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Mirai Kodai Orchestra, known for "Forgotten Words" with over 100 million viral streams, presents their new single "Gates of the Dragon Hall," featuring vocalist Una.

Mirai Kodai Orchestra is a narrative music unit that draws from ethnic music traditions across the world, creating sounds under the concept of "Ancient Music of a Millennium Hence": a "new yet nostalgic," "fictional ethnic music." The unit has received awards at numerous international film festivals and consistently charts across multiple regions worldwide.

Life once rose from the water and climbed onto land. So let us return there once more. This song follows those who abandon a crumbling earth and descend into the ocean depths, guided by silver scales. They let go of breath, and if the sunlight will not have them, they let go of the sky as well. But not alone. Your body and mine, both sinking together. What Taketeru Sunamori placed at the end of the world is not despair but a happiness reached by two.

The track runs in five. Odd meters are a signature of Mirai Kodai Orchestra, appearing across many of their releases and long praised by listeners for the distinctive groove they produce. Here that five-beat pulse creates an irregular sway, like drifting underwater. Una's clear voice cuts through that motion like a single beam of light, carrying the story down into the deep.

Dive deep, dive deep. Where the silver scales lead.