あなたに出会うまで / Until I Met You, by Jakob Bro & Midori Takada

あなたに出会うまで / Until I Met You

by Jakob Bro & Midori Takada

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	1.	あなたに出会うまで / Until I Met You 07:37
	2.	A Brief Rest of Sisyphos 03:27
	3.	Landscape II, Simplicity 07:44
	4.	Infinity 03:57
	5.	Landscape I, Austerity 05:00
	6.	Sparkles 03:41
	7.	Floating Forest 02:50

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あなたに出会うまで / Until I Met You
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In a new duo collaboration that defies conventions and background, Midori Takada and Jakob Bro took up residence in Tokyo’s Avaco Studios to record their first album, あなたに出会うまで / Until I Met You.

The title, taken from a Midori Takada composition, refers to the spiritual bond that arises in every new friendship, whether in music or in life.

Until I Met You is pure acoustic music, a tapestry of dreamlike compositions with beautiful melodies that sees ambient music icon Midori Takada on grand piano, marimba and various percussion instruments and acclaimed Danish composer Jakob Bro on the acoustic guitar.

Although somewhat unexpected choices of instruments, Takada and Bro share the affinity of openness and exploring sound as source material. Taking a step deeper beyond musical training, cultural background and age difference (which also would be besides the point since Midori Takada is by Bro considered forever young at heart, and Bro himself is nearly fluent in Japanese language), Until I Met You is its own ecosystem, a gesture of unity and worldbuilding.

“I try to express myself with sound and have no ambition with my instrument other than to create moments of beauty with my fellow collaborators. I see Midori Takada as someone who can do exactly this. Turn a moment of nothing into something,” says Jakob Bro.

Midori Takada (b. 1951) is a percussionist, composer and performance artist, whose output over the past 50 years weaves through solo, group and theatrical practices. Considered a rebel in the classical world of music, she debuted as soloist in 1978 with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, but later abandoned her Western classical training to study drumming in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire and Gamelan music of Indonesia, and composing works that incorporate the structures of traditional music. She has also worked extensively with improvised music and appeared in numerous productions by the world-renowned director Tadashi Suzuki. As an environmental musician, she has created soundscapes for the Art Institute of Chicago and the Victoria & Albert Museum in the United Kingdom.

Her landmark album, Through The Looking Glass (1983) is considered an essential recording of minimalist music in chime with the peak period ambient and fourth world musics explored by Jon Hassell, Don Cherry and Brian Eno, but born of a distinctly Japanese ceremonial and meditative musical sensibility. The LP reissue sparked a series of sold out solo performances across Europe and the U.S., including the London Barbican, Paris Palais de Tokyo, Berlin Hebbel am Ufer, The Kitchen in New York, and the Getty Centre in Los Angeles.

Nearly 45 years after her first soloist performance with the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, almost as if by fate Takada began her collaboration with Jakob Bro with a 2022 commission by Pierre Boulez Saal, resulting in two improvised concerts in Berlin and Copenhagen. These encounters also led to meeting Nordic greats such as Palle Mikkelborg, Marilyn Mazur, Nils Petter Molvær, Jesper Zeuthen, Anja Lechner, and a performance at the World Expo in Osaka.

Jakob Bro (b. 1978) is a guitarist and composer based in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has recorded more than 20 albums as a bandleader with artists such as Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Paul Motian, Charles Lloyd and many others, and his various ensembles are depicted in the award-winning film “Music for Black Pigeons” (dir. by Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed), which premiered at the Venice Biennale and has been featured at film festivals around the world. Since 2020 Jakob Bro has had a yearly stint at New York’s Village Vanguard, and he frequently performs in Japan.

“Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize or capture. His songs are best described as jewels revolving in mid-air, reflecting and refracting light,” writes Downbeat. “Based on an idea of the slow, simple melody and a nearly Buddhist ideal of relinquishing the ego, Jakob Bro has lifted jazz into a new future,” Danish newspaper Politiken adds. It is Bro’s conviction that “the music has to breathe. It’s important that a kind of organic conversation is taking place.”

The Bro–Takada collaboration began with a commission from Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. They have played World Expo in Osaka and are set to perform at festivals across Europe and Japan in the coming year.

あなたに出会うまで / Until I Met You will be released on LP/CD/digital by Loveland Music and rings (Disk Union Japan) on September 12, 2025.

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released September 12, 2025

All compositions by Jakob Bro & Midori Takada

Midori Takada: Percussion, Piano & Marimba
Jakob Bro: Acoustic Guitar

Recorded at Avaco Studio, Tokyo on October 8th, 9th and 10th 2024
Engineer: 山田正弘 / Masahiro Yamada
Assistant Engineer: 川越誠也 / Seiya Kawagoe

Mixed at the Village Recording.
Engineer: Thomas Vang

Mastered at The Village Studio B.
Mastering Engineer: David Elberling

Artwork Tal R
Cover Design: Claus Due
Produced by Jakob Bro

Staff for Japanese Release
Label: rings (www.ringstokyo.com)
Producer: Masaaki Hara
Director: Shinichiro Mikawa
Assistant Director: Riki Shinohara
Layout Design: Tsutomu Takahashi

Loveland Music (LLM027)
rings label (RINC-133)

Supported by the Danish Arts Foundation & KODA’s Cultural Funds.

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Artworks by Tal R.

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