'Forever chemicals' is a nickname that the scientific community has given to PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), synthetic compounds that don't break down naturally. eg. microplastics that dont fully degrade; now present in our water, in our bloodstream & lungs, which will be there after the rest of us deteriorates
the late 90s/2000s was a time of technological optimism: the unlimited possibility & freedom it presented, as well as simulations of community and connectivity. we're now experiencing what unbound advancement has led to, reaching a state where everything is extreme and the world seems to be in a state of irreversible emergency
icl its a weird time to be releasing an album, let alone music in general..
my first EP 'Kagura' was a searching for self, wading thru the confusing depths of a very personal grief, tracing it alongside that of my ancestors in Nagasaki and connecting it to the grief of my community here. An excavation of my internal world & integration thru devastation
naturally, collaborating with
@jakeydeg meant looking around & interrogating the external world. This album is a observation of where we're at, having past the tipping point that once seemed so abstract & far off into the future..
observing the consequences of our hyperconsumption, overstimulation, excess ~ the endless streaming of information, surveillance, data mining, gen0c1de, fake news, millionaires biohacking & freezing their consciousness while extracting on mass scale..
i realise that these songs are a grasping for the fragments of humanity that's left, that remains within us despite the literal & metaphorical contamination of the mind, the flesh, & the earth-body
questioning what we are, underneath the layers of artifice, the conditioning, the masks we adopt/project. & what it means to exist, to grow, to love in a world like this?
at the end of the day its a blessing to be alive, to witness n experience humanness at its purest, in whatever form it takes; joy, despair, anger, connection ~
in a time of such instability and fragmentation its still possible to return to our oneness
cos thats kind of all we have, you know? 🫧
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