Japanese 1LP Limited Edition Release Date: 22/7/2026 Label: THEATRE MUSICA
Description
Umitaro Abe released the soundtracks for dramas directed and written by Takashi Minamoto as "Musical Portrait of Takashi Minamoto." This analog edition is a comprehensive album featuring carefully selected piano pieces from all of those works. The solo piano pieces, both composed and performed by Abe himself, bring out melodies that resonate with delicate human relationships and beautiful scenery, while a sequence of his distinctive tones forms a free and open musical world.
“If thoughts could truly be exchanged through sound alone, then the piano is one of the few remaining wild things left to modern people.” From the liner notes by Umitaro Abe.
"Musical Portrait of Takashi Minamoto" is a soundtrack series by Umitaro Abe, released digitally every month for nine consecutive months, featuring music from numerous dramas directed by Takashi Minamoto, including "Grace no Rireki," winner of the 42nd Kuniko Mukoda Prize, and "Kyotojin no Hisokana Tanoshimi Rouge -Keishou-," which aired from January this year. From this soundtrack series, created in response to the many requests for official audio releases that followed each drama broadcast, comes an analog edition of a comprehensive album featuring carefully selected solo piano pieces, plus two previously unreleased tracks. Every piece was not only composed but also performed by Abe himself. The solo piano further highlights melodies that resonate with the delicate human relationships running through Minamoto’s works, where the humanity of each character intertwines, as well as the visual beauty that captures the landscapes serving as the stories’ settings. The jacket artwork by painter Akane Nakajima brings color to this free world, where sounds with Abe’s unique tone connect organically. Includes a letterpress-printed supplement featuring Abe’s handwritten score for the track "Tears."
1. Tears
2. Un sac en bandoulière
3. Blanc lunaire
4. Céramiste
5. Lotus Pond
6. Classe d’anthropologie culturelle
7. Rose dragée
8. La vieille dance que personne ne sait dancer I
9. Classe de cuisine Kyoto I
10. Règle sous-entendue de Kyoto C
11. Theme of The Peony Lantern for Piano Solo
12. Interlude of The Peony Lantern
13. Ballade de Kyoto III
14. Classe d’esthétique d’art
15. La Kamo
16. Keepsake
17. Bird’s-Eye View Map
18. Forgotten Map
19. Allusion discrète
20. Deux exercices de piano I
21. Jardinier
22. Glauque d’Abiès
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