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Hiroshi Mehata/ Mehata Sentimental Legend
MUSIC Release
❝Mehata's music explores the subconscious boundaries between light and shadow, vision and hearing, death and rebirth. In a radical fusion of old Japanese ritual music and futuristic psychedelic noise, Mehata's ethereal soundscapes express the transitory states of mind experienced in the fleeting moments when leaving reality and entering a dream, opening the doors to a new era of music from Japan. In his album Noum Zeccyou, the super-future is thus united with the super-past.❞
(Mind Plug Records)
Solo Album
Mehata Sentimental Legend
Noum Zeccyou (2011) Mehata Sentimental Legend released from Mind Plug Records (Ger) First album released in 2011 on German label Mind plug Records. The sound was called Ritual Futuristic Music and got music reviews in Europe, USA and other countries. The album was selected for a full album feature on Aii Radio in the USA. Songs from this album still receive airplay on international internet radio several times a year.
Majica EP (2012) Mehata Sentimental Legend Released from Ewphoria (USA) This mini-album was released in 2012 on Ewphoria, USA. Completed in almost two weeks from production to release.
Mehata Sentimental Legend Earliest Works 2007-2011 vol.1 released from Sounds Behind The Corner (Italy) This is a re-organisation of an early collection of sound sources originally released as a limited edition supplement to the Italian web magazine Sounds Behind The Corner. Guitar noise sounds and dark healing music.
Mehata Sentimental Legend Earliest Works 2007-2011 vol.2 released from Sounds Behind The Corner (Italy) This is the second volume of a collection of early sound sources, originally released as a limited-edition supplement to the Italian web magazine Sounds Behind The Corner. Song structure centred on anomalous avant techno-pop sounds.
Noum Anbasa (2013) Mehata Sentimental Legend Original released only CDR 2008, Collection of rare tracks including two 24-minute-long guitar minimal music created in 2008, plus two new songs.
Reedit version of Majica EP Extensively modified and re-edited version of the 2012 MajicaEP recording.
Mehata Sentimental Legend- This album for Forest Project 2014 Indonesia Jogja National Museum Forest Project by Gerimisungu Production A collection of music for projections created for an installation exhibited to a forest art project in Indonesia. The proceeds from the album sales were donated by the project to the Indonesian village of Ngadissono.
first CDR produced in 2007, special edition with additional material on the occasion of 10 years of s After then, Noum became concept of visual works, exhibition tittle, brand name, Noum developed to a lot pf possibility during this 10 years. These are tracks of the oldest CDR release of NOUM in 2007. This is special edition what is added 3 unreleased tracks created in 2007 to them.
Released from Mind Plug Records (2020) First full-length album since 2011. On Mind Plug Records, Berlin. Concept album about eternal life between the First Emperor and future humans living as 'consciousness'.
A project album of live recordings recorded in Chicago in 2019 with Tatsu Aoki and other leading musicians of the Chicago avant-garde scene, plus new tracks. Scheduled for release in November 2022.
Band/Collaboration Album
TOGORONOMIKO is Experimental Music Band 2009-2012 (Yukihiro Kakimoto, Masahiko Ueji, Mehata Sentimental Legend)
Mehata Sentimental Legend and George Christian , Collaboration album released by Spectolopol Records (2012) USA ブラジルのギタリストジョージ・クリスチャンとのコラボアルバム。 このアルバム内の楽曲は、スペインのビデオアートユニットAXIALの作品Mind Over Waveで使用された。
Christian, Mehata, Chagas Experimental Free Improvisation album ブラジルのギタリスト・ジョージクリスチャンとのコラボアルバム第２段、今回はポルトガルのベテラン・フリーサックス奏者のPaulo Chagasと3人での名義リリース。長尺トラック2曲入り
Herve Perez and Mehata Sentimental Legend acoustic free improvisation album (Mind Plug records) イギリスとフランスをベースに活動するサックス・尺八奏者herve Perezとのコラボアルバム。色をベースコンセプトとしたセッショントラック。
Kentaro Nagata and Mehata Sentimental Legend , Ambient Unit. Casette release only 75 copies, Ginjoha Japan 東京のコンポーザー・ギタリストのKentaro Nagata氏とのエレクトロデュオ。カセット限定の明大前アンビエント作品。日本のGINJOHAレーベルからリリース。
ブラジルのSuzana Bautenとのコラボレーション。 Original release in January 2017 by Sattva Land Records (Brazil). This release in September 2017 by Murmure Intemporel (France).
Christian, Mehata, Chagas Experimental Free Improvisation album Cassette version in Mahorka Label (Bulgaria)
Mia Zabelka album in 2017, co-produced some tracks, produced by Lydia Lunch
GAIAMAMOO is experimental music band in 2012-2021 (Shogo Haraguchi and Mehata Sentimental Legend) Live Takes At Ende Tymes 777 in NYC 2017
Collaboration project with musicians/label in Denmark Cosmos solo and GAIAMAMOO. recorded in 2019
George Christian & Mehata Sentimental Legend (2022) from The Church of Noisy Goat (Porto Alegre, Brazil)
Compilation Albums
V.A-Doing Nothing/Black Square netlabel -Russia(2011)
V.A - Sounds Behind The Corner vol.5 (2012) on the song,Noum-Rinsetsu-Messhi-No-Mori
V.A- 10b1t / Sirona Records (2011) on track by a Band TOGORONOMIKO Yukihiro Kakimoto (Drums) Mehata Sentimental Legend(Guitar, Electronics)
V.A-Mind Plug Records 2nd Anniversary(2012) on the track Asian Resort Mid Summer, and Free-Gagaku(Wilhelm Matthies and Mehata Hiroshi) - Five Layers for pease
V.A-How to catch STILLE? (2013) by ANMOKU
V.A -Sweet 16 Compilation Vol.2 (2013) By sweet 16 Compilation (US) on the track , Noum -Akai-Ramb
Mind Plug Records- Compilation Vol. IV (2019)
A compilation album based on the discovery of new music encountered by Brazil's George Christian and met through the first 20 years of the 21st century.
Mehata's representation started as Musician of Noise/ Experimental music. started a solo project since 2007.
is called Ritual Futurism.
The basic idea of his music is to explore the subconscious boundaries between light and shadow,
vision and hearing, death and rebirth. In a radical fusion of old Japanese ritual music and futuristic
psychedelic noise music, my ethereal soundscapes express the transitory states of mind experienced
in the fleeting moments when leaving reality and entering a dream, this Image is, to make a big impact by concentrating on 1 point in the boundary line of conflicting
different energies. By distorting the space, it aroused my memory that is in the unconscious,
He's looking for ways connecting the sound image in a new sense. All of his visual art representation has begun by the attempts to visualize his music.