Aokigahara - All Tomorrow Will Be Over
Someone may have committed suicide, where the spirit endured in the form of a new electronic-synth project called Aokigahara. The name of this new project concerns a certain area in Japan, the forest Aokigahara... also known as "The Suicide Forest". A forest so dense, that the local police force is finding it nearly impossible to locate all the suicides which have/are being committed there!. Located near Mount Fuji on the Northeastern flank, the volcanic soil provides the wild plant/tree-like growth. The artist himself describes this as :
Depressive ambient music for tormented souls...
Yup, not the kind of dandy and happy love-stuff around the Paris wheel thing. I can describe it as being related do dungeon synth with Asian and neo-classical influences. At times it sounds like the saddest part in some classic Japanese CRPG, and at other times it has that neo-classical Arcana/Dead Can Dance feel to it. I can easily say that if the artist had the idea/intention of doing sad (Like really suicidal sad!) melodic synth music, then I can reveal to you that he succeeded in doing that!. It´s not the grim, cold and blackened death-industrial/heavy-electronics treat like early Brighter Death Now (Which is meant to scare you!)... but more like seeing suicide as the only solution to reach the need for eternal rest, beautiful and almost seductive depressing material. This project hails from France, I wonder if my favorite chef and tv-host Anthony Bourdain (R.I.P), while he was in France gave this project a spin on his iPhone? We will never know, but we will know about this project and it´s several other Bandcamp releases (3 albums plus a cool downloadable hoodie-design as well!).
It is not the pathetic kind of sad-music for synth emos, it feels genuine, sincere and very well constructed. I dare you! Being in Aokigahara forest with this in your headphones!. Might be a "good" idea... but who cares?! ... It´s fxxxxx beautiful stuff! We need a physical release of this. A cool looking digipack maybe?... I am going to have to follow it up with this cool project!
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