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Magic Mirror
Marty Regan composer
MAGIC MIRROR, the second volume of composer Marty Regan’s series of Selected Works for Japanese Instruments, presents a collection of works composed for traditional Japanese instrumentation with a Western-trained ear. Through the combination of his traditional classical education and intensive studies of Japanese music and culture, Regan explores the cross-cultural exchange between Eastern and Western traditions, blending the two into a dynamic sound that pushes the Japanese instruments to the very brink of their musical boundaries.
MAGIC MIRROR features performances by Seizan Sakata, Tetsuya Nozawa, Erina Matsumara, Izumi Fujikawa, Kenji Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Wakatsuki, Ray Jin, Hitomi Nakamura, Kazue Tajima, Maya Sakai, Yuka Sawade, Shozan Tanabe, Gen Takeuchi, Etsuko Hirano, Saeko Wakiya, Masabumi Sekiguchi, and Akiko Sakura.
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Track Listing & Credits
| # | Title | Composer | Performer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Flamefox | Marty Regan | Seizan Sakata | 7:50 |
| 02 | Dragoneyes | Marty Regan | Erina Matsumura, Seizan Sakata, Tetsuya Nozawa | 13:03 |
| 03 | In the Night Sky | Marty Regan | Erina Matsumura, Kenji Yamaguchi, Nobuhiro Wakatsuki | 13:49 |
| 04 | Magic Mirror | Marty Regan | Hitomi Nakamura, Kazue Tajima, Maya Sakai, Ray Jin, Tetsuya Nozawa, Yuka Sawada | 14:25 |
| 05 | Voyage | Marty Regan | Etsuko Hirano, Gen Takeuchi, Masabumi Sekiguchi, Saeko Wakiya, Shozan Tanabe | 10:49 |
| 06 | Devil's Bridge | Marty Regan | Akiko Sakurai, Tetsuya Nozawa | 9:36 |
Producer: Marty Regan
Recording engineer(s): Hiroyuki Misaki: Shirakaba
Studio, Tokyo (flamefox, Voyage, and Devil’s Bridge),
ichiro/RHODES Premier: Studio Dedé, Tokyo (In the
Night Sky ), Masanaka Matsuoka: Kameria Hall,
Tokyo (Magic Mirror), Dai Takemoto: Studio Rin, Tokyo
(dragoneyes)
Editing and mixing: Hiroyuki Misaki (flamefox,
Voyage, and Devil’s Bridge), ichiro/RHODES Premier
(In the Night Sky), Masanaka Matsuoka (Magic Mirror)
Dai Takemoto (dragoneyes)
Funding for this recording was generously
provided by: 2010 Program to Enhance Scholarly
and Creative Activities (PESCA) and the 2011 Academy
for the Visual and Performing Arts Faculty Enrichment
Program at Texas A&M University
Portrait photography by: k. Norwood Portraiture
English-Japanese translations A Few Words from
the Composer and Program Notes by Yoko Sato
Japanese-English translations Performer Biographies by Marty Regan
Special thanks to Seizan Sakata, Tetsuya Nozawa,
Erina Matsumura, Izumi Fujikawa, Kenji Yamaguchi,
Nobuhiro Wakatsuki, Ray Jin, Hitomi Nakamura, Kazue
Tajima, Maya Sakai, Yuka Sawada, Shōzan Tanabe,
Gen Takeuchi, Etsuko Hirano, Saeko Wakiya, Masabumi
Sekiguchi, Akiko Sakurai, Hiroyuki Misaki, ichiro/
RHODES Premier, Masanaka Matsuoka, Dai Takemoto,
Yoko Sato, Alan Houtchens, and PARMA Recordings
All works © by Marty Regan, ASCAP
Label Executive Producer Bob Lord
Product Manager Jeff LeRoy
Mastering Shaun Michaud
Art Direction and Production Brett Picknell
A&R Mike Juozokas
PR Coordinator Rory Cooper
Artist Information
Marty Regan
A composer of over 80 works for traditional Japanese instruments, Marty Regan is a Professor and Head of the Department of Performance Studies at Texas A&M University. Widely regarded as the authoritative source on the subject, his translation of Minoru Miki’s Composing for Japanese Instruments was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2008. His music has been broadcast on American Public Media’s Performance Today and NHK’s Hōgaku no hito toki/A Moment for Traditional Japanese Music. His chamber opera, titled The Memory Stone, was commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera as part of the HGOco's Songs of Houston: East + West initiative and was premiered in 2013 at the Asia Society Texas Center.
