Are there any particular movies or directors Susumu Hirasawa has mentioned being a fan of? (Apart from Satoshi Kon's work)

This year was hard for me since i lost my mother but his music always keeps me company i hope he lives a long life

At the end there is the Monster A Go Go lyrics why is this? 🤔

I suppose this is a niche niche

I have been listening to this song for repeat for the last few days and consider it to be one of his most underrated songs. I read the lyrics on the hirasawalyrics blog but I don't understand it still.

I'm just beginning to discover the iceberg that is Hirasawa. How do you understand it?

I don't follow the Twitter regularly but he said on 8th October that the 9th song was finished. He says this week that he'll start work on the 10th song.

This is followed my mixing, mastering, and some more work I reckon.

A potentially early 2025, like April 2025 release?

https://linglin.bandcamp.com/track/horizon

Does this track remind you of Susumu Hirasawa?

Two new tracks, BLACK and AWA, are available for purchase on the official Bandcamp page and on Kite In Cloud's website.
The new single is set to accompany Nakai's upcoming tour that starts on October 14th.

Vistoron was released on October 7th, 2004, and served as a missing link between Hirasawa's solo "dystopian trilogy (BLUE LIMBO, 白虎野 / Byakkoya, 点呼する惑星 / Planet Roll Call)" and P-Model's complete compilation, Ashu-on (Sound Subspecies) in the Solar System, to which Vistoron is also a sequel, focusing on the story of Vistoron, which reflects the true image of the world, and Anti-Vistoron, which, through mass media, is released to show a distorted and tightly controlled view of the world.

Like Hirasawa's solo works of the same period and early P-Model, it explores dystopian themes, with especially aggressive and critical lyrics standing out, even amongst Hirasawa's previous works. The solo techniques that were frequently used in Revised P-Model period are somewhat restrained here, giving the album a hyperactive technopop sound, reminiscent of Defrosted P-Model.

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The band name and title on the album cover are written in a unique typeface, with the title being in Toyokuni script, forged characters reported to have been used in ancient Japan before kanji. The CD label features a drawing of a folding fan, which was used by Hirasawa during the Vistoron live shows.

Hirasawa's appearance with the folding fan during the Vistoron live shows, as can be seen in the insert of the live DVD.

During the Vistoron live shows a stainless steel smoke generator was placed on the stage. Hirasawa, explaining the connection between the agricultural tools and technopop of Vistoron, said the following:

'I sought out the closest design to techno within the science, agriculture, and science fiction that surround the founder of Japanese techno (this is a metaphor), Kenji Miyazawa, and as a result, arrived at the idea of placing agricultural tools directly on the stage.'

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You can listen to or purchase it on her official Bandcamp page. With no collaborators listed in the credits, it appears to be entirely her own "solo" work.

Digital distribution of Hirasawa's latest guitar album titled 植物電子の本 / The Book of Phytoelectron has now begun on the official Bandcamp page for ¥2,600 (roughly 20 USD). In addition to 10 tracks from the album, the download also includes a 16-page booklet designed by Toshifumi Nakai and featuring text by Hirasawa.

Tracklist:

01: 記憶草の万象歴 / The History of Omnificence in Memory Grass (available to listen for free)

02: 植物電子の本 / The Book of Phytoelectron (available to listen to for free)

03: 浮揚花の野辺で / In the Field of Floating Flowers

04: 登山する植物 / Mountaineering Plants

05: 連峰の雪の赤い花の領域 / Area of Red Flowers on the Snowy Mountain Range

06: 放浪種子 電離層へ向かう / Wandering Seeds Head for the Ionosphere

07: 遠征する青い花が光に根を張る谷 / The Valley Where the Blue Flowers on Expedition Take Root in the Light

08: 受粉電荷 未来へ帰る蔓 / Pollination Charge: Vines That Go Back to the Future

09: 見えるのは光ですか？はい 光です / Is It Light that You See? Yes, It Is Light

10: 思い出してください やって来ます / Remember, It Will Come