Исполнитель: Mizuyo Komiya
Название диска: Lullaby
Лейбл: Pacific Moon Records
Страна: Japan
Жанр: New Age, Ethnic
Год выпуска: 2000
Количество треков: 12
Формат: MP3
Качество: 320 kbps
Размер файла: 114,07 МБ

Треклист:

01. Path
02. Furusato
03. A Lullaby of Takeda (Takeda no Komoriuta)
04. A Lullaby of Shimabara (Shimabara no Komoriuta)
05. Beyond the Window
06. A Lullaby of Itsuki (Itsuki no Komoriuta)
07. Ho Ho Hotaru Koi I
08. Ho Ho Hotaru Koi II
09. I've Felt Little Autumn (Chiisai Aki MItsuketa)
10. Hanayome Ningyo
11. Furusato II
12. Oyasumi

The instrument Komiya plays in this CD is a 25 stringed "Sou", a modern solo instrument recreated from the traditional 13 stringed Sou. With the paulownia wood forming a smooth slope with rows of beautiful bridge stops on the top supporting the strings, the Sou is a classic instrument that brings tradition into our lives and is something that serves as a bridge to a world, introducing new sounds.

SOU produces plenty of fresh, pure sounds but it is also able to create many curious sounds that catch your attention and tug at the heart. Let's listen to these sounds. There is, for an instance, the faint "creaking" sounds that are created when the ivory nails hit the strings. There are also subtle sounds that are created when traditional technique called "oshite" (pushing) is applied to the chords to change the pitch.

What can be called "shadows of sounds" particular to the Sou are found in these recorded pieces, scattered like so much particles and quietly bursting open. Soliloquies and sighs of the people past, people singing children to sleep with songs that tell of the hard and painful lives they had led. The thin lights of the fireflies' trails. The sounds of the wind blowing through the bamboo grass fields. Tones of the Sou are tones that have been soaked up from people's hearts and those from Nature.

When you listen to the music and let the memories come as they may, you may find the time from far back when locked away within your heart. Perhaps "Furusato" takes on life in such circumstances. This may be a Lullaby for grown ups who live in a world where the luxury of time has been lost.