{"id":303,"date":"2017-10-22T04:16:36","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T04:16:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songharvest.wordpress.com\/?p=303"},"modified":"2025-11-07T17:36:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T08:36:02","slug":"originals-trifecta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/22\/originals-trifecta\/","title":{"rendered":"Originals Trifecta"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Written and performed by Composer-Pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka,<\/strong> these three melodies are a cross-border sampler of bossa-nova, Japanese traditional, and adagio styles. This video was created and posted on Youtube in 2015.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This video is backed up at Brighteon.com<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The first featured clip, representing Brazil, is a \u2018home studio version\u2019 of\u00a0One Day Bossa Nova<\/em>,<\/i>\u00a0a longtime favorite of Mizuoka fans. The song was first published on Mizuoka\u2019s 2007 self-made album \u201cHome-bound<\/a>.\u201d The entire lineup of tracks on that rustic<\/a> record are diverse and engaging. Every melody presents a uniquely creative arrangement and clearly seasoned technique, where each track gets to shine a little bit despite the obvious limitations of just the Yamaha keyboard\u2019s bells and whistles to play with….. No pro audio processing tools were in the mix back then, let\u00a0<\/span><\/span>alone a group of studio musicians.\u00a0<\/span>Even so, the merits of the melody\u00a0<\/span>One Day Bossa Nova<\/em>\u00a0were and still are very clear from the very first listen.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The second featured clip, representing Japan, is taken from a Sound States 2nd Anniversary Live studio performance<\/a> of Yumezakura (Cherryblossoms of Dreams)<\/em>\u00a0that took place in 2013. Toshi Fujii accompanies on electric bass, and a Chinese leaf mandolin (or\u00a0liuqin<\/a><\/em>) is played by special guest musician Chih-Ling Chen. Gliding above the soothing undertones of the bass, the mandolin\u2019s delicate\u00a0tremolos<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in tandem with Mizuoka\u2019s cornerstone keyboard express this graceful melody of the Orient \u2014 which the composer has said took him a mere 15 minutes to write.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The final featured clip, representing Italy, is the song\u00a0Adagio<\/em>\u00a0that had been released on Mizuoka\u2019s 2009 album \u201cDeparture.\u201d The word\u00a0adagio<\/i>\u00a0means \u201ca musical composition or movement at a slow tempo.\u201d One can appreciate the attention to production quality that is evident in this smooth, lilting piano melody enhanced by the subtle bass and percussion arrangements. To me it would serve perfectly as the theme song of a television travelogue series.\u00a0Adagio<\/em>\u00a0remains as a fine testament to the creative maturity<\/a> with which this composer has been able to approach his music-making from very early on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mizuoka-san has a bottomless creative capability that may very well catapult him to great heights as an international-caliber composer-arranger<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The unique melodies<\/a> of Composer-Pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka are routinely featured in the background music of the TV-Asahi Channel\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>\u79d8\u6e6f\u30ed\u30de\u30f3 (\u201cHitou Roman\u201d\u2014 Hidden Hot Spring Romance)<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>program in Japan. \u201cHitou Roman\u201d was profiled in Yahoo News Japan in October 2018, the program\u2019s 20th Anniversary Year:\u00a0 <\/span>https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/yb6xpa52<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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More on YouTube<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cross-border sampler of three original melodies written and performed by Composer-Pianist Nobuyuki Mizuoka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7,10,13,14,15,18],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-composer","tag-japan","tag-mng","tag-nobuyuki-mizuoka","tag-piano","tag-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3264,"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions\/3264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songharvest.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}