OURAKEN est un projet musical et visuel, qui explore par son ambient rituel les facettes les plus sombres de l’histoire japonaise. Du Sengoku Jidai à l’incendie de Tokyo, des massacres de Nankin jusqu’à Hiroshima, le fanatisme et la mort tendent à esthétiser leur brutalité.
Le concept DARK ZEN unit tension et sérénité, violence et beauté. Le visible et l’invisible, l’humble quotidien et la réalité ultime, le Relatif et l’Absolu, la destruction et l’équilibre. Un équilibre construit dans le but exclusif de sa propre destruction.
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With his dark and meditative ambient music, OURAKEN explores the creepiest aspects of Japanese history. From the medieval Sengoku Jidai era to the bombing of Tokyo, from the Nankin massacres to Hiroshima, fanaticism and death are tending to aestheticise their brutality.
DARK ZEN unites tension and serenity, violence and beauty. The visible and the invisible, humble everyday life and ultimate reality, the Relative and the Absolute, destruction and harmony. A harmony built for the only purpose of its own destruction.
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Ouraken: "Dead Geisha’s Garden" - excerpt
Ouraken: "Yamato no Orochi" (meeting Hokusai’s Fisherman’s Wife) - excerpt
Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que le nouvel album "Life's Decay - Dysrieuses" vient tout juste de sortir ! Vous pouvez d'ores et déjà écouter 3 mp3 de cet album sur notre profil myspace. Vous pouvez visiter www.lifesdecay.com pour plus d'info et/ou commander l'album sur www.abstraktsens.com
Nous espérons que vous apprécierez ce nouvel album ! Merci pour votre soutien & bien amicalement.
3 december in tokyo - kunitachi yagawa eki french poetry performance + tibetan flags installation "Kaze no Uma" + poetic mixed media + dance performance "Hecatombe" + classical french poems reading
DeNovo - Konztruktivizm 09 (The Remixes) Digital Release BM099
"Konztruktivizm" originally released in 2003 on psi49net (Germany). This 2009 reworking album features new versions and remixes from Laurent Boudic, Hiv+ & Darank!
"At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things."
The legend of the Kuchisake Onna is said to originate with a young woman who lived hundreds of years ago (some versions of the legend state the Heian period) and was either the wife or concubine of a samurai. She is said to have been very beautiful but also very vain, and possibly cheating on her husband. The samurai, extremely jealous and feeling cuckolded, attacked her and slit her mouth from ear to ear, screaming "Who will think you're beautiful now?"
The urban legend picks up from this point, stating that a woman roams around at night (especially during foggy evenings), with her face covered by a surgical mask, which would not be especially unusual, as people with colds often wear masks for the sake of others in Japan. When she encounters someone (primarily children or college students), she will coyly ask, "Do you think I'm beautiful?" ("Watashi kirei?"). If the person answers yes, she will take off her mask and say, "Even like this?" At this point, if the victim answers "No," she will slay them (in many versions, her weapon is a pair of scissors). If the victim tells her she is pretty a second time, she follows the victim home and slays them in their own doorway, due to the fact that "kirei" , Japanese for ' pretty,' is a near homophone of "kire" , the imperative form of "to cut".
"Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."
"Injustice, poverty, slavery, ignorance - these may be cured by reform or revolution. But men do not live only by fighting evils. They live by positive goals, individual and collective, a vast variety of them, seldom predictable, at times incompatible."
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection."
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