“JAPAN COMFORT” is a sound-healing album in which Takashi Kokubo paints Japan’s “original landscapes of tranquility” through music. Seasonal transitions, murmuring forests, wind and water, and the nostalgic traces held within the human psyche are woven together through delicate electronic timbres and field recordings, creating a soft and unhurried flow of time.

The album was conceived to revive the “sensibility of silence”—a quality easily lost within the noise of contemporary life. Layers of synthesizer and natural sound merge to evoke the Japanese aesthetics of ma (spatial pause) and yohaku (meaningful emptiness). As one listens, the sound cleanses the space and summons inner memories of familiar landscapes: the vapor of hot springs, the scent of tatami, sunlight through cedar leaves, the faint ringing of distant bells.

“JAPAN COMFORT” is an album in which sound becomes atmosphere—reconstructing the essence of Japanese comfort and restoring it within the listener.

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1.Yakushima · Inochi no Mori

2.Komorebi

3.Iro no Sasayaki

4.Kazamai

5.Azumino · Sōshunfu no Shirabe

6.Nami no Uta · Okuma no Umi

7.Yutakana Mizu

8.Mizuoto no Tabiuta

9.Inochi no Biwako

10.Mizu Densetsu