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

This is the designated discussion thread for Hirasawa’s new instrumental guitar album The Book of Phytoelectron. While browsing the thread, please keep in mind that:

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🌱Track Listing🌱

1. 記憶草の万象歴 / The History of Omnificence in Memory Grass
2. 植物電子の本 / The Book of Phytoelectron
3. 浮揚花の野辺で / In the Field of Floating Flowers
4. 登山する植物 / Mountaineering Plants
5. 連峰の雪の赤い花の領域 / Area of Red Flowers on the Snowy Mountain Range
6. 放浪種子 電離層へ向かう / Wandering Seeds Head for the Ionosphere
7. 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
8. 受粉電荷 未来へ帰る蔓 / Pollination Charge: Vines That Go Back to the Future
9. 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

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The Book of Phytoelectron Website

Bandcamp

The translation for the Monthly[Tsuki-jime] Formant by the janitor who plays music, the report on August 2024 (posted on September 30, 2024) is available for Green Nerve members. If you are a Green Nerve member and would like to read it, please message me, and I will give you the link to read it. 日本語書き起こし付き(It comes with the Japanese, too.)

It’s over two days after the pre-order period,and I still didn’t got a reply.

Does anyone have any first impressions? Is it even out yet?

Are there any upcoming concerts for the month of October? I've combed the website but couldn't get very far. Thanks in advance!

Yesterday, birthday messages for Wataru Kamiryo, the drummer of Revised P-MODEL and a long-time collaborator of Hirasawa who participated in the 9th Mandala shows, were posted on NeoBallad's official website in celebration of his 60th birthday. Amongst the messages is one from Hirasawa himself:

Susumu Hirasawa

Kamiryo-san, this is Hirasawa.

I must apologize for my rudeness, but I find it difficult to agree with the purpose of your anniversary party.

The reason is that, whether seen from afar or up close, Wataru Kamiryo does not appear to have aged at all.

Therefore, with the opportunity given to me on this occasion, I ask for your permission to offer my utmost praise as a witness to Wataru Kamiryo's enduring presence.

Kamiryo-san, thank you from the bottom of my heart for your beautiful vitality today.

Wataru Kamiryo's anniversary party took place on September 3rd (the date of his actual birthday), but the messages themselves were made public just yesterday, you can read more on the NeoBallad's website.

I swear I saw this while browsing translations, I feel like it would have been on http://hirasawaslyrics.edoblog.net/ but can't seem to recall where.

Basically it was an interview with Akiyama talking about the changing rooms for getting into the Stone Age uniforms, he was talking about how they all undressed together and hirasawa was embarrassed but then went on to proclaim "me?... I was wearing a thong!!" or something like that (yes really). I wanted to save it to try drawing the scene one day so I wanted to find it, I'm so sorry for bringing this up lol

I'm glad to see that more and more anime OSTs are making it on Spotify, I suppose it's because Sony Japan or some other label finally arranged it (took more than a decade but ok). Strangely though, Hirasawa's music keeps disappearing and appearing on the platform in strange ways. For years only a few live show recordings and the Paprika OST have been on Spotify. Now Paprika is gone, but an album was released that includes a few tracks from the 1997 Berserk anime. Even stranger: some guy called ACN Music released the Paranoia Agent OST 3 years ago and it's still not banned. I mean I'm glad I can listen to it but what the hell is going on? Probably most of yall don't know but who knows

There was an "official looking" video for it, adding instruments and voice as the song progresses. I absolutely adore this video but it's been taken down. I figured the Man himself probably struck it down but I would gladly pay for the pleasure if I knew where and how!

Forgive me if this is something that has been covered many times before, but I was interested if there was a meaning behind the song’s lyrics? I saw in the live performance there was Hindu(?) imagery. I also saw some translated comments from Japanese commenters saying that the song sounds like it was about a soldier defying their nation. I am very interested in understanding the original intent and meaning behind this song.

It's three years since Beacon was released, which was released three years after Kai = Kai. Maybe, it's time for a new album, by Hirasawa or Kaku P-Model...