raula, by piana

raula

by piana

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sty_silver This is the first album I've heard from piana that feels entirely unconstrained, like there were no expectations she tried to satisfy, no style she tried to emulate, nothing but her unstained artistic vision. There's no heaviness here, no rough edges like on Muse's "Ruins", only the pure, alien beauty of soft melodies and hauntingly beautiful vocals forming made-up words, leaving all interpretation up to the listener. I truly love this album. I don't think any of her prior work compares. Favorite track: Filica.

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1.	raula 01:48	buy track
2.	Inne 00:36	buy track
3.	Filica 03:02	buy track
4.	Rafe 03:12	buy track
5.	Luicy 02:26	buy track
6.	North 03:52	buy track
7.	Naco 01:52	buy track
8.	Airia 02:32	buy track
9.	Mono 03:02	buy track
10.	alfur 01:46	buy track
11.	Haru 01:46	buy track
12.	Myth 02:58	buy track
13.	Flow 01:44	buy track
14.	Clocher 03:20	buy track
15.	Aoi 01:39	buy track
16.	Leaf 02:37	buy track
17.	Aimy 01:32	buy track
18.	Lilija 01:12	buy track
19.	Lunlan 02:04	buy track

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前作「muse」から七年ぶり、piana 5枚目となるフルアルバム「raula」。 raulaとはアイスランド語で鼻歌という意味。文字通りハミング風の歌から始まるこのアルバムは、静かに、そして希望に満ちた幕開け～空想冒険物語のようにアルバムの後半へと進んでいきます。歌詞は全て造語で作られ、どの国の人が聴いても抽象的で美しい空想世界をイメージできるよう構成されています。
「tr10 alfur」は北欧の妖精のような雰囲気を漂わせ、「tr14 clocher」ではpianoに寄り添い美しいメロディを紡ぎ出し、「tr06 North」では自身の声の多重録音で教会で歌われる合唱曲のように、素朴な曲から壮大な世界観まで19曲通して様々なステージを見せてくれます。
中世異国の郷愁を持つこの作品は、オルガンやピアノ、バイオリンなど生楽器で構成され、繊細でみずみずしい透明感を余す事無くパッケージしています。
また作曲～アレンジまでpiana自身で行った楽曲たちは、その表現力の幅広さを申し分なく発揮し、美しい旋律と幾重にも重なるヴォーカル作品の新境地となるでしょう。

Seven years after her previous album “muse,” piana’s fifth full album, “raula.” “Raula” means “humming” in Icelandic. Starting with a song that is literally in a humming style, the album moves through a quiet space, then to a prologue, brimming with hope, which opens up a fantasy adventure story feel for the last half of the album. The lyrics are all in imagined words, designed so that listeners can imagine an abstract, beautiful fantasy world, no matter what country they are from.

Track 10, “alfur” evokes an atmosphere reminiscent of Nordic fairies, and in Track 14, “clocher,” a beautiful melody intertwined with piano is spun. From the layered vocals used to create a rustic, church style chorus in Track 6, “North,” to splendid worldviews, the album offers views of various different scenes throughout the 19 songs.

With a nostalgia for medieval foreign countries, the album was recorded with live instruments such as organ, piano, and violin, and is delicately packaged with a vividly fresh sense of transparency. Also, these songs, which piana crafted from composition to arrangement herself, impeccably showcase a wide range of expressiveness　and create a new frontier in works where beautiful melodies overlap with multi layered vocals.

credits

released January 20, 2021

All songs composed & produced by piana

Mastering by KASHIWA Daisuke

Instrumentals & performers
Piano : Hiromi Kurosaki (06tr,12tr,14tr)
Violin : Atowa Yuri (01tr,02tr,03tr,05tr,18tr,19tr)

Artwork & design by azusa
Artwork Co-ordination by kubo

guns N’ girls Records : guns-and-girls-records.com
piana : www.piana-music.com
contact@piana-music.com

℗© 2021 piana / guns N’ girls Records

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piana Tokyo, Japan

I'm Japanese musician.

Release

2003年
1st"snow bird"

2005年
2nd "ephemeral"

2007年
3rd "Eternal Castle"

2014年
4th "Muse"

2016年
piana works collection
(reissue)

2021年
5th "raula" ... more

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