Midori Hirano

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midori hirano is a musician, composer, sound artist and producer, born in Kyoto/Japan and now based in Berlin/Germany. She has been playing music since from the age of 5 when she used a piano to flesh out her earliest compositions. While this led her to major in classical piano at university, it was the less traditional aspects of electronica that would ultimately prove her major inspiration. A native to Kyoto, Japan but making the creative pilgrimage to Berlin in 2008, her productions are based around the use of traditional instrumentation – piano, strings, voice – and augmented with often subtle electronic processing and digital samples creating a rich, rolling sound that is at once warm and melodic while tracing unexpected musical trajectories.

Her first album, LushRush, was released on Noble records in 2006 and was primarily a collaborative affair, seeing her work with a number of guest musicians to create one of those beautiful, sprawling debuts that radiates a hazy blissfulness upon first listen. Her second, Klo:Yuri, saw her further develop her sound, garnering critical acclaim from various magazines in the world including TIME magazine. She is also in demand as a composer of soundtracks for European and Asian films, with 2008 seeing her become the only Japanese composer to invited to take part in the Berlinale Talent Campus, hosted by the Berlin International Film Festival.
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  • lethalimpulse

    her singing is lovely, hush now.

    February 2012
  • Scythelence

    c'est sympa ce qu'elle fait!

    August 2011
  • endote

    I like the singing. ¬_¬

    March 2011
  • Darmst

    Her singing is terrible, otherwise some great stuff

    December 2010
  • kennedi_jam

    Bagus... +_+b

    November 2010
  • fufuco

    metafisico sublim .fernando fuao

    July 2010
  • ohh1972

    Why do I always just get a red x for her picture in my playlist? Somebody fix this?

    December 2009
  • yumenokatachi01

    Zzzzz..

    December 2009
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UK / Irish Tour in November 2009

16 Jul 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/midorihirano

Hello all,As I'm going to join in LIFEM 2009 which will be held in London on November 7th, I'm planning to make a short tour around in the UK and Ireland. Its considered period is between from …

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