New live album with my trio “Moonlit” is now available on all platforms today! 🌒🌓🌔 Please check it out!
Marthaトリオのライブアルバム「Moonlit - Live at Alfie」本日発売！！！🎊🎊今年1月に行ったトリオのライブレコーディング、迫力と臨場感が溢れ出るアルバムできました！ぜひ皆様聴いてください！！🎧
✍🏻Trio shows in Japan
🔸12/21(木)南青山 BAROOM
🔹1/5(金)名古屋 Jazz Inn Lovely
🔸1/12(金)六本木 Alfie
お見逃しなく！！！
Artwork design / photography by Mikio Hasui
Live at Alfie
Martha Kato - piano, vocals
Kunpei Nakabayashi - upright bass, electric bass
Kazu Odagiri - drums
Guest: Kan - percussion
New music video for Kinmok-Sailor is out! Please check it out.
キンモクセイラーのMVを公開しました！ぜひご覧ください！
Director: txxth
Director of Photography: Keisuke Tsujimoto
Special thanks to Yuji Otawa (L'ESPACE VISION)
Written by Martha Kato Martha Kato - piano, vocals
Sarah Elizabeth Charles - vocals
Moto Fukushima - bass
Keita Ogawa - drums
Recorded by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio
Mixed & mastered by David Darlington at Bass Hit Recording
今秋オープン予定の麻布台ヒルズのムービー音楽制作を担当しました！
I wrote music for this movie for Azabudai Hills which opens this fall in Tokyo. I’m honored to have been part of this project.
Creative Director Kaoru Sugano
Creative Director / Copywriter Muneyuki Fujimoto
Creative Director / Planner Sotaro Yasumochi
Director Koichiro Tsujikawa Shota Tanaka
Narration Azumi (Wyolica)
Music Martha Kato
Martha Kato - composition, arrangement, piano, vocals, Rhodes piano, shells, rainsticks
Keita Ogawa - percussion
Yasushi Nakamura - upright bass
Jonathan Powell - trumpet, flugelhorn
Lucas Pino - tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, clarinet
Remy Le Boeuf - flute, alto saxophone
Henry Wang - 1st violin
Mari Lee - 2nd violin
Cong Wu - viola
Sam DeCaprio - cello
Dave Darlington - engineering at Bass Hit Recording
Todd Carder - engineering at The Bunker Studio
Charles Mueller - engineering at Oktaven Audio
Akihiro Nishimura - mixing
My 2nd album Solúna is out worldwide! Please check it out! Big Thank you to all my people who took part in making this album 🙏🏻
ついにフルアルバム世界配信解禁！！！🎊🎊🎊パンデミックでレコーディングの計画が頓挫して2年、前作から6年かかりましたが、本当に納得のいくものができました。隅から隅まで魂の込もった渾身の一作です！！たくさんの人に聴いてもらえたら嬉しいです！ぜひチェックよろしくお願いします！！！
Release show in NYC ✍🏻
7/24 at Dizzy’s Club
A little bit about the story 📖
Solúna is the sun and moon 🌞🌓
Four years ago when I toured in California, the sun, forest, ocean, and stars inspired me, and that summer I finished writing new three pieces that have become the core songs of this album. I named one of them Sól, which means the sun, or a goddess that personifies the sun.
This came to a full circle last summer when I took a trip to Anza Borrego, in San Diego, to have a photo shoot for the album.
I had never seen that many stars, a clear milky way, and so many shooting stars over the night. I had never been anywhere that was as quiet as this desert. You can feel the sun from all directions, and it was so powerful and peaceful.
The music brought me to this trip and I named this album Solúna.
I hope this album reaches out to a lot of people all over the world and gives you a little something. And I’m excited about where this music can take me next.
Lastly, I would like to thank all the people who made this album great. Thank you all.
musicians:
Keita Ogawa
Moto Fukushima
John Ellis
Michael Rodriguez
Ryan Keberle
Itai Kriss
Remy Le Boeuf
Sarah Elizabeth Charles
Takafumi Nikaido
engineers:
Dave Darlington
Ryan Streber
Todd Carder
photo: Hiroyuki Seo
design: Ken Muroi
Robert Sadin
New single “Ishonsho Abe” is now out in Japan!!! Music video is on my YouTube channel as well! Check it out!
アルバム収録曲の中から「Ishonsho Abe」先行配信開始しました！！！YouTubeチャンネルにてMVも公開！渾身の一作が完成したのでぜひ見てください！
Written by Martha Kato
Words/chants: Yoruba traditional
Martha Kato - piano, vocals
Moto Fukushima - bass
Keita Ogawa - drums, percussion
Michael Rodriguez - trumpet
John Ellis - tenor saxophone
Ryan Keberle - trombone
Itai Kriss - flute
Sarah Elizabeth Charles - vocals
Takafumi Nikaido - shekere, congas
Recorded by Ryan Streber at Oktaven Audio
Assistant engineer Edwin Huet
Recorded by Todd Carder at The Bunker Studio
Recorded by David Darlington at Bass Hit Recording
Mixed & mastered by David Darlington at Bass Hit Recording
9月12日(月)コットンクラブ公演決定しました！ついにニューアルバム「Solúna」出ます！！リリースに先駆けて会場にて先行販売も行います。世界で最初にアルバムをゲットできるのはこの日！！1showなのでご予約はお早めに。皆様のお越しをお待ちしております！
Happy to announce that I will be back at Cotton Club on September 12th with my 8 piece band! It's going to be my album release show for Japan. I'm working on the US/world release but I will keep you posted..! See you soon Japan!
2022 9.12 mon.
open 6:00pm / start 7:00pm
※1日1.showになります。
MEMBER
加藤真亜沙 (p,vo)
広瀬未来 (tp,flh)
西口明宏 (ts)
土井徳浩 (fl,cl,ss,bcl)
和田充弘 (tb)
中林薫平 (b)
小田桐和寛 (ds)
Kan (per)
I'm excited that Hōkago will be back at Rockwood Music Hall on Wednesday, March 30! 1 show at 7pm, Stage 3. Get your tickets here. We hope to see you there!
ホーカゴのライブ決定しました！お近くの方はぜひお見逃しなく！
Takuya Kuroda - trumpet
Martha Kato - keys/vocals
Moto Fukushima - bass
Keita Ogawa - drums
Happy New Year! My new single “Departure (Solo Piano ver.)" has been released! You can listen to it on your favorite streaming services. Please check it out! Wishing everybody a wonderful year.
皆様明けましておめでとうございます。新年の幕開けと同時に「Departure」ソロバージョンがデジタルシングルとして配信開始しました！お正月にぜひゆっくり聴いてくださいね。
Also After The Rain (Solo Piano ver.) is available! After The Rainも合わせてどうぞ！
Martha Kato – piano, vocals & synth
Recorded at Timpson Studio, March 2021
Recorded by Martha Kato
Mixed & mastered by Akihiro Nishimura
Artwork drawing by Motoji Kato
Artwork design by Taiji Kuroda
明日12月1日(水) NHK総合「さらさらサラダ」に出演します！午前11:30より生放送。中部地方の皆様はテレビの前に大集合でお願いします！ぜひご覧ください！
I’ll be on local TV show Salasala Salad tomorrow Broadcasting in Aichi, Mie, Gifu, Shizuoka, Toyama, Ishikawa and Fukui. See you on TV tomorrow December1st at 11:30am!
中林薫平 - bass
小田桐和寛 - drums
Kan - percussion
