If, by otom

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	1.	If 09:20	lyrics	buy track
	巡るその日を知っていたならあなたには遠くまで見えるようになる巡るその日が過ぎていたなら彼らなら簡単に代えを探すだろうさっきは何を言おうとしていたのとぼけた振りだけ目につくこと知るようなどうかしてる巡るその日は今もそのまま繰り返し現れて同意を求めるさっきは何を言おうとしていたの遥か前から問い続けているようなどうかしてる

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If
"if" is otom's single with folk and experimental sounds. This is a 10-minute song with a vocal part in the first half and an instrumental part in the second half. The main features of this work are acoustic guitar arpeggios and electric guitar sounds played with freeze effects. The first half of the song has emphasizes vocal melody but in a simple folk style, then into the second half has builds up a wall of sound with layer after layer of sound. This is one of otom's most ambitious works.
The lyrics inspired by the episode "The Grand Inquisitor" in "The Brothers Karamazov" of one of otom's favorite novels. It also includes themes of the transfer and illusion of freedom in modern times. It sings about the questions of the present and expresses whether the world it reaches at its end is one of harmony or chaos.
The idea for the two separate demos of vocal and instrumental songs, which I had written down between 2011 and 2014, using those ideas, I began to make this song around the end of 2021.

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─ otom ──────────
otom is Japanese experimental pop, dreampop and electronic musician, composer.
works with guitars, computers, MaxMSP and many musical instruments.

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website: otom.jp
bandcamp: otom.bandcamp.com
soundcloud: soundcloud.com/otom/
twitter: twitter.com/otomotom/

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『if』はフォークと実験的なサウンドを併せ持つotomのシングル。約10分の曲で前半のボーカルパート、後半のインストゥルメントパートと云う構成になっている。アコースティックギターのアルペジオとフリーズエフェクトで持続音とミックスしたエレキギターのサウンドが本作の大きな特徴。ボーカルメロディを重視していながらもシンプルな曲調の前半から、次々とレイヤーを重ねて音の壁を築き上げる後半へと展開する曲でotomの意欲作の一つとなっている。
現代における自由の譲渡と幻想をテーマとしつつ、otomが最も好きな小説『カラマーゾフの兄弟』の中のエピソード『大審問官』からも大きなインスピレーションを受けた歌詞の内容となっている。現在への疑問を歌い、それらを経て辿りつく世界は調和か混沌かと云う考えを元に表現し作り上げた。
2011年から2014年にかけてメモしておいたボーカル曲とインストゥルメント曲の別々のデモ2曲のアイデアを元に2021年末頃より制作。

─ otom ──────────
日本のミュージシャン、作曲家のotom(オトム)。
エクスペリメンタルポップ、ドリームポップを中心に実験音楽、ドローン、エレクトロニック、ノイズ等の音楽を手掛けています。

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website: otom.jp
bandcamp: otom.bandcamp.com
soundcloud: soundcloud.com/otom/
twitter: twitter.com/otomotom/

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released July 1, 2022

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All songs written by otom
Recorded, Mixed and mastered by otom
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otom 東京都, Japan

otom

musician. otom was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1976.
works with guitars, computers, MaxMSP and many musical instruments to create drone, experimental pop, dream pop and shoegaze, electronica, acoustic sound and audio/visual works.

a.k.a "pneumatics"
pneumatics.bandcamp.com

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