"I initially wanted to pick a sound from nature to work with, but the Reitaisai Festival grabbed my attention as soon as I came across it. I didn’t want to manipulate the recording too much so I kept the clip I worked with intact and didn’t chop it up to keep to a certain tempo. I wanted to preserve the energy of the recording and for it to feel as if I was joining in spirit, swooping in to play with my friends and then floating away again. "We sometimes slightly fall away from each other rhythmically and then come together, as you would do if playing and chanting through the streets. I used keyboard, synth, hammered dulcimer and tongue drum to play along from afar. "At the end I imagine going into a house, running up the stairs and opening a window onto the streets below, getting a last burst of the crowd chanting “Reitaisai” before retreating back through whichever portal I came through." Reitaisei festival, Tokyo reimagined by Jess Bryant. IMAGE: Jean-Pierre Dalbéra from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

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