Planetarium Lyra
I've come across a wonderful work.

I have no specialized knowledge whatsoever about this kind of music.
I myself have kept playing in bands for nearly 30 years.
The definitions of "sounds I love" and "sounds I want to make" that I've arrived at over that time are very close to the sound of Planetarium Lyra.

Being intellectual, contextual, and collaborative.
To my mind, each of these three has its own corresponding method of output.

Intellectual means having reason and wisdom when you set out to do something.
Contextual means having a foundation rooted in the path you've walked so far.
Collaborative means trusting your partner completely and entrusting yourself to them.

Planetarium Lyra has all three in place.

Intellect: I think the theme is distilled into the title of the first track.
Beyond the "cuteness" that fairies possess, I could naturally picture them darting through all sorts of in-between spaces (genres).

Context: In terms of structure, from the second track onward it's packaged as "soft–hard–still–moving."
An hour flies by.

Track order matters, but track titles matter even more. Only once a title is attached does the concept of a piece come to the surface.
In that sense, Vajra comes across as a very powerful track.
The connotation of an aesthetic sensibility—yes, I see.

And what I personally want to single out is the collaboration and the depiction.

Generally speaking, I feel solo albums are often made dictatorially, with the sound created under a centralized leader.
But Planetarium Lyra is decentralized, you might say—not a geocentric creation revolving around a leader, but a central figure entering into all sorts of networks, with each track achieving a superb level of completion through the descriptive power gained from collaborating with those people.

I think this too stems from the many genres, sounds, and live shows she has passed through until now.

For my generation, the planetarium was a really rich form of entertainment.
Incomparably more so than the zoo or the park.
I loved the planetarium.
You'd feel the vastness of space, and though the stars were so far away, between the narrator's voice
and all the various guiding effects, there was a sense of intimacy with that "faraway beyond"—I remember staying for hours.

Planetarium Lyra
I can listen for hours. It's good music.

Thank you, Mayuko.

⚫︎second to none Taku