NIKE 公式オンラインストア

SHUREN THE FIRE

PEOPLEText: Junko Isogawa

The song like “Akatsuki Ni Yaoiru Orewa Setsugenno Ookami” (I am a wolf on snow ground who shoot an arrow to dawn), I felt your respect to nature and hommage from your lyrics and sounds. Do you think you are influenced by nature?

Yeah, I used to go camping and play in nature a lot, and it still hasn’t changed in my life. I believe that nature is the origin of human being, and we can’t live without nature. Humans are the part of nature, and nature is everything to us. I like the nature in Hokkaido because it has two different faces; comfortable nice summer and severe winter. Because of winter we can appreciate spring and summer, and we also can have fun in winter. The beauty of autumn is stunning. I think the most beautiful thing is nature and humans are beautiful too, because we are part of it.

You have very good evaluation of your live performance and microphone performance, do you recognize the difference making music and doing live performances?

Honestly I don’t know if my evaluation is good or not. About the difference of making music and live performances, it’s about how I vibrate the sound with other people in the relationship between me and the sound in a space. About making sound is, just enjoy the music purely. I believe my feeling only.

Recently you collaborated live performance with an architect, Kineta Kunimatsu. Could you tell us about the collaboration?

I read the article about his first exhibition in Sapporo on news paper, it caught my eye and I went to the gallery. When I arrived there, he told me that he knew me and had seen my gig, and that he had made the works of this exhibition while he was listening my music. I felt something like destiny you know, so we had started to hang out. We used to talk about if we can collaborate together someday, so the dream came true with the collaboration. I make sculpture by music, and he makes sculpture by wood. That’s the concept of the collaboration.

You make your CD cover by yourself, your activity of expression is not only music. Could you tell us about the cover design of this month?

I think making something, and making presentations could make our life more enjoyable slightly. The title is “Bird of Silence”. I was painting on cardboards, and cutting them and pasting them together, then I naturally eneded up with making a bird. “Bird of Silence” comes from the look which the bird was motionless silently in a openspace.

The last question, I’d like to ask you what your next plans are.

I’m going to update my new songs or pictures on website from now on. Live performance is coming up as soon as new songs have made. Actually I have been taking videos recently, so I’d like to show them after editing someday.
For now I haven’t decided when the CD release is, but surely it’s coming.

Text: Junko Isogawa

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