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Illuminations / Pluto

Illuminations / Pluto Track list

1. Shaman`s Fingertip 10:02 Sample
2. Plateaux Early Spring 7:34 Sample
3. Wild Lilies 5:58 Sample
4. Tokyo 5:31
5. Rainbow Canopy#4 8:31
6. Utsuho#2 10:34

6 Tracks : 48:10 / ame006/ 10th Jan. 2006/ CD:Digipak/ Ambient


Artwork by Kowji Miyabe
Photography by unknown, "19th century, somewhere in Canada"

In "Illuminations / Pluto", the sixth solo album by Kazuya Nagaya, features a beautiful mixture of digitally-processed artificial sound, with deep echos of asian bronze bells and gongs.

"Illuminations / Pluto" was recorded and mixed at his private studio in the high mountains of central Japan, in the summer and the autumn of 2005.
The acoustic instruments that you hear in this album are from Bali, Tibet and Japan. They were recorded with a vintage Altec tube mic pre.

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discography
Silent Garden

Silent Garden[ame007]

The lastest solo album, released in September 2010.
The sounds, they are like snowflakes falling on and cover the silent frozen forest.

Tranchillizer

Tranchillizer [PR014]

Chill out & Trance label in Switzerland released a compilation album "Tranchillizer".

Utusho

Utusho [ame001]

Originally released in January 1999. This is Kazuya Nagaya`s first ambient music album.

Illuminations / Pluto

Illuminations / Pluto [ame006]

Features a beautiful mixture of digitally-processed sound, with deep echos of asian bronze bells and gongs.

For All the Radiant Darknesses

For All the Radiant
Darknesses [ame005]

Features hammered dulcimer`s beautiful sound which he sometimes plays in his show.

Secret Rhymes

Secret Rhymes [ame004]

The fourth album with various guests musicians, playing piano and vocals.

Resonator

Resonator [Gallery hirawata]

Limited edition double album with the American avant-garde composer Carl Stone.

Skyward the Spirit, Earth bound the Soul

Skyward the Spirit, Earth
bound the Soul [ame003]

The spirit is lofty and divine,the soul is carnal and earthy. Man is
a living organism harboring the two.

Kumano of a thousand Gods

Kumano of a thousand
Gods [ame002]

Kumano, land of immortals, a noble land protected by moonlight and a thousand gods.