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"Efficiency and optimization. What kind of richness lies beyond them?"
"Still Frames: Human Mechanism" is a work born in an era where "Artificial Intelligence" begins to imitate emotion.
All sounds in this album were created entirely by hand.
They stand deliberately in opposition to efficiency and optimization, forming a quiet record that reflects on human activity from another direction.
Without drawing too close to emotion, yet without pushing it away,
the music observes from a steady distance, as if calmly witnessing what unfolds.
Like a fixed scene in a film, it holds sorrow and beauty within the same frame,
choosing composition over drama, and silence over emotional outbursts.
The emotions here are not spoken.
They linger faintly within mist-covered memories, repeated gestures,
and time that continues while being endured.
It imagines a future moment when machines look back at humanity-
and wonders how they might choose to remember us.
Based in Kobe, Japan, Shingo Mimura is a multi-talented producer, composer, arranger, pianist, bassist, and music director. His music features soft piano and melodies mixed with beauty and fragility, and he is highly regarded for his visual and artistic expressiveness with large-scale arrangements that include strings. His music has been featured in theaters, advertising video works, as well as background music for many games and events. Since releasing his first album Heart Sky Door in September 2018 by PROGRESSIVE FOrM, a prestigious electronic music label in Japan, he has released six albums and four EPs. In addition to his solo work, he is also a member of the ambient pop group coconoe formed by three musicians, Takayama Naoko, Kita Kouhei, and Shingo Mimura.
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