Devil's Ivy

The music was conceived with the victims of the Noto Peninsula earthquake of 2024 in mind, and production began in earnest in early February. Once completed, the music was brushed up until it was satisfactory with advice from a music producer with a discerning ear and numerous celebrities. Sound recording was done at Sound Arts in Jiyugaoka, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, and the music video was shot at NEKOMARU's childhood home and at a local apartment complex. The original plan was to shoot on location in Okinawa and make it into a "Parisian" movie, but the members strongly insisted that "we can't forget the concept of a cheering song for people who have been through hardships and get carried away," so the music video was shot as it normally is. It was the irreplaceable friends who saved NEKOMARU, which had fallen to the bottom of the heap after losing control of itself due to alcoholism and nearly becoming a cripple. The naked attitude that can only come from a person who "died once," but has gradually risen to the top thanks to the indomitable fighting spirit and support of others. The album is like a deconstruction and reconstruction of the history of popular music, and has completed a colorful and three-dimensional sound texture that no one has ever heard before, sublimated into a garden of sound. You will surely feel the universality that is the main concept of JORUJU.

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