The album is a collection of gem that consist only of award-winning works of Professional Music Recording Award of Japan ‒ the most prestigious professional musical recording award in Japan ‒ and is a portfolio released by UNAMAS, the music label which has been releasing high quality works since 2007 the early days of Hi-Res surround sound.
The album contains 6 award-winning titles from 2013 to 2019 ‒ won awards 5 years in a row from 2015, and two of which had won the highest award ‒ and puts together three key elements which are Art, Technology, and Engineering. And it is filled with passion delivered by Mick Sawaguchi who contentiously leads the recording art scene. This detailed and full recording will be a milestone in recording art history for the future as a reference to quality music production works.
Music that sings the grief of life flowing in the heart of the Japanese music "Enka, Glossy, Troubadour..." The sorrow that resonates our soul.
That must be what is called "ENKA". A unique album that asks the world "ENKA" by UNAMAS Label by
Naoki Kita (Gat String Violin)
Toru Nishijima (Contrabass) DUO.
It will lunch at 30th June 2019 e-onkyo music , Hires-audio so far .
UNAHQ 2017 "L 'Esprit de l' ENKA"
M-01 FUNAUTA 舟唄 05’35”
M-02 Red Bridge 赤い橋 06’38”
M-03 Arirang アリラン03’22”
M-04 Sake Ballad 悲しい酒 05’04”
M-05 When the Rain of Acacia ceases アカシアの雨がやむとき 03’35”
M-06 Solveig’s song 03’01”
M-07 Lullaby of Itsuki 五木の子守唄 05’01”
M-08 Home Town ふるさと 06’042
Two Artis resonate moment and moment and produce a completely new interpretation and performance, the essence of the World Wide Enka you hear for the first time! What was brought to create?
Seven years from 2013's "Four Seasons (UNAHQ-2005)" which achieved the annual album chart bestseller at nation wide and world wide as the first classic album to be commemorated. The latest work UNAHQ-2015 "ViVa The Four Seasons", released in June 2019, is a fusion of UNAMAS Strings Sextet featuring Shiori Takeda in Vn solo and the recording technologies built up in Oga Hall recording.
The keyword "Italy" and "Contrabass" is the eighth album of UNAMAS Label at Ohga Hall by Mr. Mick Sawaguchi (Sawaguchi Masaki). Giovanni Bottechni's "Violin & Contrabass + Grand Duo Concertante by five string players", a masterpiece of Italian baroque contrabass, It is a truly ambitious program that Rossini's string sonata No. 1 major in the formation of two violin, one cello, one contra bass, and the masterpiece of director Spielberg "Schindler's list main theme" with a contrabass solo.
It is key that all contrabass is common to all. It was recorded on 11th and 12th December 2017. Mr. Sawaguchi states: "Contrabass always has a supporting role even in the played by classical music, but UNAMAS Label puts the concept of unifying the album production focusing on contra bass.
In this work, we pursued the delicate and low-range power of contrabass featuring solo instrument and rich sound of Ohga Hall." Ippei Kitamura plays a solo contra bass. Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Contrabass Division. Solo violin is Jun Tajiri, a Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Assistant Concert Master. The 1st violin is Shiori Takeda of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra No. 2 Violin section, Fuuko Nakamura of the 1st violin division of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Viola is the viola division of the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra Chihiro Tai, and the cello by Makito Nishiya contra bass is Saya Sugano - free after Graduated from Music department of Tokyo University of the Arts