotions can emerge in any music form. I picture music as images; each of them is associated with an emotion. This album (Catching Moments in Time), is a journey throughout experiences I lived and tried to translate. My goal is for the listener to adapt it to their own, mix it with their emotions and create their own images.” As he says, his debut album was produced with an antithesis on the current trend of piano-based post modern classical music, and his work has a great potential for further development in this music scene.

Composed, orchestrated, produced and mixed by Haythem Mahbouli Piano, Synth and electronics: Haythem Mahbouli Strings: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Spoken word in Tracks 3,7,8,9: Joslyn Rogers Artwork: Richard E Flanagan

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V.A. / JOY - Schole Compilation, Vol.3 01. Mamerico / Beginning 02. Akira Kosemura + [.que] feat.Lasah / Evergreen 03. Yoshinori Takezawa / Irodori 04. Akira Kosemura / Joy 05. Hummingbert Stereo / Welcome To My Playground 06. [.que] / Air 07. no.9 / Imagine Fun 08. Quentin Sirjacq / Short Story 09. Sawako + Daisuke Miyatani / Day Light Dream 10. Ghost And Tape / Santiago 11. Teruyuki Nobuchika / Incense 12. paniyolo / Light Dance - Guitar 13. Haruka Nakamura / Anne Review: 音楽レーベル「schole」発足から五周年を記念したサード・コンピレーションアルバム。「Joy」というテーマのもと書き下ろしのみでの構成となっている。 Haruka Nakamura、paniyolo、[.que]、no.9、Yoshinori Takezawa、Akira Kosemuraと、アコースティックやピアノ、生楽器＋エレクトロニクスの融合を得意とするアーティストが多いのが特徴。このアルバムは、やはりというか比較的ゆるゆるなホームリスニングになっている。 (2) Irodoriのとぼけつつ調子の良いトラックやら、バージョン違いだけど、(12) Light Dance、(13) Anneなど、大好きなのです。(9) Day Light Dreamは、ボーカルの声がとてもきれい。そしてScholeのレーベルA&RのAkira Kosemuraの (4) Joyはテーマのまんまのトラック名だけど、ぽこぽこと太鼓とガラス細工のような高音がやさしくて素敵なのです。 たくさーん欲しいCDがあったのだけど、これはジャケットに気球。そして1500円という値段設定で、ついつい購入しましたとさ。 おしまい。 Related: http://www.scholecultures.net/ http://schole.shop-pro.jp/?pid=55261156

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it's morning by ghost and tape from Schole records