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Music producer Henry D. Pool is known for producing multi-faceted music, from solid beats centered on IDM, to psychedelic noise sounds that depict landscapes with floating synth sounds. The new single release "Halcyon".
Together with the new single "Amber" released at the same time, this work, which was produced with the theme of the New Age in the present age, gradually changes to a calm sound that gradually calms down the sense sharpened by the vivid refrain of the intro. The climax provokes catharsis.
3DCG/graphic artist Chō, who worked on the artwork for "Neo Nagomu Gal - EP" (2021), also created the music video and artwork for this work. In the MV, a mysterious creature "Halcyon-chan" who is too cute runs around a world like Roger Dean's works.
"Halcyon" was provided as film music for the documentary film "Film Fetish", directed by film director Yu Kaneko about the experimental filmmaker Junichi Okuyama. Along with "Eifeckx Tuyin" from "Neo Nagomu Gal - EP", four songs including unreleased songs are produced and provided by Henry D. Pool.
In addition to the world premiere screening at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in the Netherlands, the film will have its Asian premiere screening at the JEONJU International Film Festival, which is known for screening cutting-edge Korean works.
Henry D. Pool, also known as Shuntaro Egashira from Tokyo, emerged onto the scene in 2020 and released two singles at the time, "hada no machi (Skin City)" and "awao sayounara (Good-bye My Bubble)". He has positioned himself as an electronic music-based producer who creates a variety of multifaceted music. His activities are not limited to his own works, but in collaboration with ryaw, a fashion brand that pursues creations that encourage deep thinking in the viewer and wearer through experimental shapes and graphics, he created the spatial music, "Terminal Care (ryaw) for ryaw's 22SS collection unmanned POP UP STORE ISO ROOM. In addition, he has provided film music for several documentary films. "Eifeckx Tuyin" released in 2021 and "Halcyon" released in 2023 were used as film music in one of them and they had world premiere in the Cinema Regained section of IFFR (International Film Festival Rotterdam), and Asian premiere in JEONJU Intl. Film Festival (Korea).