Enitokwas new album was originaly released on CD in February 2016. This album is Enitokwas fifth, following mini album Enitokwa EP (East Edge Records 1994), Living in the inside (Century Records 1995), Floating works1996-1999 (Sonic Plate 1999) and slOwdive (Sonic Plate 2000). Though in 2008 a split album by Jun Yamabe and Enitokwa, Bisai' (Klik Records), was produced, this will be my first official solo album in 15 years. For the last 7 years, I had a vague idea that I wanted the next album to be drone music. However in 2010, during a time when I was juggling work, family life and music and holding back from other musical activities, the 3/11 disaster occurred. (For some reason on that day, I was rehearsing at the home of Yoshitake EXPE, also featured in this album.) As the damage from the tsunami and nuclear power plant became progressively evident, I couldnt recall the reason to continue with music and so for about a year my days were spent confronting past tracks and the songs I had liked, and trialling new creations. The turning point came when I performed for Getsumen TV, a live television show in 2013 which was organised by QOTAROO, the guy in charge of this albums design. As a 90 min mostly beatless performance, it became the impetus for my new album. (QOTAROO was the first to show interest in my experimental drone music in 2007.) After that, by giving shape to what I had attained during my live performance, I formed the following rules: 1. To not use samples or loops. 2. To avoid as much as possible any processing that would confuse the original sound. 3. To only use sounds from my performance or field recordings that I myself have taken. 4. To not edit the original performance duration. 5. Any exceptions to this rule are ok if there is reason enough. Furthermore, I started to collaborate with artists with whom my work inevitably formed connections with or to whom I had deepened my ties with post-2011. To put it frankly, it was a Shiritori* of Sound. (*Shiritori is a Japanese word game in which the players are required to say a word which begins with the final kana of the previous word.) As touched upon in the enclosed track list explanation, the overall process was to invite other artists to jam with something that I had created alone, then we would mute my original sounds and record my new sounds or the performance of other artists, which was then arranged and finally mixed by Enitokwa. In this way, instead of simply jamming and overdubbing, we resulted in music that exceeded our expectations of dimension, space-time and imagination. Participating ARTISTS (A to Z) Hiroshi Watanabe aka Kaito (Transmat / Kompakt) Mental Youth (Dirk-Jan Hanegraaff, Robert Kroos) SYNTH SISTERS (Rie Lambdoll, MAYUKo) Yoshitake EXPE Yuuji Hiromoto (The 10 tracks on this album are made up of 5 tracks created solely by myself, and 5 tracks which are collaborations with the above-mentioned artists.) Mastered by Kabamix (LMD) Art work & Designed by QOTAROO Text by Yamabe Keiji (LOS APSON?) Translation (into English) by Kaori Yoshikawa