Credits:

Toho Gakuen Orchestra, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra

Description:

The Multidimensional Directions of Music Demonstrated by Composer Satoshi Minami Through Three Works*Mirror Play* for koto trio, in which distorted mirror images are incorporated into various elements of the composition; *The Garden of Joyful Knowledge*, which took nearly 20 years to complete and uses Nietzsches phrase joyful knowledge as its source material; and *Color Plan X*, a large-scale work derived from the style of Mugen Noh. Music proliferates while repeatedly transforming, much like cells, forming complex layers as it disperses and converges to tell a story; the three works collected here also each unfold their own unique musical narrativesfrom small cells to a singular wholeultimately contributing to the albums overarching vision.ALMRECORDS/Kojima Recording