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Yama Warashi - At My Mother's Piano (PRAH)

Yama Warashi - At My Mother's Piano (PRAH)

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Yama Warashi - At My Mother's Piano (PRAH) (Track Sample)

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Exquisite, improvisational solo piano works interlaced with vivid field recordings.

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A piano record from Japanese visual artist & musician Yoshino Shigihara's main artist project Yama Warashi (which translates as ‘small childlike mountain spirit’).

Enriched by the kaleidoscopic influence of Japanese folk dance, free jazz, African music and psychedelia, Shigihara illustrates the ever-evolving qualities of Yama Warashi on ‘At My Mother’s Piano’, crafting exquisite, improvisational solo piano works interlaced with vivid field recordings, inspired by a trip back to her family home in Ashiya City, Hyōgo, Japan.

Across seven enchanting, impressionistic works, Shigihara manoeuvres between music of refined dexterity and mesmerising stillness. On the opening track, named after the Hankyu Denshya train line near her mother’s home, Shigihara combines charming piano variations with the environmental and conversational sounds recorded on an idyllic train journey to Kyoto, taken by Shigihara, her sister and her mother; an excursion of light conversation, ‘velvety moss-green seats’ and ‘cherry trees’ observed from train windows.

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Written by Yoshino Shigihara.

"I was just improvising on the piano in the afternoon on my own. Then my mother came back and you can hear her coming in and saying hello. Then popping to a shop after drinking tea. Her voice is on the recording by chance. She was talking to me while I was playing.”