Years Passing - "In Japan" (CD)

Although he is a member of the legendary Scandinavian band Suis La Lune, a light ambient band that seems to be overflowing with healing negative ions, Years Passing expresses his music in a different way from that.

Although there are no Suis La Lune-like elements of intensity, his music, filled with grains of sound that seem to echo in a transparent and delicate cave of light, seems to express the very spirit of the man who continues to pursue the sound he wants to make.

In other words, it is pure and transparent to the end. People grow up and bands change their musicality. Each time, there is a sound that is etched with a person's present.

Years Passing is the solo project of Henning Runolf, the guitarist/vocalist of the Swedish emo/shoegaze band Suis La Lune and Sore Eyelids, and was released on the occasion of their first Japan tour at TJLA FEST 2015.

Henning's atmospheric and noisy side has blossomed into a beautiful ambient/drone/shoegaze sound created solely with guitars and effectors. The beautiful roaring noises and floating falsetto vocals are all unique to Henning's solo style, and his ideas shine through.

The album contains 10 songs in total, including 2 never-before-released tracks, 2 newly re-recorded tracks, and 6 previously released tracks, making it a compilation. Artwork is by marmushka (Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Shirokuma, Count Your Lucky Stars Records).

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溢れんばかり癒しのマイナスイオンを放っていそうな光のアンビエント、Suis La Luneという北欧激情の伝説的バンドのメンバーでありながら、それとは別の形での音楽を表現しているのがこのYears Passing。Suis La Lune的な激情要素は一切ないが、透明で繊細な光の洞窟の中でこだまするような音の粒に満たされた彼の音楽には、自分のやりたい音を追求し続ける彼の精神そのものが表現されているかのようだ。つまりどこまでも透明なピュアさ。人は成長し、バンドも音楽性を変える。そのときそれぞれで人の現在が刻まれた音があるということ。

TJLA FEST 2015での初来日公演にあわせて発表された、スウェーデンの激情/エモ/シューゲイズバンドSuis La Lune, Sore EyelidsのGt/Vo. Henning RunolfによるソロプロジェクトYears Passingの来日記念盤。Henningが有するアトモスフェリックでノイジーな一面が開花したギターとエフェクターのみで創り出す美しきアンビエント/ドローン/シューゲイズ・サウンド。美しい轟音ノイズや浮遊感漂うファルセット・ヴォーカルなど所属バンドでは見られないソロならではのセンスを活かしたアイデアが光る。完全未発表音源2曲と新たにレコーディングを行った再録2曲に既出音源6曲を加えた、集大成と言える内容で構成した全10曲を収録。アートワークはmarmushka (Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate), Shirokuma, Count Your Lucky Stars Records) が手がけている。

Tracklist:
1. ömt
2. …after all of this *

3. mörkt & kallt
4. picturing it
5. du förtjänar bättre **

6. picking shards
7. can i depend on you for awhile?

8. dejected **
9. to keep on *
10. passing by your old home

*new track
**new version