Chihei Hatakeyama - Void XXII (2021)

Void 22 is the latest in the Void series, which has previously been released digitally and on CDR, and the first in the Void series to be released on CD. This is the second album in the Chinese history series, following the previous album "Autumn Breeze", which was inspired by the achievements of Zhuge Liang in "the Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel". This film was heavily inspired by the writings of Miyazaki Ichisada (mainly related to Chinese history), which dynamically portrayed the joys, sorrows and foolishness of human beings, which is also relevant to today's difficult world with the coronavirus. Therefore, this album contains many melodic pieces based on the writings of Miyazaki Ichisada and the situation of contemporary society.
The songs have been selected from recordings made in 2020 and have been composed to sound like the soundtrack to a fictional film. Some of the tracks have been recorded on cassette tape and then re-processed, so that the lo-fi textures and hiss of the sound become part of the sound.