Hiroshi

I’m excited to share “Faraway Vicinity,” my first collaboration with my label mate Kin Leonn. We worked on the EP in the spring of 2020 while the world is struggling to tackle with the first wave of COVIT-19 pandemic. It was a great pleasure for me to work with Kin, who is an amazing musician. Some of you notice that the label picked one of photos I took for the cover image. All songs have been mastered by Chihei Hatakeyama. I do hope you’ll like this.

(from the label website)

In this era of uncertainty and shaken normalities, we are forced to confront a different landscape in society – one which has modified our interactions with people and nature. There is a sense that the zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, has shifted further into the dystopian territory. Faraway Vicinity is the amalgamation of these landscapes – human and non-human, familiar and unknown – to construct a sonic world that mirrors these strange times. But more importantly, it hopes to bring a familiar peace to these unfamiliar places. If there’s any silver lining to this current situation, it must be that it gave us a chance to pause and reflect upon what it takes to live with joy or prosperity. It was precisely in this condition where Kin Leonn (Singapore) and Hiroshi Ebina (Tokyo, Japan), separated by land and sea, created this work.