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the gorgeous sonorities, bold gestures and ingenious deployment of registers [of Kanno's music] grab your attention...Prelude for Angel proves Kanno's strongest offering. It begins with disarming... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2015 More…

Release Date: 30th Mar 2015
Catalogue No: BIS2075
Label: BIS
Length: 72 minutes

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Kanno: The Remains of the Light III "Angel's Ladder"

Work length19:17

Album only

Yoshihiro Kanno, Noriko Ogawa

Kanno: A Particle of Light

Work length13:17

$2.05

$3.05

Noriko Ogawa

Kanno: A Particle of Water

Work length13:15

$2.05

$3.05

Noriko Ogawa

Kanno: A Particle of Rainbow

Work length12:01

$2.05

$3.05

Noriko Ogawa

Kanno: Lunar Rainbow

Work length10:53

$1.50

$2.30

Noriko Ogawa

Kanno: Prelude (From "Angel's Egg")

Work length3:25

$1.00

$1.50

Noriko Ogawa

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In his compositions Yoshihiro Kanno bases himself on three idioms: Western instrumental music, Japanese traditional instruments, and computer music. Combining these various elements freely, as in the recent work Himiko – Memories of the Sun Goddess which fuses Western classical music and Japanese traditional music with Kabuki and Japanese classical dance. The pianist Noriko Ogawa is a champion of Kanno's music and has commissioned three of the works on the present disc, including the so-called 'Particle of Piano' series. The 'Particle series' is framed by two works which both incorporate computerized sounds – in the case of the opening Angel's Ladder it is the sound of the piano itself which at crucial points is processed, and in Lunar Rainbow it is that of a toy piano. The disc closes with the brief Prelude for Angel, composed in 1985 for the animated film Angel’s Egg (Tenshi no tamago) by Mamoru Oshii.

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June 2015

the gorgeous sonorities, bold gestures and ingenious deployment of registers [of Kanno's music] grab your attention...Prelude for Angel proves Kanno's strongest offering. It begins with disarming melodic simplicity, then becomes dark and murky, building up to a shattering climax before returning to its gentle point of origin.

Light, Water, Rainbow…

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