NOTO MOTHER EARTH WAVE
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// SPECIAL BROADCAST · AUGUST 14–15 · MARKING THE END OF THE PACIFIC WAR

The Peace
Transmissions

Gontani's World War II remembrance special — twelve recovered broadcasts of program hours and song sessions, aired from the Noto peninsula and carried on the U-Rock® Radio Network. Presented here in order, as transmitted.

POWERED BY
Gontani Music Worldwide
ORIGIN
Noto, Japan
RECOVERED
12 broadcasts · 12.5 hours
NOTO Mother Earth Wave — U Rock Radio Network presents, powered by Gontani Music Worldwide
2026.08 OPEN · urock.directory/station/noto-db

The Program

EPISODES 1–5

The spoken spine of the special — five program hours in broadcast order. Gontani's notes on each episode are being gathered and will appear beneath every reel.

REEL01
Episode One — Connecting Memories 1 HR 16 MIN

Connecting Memories — a special program widely broadcast across Japan in 2025.

REEL02
Episode Two — Designing Peace 60 MIN 59 SEC

Designing Peace — a peace-themed CD released in 2026. A greeting and a song for everyone who wishes for world peace.

REEL03
Episode Three — Interview with Kimimasa Tokikuni21 MIN 59 SEC

Interview with Kimimasa Tokikuni — the Nanao City birdwatcher, conservationist and poet, author of the self-published tanka collection Living in Noto (), written in memory of his late wife Masae.

REEL04
Episode Four — The Making of “DEW”1 HR 3 MIN

The story behind the creation of the anti-war song “DEW” by CURRENTOWA — written by Tatsuya Gontani with Filipino composer Cesli Vane: morning-dew imagery for a world without conflict, opening on delicate acoustic guitar and rising into full rock. A Noto-to-the-world collaboration for peace.

“Tears shed for companions in a distant land turned into morning dew, spreading beautifully like a mist across the world and the cosmos.”— CURRENTOWA · DEW (2025)
REEL05
Episode Five — CURRENTOWA: The Final Report55 MIN 0 SEC

CURRENTOWA’s direction and the announcement of the project’s completion — the multilingual rock project of Tatsuya Gontani (“Your Currentowa”, 2011, Currentowa Records; “One World”, “Komorebi”), closing its arc where it began: a greeting to the world.

The Song Sessions

SESSIONS 1–4

Four music hours woven through the special — an opening, a two-hour meditation on peace, the map session, and a closing hour on friendship.

SESSION1st
Songs — Opening59 MIN 51 SEC

A collection of songs themed around anti-war sentiments, accompanied by a discussion of the motivation behind creating them.

SESSION2nd
Songs — Peace 2 HR 1 MIN

A compilation of songs that sing of peace in a sentimental and emotional way.

SESSION3rd
Songs — Map1 HR 27 MIN

A track from a CD released in 2026.

SESSION4th
Songs — Friendship37 MIN 33 SEC

An illustration of the direction for international music that Gontani intends to pursue in the future.

The Television Sessions

SESSIONS 1–3

Companion pieces — Gontani's three Japan TV sessions, preserved with the broadcast archive.

SESSION1st
1st Japan TV Session1 HR 45 MIN

Transmission notes incoming — Gontani's own words to follow.

SESSION2nd
2nd Japan TV Session30 MIN 47 SEC

Transmission notes incoming — Gontani's own words to follow.

SESSION3rd
3rd Japan TV Session49 MIN 55 SEC

Transmission notes incoming — Gontani's own words to follow.

WHY THIS ARCHIVE EXISTS

Some transmissions should not disappear into the night they were broadcast into. These hours — remembrance, music, and peace, sent from a small station on the Noto peninsula — are kept here in full, in order, for anyone who tunes in after the fact. means peace.