We are Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, Tokyo-based music composers, instrument players, and engineers for recording, mixing, and mastering. Thank you for visiting our website.
Our detailed profile and past works are as below, but we usually compose music for various types of video works such as commercial adverts, films, TV dramas, events, and research materials of educational institutions. We particularly excel in documentaries and human dramas which value atmosphere and worldview. We compose and release at least 50 pieces every year.
Regarding the characteristics of our music, we are flexible to compose music that ranges from dark classical music formed by piano and strings to gentle instrumental music with guitar and organ, creating a warmer sound by using acoustic instruments. Beyond this, we also compose electronic music by synthesiser and sampler and popular music featuring vocals, where needed.
Firstly, please have a look at the following 'past work'. Here you can preview some sample tracks, edited to about 15 seconds-1 minute, on our SoundCloud link. You can also see some videos featuring our music on YouTube/Vimeo links to demonstrate our skills in creating the audio to your visual works.
Whilst we are composing music for commercial adverts of various companies, films and TV dramas, theme music and sound tracks for various events, we are also available as session musicians and studio engineers where we can mix and master our compositions.
| Commercials | Armani, Louis Vuitton, Rag & Bone, UNIQLO, United Arrows, All Nippon Airways, TOYOTA, Mazda, Google, Rakuten, NTT, | |
| DAIKIN, NEC, CITIZEN, TOSHIBA, FUJITSU, FUNAI, YAMAHA, Casio, TORAY, TOTO, Johnnie Walker, Ballantine's, JT, Heintz, | ||
| Blue Bottle Coffee, Lotte, Sunstar, Suntory, Kao, Kanebo, AJINOMOTO, Sapporo Breweries, MOS BURGER, Hulic, LIXIL, MILBON, | ||
Ferring Pharmaceuticals, Otsuka Pharmaceutica, Chugai Pharmaceutical, MUHI, Mizuho Bank, 105 BANK, AcadeMedia, |
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Tokyo Medical and Dental University, The Japan Dietetic Association, Yokohama F-Marinos, Leaseonline, Biofermin, airweave, |
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ACE, SKII, ASICS, BANDAI NAMCO, NICHIMO, Dentsu Creative X, Callaway, TAiSEi, POLA, Yotsuba Milk Products, TOKYO FM, |
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Hirosaki City, Toshima Ward, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance, KIRIN, RINREI, KINOSHITA GROUP, Sekisui House, |
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Toyo Suisan Kaisha, Yakult, YAMANO MUSIC, Takarajima Kindergarten, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Akita Prefecture, |
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Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, etc. |
| Movie, TV Drama, etc. | Tsukiji Wonderland, directed by Naotaro Endo | |
| Penrose, directed by Patryk Seni Senwicki and Dominic Spitaler | ||
| Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story, directed by Robin Bain | ||
| Girls on Film, directed by Robin Bain | ||
| Honokaa-Boy, directed by Atsushi Sanada | ||
| Ghost Dolls, directed by Tomoki Nishikata | ||
| Li.Li.Ta.Al, directed by Akihito Izuhara | ||
| Indigo Mourning, directed by Bilal Kawazoe | ||
| Double Fantasy, produced by WOWOW | ||
| HOTEL NEXT DOOR, produced by WOWOW | ||
| The things you let me know about my son, produced by Japan Broadcasting Corporation / NHK | ||
| The things you with an autism let me know, produced by Japan Broadcasting Corporation / NHK | ||
| A Bad Woman, produced by BUMP | ||
| The World is still Beautiful, produced by Hakusensha | ||
| Don't Stop my Beautification, produced by TV TOKYO | ||
| Love Phantom, produced by TV TOKYO | ||
| My Husband Is Sleeping in the Freezer, produced by TV TOKYO | ||
| Detective Conan: 20th anniversary episode, produced by Nippon Television | ||
| Olivier Zahm: Digital Provacateur, directed by Can Evgin | ||
| Black Rain Hibakusha ‒ Out of the Shadow, directed by Thomas Damm | ||
| Reduction In Force, directed by Joey Fingers | ||
| I Eat the Tears, directed by Osamu Minorikawa | ||
| Redwood National and State Parks, directed by Steven Poe | ||
| Weekend, directed by Robin Mason | ||
| Hikikomori: A deafening silence, directed by Dorothée Lorang and David Beautru | ||
| Krageneidechse, directed by Sayaka Maruyama/NEON O'CLOCK WORKS | ||
| Tohu Wa-Bohu, directed by Matthew Krivolapov | ||
| Bek Millhouse, directed by John Garcia | ||
| Growing a Community, produced by Sonoma State University in California | ||
| Strychnine Hill, directed by Cyril Payen and Dug Moore | ||
| Black Sun, directed by Jesper Friis | ||
| Our Early Days, directed by Krystian Dulnik | ||
| City of Mu, directed by Zach Rensberger | ||
| Bek Millhouse, directed by John Garcia | ||
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| Event | Armani / Milan Fashion Week | |
| SYN Group / Moscow International Biennale for Young Art | ||
| Czech Republic Janáček theater / Ballet Tanzbrücke 2011 | ||
| Thomas Damm / Black Rain Hibakusha - Out of the Shadow | ||
| MILBON / Next Beauty | ||
| SKⅡ / Change Destiny | ||
| Toshima Ward / Heart of Smile | ||
| Julia Kovalevskaya / Dreanhouse | ||
| Isetan Department Store / NIPPON VISION | ||
| La Folle Journée Tokyo Steering Committeet / La Folle Journée Tokyo | ||
| Star Dancers / Resonate | ||
| CASIO / Musical Instruments Trade Show | ||
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Below, you can see a selection of our commercial advert videos and trailer videos of films and TV dramas in which we took charge in the soundtracks and some of our music videos, which we created as artists.
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| Armani | Rag & Bone | DAIKIN |
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| Yokohama F・Marinos | Ballantine’s | Mazda | Yotsuba Milk Products |
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| TOTO | TOTO | TOTO | Johnnie Walker |
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| airweave | Hirosaki City | CITIZEN | CITIZEN |
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| The Japan Dietetic Association | Kinoshita Group | Yamano Music | Takarajima Kindergarten |
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| Bek Millhouse | Noemi Klei | 105 BANK | Rakuten Travel |
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| NETZ | SAKURAO | Leaseonline | Hirosaki City |
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| Olivier Zahm: Digital Provacateur | Reduction In Force | Black Rain Hibakusha | Hikikomori: A deafening silence |
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| BLACK SUN | Girl Lost | Redwood National and State Parks | We Are Malaysia: Mixed Marriage |
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| Sonoma State University in California | Li.Li.Ta.Al. | I Eat the Tears | Fitting In |
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| Anoice: memories of you | Anoice: ripple | Anoice: autumn waltz | Anoice: kill lies all |
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| Takahiro Kido: Oranges & Lemons | Takahiro Kido: Sakura | Yuki Murata: red owl | Yuki Murata: bird sings a lullaby |
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| RiLF: Soraninaru | Films: bubbles | Films: clone | Films: lost field |
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Yuki Murata |
Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata debuted as the members of Anoice, a Tokyo-based cinematic instrumental music group by releasing their debut album on Important Records, Boston in 2006. Their debut album 'Remmings' was released on Important Records, Boston in 2006. Their talent was also admired by internationally famous musicians Ryuichi Sakamoto, MONO, Nobuo Uematsu, Christian Fennesz, and Takeshi Kobayashi. Anoice then released their highly-praised third album, 'The Black Rain' worldwide in 2012 via their own music label, Ricco Label, and also Important Records in US and Flowers Blossom In The Space in Russia. This album was selected as one of the top albums of the year by many music review websites. The Russian hip-hop artist, MiyaGi used one of the album’s tracks, ‘ripple', as the the backing track for his song. The music video has been played 40 million times on YouTube.
In 2015, Anoice released the 4th album 'into the shadows' recorded in not only Tokyo, but also London, Paris, Warsaw, and Moscow. One of the album tracks 'old lighthouse' became the #1 trending track on Spotify as Japanese artists, and 'invasion’ was used as the credit roll tune of 'Girl Lost', a US movie which was the #1 trending movie on Amazon Prime Video. Two years later, Anoice released a compilation album 'selected works' featuring their ambient tracks on 1631 Recordings in Sweden and started to distribute it via Universal Music, they then embarked on European and Asian tours.
In 2019, Anoice released three consecutive weekly singles in May, and then released the 5th album 'Ghost in the Clocks' made from lovely melodies and magnificent orchestral sounds in August, which Anoice expressed the world that follows their 3rd album 'The Black Rain'. This album and each song within the album became the #1 and top 10 most streamed/downloaded instrumental music on Apple Music and iTunes Store in USA, Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Spain, Russia, Belarus, Hungary, Latvia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Israel, Chile, Singapore, and Japan. In addition, Anoice recorded some songs from Anoice and the members' solo projects; Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata, with 20-piece orchestra in Moscow and the recorded songs were released as their collaboration album 'Music for Piano and Chamber Orchestra' in 2025.
In 2021, Anoice released their 6th album 'The Hidden Forest' after the longest ever production period in their history. This album took inspiration from 17 paintings of the forest painted by Naoko Okada, and includes 17 songs with the same title as each of the paintings, with a total length of 72 minutes. This was released not only on normal jewel case, but also number-limited A4-sized box version which included 17 separate extraordinary-printed paintings.
After they released the fifth EP 'unerasable fire', which pairs with 'invisible wall', in 2023. The band have finally completed their 7th album 'Stories in White' in 2024. This album is the final chapter of the trilogy about the modern history of humans, which follows up the Anoice's third album 'The Black Rain' and fifth album 'Ghost in the Clocks'. It could be said that Anoice's culmination of their entire career built by the beautiful soundscape of the magnificent orchestra-like sound and destructive noise.
Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata are also involved in various side projects together with Anoice's members such as; RiLF (an alternative-rock band formed by the members of Anoice and Calu, who is the vocalist of Matryoshka), Films (a dark classical music unit, featuring members of Anoice and two international female vocalists who sing in their native languages), Mizu Amane (Films' side project featuring Japanese language), Mokyow (an instrumental rock band formed by Takahiro Kido and Tadashi Yoshikawa, and keyboardist Kenichi Kai) and Cru (a neo-classical music unit formed by Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata), as well as other secret projects. Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata also write and release work as solo artists. Collectively, Anoice and the side projects have released nineteen albums, seven EPs, six singles, two soundtrack albums, and two compilation albums via some music labels such as Ricco Label, Important Records, 1631 Recordings, PLOP, noble label, and Shochiku Records. Those tracks have often been played on BBC in UK and National Geographic in US.
In addition, Anoice and their members have taken charge of composing music for many commercial adverts such as Armani, Louis Vuitton, Google, YAMAHA, TOYOTA, Johnnie Walker, Ballantine's, JAXA, Heintz, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and etc. Also, they created the soundtracks of some movies such as ’Tsukiji Wonderland' directed by Naotaro Endo, 'Olivier Zahm: Digital Provocateur’ directed by Can Evgin, and 'Girl Lost: A Hollywood Story' directed by Robin Bain, and some TV programs produced by NHK, WOWOW, and TV TOKYO. Some film works awarded at Venice Film Festival, Prix Italia, National Arts Festival in japan, and Cool Japan Matching Award, Japan Movie Critics Award, and Japan World's Tourism Film Festival. Also, Takahiro Kido and Yuki Murata who are the composers of Anoice, received the Best Original Score Prize at Sapporo International Short Film Festival. In addition, the pianist of Anoice, Yuki Murata has been awarded top prizes in various piano competitions such as the PTNA Piano Competition and International Piano Duo Competition.
Anoice also joined restoration assistance following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Hurricane Sandy, and have contributed to the cause via various charity albums. In addition, the pianist of Anoice, Yuki Murata has been awarded top prizes in various piano competitions such as the PTNA Piano Competition and International Piano Duo Competition.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get in touch.
e-mail: info@tkym-music.com
