Description
From the meditative shores of Japan to the deep resonances of the cello, Michiaki Ueno crafts with this album an intense dialogue between cultural memory and contemporary expression.
Through the works of Mayuzumi, Takemitsu, Matsumura, Yamada, Taki, and Madoka Mori, each musical page becomes a living tableau where Japanese tradition is reborn in the virtuosity and delicacy of Ueno’s playing. His sumptuous tone brings to life transcriptions and original creations with a rare emotion, like a meditation on identity and its transformations.
From the theatrical evocation of Bunraku to the subtlety of the “Air of Prayer,” each piece crystallizes an inner world, blending ancestral breath and sonic modernity. The piece “Phoenix,” composed by Madoka Mori, illustrates Japan’s creative youth, carried by the lyrical momentum of the cello.
With Origin, Michiaki Ueno pays tribute to his roots, to the boldness of 20th-century Japanese composers, and to a musical lineage woven between two continents. A pinnacle of maturity and emotion: the cello becomes a universal voice and a celebration of chosen identity.
