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CICLO / Circulation Improvisatorial Early music Orchestra CICLO

Magical old style music from contemporary musicians

Their long-awaited first album has now been completed!

Circulation Improvisatorial Early music Orchestra CICLO

　IIDA Masaharu : Bass,Computer

　OOGIYANAGI Toru : Flute,etc

　 HABU Kazuko : Perc.

PIRKA-20060710

Price \2,100 (Including tax)

This first album is full of some wonderful melodies and themes.
The paper jacket cover is made from paper that Kazuko Habu (drums & percussion) individually hand painted. Meaning that there are no two identical jackets anywhere in the world. Each jacket has its own unique texture and character.

CICLO means "cycle" in English, which suggests a musical cycle (loop or repeat), a life cycle (linkage of life and recycling). Ciclo is also the name of the man powered tricycle taxi used in Vietnam.
CICLO has revived old European melodies from 500 to 800 years ago (known as European folk music) and refined them into more familiar sounds like jazzwaltz, reggae, etc.
CICLO's unique characteristic as modern minstrels, appears in their use of computers in their musical approach.
However, their use of acoustic sounds plus an impromptu living music philosophy, has helped support and develop their use of computer technology.
Often using a toy or a frying pan as musical their instruments, or their knack of incorporating animal calls and nature themes into their music, means this first album is full of some unique and delightful sounds.

01. Douce Dame Jolie

(Guillaume de Machaut, 14c. France)

02. Polorum Regina mp3

(anon., 14c. Spain)

03. Quen a Omagen Da Virgen

(anon., 13c. Spain)

04. Le Berouisse mp3

(anon., 15c.)

05. Kalenda Maya mp3

(Raimbaut de Vacqueiras, 12c. France)

06. Cantiga 119 mp3

(Alfonso X,13c. Spain)

07. Waltz For Thibor

(IIDA Masaharu, 21c. Japan)

08. Estampie

(anon., 13c. England)

09. A Virgen, que de Deus

(anon., 13c. Spain)

10. Carolan's Draught

(Turlough O'Carolan, 17c. Ireland)

11. Den Hoboecken Dans mp3

(Tielman Susato, 16c. Frandle)

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Unicla / Unicla

The anxiously anticipated first mini album has been released!

A full "Mini Album" with nine tunes

The use of the clarinet is somehow plaintive, and sometimes often sounds a little out of place.
Having collected melodies that exploit the clarinet's unique character, the themes spontaneously emerge as Choro from Brazil and Musette from France. Using our guest guitarist, Ryoichi Tobisawa who loves Brazilian music, we start a great voyage of music (!?) from Europe to South America. From now, to wherever are we drifting to...?

(From liner notes)

PIRKA-20060522 Price \1,800 (Including tax)

Unicla

TOBISAWA Ryoichi : Guitar

NAGASAKI Akiko : Clarinet

01.Acariciando

(Abel Ferreira)

02.Chorinho pra ele

　(Hermeto Pascoal )

03.Musette de l'amour Secret

(KUWAYAMA, Tetsuya)

04.Luar de Caxambu

(Abel Ferreira)

05.Kareta Izumi mp3

(IIDA, Masaharu)

06.fada mp3

(YOKOTA, Masao)

07.Douce Joie mp3

(Gus Viseur)

08.Tico Tico no fuba mp3

(Zequinha de Abreu)

09.Echo mp3

(IIDA, Masaharu)

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We dwell
In the changing of all things...

The soul story that is Palosiks,
As the most miraculous Orquesta performs

This is the world of the one and only "Palo sound" woven with various rhythms of Samba, Afro, Funk, and Japanese melodies that rings new but is nostalgic as well.
13 tunes are recorded including "Beating", suggesting a powerful breath of the earth, "The wind sounds", sublimated some Japanese feeling into this world music, "Fada2", the title piece uses a strong awareness of symbiosis.

fada2 / Palosiks NOW ON SALE !!

PIRKA-005 Price \2,100 (Including tax)

Palosiks

"Kikurin" KIKUCHI Hiroki (Trombone)
"Nyan-Nyan" NAGASAKI Akiko (Clarinet,BassCl)
"Noribei" OKUNO Yoshinori (Saxophones , Flute)
"Takebon" OTOMO Takeshi (Keyboard, Accordion)
"Yukky" HASUKAWA Yukio (Drums, Djembe)

Additional musicians...

IIDA Masaharu (Bass, Perc. except 1.3.4.6.9.10)

01.Kodou mp3 real

(OTOMO Takeshi)

02.Kaze Hibiku mp3 real

(IIDA Masaharu)

03.Moriban Suites mp3 real

(IIDA Masaharu)

04.Yurikago mp3 real

(IIDA Masaharu)

05.Messenjarl mp3 real

(OTOMO Takeshi)

06.Nessaxabazarl mp3 real

(HASUKAWA Yukio)

07.Torcoplalli mp3 real

(NAGASAKI Akiko)
08.Maboroshi mp3 real

(KIKUCHI Hiroki)
09.Yotsuyu no Shirabe mp3 real

(IIDA Masaharu)

10.Otozureta Asa mp3 real

(OTOMO Takeshi)

11.Soushitsu no Yokan mp3 real

(NAGASAKI Akiko)

12.fada2 -Mezame- mp3 real

(YOKOTA Masao)

13.Odoru Shizuku mp3 real

(OTOMO Takeshi)

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From Early Music of Medieval times to world folk music;

Palosiks begins to dance beyond time and space.
Bransle / Palosiks 　NOW ON SALE !!

PIRKA-003 Price \1,470 (Including tax)

Palosiks

"Kikurin" KIKUCHI Hiroki (Trombone)
"Nyan-Nyan" NAGASAKI Akiko (Clarinet)
"Gonta" IKEJIRI Takeshi (Saxophones)
"Takebon" OTOMO Takeshi (Keyboard, Djembe)
"Yukky" HASUKAWA Yukio (Drums, Djembe)

1.Bransle mp3 real

(Caroubel, 14c.& IIDA Masaharu, 21c.)

2.Turkish Days

(NAGASAKI Akiko, 21c.)

3.Estampie

(Anon, 16c. England)

4.Dindirin Dindirin

(Anon, 16c. Spain)

5.Mayim Mayim

(Traditional, Israel)

6.Koftos mp3 real

(Traditional, Greek)

7.Fun der khupe

(Traditional, Jewish)

8.Green Sleeves mp3 real

(Traditional, England.)

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A Fantastical Musical picture scrolls in Palosiks, the most miraculous Orquesta composes with early music of Medieval Europe.

Waltz for Thibor / Palosiks 　NOW ON SALE !!

Desired Palosiks' debut album

Folk music from South America with original tunes unfold like a visual story around the early music of Medieval Europe.
The story starts enchantingly and seductively involving drums, djembe, keyboard in this classical ensemble, and sometimes unfurls with some powerful ad-lib. The music Palosiks creates is filled with an incomparable miraculous air.

PIRKA-002 Price \2,100 (Including tax)

Palosiks

"Kikurin" KIKUCHI Hiroki (Trombone)
"Nanako" FURUHATA Aki (Trumpet)
"Nyan-Nyan" NAGASAKI Akiko (Clarinet)
"Gonta" IKEJIRI Takeshi (Saxophones)
"Takebon" OTOMO Takeshi (Keyboard, Djembe)
"Yukky" HASUKAWA Yukio (Drums, Djembe)

01.Prologue - Con Dolce Brama

(Anon, 14c.)

02.Solitary Journey - Volte du Roy

(203, Michael Praetorius, 16c.)

03.Encounter - Galliarde

(263, Michael Praetorius, 16c.)

04.New Winds - Wonderful Volte

(224, Michael Praetorius, 16c.)

05.Puzzlement - Pavane

(William Byrd, 16c.)

06.Hopeful Journey - La Vidalita

(Traditional)

07.Fanfare for The Hidden Theatre

(FURUHATA Aki, 21c.)

08.Visitors - Courante148

(263, Michael Praetorius, 16c.)

09.Concentration - Two Dances

(Jacques Moderne, 16c.)

10.King's Waltz - Volte du Roy

(203, Michael Praetorius, 16c.)

11.Blessing - Bourree

(32, Michael Praetorius, 16c.)

12.Joy - VOLTA

(201, Michael Praetorius, 16c.)

13.Waltz for Thibor mp3 real

(IIDA Masaharu, 21c.)

14.Epilogue - Prayer - Diferencias

(Antonio de Cabezon, 16c)

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The 1st release from PIRKA MUSIC
Birth of Vietnam Jazz !

"BIRTH /Quyen Van Minh" Now on Sale!
PIRKA-001 fixed price \2,000 (excluding tax)

	1. NGAY HOI MUA mp3 real FESTIVAL OF THE PEASANTS 2. GIAI DIEU SAPA MELODY FOR SAPA 3. VAN VUONG mp3 real SENTIMENT 4. HO KEO LUOI CHANTS OF THE FISHERMAN 5. NGAU HUNG TAY NGUYEN IMPROVISATION OF TAY NGUYEN 6. MUA XUAN KINH BAC SPRING IN KINH BAC 7. CHIEU THON QUE AFTERNOON IN THE COUNTRYSIDE 8. SONG HAY LA CHET mp3 real LIVE OR DIE 9. MISTY mp3 real
All songs written and arranged by Quyen Van Minh, except 9 composed by Errol Garner, performed by Hiroki Koichi & Quyen Van Minh PERSONNEL Quyen Van Minh (sax), Quyen Thien Dac (sax), Pham Le Phuong (p), Pham Tuan Hung (p), Phan Trung Kien (b), Dao Minh Pha (b), Ha Ding Huy (ds), Le Viet Hung (ds), Hiroki Koichi (g, 9)

About music

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Quyen Van Minh
(link to his site)

JAZZ as Vietnamese Music

Like Quyen Van Minh I am in my 40's, but I was born in Japan and he was born in Vietnam. Even though we are in the same generation our early lives were very different. Impressed by the work of such photographers as Kyoichi Sawada, I felt the need to go to Vietnam to discover what was happening in the world. In reality I was too young to be involved and was forced to remain an onlooker. Minh, by contrast was in the middle of the real war. Ironically, he became fascinated by the American jazz he heard on the US Army's radio programs. Minh had the willpower and single mindedness to become a professional jazz player under difficult circumstances - from the time that jazz was the "enemy's music" to the time Vietnam became a socialist country. 　Not only does Minh play a leading role in the world of Vietnamese jazz, but he also respects his fellow musicians in other traditions. Minh has worked to fuse jazz and traditional music in his compositions - successfully overcoming the difficulties of mixing such different art forms. Although he is keen to play for all the world's people, his first priority remains his Vietnamese audience. This is because he understands that jazz is strongly connected with spiritual freedom. Quyen Van Minh loves his home country and continues to enrich the Vietnamese music scene.　
(Hiroki Koichi, Guitarist)

Hiroki Koichi's Website www.hirokimusic.com