this lovely ambient album from japanese artist was lucky to get picked up by the youtube algorithm a couple of years ago, which gained him immediate popularity in small circles of japanese-style ambient/environmental music. later issued on cassette by dutch Tidal Charm, it was sold out in mere hours (though there's a rumor about reissue). the album tells a story of submerging into the depths and sounds respectively ~ sparse aquatic tones get murkier as we go through these long-form compositions, even though never reaching dark ambient music territories. the mood here is rather melancholic and pensive, yet still melodic and relaxed, giving a good analogy of a sunken city being a symbol of subconscious regions, which our awareness is not always able to reach. probably the idea here is that one should follow a magical creature like a siren in order to reach those depths (i.e. following your intuition?). this mystical vibe permeates the album way more than resemblance to the classical kanyo ongaku examplesm even though their aftersounds are heard here as well. but this is music of inner environments, even though it's obvious they're always reflective of outer world ~ and vice versa again.
artist bandcamp ~ youtube (original upload) ~ youtube (cassette rip) ~ label bandcamp
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