Mie Miki
Accordion Scene
Fontec Records (Japan) 1983
FONC-5055 (LP)
sleeve : EX(wear on corner, some slightly dirts)
media : EX/EX(some slightly noise)
A solo album released in 1983 by Japanese accordionist Mie Miki, who began performing actively in Germany in the late 1970s, made her Japanese debut in 1977 with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra under Hiroyuki Iwaki, appeared in the opening series of Suntory Hall and Casals Hall in the 1980s, and remains highly active to this day. Issued on the Japanese label Fontec, whose founding members included Yukio Kojima of Kojima Recording / ALM Records, the album spans works by modern composers such as Jacques Ibert, Erik Satie, and Igor Stravinsky, alongside pieces by Japanese contemporary composers including Yuji Takahashi and Toshio Hosokawa. The performances are superb throughout, but especially striking is Hosokawa’s early piece “Melodia,” said to have been composed under the inspiration of Japanese instrument sho.
A3: Erik Satie “Avant-dernieres pensees”
B2: Toshio Hosokawa “Melodia”