A Modern-Day Affliction

Over the past year, I have been heavily inspired by an article I found quite by accident. It was an article from The New York Times, written by Norimitsu Onishi and it was about the lonely deaths of elderly Japanese people who live alone in a danchi, a sprawling government apartment complex, outside Tokyo. I was so much impressed by the stories of those people that not a single day goes by without me thinking about it. There is so much loneliness in our lives so it feels like it's a 21st-century epidemic... or 'a modern-day affliction'. The more people around us, the more lonely we are. The more we live, the more lonely we are. You may die in a neighboring apartment and no one will ever notice this. No one deserves this. Life is so complicated and confusing. It is an ode not to the story of those people, but to the complex grain of our lives: loneliness, melancholy, greyness. ____________________________________________________ Full album consists of 14 tracks, with the 15th track as the continuos mix with some additional editing and transitions. So, if you have enough time, I'd recommend you to listen to the continuos mix. ____________________________________________________