Credits:

Akiko Yano,NOGUCHI SOICHI

Description:

Collaboration of Akiko Yano and Astronaut Soichi Noguchi (lyrics)! Astronaut Soichi Noguchi's pop song, "The World of Soichi Noguchi", was created on a scale never seen before in the history of music, and is based on what he saw during his stay at the International Space Center (ISS). In 2020, a few days before Soichi Noguchi's flight from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S.A., Akiko Yano asked him to write a poem in space. Upon receiving the poems, Yano gathered her staff, and in August of this year, during a break in her Japan tour, she performed and recorded 14 songs on piano, completing an unprecedented masterpiece that connects the universe and the earth through music. Since moving to Victor, Akiko Yano's love of space has led her to release a series of space-related songs, including "Welcome to Jupiter" in 2015 and "When We're In Space" in 2018. She frequently checks space information and even goes to NASA's International Space Center to report on space, and she uses Twitter to disseminate information about space in an easy-to-understand manner.On September 20, 2020, Kobunsha Shinsho published a book titled "To Go to Space is to Know the Earth: Living in the New Space Age," which is a compilation of a conversation between Soichi Noguchi and Akiko Yano, and the two have deepened their relationship regarding space creation. The film is a limited edition luxury package that includes a Blu-ray disc featuring rare footage of Soichi Noguchi's work in space, which was filmed by NASA and provided by NASA.