Fit as a Twin fiddle

CD album of Twin fiddle by Tact Yamada and Davis West

Full CD Album design, May 2025

山田拓斗と、ドイツを拠点に世界的に活動するDavis West。二人のフィドラーによるデュオCDが2025年5月に遂にリリース！

わたくしYukina TokumotoがCDフルデザインを担当致しました。

二人が出会ったのは2024年12月のことです。突然ベルリンからやってきて、滞在も数週間。しかし出会うなり二人はまるで、生き別れの兄弟か親友か、はたまた前世でコンビを組んでいたのではと思うほど人間的・音楽的にFitし、この海を越えた一大CDプロジェクトが発動しました。

山田拓斗は、言わずもがなMy husbandですが、同時に、冷静な視野を持つストイックな演奏家であり、湧き上がるマグマのようなクリエイティビティを抱えて生きる音楽家でもあります。その山田拓斗をして、たった数週間で２曲を書かしめたこの出会いは、まさに衝撃的なMomentum（勢い）がもたらしたものでした。

出会いの予感から、時間を忘れるような高揚感、近づく別れと再会への約束。この１枚のCDの中で二人は、音楽という言語で会話しています。「Fit as a fiddle」という古い慣用句そのままに、相棒を得た二人のセッションは、ピンと張った弦のように絶好調。走り抜けたい何かがある時、このMomentumがあなたの背中を押してくれるはずです。

Blue note placeの録音スタジオで生の演奏を聴きながら描いたスケッチは、ディスクの盤面となりました。（どの曲の絵か、聴けばきっとわかるはずです！）私がデザインしたステッカーも付いておりますので、気になる方はぜひお求めください。

Tact Yamada and Davis West, a Berlin-based fiddler active worldwide, have finally released a duo CD! And I was in charge of the full CD design.

The two met in December 2024. He suddenly came from Berlin and stayed for a few weeks. However, as soon as they met, they fit each other so well, both musically and humanly, that it seemed as if they were long-lost brothers, best friends, or even a duo in a past life, and this big CD project across the ocean was launched.

 Needless to say, Tact Yamada is my husband, but at the same time, he is also a stoic fiddle performer with a calm perspective and a musician who lives with a passionate creativity like magma. This encounter, which made him write two new songs in just a few weeks, was brought about by a truly shocking momentum.

From the premonition of an encounter, to the euphoria that makes them forget time, toward the approaching separation and the promise of reunion, they converse with their own language called music in this CD. Just like the old idiom "Fit as a fiddle," the session between them, who have found a good partner, is in top form like a taut string. When there is something you want to run through, I think this Momentum will give you the kickstart.

 The sketch that was drawn while listening to live performances in the recording studio became the surface of the disc. (You'll definitely be able to tell which song it is when you listen to it!) It also comes with stickers that I designed.