Surreal art: Zdzislaw Beksinski, Salvador Dali, H.R. Giger, Pablo Picasso, Heironymus Bosch, Joel Peter Witkin
Literature: H.P. Lovecraft, Aleister Crowley, Edgar Allan Poe
Film directors: David Lynch, Jiri Barta, David Cronenberg, Clive Barker
I have no direct band influences, but I enjoy listening to: Sopor Aeternus, Devil Doll, Diamanda Galas, (old) Current 93, Nurse With Wound, Coil, Bjork, The Swans, Midnight Syndicate, Lacrimosa, Bauhaus, Siouxsie & the Banshees, (early 80s) The Cure, Christian Death (with Rozz only), Fields of the Nephilim, Faith & the Muse, Cinema Strange, Mephisto Walz, Danse Society, Violet Stigmata, Das Ich, Diary of Dreams, Clan of Xymox, Oneiroid Psychosis, Android Lust, Die Form, Project Pitchfork, In Strict Confidence, Deine Lakaien, Stillste Stund, Arcana, Dead Can Dance, Ataraxia, Gothica, Qntal, Helium Vola, Bel Canto, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Dark Sanctuary, Dargaard, Lustmord, Raison D..etre, Aghast, Atrium Carceri, Desiderii Marginiis, In Slaughter Natives, Necrophorous, Sephiroth, Northaunt, Zero Kama, Unto Ashes, Of the Wand & the Moon, Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio, Sonne Hagal, Hekate, Sol Invictus, Corvus Corax, Romowe Rikoito, Fire & Ice, Tor Lundval. Skinny Puppy, Frontline Assembly, Haujobb, Wumpscut, yelworC, Laibach, Omnicore, Der Blutharsch, Puissance, Sturmast, Burzum, Summoning, Ulver, (old) Emperor, (old) Limbonic Art, Nokturnal Mortum, (old) Dimmu Borgir, Abruptum, Nortt, Mutiilation, Graveland, My Dying Bride, (old) Anathema, (mid-era) Tiamat, Virgin Black, (old) Amorphis, Skepticism, Wormphlegm, Tyranny, Stabat Mater, Candlemass, Bach, Wagner, Ravel, Schubert, Brahms, John Carpenter, David Lynch, Danny Elfman
Kanashibari is the romanization of the Japanese term for sleep, or more accurately, dream paralysis. It is the state of being trapped between the void of dream and reality, a state when one is most sensitive to supernatural presences.
It is this dream state Kanashibari wishes to inflict upon the listener, through waves of sounds, voices, and the addition of subtle melodic undertones to create an environment of lush surreal hallucinogenic scenery.
Loki Tomoko Helvete began creating music for the Japan-based surreal fashion/visual artist Luciferrot, creating the soundtracks used for Luciferrot's performances, for whom (s)he also makes masks and participates as performer/model.
In the beginning, the music for Kanashibari was more minimal, based in surrealist noise, ambience, and experimental treated voices and loops, with hints of soundtrack-esque melody, influenced by early industrial, experimental, and avant-garde Krautrock artists.
Recently, Kanashibari has progressed in a more melodic direction, with more influences from gothic music and neofolk. Kanashibari is music for dead souls still dreaming.
Helvete also has a new project this year formed together with kindred spirit, Jeckyll, known as Drowning in Sand.
Drowning is Sand is an exploration in ambient/noise soundscapes and the more elemental sounds of audial deconstructivism created by a fusion of synthetic and organic sources.
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featuring kayoko masuda (voice), andreas geyer (bass clarinet) and others total playing time: 73 minutes comes as a factory-made cd with eight-page booklet
