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TO O KA MI E MI TA ME

by Akira∞Ikeda

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Chrysalis 05:01
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Innocent 05:45
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Zero Gravity 05:09
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Ama 06:25
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Tsuku 03:53
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Susa 05:35
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Uzu 06:15
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Nagi 06:27
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Nami 06:45

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今回は「安心」「胎」「やさしさ」「許し」「成長」「ゆっくり自分を感じる」「子ども心を思い出す」そんな事をイメージしながら作りました。このアルバムを聴いてくださる方が、音とともに内側の旅(内観)する時間を安心して過ごし、一人一人の魂が満たされる世界になることを願って。
〜はじまり クジラの唄〜
今年、3月末に奄美大島にクジラと泳ぎに行きました。その時コーディネートをしてくれた屋久島Earth Tribesの鈴木洋見くんが僕が参加する少し前に「クジラの唄」の録音が出来たと、音源を聴かせてくれました。大きな大きなクジラとの対面、そして僕の元に届いたどこまでも魅力的な「クジラの唄」その時からこのアルバムの構想はカタチになり始めました。
今年はずっとこのクジラの唄とコラボしながら、LIVE演奏をさせてもらいました。どのLIVE会場でも、聴くと涙する方がいて不思議なチカラを持つ「クジラの唄」、この唄の主はザトウクジラで、ザトウクジラというのは数年ごとに歌う「唄」を変化させていることが研究に明らかになっているそうです。その時の流行りがあり、群れの中のオスが同時期に歌う曲は1曲だけで、地球の中心(海の底)に頭を向けて、尾っぽが宇宙(空)の方を向いて縦になって歌うそうです。
なぜクジラが歌うのかは正確には分かっていません。ただ、僕はクジラの唄に魅了され、聴く人も涙するのは、僕たち自身の内にある情報と共振するからだと思います。頭で理解しようとする狭い範囲を飛び越えて、カラダ全体で感じる時間をぜひこのアルバムとともにお過ごし頂けたら幸いです。
今回のトラック制作では、いつも使用している楽器にプラス、加計呂麻島近くで泳いでいたクジラの唄をはじめ、奄美大島の海の音、京都の原生林の水の音、水晶山の洞窟の水の音、テラヘルツクリスタルチューナーの音などを使用しています。1曲クリスタルチューナーを使用した曲以外は432Hzで統一しました。
432Hzは右脳の活性化、精神の自由、インスピレーションの開花など色々言われておりますが、ぜひご自身の身体で感じて、その体感を大切にしてみてください。

This album was formed through conceptualizing "safety," "the womb," "gentleness," "forgiveness," "growth," "slowly sensing myself," and "remembering the child's heart."
I hope that those who listen to this album find peace of mind as the sound accompanies you on an inward journey (introspection), so that this may become a world where each person’s soul is satisfied.

~ Beginning: Whale Song ~
At the end of March 2021, I went to Amami Island to swim with a whale. Hiromi Suzuki of Yakushima Earth Tribes, who coordinated the experience, told me that he was able to record a "whale song" shortly before I arrived. Face-to-face with a big, big whale; and then with the endlessly fascinating "whale song" that reached me. This catalyzed the conception of this album.

Since receiving it, I have collaborated with this whale song every time I play live for an audience. At each venue, "Whale Song" has a mysterious power that causes some people to cry when they hear it.

The voice is of the humpback whale. Research has found that the humpback whale changes the "song" it sings every few years. Here is our current understanding; Some song becomes trendy and all the males in the flock sing only this song at the same time, with their heads facing the center of the earth (depths of the sea) and their tails facing the universe (sky). It appears they sing vertically. It is not known exactly why the whale sings. What ever it may be, I think the reason I am fascinated by the whale song, and the reason listeners weep, is that it resonates with some information deep inside our selves. I hope that as you spend time with this album, you can go beyond the tendency of trying to understand the sound with a narrow range of the brain, and listen with your entire body.

With this production, in addition to my usual instruments, I have included the song of the whale that was swimming near Kakeroma island, the sound of the sea of Amami, the sound of water in the primeval forest of Kyoto, and the sound of water in a cave of Crystal Mountain.
I also used a terahertz crystal tuner. Except for the one song that is tuned with the crystal tuner, all songs are unified at 432Hz. It is said that 432Hz activates the right brain, opening to aspects like the freedom of mind and flowering of inspiration. But please, just feel it with your own body. I hope you have an experience you can hold dearly.

credits

released November 19, 2021

All songs written by Akira∞Ikeda
All songs arranged by Akira∞Ikeda
Natural sound designed by Akira∞Ikeda
Recorded and mixed by Akira∞Ikeda

Track 8 / Recorded by studio dubreel
Track 9 & 11 / Voice recorded by Hiro Aki
Mixed and mastered by studio dubreel
Cover art by miho / 風で海を描く人
Designed by QOTAROO

Akira∞Ikeda plays...
Biwalyra, Hadouram, Handpan (D Ysha Savitah 13 [432Hz] (Maru 2nd gen)), Eoxdrum, Ravdrum,
Kalimba, Koshichime, Terahertztuner & Tanpura.

Special guest singer
LUCA (Track 9 & 11)

Voice
OTOWA (Track 4)

Humpback whale song track 1 recorded by
Hiromi Suzuki ( EARTH TRIBES / Yakushima Soul Navigation )


Special thanks to
Humpback whale song around Kakeroma island in Japan
Spirits around Mehang in Thailand
Birds in Hawaii
Birds, Insects & Water in Kyoto
Spirits of Water in Mt.Crystal in Japan
Lyraworks, L'ATELIER DE ○, HIROKI OKANO(ambience co.,ltd.), Miki Ikeda,
All our family & our friends, Mother Earth, Father Sky,
the Source of Universe, All Spirits and living things in the World.

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Akira∞Ikeda Kyoto Prefecture, Japan

2017年
Greece sound and silenceにて演奏

中国 mysore yoga culture art festival にて演奏

2017年 12月〜2018年1月
Iceland fresh winds
biennale Artist Resigndence
参加。 滞在制作

2018年
日仏国交120周年イベント
Technopol 主催のイベントにて
Composer Ben Vedrenと
2週間に渡る滞在制作の上
Pompidoo museumのgrand hallにて
パフォーマンスを披露。
2019年
月星座の12星座を意識したbookアルバム
つき zodiacs of the moon
をMoonArtProjectからリリース。

2020年
地球暦とコラボし
2020年の時空を50分で奏でる
ZEROPOINT
をリリース☆
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