Urban Paranoia :
"Certain kind of landscape in our quotidian life gradually kills me off. Most of the time I feel like fainting or vomiting, in a psychiatric sense. In this landscape, I feel I don't exist anymore or feel disconnected from the rest of the world. There, I smell people's pretension behind materialistic society, where the humanity is dying. I have been carrying this warning sensation for my entire life against my background society, and I still don't know how to explain it. You see its people's frozen faces expressing no emotion with no body temperature, no physical contact. That is a dead nation with dead people. Now those people are trying to escape from that place, or those who can not get opportunity to leave have no other choice but to make up a sugar-coated illusion over their daily reality, to make themselves believe that they do not notice anything and that they are living happily. In this piece entitled 'Urban Paranoia', I am talking about this pink sweet image which comes from their hallucination, when they have dilemma in repeating their life in this kind of suffocating society. And in our musical session, the sound of the double-bassist Miguel Leiria Pereira has surprisingly corresponded to the essence from my words. Even if he did not have any knowledge of my Japanese language, he could sense it. The grafic work displayed for this piece on my player is created by courtesy of an artist Ricardo Medanha, whose works I always find interesting."
Miguel Leiria Pereira (contrabass solo & real time processed)
Etsuko Kimura (words, voice)