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This holistic practice complements his artistic pursuits by providing him with a deeper understanding of the mind-body connection.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"brain-pulse-music","title":"Brain Pulse Music","description":"\u003cp\u003emasaki batoh - member of famed japanese psych-rock band ghost - wants you to hear exactly what's been rattling around in his brain. you will have the chance via his new solo lp, 'brain pulse music', on drag city. batoh created a large chunk of the record utilizing an apparatus that transforms the human brain's activity (and its reaction to stimuli) into sound called the brain pulse music machine. batoh fleshed out the sound of this mind meld with some traditional japanese instrumentation and created the seven songs that comprise 'brain pulse music'. batoh started working on the project prior to the disastrous tsunami that ravaged japan last march. after that calamity, he refocused to create music to 'reconcile the spirit and the body.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"No Label","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50409857483083,"sku":"347945","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50409857843531,"sku":"347946","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/c4ef9069-42a8-46a4-bb8a-3cef9c6353e2_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726630377"},{"product_id":"nowhere-1","title":"Nowhere","description":"\u003cp\u003eLife is enigma, and with great respect for the vagaries of this truth, Masaki Batoh's \u003ci\u003eNowhere\u003c\/i\u003e reaches out of the darkness, with strings of steel and voices echoing out of time. In the summer of 2018, Masaki Batoh (ex Ghost, The Silence) held sessions at GOK Sound in Tokyo, with the goal of making his fourth solo album. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a pure folk singer approach, he started the recordings with a basic live performance of guitar with vocal, using only two mics. If more elements were needed, they would be added - but most important to him was to capture the performance as immediately as possible. Many of the lyrics of\u003ci\u003e Nowhere,\u003c\/i\u003e sung in English, Japanese, and on one song, Latin, reference his younger days as well, when traveling the world and witnessing for himself the majesty and shame of humanity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sound of \u003ci\u003eNowhere \u003c\/i\u003ereflects with dimensional richness the world that Batoh has been traveling since those early days - a vast space echoing with the music of many eras, played and sung in tongues of many nations. This is a world where the guitar can play songs as they've been played for centuries, or play in a hauntingly hallucinogenic style, or, as in the closing track, play with an open mind and heart, thinking about these things without knowing exactly where it will end. The theme of Batoh's music is finding a common tradition in all these various musics, to bring them forward in his own style and provoke a shared desire to promote humanity in the audience. 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