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Moose Hill

Moose Hill has been played on NTS in shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo, featured first on 2 May 2025. Songs played include Desert Blue.

Songwriter and guitarist Goro Ito's solo project. Writing instrumental music based around the guitar, he released his first album "wolf song" under the Moose Hill name in 2001. It was widely acclaimed, and described as minimal, acoustic style that has updated the sound of bossa nova to the present day. Goro also paired up with Naomi Fuse to form the bossa nova duo "Naomi & Goro".

2005 - Appeared at the Tokyo Sound Revolution event in Stockholm as "Takagi Kazue & Moose Hill". Also released the collaborative album "Hawaii, Hawaii", which was done with Kama Aina and RT. He has also done various collaborative work with other artists, writing the songs "Piano" and "Bird feather, bird shadow" for Ikuko Harada's album and providing music for Ed Tsuwaki's Shiseido Paris Expo '04-'05 . 2006 - Moose Hill released his 2nd album "DESERT HOUSE" on the 4th October. This was the first release under the Moose Hill name for 5 years. The actress Harada Tomoyo did vocals on 2 songs and the jacket artwork was done by Ed Tsuwaki. The second album of the collaborative project with Kama Aina, RT and Moose Hill, "Rainbow Hawaii" was released on the 12th June. Their theme for this collaboration is to record the album at different places. Naomi & Goro released an album of covers, "Home" on the 12th April and released their first original album in 2 years, "P.S. I Forgot" on the 4th July. Goro Ito also wrote the soundtrack to the movie, "To Pray for Snow". This movie won 4 prizes including Best Director & Best Male Actor at the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival. The movie is directed by Kichitaro Negishi and features Yusuke Iseya, Kouichi Sato, Kyoko Koizumi & Kazue Fukiishi.
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Moose Hill

Moose Hill has been played on NTS in shows including The Early Bird Show w/ Jack Rollo, featured first on 2 May 2025. Songs played include Desert Blue.

Songwriter and guitarist Goro Ito's solo project. Writing instrumental music based around the guitar, he released his first album "wolf song" under the Moose Hill name in 2001. It was widely acclaimed, and described as minimal, acoustic style that has updated the sound of bossa nova to the present day. Goro also paired up with Naomi Fuse to form the bossa nova duo "Naomi & Goro".

2005 - Appeared at the Tokyo Sound Revolution event in Stockholm as "Takagi Kazue & Moose Hill". Also released the collaborative album "Hawaii, Hawaii", which was done with Kama Aina and RT. He has also done various collaborative work with other artists, writing the songs "Piano" and "Bird feather, bird shadow" for Ikuko Harada's album and providing music for Ed Tsuwaki's Shiseido Paris Expo '04-'05 . 2006 - Moose Hill released his 2nd album "DESERT HOUSE" on the 4th October. This was the first release under the Moose Hill name for 5 years. The actress Harada Tomoyo did vocals on 2 songs and the jacket artwork was done by Ed Tsuwaki. The second album of the collaborative project with Kama Aina, RT and Moose Hill, "Rainbow Hawaii" was released on the 12th June. Their theme for this collaboration is to record the album at different places. Naomi & Goro released an album of covers, "Home" on the 12th April and released their first original album in 2 years, "P.S. I Forgot" on the 4th July. Goro Ito also wrote the soundtrack to the movie, "To Pray for Snow". This movie won 4 prizes including Best Director & Best Male Actor at the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival. The movie is directed by Kichitaro Negishi and features Yusuke Iseya, Kouichi Sato, Kyoko Koizumi & Kazue Fukiishi.
Original source: Last.fm

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Desert Blue
World Standard, Moose Hill
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