The Discographer

2  8  1  4 新しい日の誕生 ( Atarashī Hi no Tanjō ), Birth of a New Day, 2015 Listen along with me in full here :)     Slowly realising all of my favourite albums are purple.  Translations of the Kanji 1, 0:00,  恢复 (Recovery) ~ The light within me bows to the light within you ~ At the very top of my neurotically-stored bucket list are many activities surrounding visiting Japan. Learning Japanese, walking around Tokyo at night, teaching english in Japan, going to a Japanese shoegaze gig. All of these seemed very much within reach 12 months ago when I had some dispensable savings, little direction in life and the upcoming ending of university commitments. Just as it felt like an end goal was beginning to formulate pixel by pixel, life was turned entirely upside down.   2814   is an English-American collaborative p roject by  Telepath テレパシー能力者   and HKE.  In retrospect, I am trying to learn to love the effects of the pandemic on my p...

Replenish There's a certain vulnerability that comes with the word replenish. The inferred presence of weakness with its omission. It feels like a warm embrace from a friend outdoors in spring air. It comes after conflict, representing the peace that always follows. The lowering heart rate.  It represents the shade of green here, #4ab94d.  ~~~ Are you replenishing yourself? ~~~ After performing my 2020 personal review over Christmas, I decided to summarise that year of my life with the word Reflection. This felt most apt particularly in the way that it incorporates the several effectual alterations my perspective experienced across the year. - Finishing university left me boundless, with acres of space for presence and my own direction - COVID-19 induced lockdown and a desire to align my actions with my ethics amplified my awareness of self - I became a far less rash thinker, contemplating deep topics far further as supported by techniques encountered through counselling and m...