Jakob Bro & Midori Takada - From Such A Blue Sky / かくも青き空から (2026) [Hi-Res]

What feels like a dream, a portal between worlds, a shimmering of ideas — that liminal space is the departure point for Midori Takada and Jakob Bro’s ever-unfolding musical friendship.

On their second outing 'From Such A Blue Sky / かくも青き空から', arriving on Copenhagen’s Loveland Music in October, the compositions are transformative, and the sounds travel between immediate emotional and abstract planes.

The classically trained Japanese percussionist Midori Takada, later dubbed an ambient pioneer for the landmark 1983 album ‘Through The Looking-Glass’ (another portal), left behind her Western classical training and found her own paths, drawing on African and Indonesian drumming, minimalism, theater, environmental music and instant composing.

“The categorisation of music by genre didn’t interest me at all,” Takada recalls in an interview with The Guardian. “I was interested in the humanity of what I was hearing. I realised that all I’d been listening to was Western music.”

Similarly, Danish composer and guitarist Jakob Bro creates otherworldly sounds and beautiful, delicate melodies through intuitive creation and collective listening. “It is the most beautiful experience to be immersed in the music and witness it unfold before you. With Midori Takada that is what happens, you follow the composition in all its mysterious and inscrutable ways,” says Bro.

On 'From Such A Blue Sky' the music is co-composed and created in the studio over three days, from early morning to sundown. The compositions are increasingly open ecosystems, and the range of sound sources expands significantly from the puristic 'Until I Met You', with Thai gongs, heavy drums, ceramic flutes, electric guitar and pedals adding to the sonic imagery of 'From Such A Blue Sky'.

“Their friendship may seem surprising at first, given their differences, but あなたに出会うまで / Until I Met You reveals how it rests on a shared ability to close their eyes and listen. They give each other space to do what they each do best: Bro’s simple yet refined melodies and Takada’s magical soundscapes,” Seismograf wrote about their 2025 debut recording.

'From Such A Blue Sky' is the second album in a trilogy recorded at AVACO Studios in Tokyo, a studio in Shinjuku renowned for its sound works in Japanese film since 1952. The trilogy is part of an ongoing continuation of their musical friendship, which has already led them to duo performances at World Expo Osaka, Tessenkai Noh Theatre Tokyo, Pierre Boulez Saal Berlin and Roskilde Festival.

A truly rare and unpredictable musical encounter awaits when Midori Takada and Jakob Bro return to the stage together on tour in 2027.