This is pretty special I think.
Thanks to rumoko for the heads up.

I really like how he pulls in field recordings and uses them for their pitch content, rather than just as textures. As it gets into the bigger sections, it starts getting a bit standard chord-progressiony for me, though the textures are just beautiful throughout, and so creative.

I also noticed, there’s something very Japanese about how the strings sound… I wonder what this is? It reminds of Japanese film soundtracks for some reason… Maybe it’s just the Sakamoto-esque pentatonicness, but there’s something unique about the timbre as well.

From the video description: “If Daisuke’s piano and strings represent a piece of glass, untouched and perfectly clear, then his samples and beats represent a huge sledgehammer with which he destroys the glass and laughs as the glass shatters and falls to the ground. His aim, so precise, causes the glass to fall into a perfect shape in its shattered form, much like Picasso’s cubist paintings or Dali’s melted clocks.”

I wish I had the balls to write artist statements like that!