Release Date: 2025/11/21
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This arrangement reimagines the traditional Georgian folk song "Gelino" through serene polyphony and modern, heavy sonic textures.
The first half highlights the folk melody's simplicity and prayer-like character with layered harmonies and gentle accompaniment, while the latter half expands into a soundscape reminiscent of Post-Metal and Blackgaze.
Tremolo-driven, hard-edged riffs, ambient layers, and a heavy wall of distortion overlap to preserve the song's original purity, fragility, and warmth, while adding deeper emotional weight and a contemporary resonance.
For this release, I created a newly written English translation based on the original Georgian text and used it as the lyrics. Although several English translations exist, it is rare to find versions that are actually performed as sung lyrics.
With deep respect for Georgian musical heritage, this arrangement brings together the song's folk roots and a new, modern interpretation.
SATOSHI is a Japanese composer and producer whose music draws on classical harmony, sacred and liturgical traditions, folk music from around the world, and Japanese melodic sensibilities. Moving across post-rock, blackgaze, dark ambient, trip-hop, and abstract hip-hop, he combines layered vocals, massive drones, tremolo-driven guitars, breakbeats, and profound silence to explore prayer, loss, hope, and the boundary between civilization and nature. The contemporary reimagining of traditional hymns and folk melodies is central to his work, transforming them through his own artistic vision while bringing the beauty of the originals to new audiences. His YouTube channel has surpassed 88,000 subscribers, and he collaborates with vocalists and artists from around the world. His music has also been featured at an official football event held at a national stadium outside Japan. ECLESIAH is the project through which SATOSHI embodies "Sacredgaze," a musical world of his own conception where prayer, silence, darkness, and overwhelming sound converge, reconnecting the sacred with contemporary musical expression.