Credits:

Abe Umitaro

Description:

Kaitaro Abe is a composer who has been active with a curious and inquisitive mind about the nature of music, planning creative concerts and events, and publishing music scores, in addition to composing music for stage, film, and TV dramas. The new album is a 2-disc original soundtrack of KAAT DANCE SERIES "The Prince of the Stars: Letters from Saint-Exupéry," directed and choreographed by dancer/choreographer Kaiji Moriyama and produced by KAAT Kanagawa Arts Theatre, which was staged in 2020 and performed again in 2023. =The original landscape of Saint-Exupéry's words was brought to life through the leisurely physical expression of 12 supreme dancers. Standing there, Abe listened carefully, scooped up all the sounds he heard, and spun them into music. The fantastic vocals of Miu Sakamoto, to whom he entrusted the music, and the superb improvisational skills of Kimiya Sato and Hiroshi Nakamura, play the subtleties of the world woven by human emotions and natural phenomena in rich detail, opening up new horizons for this timeless masterpiece. The music is composed mainly of live recordings of the premiere performance in 2020. (C)RS