Calax Records

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KiMiMi
ИМА

(CD)

pre-order 1st April 2026 

LPは6月頃発売予定。音楽家・大野慎矢によるソロ・プロジェクト KiMiMi が、東京・三田に位置する建築家・岡啓輔による20年のセルフビルド建築「蟻鱒鳶ル」に宿る時間の層と人々の気配を音として掬い上げ、音楽として再構築した作品『ИМА（イマ）』。

ブルガリアで学んだガイダ（バグパイプの祖先楽器）を軸に、多彩な楽器を自在に操るマルチ奏者のKiMiMiは、これまで旅先で録りためた生活の痕跡や民俗的な旋律を宅録というスケールに持ち帰り、カセットテープ作品や舞台音楽などを通して幻想的なフォークロア音響を紡いできました。

その音楽活動の傍ら、「蟻鱒鳶ル」の建築作業にも参加し、現場で響くハンマーや鉄骨の音、昼休みの雑談、誰かが奏でた楽器の旋律、通りを走る車の音などを記録してきました。 2022年末からは、この建築を題材にしたZINE『月刊蟻鱒鳶ル売り鱒』が始動。KiMiMiは毎号寄せる音楽作品にこれらの録音を取り入れ、ガイダをはじめ、アコーディオン、ギター、笛、ウクレレ、ピアノ、足踏みオルガン、鍵盤ハーモニカ、シロフォンなどの生楽器、そしてシンセサイザーの音を重ね合わせながら、現場の湿度や呼吸が刻まれたサウンドスケープを形にしています。

KiMiMiの創作は、計画的な構築よりも、偶然や直感、そして時間の流れに委ねる姿勢に貫かれています。断片的な録音を重ね、時間を置き、再び掘り起こす。その繰り返しの中で、音楽が自然と形を成していきます。それはまさに、あらかじめ図面を用意せず即興的に層を重ねあわせ、つくりあげられていった蟻鱒鳶ルのプロセスと共鳴します。

『ИМА（イマ）』は、KiMiMiの音の旅の現在地であり、建築と音楽、記録と創作、個と共同体の境界を軽やかに越えていく試みです。都市の喧騒、手作業の静けさ、笑い声、蟻鱒鳶ルの現場に響くあらゆる音たちが、KiMiMiの音楽と溶け合い、人が生きる時間そのものを映し出しています。

LP scheduled for release around June

KiMiMi, the solo project of musician Shinya Ohno, presents ИМА (Ima), a work that gathers and reassembles into music the layered passage of time and traces of human presence embedded within Arimasutobiru, architect Keisuke Oka’s self-built architectural project in Mita, Tokyo, constructed over the course of 20 years.

Centered around the gaida—an ancestral bagpipe instrument that Ohno studied in Bulgaria—KiMiMi is a multi-instrumentalist who freely moves between a wide range of instruments. Through cassette releases, stage music, and other works, KiMiMi has created a dreamlike folkloric sound world, bringing home recordings of everyday life and folk melodies collected during travels and transforming them within the intimate scale of home recording.

Alongside these musical activities, KiMiMi also took part in the construction of Arimasutobiru, documenting the sounds that filled the site: hammers striking steel frames, lunchtime conversations, melodies played by someone on an instrument, and the sounds of cars passing by on the street. At the end of 2022, the zine series Monthly Arimasutobiru Urimasu began, using the building as its central subject. For each issue, KiMiMi incorporated these recordings into new musical pieces, layering them with live instruments such as gaida, accordion, guitar, flute, ukulele, piano, pump organ, melodica, and xylophone, as well as synthesizers, shaping soundscapes that carry the humidity and breath of the site itself.

KiMiMi’s creative practice is guided less by deliberate construction than by chance, intuition, and surrender to the passage of time. Fragments of recordings are layered, left to rest, and later unearthed again. Through this repetition, the music gradually takes shape of its own accord. In this way, the process resonates deeply with that of Arimasutobiru itself—a structure built improvisationally, layer upon layer, without relying on predetermined blueprints.

ИМА (Ima) marks the current point in KiMiMi’s journey through sound, while also serving as an attempt to move fluidly across the boundaries between architecture and music, documentation and creation, the individual and the collective. The noise of the city, the quietness of manual labor, laughter, and the many sounds that echo through the Arimasutobiru site all merge with KiMiMi’s music, reflecting time itself as it is lived by human beings.

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