Motohiro Nakashima releases his (3rd I think??) album following two on the LO/ Loaf label. This new one is on the Schole label of Japan so it's a wee bit more local (to him anyway!). We Hum On The way Home is a delightful mix of pastoral sounding acoustic neo classic lovelyness. There's guitars, pianos, trombones, violins, cellos and percussion all hanging around together making a beautiful mix of loveliness. It's well constructed thought out instrumental music which is really emotive and moving. I thought this was gonna be more electronic as I'm sure some of the earlier releases by him I'd heard were electronic. My memory is shocking... I really can't remember. Anyhoo this is lush. The acoustic guitar and trombone work really well together like they're related (not like their married though as they wouldn't get on at all...). It's a thoroughly charming and delightful listen and I'd heartily recommend it to anyone who wants to have a really enjoyable 56 minutes of their life.
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Sound clips for We Hum On The Way Home by Motohiro Nakashima: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Schole, SCH:007, £10.29.
After the release of his 1st album And I Went to Sleep from British Lo Recordings, and I Dreamt Constellations Song from its affiliated label LoAF in 2006, finally the awaited new album is about to release from schole. While the tunes of guitar and piano take a leading part, there are instruments such as violin, cello, clarinet, trombone, and percussion for creating beautiful ensemble. As you all may see in its title, family is the theme of this album. Putting a warm loving feeling towards to his family, Motohiro Nakashima expresses and makes every listeners recall their scenes or memoir with this piece of work.
After 3 years, the awaited latest comes out!! An outstanding instrumental ensemble and the melody gems made out of family-love. He was born 1980 in Hiroshima and started composing musical pieces from 1998, and began playing them in 2003. In 2004, his 1st album and I went to sleep from Lo Recordings in London. Nakashima also released some pieces in CD-R from his independent label November Records. In this period of time, he has started to handle soundtracks in motion pictures and some plays. In 2007, Nakashima s 2nd album I dreamt constellations song was released from Lo Recordings affiliated label LoAF, and he actually made a live debut in London. His current composing style was found by pursuing his own potential on playing ad-lib out of flashing moment, and it gives the consistency such as warmth in the melodies or flowing comfortableness.
・"schole" is a word from ancient Greek and means "spare moments." ・The word indicates a fertile yet unrestricted creativity which is able to develop independently in our spare time. Though we of all people never cared, the world is filled with beautiful sounds.Those could be people’s laughter, chirping of crickets or birds, and such.Music would always be there with us, we just need to listen and feel them."schole" is eager to bring up those tunes for designing luxurious daily life.
01, Through The Window 02, Family 03, Tragedy Of Our Field 04, A Few Minutes Before The Dawn 05, The Southern Cross 06, Tow Horses 07, Song Before You Came 08, Duck Pond Evening 09, Mom Piano 10, A Cat See The World Spinning Round 11, Homeward Bound
