Osoroshisa (Japanese for “the amount of terror”) is the moniker of Tim Salden from Belgium, who has both a good command of Japanese (speaking and writing).
Some notes from the author:
What does the main title mean:
Itsuka, Oretachi Mushi Ni Naru means We will become insects, someday. I kinda thought of Buddhism and reïncarnation. And since I’m studying Japanese at the University, I wanted to write all the titles in Japanese.Songmeanings:
The first song [Gakushou 1 – Hotaru No Shoumetsu] means: Movement 1 – Extinction Of The FireflyWhy those title:
I love the view of fireflies during summer, so I tried to recreate a summernight,
but with a bit more tension. Starting from the middle part, the fireflies start to shine their light.
Excerpt:
- Gakushou 1 – Hotaru No Shoumetsu
- Kyuukei – Hanabachi No Seizonkyousou
- Gakushou 2 – Higurashi No Kanashii Naki
Listen to and download the whole album from Rain netlabel
Nanimo nai wakusei means “empty planets” in Japanese and is an apt description for key elements of Tim Salden’s music as Osoroshisa. It reflects the width of uninhabited and lonesome worlds and how time becomes a secondary factor on an empty planet that lacks any point of reference for perceiving its continuous passage. In the broader sense, it may also refer to isolated persons living in a solar system of their own, without a way of taking notice of other worlds apart from theirs and where chains of events have gradually been replaced by a constant train of thoughts. Accordingly, the music is located between drone and dark ambient without being particularly representative of either genre and evolves slowly, with recurrent figures weaved into persistent drones and subtle changes in modulation rather than thematic variation and progression.