Taro Ishida composed the music for the "Prayer of Besshin: The Horyuji Kondo Mural Exhibition" held at the Chinretsukan, The University Art Museum, Tokyo University of the Arts in 2014.

This was an interesting exhibit that included a reproduction and animation of the actual dimensions of the mural paintings in the Golden Hall of Horyuji Temple, which were destroyed by fire in 1949.

The museum offered me to compose two pieces of music. One was based on gagaku music, and the other was based on Syomyo.

Gagaku is basically an orchestra-like ensemble of a large group of musicians, but going back in time, it seems that there were also solo performances of Gaku-biwa.


I was fortunate enough to hear a performance by Nakamura Kahoru, a master Gaku-biwa player who performs solo in Japan today, and I thought I would like to use this as the basis for my composition.

We have recorded not only classical music and band instruments, but also shakuhachi, shamisen, gagaku instruments, taiko, shomyo, horagai, kokyu, and many others.

In many cases, we compose and produce the music and have the musicians perform, while in other cases, we are only in charge of the musicians, recording setup, and arrangements.

We can record all kinds of instruments, including classical instruments, Japanese instruments, bands, and hammering.

Even if you are overseas or far away, we can record remotely using zoom, etc. Please feel free to contact us.

You can provide us with the score, or we can take care of the arrangements.

We understand that you may be wondering how to record your music or performance, especially if you are unfamiliar with the instrument, and we understand that it may be difficult to find a good place to record.

We can be creative about the recording location (studio, outdoors, temple, etc.), who to hire as the engineer, and so on.

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