air - Hideyuki Hashimoto
透き通った静寂の波
一粒の雫 響きわたれば
溢れ出す 幻想的な音世界
空気のようなピアノ即興曲集
Hideyuki Hashimoto 2nd piano solo album.
Erik Satieなど印象派の音楽家と並び評される作品性と、
FAZIOLIピアノによるホール録音から生まれた神秘的な響き。
海外でも多く取り上げられたソロピアノ2部作の後編である今作は、
ノスタルジックな即興演奏を中心に、作曲作品2曲を含む全14曲を収録。
アナログテープを用いた特殊なマスタリングによる仕上がり、
アートワークはYu Kadowakiによる豪華デジトレイ6パネル仕様。

air
- 1.mono
- 2.kakera
- 3.ground
- 4.with blue
- 5.ayumi
- 6.cluster
- 7.drops
- 8.soboku
- 9.Pettan
- 10.yuyake
- 11.haku
- 12.Water Color
- 13.air
- 14.epilogue
- title : air
- artist : Hideyuki Hashimoto
- cat# : NLA 003
- date : December 26, 2012
- price : 2,096yen (tax in)
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Vital Weekly
Earth' (see Vital Weekly 834), here's Hideyuki Hashimoto's second solo CD, 'Air', and it's also the other half of that small series, 'earth', 'air', I assume you get my drift. Again he sits behind the instrument with 88 keys, in black and white, better known as the piano. Recorded in a 'mysterious' concert hall, and taking his inspiration from anything following Erik Satie: from Claude Debussy to say Ryuichi Sakamoto on his recent albums. One hundred years (more!) of melodic, introspective piano playing. Partly composed and partly improvised, although one never hears the difference, I think, which I am sure we should see as a compliment. Minimalist, modern classical, and perhaps also Ambient, or even new agey by some standards, and perhaps perfect music for a quiet dark evening at home, with fine surroundings of wine and a book of sparse poetry. I am hardly surprised that JAL plays music from this great pianist on their flights. It makes flying a lot nicer, me thinks.
-Vital Weekly 855-
Loop
'Air' is the work of Japanese composer and musician Hashimoto Hideyuki who lives in Kagawa and this is the second half of two parts. His first album 'Earth' released also this year on his own Nlart label are improvised piano pieces.
Hashimoto's music is within the post classic genre romanticism with hints of Erik Satie. Most of the fourteen tracks are under three minutes in an austere minimalism of silent spaces. Fine piano notes that conjure up images and colors that denote nostalgia.
Hashimoto's music is beautiful and sleek. (Guillermo Escudero)
-Loop November 2012-
textura
Air, the sequel to Hideyuki Hashimoto's debut album Earth (Fire and Water still to come, perhaps?), presents fourteen new solo piano improvisations. Elegant, tranquil, delicate, ruminative, wistful, impressionistic, sensitive, and serene are just some of the words that come to mind as one absorbs its forty-two minutes. A three-line poem that accompanies the Osaka, Japan-born pianist-composer's album succinctly captures the music's tone: “Floating in the tranquil sea / An echo of a falling drop / Visionary sounds are dissolving into the ‘Air'.”
The fourteen pieces are pretty much all of a kind, and thus any one of them could be regarded as representative of the recording. Like the others, “Drops” and “Yuyake,” for instance, are distinguished by Hashimoto's delicate touch, use of space, and tendency to let the rests speak as powerfully as the notes themselves. Echoes of the notes reverberate through those pauses, ensuring that connecting threads are always present to tie the pieces together. At times, a hint of jazz feeling surfaces in his playing such that a parallel might be drawn between Hashimoto and the ballad playing of Keith Jarrett and, in particular, Bill Evans, even if Hashimoto's the more self-effacing of the three. Only one setting, the affectingly plaintive “Epilogue,” tips past the five-minute mark and many are in the one- to two-minute range, a move that lends Air the character of a Satie-like collection of miniatures. The sound of the recording itself is also worth noting for its pristine clarity, even if a trace or two of ambient noise is occasionally audible—in itself not surprising, given that the material was recorded in a concert hall setting, specifically the Ritto Center for Fine Arts on December 27th and 28th, 2011.
-textura December 2012-
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アルバム未収録音源より。
Hideyuki Hashimoto - 橋本 秀幸
1986年生まれ、香川県在住の音楽家。
2012年、ソロピアノ2部作として「earth」「air」を全国リリース。
自然体から生まれる繊細な空間美と映像的な質感、優れた作品性などが高く評価され、
国内外で数多くのアルバムレビューを獲得。ハンガリーで制作された映像作品への起用を筆頭に、
国内のオーディオ誌でも特集が組まれたほか、JAL機内放送などにも楽曲が取り上げられている。
瀬戸内国際芸術祭2013では、高見島「海のテラス」の空間音楽を手がけ、
島の小学校に眠っていた一台のアップライトピアノを通じ、その土地の空気を鮮やかに表現。
多くの来場者に強く美しい印象を残した。2014年、それらを再編し3rdアルバム「home」をリリース。
映画や様々な映像音楽、コラボレーションなど、幅広い活動を行っている。
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