SHROUD OF VAPOUR (Hiroshi / Hiroko Hasegawa (Rohco​)​, L'eclipse Nue & Yoshiko Honda) - Suicide Forest Sessions CD

Shroud Of Vapour is a five piece collaborative project that brings together it’s members from the Japanese noise scene for a moody, mostly subdued and often chilling two track release on respected Singapore based noise/experimental label 4iB Records. This is the project’s first release.

The release comes in the form of a CD release, which features two tracks, each of these run between fifty & nineteen minutes a piece. And I guess it’s best to describe what we have here as a fairly loose & often woozy mix of unsettling & stripped electro ambience, subdued noisy improv/noise making, eerier vocalising, and the odd venture into more structured/noisy affair.

The release takes it’s name from Aokigahara, The Suicide Forest or Sea of Trees – a 35-square-kilometre forest situated on the northwest base of Mount Fuji in Japan. The forest is associated with demons in Japanese myth, and has been the site of many suicides (give or take around a 100 most years since the late 1980’s). Both tracks here were recorded live in the forest, using just battery powered & non electric elements.

The project brings together the following: Hiroshi Hasegawa (of C.C.C.C., Astro, and many other projects), ROHCO (also of C.C.C.C. & Astro), L’Eclipse Nue (Daniel Sine) & Yoshiko Honda.