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Even if the world is covered with darkness, I continue to sing.
This is the second album after a three year hiatus by Films, the dark fantasy music unit whose members remain a secret.
Films debuted in 2010 on Noble, the Tokyo-based music label which has sent many Japanese electronica artists such as World's End Girlfriend and Serph all around the world. The mystery composer and contributing member of Films has received many awards in music competitions and international film festivals, and is admired by Ryuichi Sakamoto, Nobuo Uematsu and Takeshi Kobayashi, famous Japanese musicians.
Some of the Japan's top talent in post-rock, modern classical, and ambient music such as Yuki Murata and Takahiro Kido (members of Anoice) and Daisuke Kashiwa, participate in this album as the players and the mixing/mastering engineers. In addition, RAKU-GAKI supported Films' world as the art director and the web designer.
Films' second album is graced with two females' beautiful and fantastic vocals in their original languages which are put on classic music made from piano, violin and viola, destructive rhythms and grandeur orchestral sounds.
Deeper than "Vespertine " by bjork, don't miss this incredible work!!

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    Films is a dark fantasy music unit formed by Anoice, an instrumental music band featuring dark cinematic sounds, with two female vocalists who sing in their own originally created languages. They make creative and beautiful music using the classical sounds of piano and stringed instruments, often blending them with electric, destructive rhythms. Films debuted by releasing their first album 'Messenger' on Noble Label in 2010. In 2013, Films released their second album 'a forbidden garden' on Ricco Label, and received much praise from Nobuo Uematsu, the composer for the Final Fantasy series. This album was also included in the trilogy that has a 'memories' theme together with Anoice's fourth album 'into the shadows' and the third album 'Gift' from Yuki Murata. After the successes of the Europe tour and the first live performance in Japan held at Saitama Super Arena which gathered 10,000 people in 2016, Films began the new project 'mizu amane' featuring the lyrics sung with Japanese archaic languages which are no longer spoken, and released five singles up until now. Also, in November 2016, Films released their third album, 'signs from the past', featuring Calu who is the vocalist of Matryoshka. Films went to Hong-Kong, China tour with Anoice, and then, released the 4th album 'at the deep end' in 2023. This album contains beautiful and quiet songs which were used as inserted song on a movie 'Girls on Film' directed by Robin Bain in US, and also another song premiered at the stage of ASIA BEAUTY EXPO 2022, one of the biggest beauty salon business events in Asia.

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