anointment

Haru Nemuri is releasing her new single called 'anointment'! In January, 2025, she announced that she had become independent and launched her own label called 'ekkolaptómenos', to explore the practice of more DIY and anarchic activities.

'anointment', the first release on her own label, became the work that would let listeners feel Haru Nemuri's new phase, as her experiences and knowledge were gathered and organized.

Since the release of the second full-length album called 'SHUNKA RYOUGEN' (2022), Haru Nemuri has been working energetically on the productions and shows, such as the release of the collaborative works with various musicians overseas, the EP called 'INSAINT' (2023) in which all the songs were recorded with the band set, and live tours both in Japan and overseas. This upcoming work is completely self-produced and resulted in a more enjoyable experience of her world.

The sacred synthesizer sounds reminiscent of sorcery and initiation, the brass orchestra that sounds as if it's imagining solemn scenery itself, the classical and powerful beats are combined together, and come to create the unique space where holiness and evil can exist at the same time. And also, she has used poetry, scream, and rap as the main vocals, but this time, she adopted the melodious topline and harmony that clings to it beautifully throughout the whole song, it produces the new attraction of her vocals.

The ritual of anointment has historically been used to secure and maintain the value of the authority of people in power, but Haru Nemuri throws a question from the inside of the ritual to the structure itself that can make it. She has held the great theme of destruction and reconstruction since before, but now Haru Nemuri has made the symphony of 'destruction' and 'reconstruction' that sounds new, attempting to crack the system that defines both the sacred and the cursed, the strong and the weak.