New Music Albums: OTONOMA (Midori Hirano)

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Artist:
Midori Hirano

Genre:
Electronic
Ambient
Avant-Garde

Total Time:
41:48

Record Label:
Thrill Jockey

Purchase Album:
CD, Amazon Music, Vinyl,
Apple Music, Spotify

Release Date
February 20, 2026

Find out more about this album release after the jump.

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Product Description: The artistry of Midori Hirano lives in the resonance between sonic and visual worlds. Over her distinguished career the Berlin-based, Kyoto- born composer, pianist, and synthesist has crafted a distinctive voice straddling the spheres of classical music and harmonies with abstraction and invention. In addition to works under her own name, Hirano has released dynamic experiments under her MimiCof moniker as well as composed for film, television, art exhibitions and architectural expos. Hirano has also been a prolific collaborator, working with CoH, Brueder Selke, Nils Mosh, Teodor Wolgers, Ben Lukas Boysen & Paul Emmerich, SPECIMENS, Mami Sakurai, Atsuko Hatano, and more, contributing to dozens of releases. Hirano is acclaimed for crafting emotive works that stimulate all the senses with impressionism, or painting with sound. OTONOMA is the culmination of her work synthesizing these elements and highlights her acumen as a practiced and intuitive artist. The album infuses Hirano's more classical sense of harmony on the piano with the endless textural possibilities of synthesizers. Like nebulas coalescing into galaxies, the pieces of OTONOMA emanate hues dense with subtle layers of color folded into gradients, arresting and radiant.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Illuminance Midori Hirano (05:35)

2 . Ame, Hikari Midori Hirano (03:43)

3 . In Colours Midori Hirano (02:55)

4 . Warped in Red Midori Hirano (04:08)

5 . Rainwalk Midori Hirano (03:04)

6 . Blue Horizon Midori Hirano (06:01)

7 . Aurora Midori Hirano (04:21)

8 . Before the Silence Midori Hirano (07:10)

9 . Oto, Kioku Midori Hirano (02:44)

10 . Was It a Dream Midori Hirano (02:07)

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