Forest Healing

An Ensemble of Forest and Light, Painted by a Traveling Composer. A Sublime Healing Story to Awaken the "Silence" Sleeping Deep Within Your Heart.

KENSUKE is a "Traveling Composer" who weaves the countless encounters and landscapes he experiences while traveling across Japan into music. The many piano sketches he has collected along his journey have now been reborn as beautiful, elegant chamber music. This album, Forest Healing, is an instrumental work that uses the piano as a canvas, layering upon it the birdsong-like melody of the flute, the shimmer of the harp, and the warmth of strings to colorfully depict the breath of the forest.

The greatest highlight of this work lies in the "narrative" that runs through the entire album. The opening track, "Starting Now," evokes the premonition of a new morning and a small, quiet determination. In the following tracks, "Wind Toward Tomorrow" and "Tailwind," the refreshing sensation of the wind pushing a traveler's back is expressed through an expansive ensemble. As the album progresses into the middle section with "Oasis in the Woods" and "Breath of Fresh Green," the listener is unwittingly drawn deep into the forest. The soundscapes, evoking the interplay of sunlight filtering through trees and the murmuring of clear streams, will help hearts exhausted by the noise of the city regain their natural rhythm of breathing.

Of particular note is the seventh track, placed at the album's turning point: "Still, I Go." Daringly stripping away all other instruments to be played as a piano solo, this piece lays bare the loneliness and internal conflict of the traveler, as well as the raw will to start walking again. The quiet intensity held within this single track gives the entire album deep shading and a profound sense of humanity.

The story then flows through the eternal time felt in "Tale of the Thousand-Year Tree" and concludes with the final track, "Green Cradle." The album closes its curtains quietly, leaving the listener with a sense of peace, as if being held and lulled to sleep by Mother Nature herself.

More than just relaxation music, this is a record of the heart's regeneration, depicted through the perspective of a single traveler. Forest Healing, woven together by the resonance of KENSUKE's piano and chamber music, will surely blow a gentle breeze into your daily life and quietly fill you with the strength to face tomorrow.