This one was pretty easy to write. There were some parts where I got stuck but overall little issues.

As I was writing this I found myself wanting to try and get across the sense of a city on the move but I didn’t quite get that. I feel I kept moving between describing the song and pulling imagery but little of the latter came forward.

Akusmi’s “Neo Tokyo” is from Fleeting Future.

I hope you enjoy.

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A bopping intensity is implied and it keeps on going. It’s almost like a coiled spring trying to release. Percussion sort of moves to the forefront, or at least becomes louder and various other sounds find themselves moving in and out, and the sounds both overtly and subtly shift to a lower range, or at least focus there, but it doesn’t last long.

Everything sounds busy, but it’s carefully constructed in the business and the reduction in percussion doesn’t change that. Nor does a sound descending, disappearing, then reappearing to call from somewhere high up.

Growing quiet, growing quiet and growing quieter. Disappearing and for a moment a seeming silence before woodwind calls out in unison. Calls out into the paused space. They seem to descend and hold tension, but things start creeping in and then the beat returns, though much steadier and much more obvious. Things build and the beat keeps pulsing away and, even though the sounds shift here and there, it’s almost as though they are locked in place. It’s as though they are stuck on a loop, and the intensity is there but it fades away. When the sounds shift once more and the sense of business increases, all of it has faded away as there remains a sense of space.

Most sounds suddenly stop, the percussion beats away but after a few seconds what remains also stops and the song ends.