Kazuya Nagaya / Lumina

Kazuya Nagaya is a Japanese musician and author who’s been releasing music since the end of the last millennium. Employing electronics, bells, gongs and singing bowls, his music could be described as “ambient”. Drawing on the Buddhism and traditional arts of his homeland, and striving for the same goals of spiritual simplicity and purity. Self-releasing his early productions, Nagaya’s later albums were picked up by labels based in Barcelona and Geneva, while Berlin’s !K7 licensed the 2020 long-player, “Dream Interpretation”. The European giant subsequently commissioning remixes from big techno names such as Steve Rachmad and Dubfire. Nagaya’s latest project, “Lumina”, is a deeply personal work that marks his mother’s passing, and celebrates his parents’ lives. Throwing himself into the process as a form of grieving and healing, and expanding his sonic palette to include operatic vocals, poetry, Buddhist chanting and a small chamber orchestra. The results, in his own words, are “a…