One listen.

I’ve listened to this album a few times now, and I’m not sure why but this track caught me off guard. I don’t know why I wasn’t expecting it to be what it was, but I think that helped. I dug a bit further in than usual and pulled something out that I think works well.

Yoichiro Yoshikawa’s (吉川洋一郎) “Invitation to the Underwater World” (“海中へのいざない”) is from Aqua Fantasty (アクア・ファンタジー).

I hope you enjoy.

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Waves. Maybe just currents, but it sounds like waves heard from under and above the surface at the same time. Something bubbles, or just makes a noise. Gaps of silence, or implied silence. A stillness. An empty space. It starts to become clearer, or at lest more likely that this is above the surface. Another sound, could be a bird. Maybe the noises between have been birds the whole time.

Birds in a space, and water submerges and comes out on another side. It continues to move and churn, and it moves with power. It moves and allows space for the other sounds; for those sounds that could be birds, and perhaps might not be. But they could be.

There’s this rhythmic dance here. It’s a dance found in nature, and it’s not so much about flow of rhythm, but it is about changing of space. It speaks of motion and years; of memories that don’t exist; of the changing of eons, and the shape of the land and the biota which inhabits it, and how the ocean plays a significant part. It talks of relation until the final movement of water at the song’s end.