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Sayaka Maruyama | on Tumblr (b.1983, Japan/Netherlands) - Sakura (2012)

Sayaka Maruyama was born in Japan and moved to Holland with her family at age of 12. That 3-year-stay in different culture influenced her in many ways especially in terms of art education. Her practice traverses the mediums of photography, film, drawings, installation and performance. Drawing on classical Japanese references and Surrealist motifs, her work explores contradictory contemporary understandings of Japanese notions of beauty, from both Western and Eastern perspectives. Maruyama has exhibited widely in London and Tokyo, and her images have been published in several renowned periodicals. Please visit artist’s website or follow her Tumblr for more work.

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The Cinematic Orchestra – To Build A Home (746 plays)

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The Cinematic Orchestra - To Build a Home

I have posted The Cinematic Orchestra before, but a friend of mine recently made me go hunt down the rest of their discography.  To my delight, they are just wonderful. 

I had started listening to this song because a friend of mine did an absolutely amazing a cappella cover of it.  I fell in love with the song immediately and I couldn’t stop listening to it.  Hell, when I downloaded the Sampler EP from Fitz. I was thrilled to see that they did a cover of this (and it’s awesome).

It’s a quiet but very powerful song.  The instrumentation is quiet and extremely mellow which is nice, but man can you ever belt along with the song.  It evokes a sense of sadness but also nostalgia as well.  

The Cinematic Orchestra has been around since 1999 and To Build a Home is from their album, Ma Fleur.

-Sherwin