Alone By the Sea

chihei hatakeyama was influenced by Fudaraku-tokai. it is a form of the ascetic practice of sacrifice performed in medieval Japan. A monk undertaking this practice would set out to sea in a small, single-sailed (but oar-less and rudderless) boat in the hope of arriving at the southern paradise of the Bodhisattva of Compassion (Avalokitesvara; Guanyin; Kannon). the fudaraku tokai was carried out over twenty times between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. chihei hatakeyama used only one sound file for making this album. it is came from old vinyl. chihei hatakeyama bought it at a small record shop in a bargain sale.