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2025. 8. 4

These days, I've been revisiting the time when I was around 20 years old and started to seriously pursue creative activities. There is something good about a certain period. I'm reaffirming that I have been tweaking my senses and the tools I use at each stage.


Marginalia #204

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2025. 8. 3

It's been a long time since we moved to the mountains, but my hometown is a new town of housing complexes and newly developed residential areas, so whenever I stop by after a long time, I feel relieved and energized. And a new Marginalia, this time, I played and recorded piano early in the morning with beautiful insects.

Marginalia #203

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2025. 7. 21

New Album 'Notes' will be released on 31 July 2025. 111 music for a story.











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Masakatsu Takagi
Notes

2025 July 31

Notes 1

01 Half the World
02 Music Lovers - After Dream
03 Plasma
04 Sui
05 First Take
06 Trillo
07 Walk with Notes
08 Iridescence
09 All to be True
10 Aska
11 Gig 1
12 Base
13 Second Verse
14 Natural Born Rhythm
15 Furia
16 Volta
17 Gas
18 Mituti
19 Promise of Rain
20 Uni - Piano
21 Music Lovers- Wings
22 Arp
23 Mezzo
24 Epiphany



Notes 2

01 Siva
02 Morn
03 Gig 2
04 Capo
05 Magico
06 a Due
07 Ferma
08 Belle 1
09 Belle 2
10 Trauma
11 Virus
12 Lesso
13 Surge
14 Natural Born Rhythm - Lightning
15 Stratus
16 Towards Silence
17 Vanishment
18 Your Sound



Notes 3

01 Water You
02 Belle 3
03 Belle 4
04 Quiet House
05 Nocturne
06 Battuta
07 Modulation
08 Ira
09 Anxi
10 Uni - Orchestra
11 Promise of Rain - Reprise



Notes 4

01 Diva
02 Calma
03 Glis
04 Memoria 1
05 Memoria 2
06 Prima
07 Gioia
08 Wrong Key
09 Ossia
10 Lie
11 Magico - Mano


Notes 5

01 Our Song - Yesterday
02 Loco
03 Siren
04 Senza
05 Mirror
06 Another Base
07 Furia - Reprise
08 Espase　
09 Agnus
10 Filo
11 Limma　
12 Blo 1



Notes 6

01 Aida 1
02 Aida 2
03 Bridge
04 Velocita
05 Mother’s Piano
06 Blo 2
07 Root
08 Music Lovers
09 Nothing Exists Alone
10 Secret Noise



Notes 7

01 Arena
02 Our Song
03 Leit
04 Our Song - Tri
05 Music Lovers - Outcast
06 Ghost Notes
07 Our Song - Duo



Notes 8

01 Poe
02 Calling from Musical Spirits
03 Vers
04 This Life
05 Episode
06 Dimi
07 Bracket



Notes 9

01 Gate
02 Alla Breve
03 Tie
04 Coda 1　
05 Coda 2
06 Episode - Amo　
07 Accia
08 Our Song - Embrace
09 Decay
10 Alta
11 Niente









Marginalia VII

2025 April 30

CD

01 Marginalia #142
02 Marginalia #143
03 Marginalia #144
04 Marginalia #145
05 Marginalia #146
06 Marginalia #147
07 Marginalia #149
08 Marginalia #150
09 Marginalia #151
10 Marginalia #152
11 Marginalia #153
12 Marginalia #154
13 Marginalia #156
14 Marginalia #159
15 Marginalia #166
16 Marginalia #167

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LP

A-1 Marginalia #142
A-2 Marginalia #143
A-3 Marginalia #144
A-4 Marginalia #145
A-5 Marginalia #146
A-6 Marginalia #152

B-1 Marginalia #154
B-2 Marginalia #156
B-3 Marginalia #159
B-4 Marginalia #166

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Music Journey Vol. 2
Masakatsu Takagi "A Time to Sing"

CD　2025 April 30th
LP　2025 October 1


01　Kito Kito with Hana Hope
02　Tanana with Clementine
03　Tanememi with Saho Terao
04　Cradle of Myriad Stars with Ann Sally
05　Marginalia Song with Manami Kakudo
06　Birthplace of Kife with Saho Terao
07　Le garcon et la bete with Clementine
08　Free the Wind with Ann Sally
09　Mother's Song with Hana Hope
10　Rainy Steps with Saho Terao
11　Cosmos with Clementine
12　Home after Rain with Ann Sally
13　Shukusai with Manami Kakudo












River Returns - Original Soundtrack
Masakatsu Takagi

2025 March 22


01 Chigonone no Haru I
02 River Returns - Overture
03 Mother and Child I
04 Izanai
05 Otozure
06 Kusabue I
07 Your Pureness
08 Chigonone no Haru II
09 Utsuwa
10 Memento
11 Kusabue II
12 Hoyo
13 Mother and Child II
14 River Returns - Finale


RIVER RETURNS

2025 March 22

directed by Masakazu Kaneko
music by Masakatsu Takagi



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Marginalia VI

CD

1. Marginalia #164
2. Marginalia #165
3. Marginalia #129
4. Marginalia #130
5. Marginalia #134
6. Marginalia #135
7. Marginalia #136
8. Marginalia #137
9. Marginalia #138
10.Marginalia #140
11.Marginalia #123
12.Marginalia #121
13.Marginalia #132

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Vinyl (limited edition)

[A side]
1. Marginalia #164
2. Marginalia #165
3. Marginalia #138
4. Marginalia #140

[B side]
1. Marginalia #129
2. Marginalia #130
3. Marginalia #123
4. Marginalia #132

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Limited Re-release!
Now available all 6 releases from the seriese of Marginalia on Vinyl formant.


Marginalia

Vinyl (limited edition)

[A side]
1. Marginalia #1
2. Marginalia #2
3. Marginalia #28
4. Marginalia #40

[B side]
5. Marginalia #5
6. Marginalia #23
7. Marginalia #37

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Marginalia II

Vinyl (limited edition)

[A side]
1. Marginalia #7
2. Marginalia #24
3. Marginalia #27
4. Marginalia #35

[B side]
5. Marginalia #13
6. Marginalia #43
7. Marginalia #39
8. Marginalia #45


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Misc.












Long Interview (in Japanese)

NiEW

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For Yuzuru Hanyu “Echoes of Life"

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Masakatsu Takagi
Marginalia

These daily piano recordings were made in my private studio surrounded by
the mountains in Hyogo, Japan.
I opened all the windows to welcome the sounds of nature
and played the piano without any sort of preparation :
no overdubbing, no writing, no editing, no fixing…just as it is.
What you are listening now are raw, improvised piano recording
where the sounds of nature and the musical notes are recorded at the same time,
in harmony without any discrimination.
I love to think that nature might also listen to my piano.

The nature is the melody.
The piano is the harmony.

Masakatsu Takagi

Marginalia II


2019. April 3









  1.  Marginalia #7
2.  Marginalia #17
3.  Marginalia #24
4.  Marginalia #27
5.  Marginalia #35
6.  Marginalia #12
7.  Marginalia #44
8.  Marginalia #4
9.  Marginalia #31
10. Marginalia #13
11. Marginalia #43
12. Marginalia #39
13. Marginalia #45
14. Marginalia #46


74min.32sec.








Masakatsu Takagi

Marginalia


2018. December





  CD, Download, Streaming

1.  Marginalia #1
2.  Marginalia #2
3.  Marginalia #3
4.  Marginalia #5
5.  Marginalia #8
6.  Marginalia #11
7.  Marginalia #22
8.  Marginalia #23
9.  Marginalia #25
10. Marginalia #28
11. Marginalia #36
12. Marginalia #37
13. Marginalia #40


74min.


 

Tracklist:

Side A
A1. Marginalia #1
A2. Marginalia #2
A3. Marginalia #28
A4. Marginalia #40

Side B
B1. Marginalia #5
B2. Marginalia #23
B3. Marginalia #37


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