Mike Cooper, an 84-year-old “post-everything” sound explorer, met illustrator and author Charles van Sandwyk by chance on a small island in Fiji in the early 1990s. This work was inspired by the illustration collection *The Dream Island of Birds*—born from vivid dreams van Sandwyk had while recovering from a serious car accident—and the accompanying signed postcard (which is reportedly still displayed in Cooper’s studio). Based on bird calls recorded during a one-month artist-in-residence program in 2012 on Pulau Ubin, located between Singapore and Malaysia, the sounds were reconstructed using electronics and digital processing. While the titles of each track reference the names of striking birds native to the island, they do not necessarily replicate the birds’ actual calls; the album also includes tracks that depict imaginary birds using only electronic sounds, without any recordings of live birds. With seven tracks in total, this album takes you to the deep zone of a tropical island where reality and fantasy intertwine. (Original Japanese text by Adachi)