Fukushima Boy, Mirai No Hagaki
Tales of Fukushima
Tales of Fukushima
Twenty-three tales from the people who lived through the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Only twenty-one could be told.
Each track is imagined as the story of one survivor: someone who lived through the earthquake, the wave and the invisible threat that followed. One remembers the morning everything stopped. One returns to a house that can no longer be lived in. One still listens for a voice that will never answer. Shifting textures, fractured atmospheres, haunting drones and fragile sonic landscapes carry the words they cannot say: the lives interrupted, the homes left behind, the land changed forever.
The tales are numbered from 1 to 23, but you will find no track 12 and no track 22. These are the ghost tracks: the stories of two people who did not survive. Their numbers remain in the sequence, but their voices are missing. The gap where each of them should be is part of the album, a silence left in their place.
More than a document of destruction, Tales of Fukushima is an invitation to listen, remember and reflect on what remains when the world we know is suddenly taken away. It is a journey through absence, memory, uncertainty and resilience, where sound reaches what words cannot.
Produced and mixed in spatial audio, the album surrounds the listener, who steps inside each story and hears it from within, as if standing beside the one who survived it.
