Actor/Singer Songwriter Shiina Kotone, Composer/Pianist Kuwabara Mako,
and film director Iwai Shunji form the music unit <Hec & Pascal>.
You may know them most as the creators of the song “Kaze ga Fuiteru” which was the insert song
for the TV drama “Nazo no Tenkousei”.

We present to you the live version of “Kaze ga Fuiteru”!
The nostalgic images of a high school music room are brought to you by director Iwai Shunji.
Please enjoy the free and flowing vocals and piano, more so wonderful as a live performance.

<Hec & Pascal>
A singer with a youthful but also motherly warmth, along with an eloquent piano instrumental,
creates an one and only world with its immense story-sense. Singer songwriter/actor Shiina Kotone, composer/pianist Kuwabara Mako, and film director Iwai Shunji – a trio different in genre and generation came together in 2013.
Their first song,“Kaze ga Fuiteru” was heard on the air with the TV drama “Nazo no Tenkousei”(2014) where it garnered much attention.
With all of the unit’s members being composers themselves, the unit strives for a free and yet unseen style of music.

Shiina Kotone

A student at Tama University of the Arts, studying Film Media and Theater, she is also an actress/singer songwriter. Her screen debut was Director Yamashita Nobuhiro’s “Ayres Rock”.
She continued to work freelance in film, TV dramas, music videos and stage productions. In 2013, she signed on with Areno Productions.
From 2012, she began creating music on her own and later recognized by Rip Slyme’s MC Pess, DJ Fumiya and Iwai Shunji, she begins her official music activities.
Presently along with her individual activities, she participates as part of “Hec & Pascal”, a unit with director Iwai Shunji and composer Kuwabara Mako.
She starred in “Nazo no Tenkousei” as Ota Kumi, and also sang the song used in the series, “Kaze ga Fuiteru”.

Kuwabara Mako

Born 1987, graduating from the Tokyo National University of the Arts with a degree in composition. Starting her musical career at an early age, she won the Silver Medal in the Japan Junior Electronic Organ Competition and was chosen as the organ player for Argo Music. She was also chosen to compose for the Toei Production animation, “Jyoseito”. Mako’s recent work includes the opening BGM for “Mezamashi TV 2014″, TV drama “Nazo no Tenkousei”, “Naitara Akande Tsutenkaku”, the film “To-ku de Zutto Sobani Iru”, “Double Sky”, the commercial “Meiji Chocolate” “Toshiba FlashAir”, “Kit Kat Grand Wafer”, the theme song for “Columbus’ Kitchen”, the stage production “PERSONA3~ao no kakusei”, “PERSONA 4 the EVOLUTION”, musical “emptyresord~karappo”, and more. Her professional pianist credits include “Fantastics” the musical , “Dracula” the musical, the one-man show “Ooizumi One-man Show”, and the film “Tantei Wa Bar Ni Iru”. Mako has also worked as a musical assistant, rehearsal director, and teacher for numerous musicals and films.