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死生観 (views of life and death )

this track contains Japanese traditional instrument called denden-taico .

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黄泉 ( Hades )

命音 ( Count down )

Single from the album ' 死生観(Views of life and death )'

Album playlist : https://soundcloud.com/user-541428630/sets/my-heart-to-reflect-in
Download : https://orientallove.bandcamp.com/album/view-of-life-and-death

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      voice : Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫）
      sax    :  Kaoru Abe ( 阿部薫)
noise improvisation contains 檄 .
     (檄 means the speech of Yukio Mishima just before the harakiri )

(voice 1)
The world I had been living in where was it heading , how would it change like this ? That was completely strange .

We are living in an era without heroic death .
There is no state of tension that living is based on dying .
There are no "great causes" .

I only had a strange blank feeling bypassing emotions .

Though the world was supposed to collapse , still the trees , the green around was bathing in the thick light of summer .
That was completely strange .

Human lives are mysterious, in that human beings are not strong enough to live and die just for themselves .
It is because human beings always think of living for some kind of ideal and they soon get bored of living just for themselves .
It is because of this that the need to die for something arises .

(the idea )that death will come sometime and when I was thinking that it would come in near future , that psychological state , compared now , was happy .
That is actually a strange thing , but in my memory , it does not just look beautiful .
Human beings , in those moment , strangely become happy .

something more honorable , something for a cause is how I would like to die .
And living thinking these things I think I will probably die on a Tatami mat .
There are no `great causes` .

(voice 2)
It seemed to continue as an era of peace and security, but there is no drama . ( there are no "great causes ". )

Modern people can no longer die dramatically .
( there are no "great causes ". )
You might call this the boredom of living .

I think it is natural for me to find it obscene for human beings to live only for themselves .
If we can not find values that go beyond thinking just for ourselves in our minds , we might come to think it to be meaningless to go on living .

Samurai  had to choose death first in sink or swim situations .
It is because of this that the need to die for something arises .
That need is the "great cause " that talked about in the past samurai .
Dying for "great causes"  was considered the most glorious , heroic , or brilliant way of dying .

However , there are no " great causes " now .

So , I will die like a bee inside a cell in a hospital room .
( there are no "great causes ". )

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三島由紀夫と死生観についての考察 ( Views of life and death about Yukio MIshima)

高円寺でOriental Forceという小さなUndergroundなLive / Dj バー、Creative Spceを運営しています。自身はOriental Loveという名義で、電子音楽を中心に現代の民族音楽を志しています。

どこまでも自由に、どこまでも楽しく、どこまでも烈しく美しく、どこまでも優しい、そんな場所にあれたら、と思います。
共に何か新しい価値観の創造、小さいながらも確固たるムーブメントの共有をできれば、心より幸いに思います。

I run Creative Space, a small, underground live/DJ bar in Koenji called Oriental Force. Under the name Oriental Love, I aspire to create modern folk music, with a focus on electronic music.

I hope to create a space that is endlessly free, endlessly fun, endlessly intense and beautiful, and endlessly gentle.

I would be truly happy if we could work together to create new values ​​and share in a small but solid movement.

死生観 (views of life and death )

Oriental Love a.k.a Kaya Takada