Watering a flower Haruomi Hosono 1984 cassette (花に水)

In 1984 Muji commissioned Haruomi Hosono to compose in-store background music.
Tracks:
00:00 Talking
14:56 Growth
29:49 Muji Original BGM
Note: The third piece, Muji Original BGM, was not on the tape. However, it does feature on the "Muji BGM 1980-2000" compilation, which was also sold only in Muji shops. I have uploaded the three songs so that people can hear them all together.
Art: poster by Ikko Tanaka

[@bradyjones3521]

this sounds like a bug admiring how big a human is while the human admires how big the night sky is

[@drivebypoet]

That describes it so well.

[@SimonandGarfunkel57]

Poet you

[@deadlincoln7729]

technical term is also japanese: Yūgen (幽玄) is a significant concept in Japanese aesthetics that can be found in art, literature, and culture. The word's meaning depends on the context, but it can generally be translated as "dark," "obscure," "dim," "deep," or "mysterious". It can also suggest a mood that is both profound and mysterious, and can encapsulate the allure of something that is beyond what is immediately apparent

[@chrissirhc666]

This music is the journey of a microscopic snake moving through outer space at one mile per hour.

[@vercality6170]

This is the waiting room music that plays while you're in the womb

[@remirussin7240]

When you go to clean out your closet but wind up spending the entire afternoon rummaging through your old things and reminiscing

[@Carcosahead]

This is the music that plays when you get to the end of youtube.

[@kuwala]

Yes IT DOES. I'm here!

[@saintmoIIy]

im crying i dotn want toget to the end of youtube

[@idkmyuser1]

Kitty Donut Wolf eh think of how fucked KZbin is though like the bad parts lol you may want he end after all

[@themagicweedbus1319]

a long journey, finally coming to an end.

[@pianogame8700]

Yes, you have just reached the end of KZbin. It’s a long way back to where you started. You’ve gone through all sorts of categories of videos on your way here. Here, the road forward cuts off and ahead of you is simply empty space. Slowly but surely, new forms will occupy the space that you see before you. For now, hear the music of processes that quietly, gently untangle themselves into existence. It is not yet to be, but you can already see something unfolding, ever so slowly.

[@alskndlaskndal]

This music has the purity and innocence of a child with the wisdom of an old man.

[@Frisenette]

Now THIS is the comment that should have plus two thousand likes! Not the other first day of poetry class rejects.

[@zeropr0ductions631]

like that one kid from twin peaks that spawns creamed corn from thin air

[@TheCorreDiego]

Love it.

[@ahobimo732]

William Blake thought life had three stages: first innocence, then experience, and finally, innocent experience, where the purity of innocence is regained, but with the strength of experience.

[@thatbitchnoemie]

@@Frisenette This comment section was 100% positive and you had to ruin it

[@vr1skaserket]

It's 7 am on Christmas morning. Everyone else is still asleep, but you've never felt more awake.

[@carsonchilds1166]

mighty comment, friend

[@crystalidentity]

There's a short Saint Etienne spoken-word piece that feels so much like what you described... It's called 'Christmas 1936'. I wish I could find it, but it's not on KZbin right now...

[@js3ph253]

wasnt expecting you on here lmao

[@g.g4813]

This is what your house furniture is listening to when you left for a summer vacation.

[@Undressful]

Dj Cupboard

[@comet1048]

Getting a spider to crawl onto an old junk mail so you can set it outside politely.

[@morkeljakeson9438]

Sadly, that polite act usually kills the spider. It was coming inside to find a good temperature.

[@stanmaertens3741]

This tape was made to listen to while reading the comments of this upload of the tape.

[@justinspencer983]

Stan Maertens and to talk about lots of bugs and emotional stores while in said comment section.

[@AngstycAT77]

M E T A E T A

[@blechtrommel90]

i love you

[@jacobpanzer2121]

thank you man from 2 years ago

[@hellodavidryan]

And... you are the tape.

[@magieux]

one time when i was 15 i was up late working on an essay for school, exhausted and stressed and crying, and my dad came in around midnight to say he was going to bed and i basically said whatever just leave me alone and then he came back with a bowl of strawberries he sprinkled some sugar over before saying good night. this song feels like that little bowl of sweet strawberries he gave me late at night.

[@DrHorribleDH]

that’s so sweet. your father sounds like an amazing man.

[@dmallow5442]

This comment made me cry because reminds me of my own dad and he doesn't have much life left.

[@crystalidentity]

@@dmallow5442 OMG... I am _so sorry_ to hear that . . . ! ! 😿 I'm just glad he was an awesome dad.💖

[@helenacasas9171]

😭 AwWw ...how touching is this 🤡🤣, what a spoiled t.w.4.t ! she treats her dad like sh1t and then he brings her strawberries with sugar, what a sick family

[@CarenKH1]

A woman traveling across a field encountered a tiger. She ran, the tiger after her. Coming to a precipice, she caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung herself down, over the edge. The tiger sniffed and snapped at her from above. Trembling, the woman looked down to where, far below, two other tigers were circling, growling and looking up, waiting to eat her. She clung to the vine. Just then, two mice, one white and one black, came out and started to gnaw away at the vine. The woman looked around, wondering how, and if, she might ever escape. As she did, she saw a strawberry, ripe and red, growing near her. She reached out, plucked the strawberry, and put it in her mouth. Smiling, she closed her eyes and thought, “This is the sweetest strawberry I’ve ever tasted!”

[@casersatz]

This is the warmest shade of grey I've ever felt.

[@rsullivan6738]

Thank you.

[@skulluckid4390]

@@rsullivan6738 dude THAT'S not weird to thank someone for a comment they left for someone that's not you. I was just feeling weird about doing the same to this other person on this videos comment section. Sooo thank you for saying thank you to someone else's comment on a video that's not yours because I presume you felt like I did and simply enjoyed the comment. Haaaa, now I don't feel weird. But what does feel weird is listening to this music and wondering if I stumbled onto an infectious happy section of the internet, I haven't laughed this loud in my lonesome in a long time.

[@tzeege]

Smoked oyster grey?

[@watertower1]

I feel it’s more teal and pink

[@thedeskoftheherbalist]

@@skulluckid4390 and thank you ! for thanking someone else for thanking someone else.... I dig the commentary as well. this is the happy section !! Peace !!

[@fadesblue]

can only assume this is what it feels like to be a fungus

[@supernovamimosa]

nah fungi are more into dubstep

[@thisiszari6979]

Liam McFarland a little mushroom dancing to this song

[@ugethacked6668]

fungi lullaby :)

[@bogiebabes]

most underrated comment EVER

[@CatOfTheYearuWu]

27:45 Yes, a very sad, musty, shrivelled fungus.

[@DudeWasteYourTime]

sounds like the "insert coin to continue" screen of life

[@fatjuicymeatball2266]

This is too accurate

i'm out of coins.

[@subspace2913]

just like if you were in a life-threatening condition and had to pay for your hospital bills :)

[@kurlykaeya7639]

Bro sorry I want to give you a like but my left screen is broken and I keep accidentally dislike it🌧😢

[@viciousKev]

The princess is in another castle

[@AndBusinessIsGood]

this music is what music listens to

[@SaraYe]

i've never cried while reading a youtube comment section before

[@Bragnis]

@@Caillouteletub123 ?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿

[@bliplox9187]

public service announcement jingle for a city of worms

[@kerem9942]

Feels like looking in the mirror and seeing outside

[@zowster]

This music feel like walking through a house of mirrors without having a reflection

[@rowanfox4436]

I am floating aimlessly in the precambrian sea

[@bricabracle]

my body is trapped in a spreadsheet but my mind is free

[@justinspencer983]

bricabracle free to ride the wings of a monarch butterfly traveling the sky’s

[@jacketmeyer4534]

@@justinspencer983 ...

[@dustincovert128]

I'm organizing my tumbled stones. they're very smooth.

[@veronica-vs8kw]

this is what plays when a frog goes to heaven

[@midnightcthulhu5551]

this is the music that plays as the credits roll on the movie of your entire life, the theater is dark and empty except for you and you know you're going to have to get up and leave soon and you're okay with that but you want to sit and watch all those familiar names scroll past for just a little longer.

[@mannysmith7297]

This comment right here along with the third song. Fuck man.

[@mattd3826]

:')

[@billhicks8]

The third piece is like watching that movie, all the way through to the end where you died, and just seeing your own name come up, then fade to black.

[@thatbitchnoemie]

Dude you made me cry, wtf

[@MrTreezUK]

you got me

[@Jeffreywynn]

First track feels like I died a while ago. But I can still move. I'm searching for something throughout grassy mountains. Maybe a lost love. The song is telling me it's alright. It says I can close my eyes now.

[@matthewlivick7882]

i came here for a humidifier but now im crying in a store

[@mariamason1919]

Could be worse (IE: see David Coulter - Dead Vacuum)

[@alexs.3383]

@@mariamason1919 What do you mean? I tried to look it up because I thought you were referring to a song title

[@bluemonkjd]

There's tears all over my reasonably priced notebooks.

[@AgentCDI]

This sounds like getting abducted by very polite aliens who just want to tell you how much they admire your species. They serve you only salted pumpkin seeds and sparkling water during your stay.

[@duarte2140]

I keep thinking of Hosono these days. How it must feel for him to have lost two of his bandmates, his lifelong friends, in a matter of just a few months. How it must feel to be the last living member of YMO. I seriously can not imagine how harrowing it must be for him... RIP Sakamoto RIP Takahashi We love you Hosono, and we love you YMO.

[@evanglicanism]

When you consider that he was older than them by about five years, and invited both of them to join the band before their careers had taken off, it's just so heartbreaking. He probably never thought that he'd outlive either of them.

[@zakaby]

In the silence between the second song and the third I thought the computer was going to say my name

[@Kevxwealth]

Elb 😂😭🤣🤣🤣

[@Ribula1]

We could swear it did. Sorry taking so long to answer, time passes different here.

[@atarirob]

This is the album that plays when you close your eyes one day only to open them and be surrounded by millions of exact replicas of yourself from every minute in time dating back to the moment you were born

[@reecebartron3246]

Hosono did a a fantastic job of capturing the feeling of bleak hopefulness. Like you know things will be alright in the end but for now you're unsure and a little afraid, but thinking positively and patience will set you straight.

[@iankowalczyk8455]

I needed this. Thank you.

[@nly]

You are a young bamboo shoot. It's finally spring. Peeking up just above the ground, you're seeing the sun for the first time. Dew drops decorate your surroundings, reflecting its light with a crystal-like brilliance. Birds fly overhead, birds of all colours and shapes. You hear them sing, their melodies harmonising with the excited chatter of the cicadas, ringing in the new season. You absorb all of this life and beauty, giving you the strength to grow tall and become a part of the harmony that surrounds you. You are happy.

[@RachLZelda]

I found the happy comment. Thank you.

[@YoshiAddict]

this is like watching a clock that only has an hour hand

[@SazLowify]

Wow... this made me feel a lot.

[@andyedwards9011]

Almost like watching a plant grow, but not as hardcore

[@buckorooster]

@@andyedwards9011 In 0.5x speed

[@vincent6193]

Alec Hopkins look up Slow watches, I got one recently and couldn’t be happier:)

[@blackphoenix8932]

So boring then?

[@peepspers]

a little snail doing his best (and his best is enough)

[@SOFTWARMBEEST]

this is one of the sweetest and kindest sentences i have ever encountered in my LIFE. Thank You.

[@arnoarno1092]

Love this, you should have all the likes

[@TheStuderman]

Ha Ha. Excellent.

[@joshuabernard3095]

ハイ

[@zekeortega1576]

You fucking snail

[@lepercolony8214]

This music is the music that plays when you click on the search bar and type "watering a flower" then click the video with the cassette artwork

[@knightcorps84]

This is the music that plays when you listen to 1980's Japanese shopping background music and scroll through the comments

[@nobreath181818]

Ok this one got me. lmao

[@mikemathers4524]

Well played, sir.

[@sabrinatscha2554]

Unique comment. I love it. Thanks.

[@connor991]

Big if true

[@ericeychis]

…I’m pretty sure this was made for background music or the composer had also done that in his life.

[@samuelkirk2099]

this is the music that plays when a chair realises that they are a chair

[@chomoi1389]

*they

[@ibuprofen-noodles]

Reminds me of a salvia trip report I read lol

[@noidea7523]

this is the music that plays when melonboy becomes melonman

[@jaredhinton5662]

oh my god

[@jaredhinton5662]

I'm a chair

[@deltadevlin]

that guy really likes hitting that one note goddamn

[@respekt7409]

AHAHAHAHAHAAHODSFQDJFQDSFJDSFSFDSD

[@johnnycochicken]

oh God now I'm focusing on it haha DING DING DING DING

[@brigademember7363]

I think it's just a metronome 🤔

[@lordtachanka903]

Phäntom ding

[@milkmanswife93696]

only good comment in this thread, very nice

[@modularjournal3926]

The soil returned to its soft and loamy state.

[@user-jb5np8xj4c]

This is the music that plays when you are lost at sea on a sailboat, floating away into oblivion. You know that you’ll experience your demise via wreckage or starvation, but as your little boat rocks along you realize that everyone you know will always be left in a state of wonder about your final moments, how it happened or felt. Only you will share this experience with the universe. You’ve never felt privacy like this before.

[@CptFarlow]

Look up a movie called All Is Lost. It stars Robert Redford. I think you might like it.

[@FluxFreeman]

This is like a robotic child roaming through old ruins on a strange planet

[@lauratrejos1528]

yeah, I can feel the innocent and naive attitude of the little thing while it searches for something... yet I can also feel how that something is destined to ruin the robot's life exprience in a horrific way... like a mix between peace before the storm and the forced and traumatic experience of leaving innocence to see the world bare skinned...

[@TurtleGamers1]

it's just muzak guys

[@pedrocardoso879]

This is unironically accurate

[@ledon26656]

Then you realise that strange planet is Earth and no humans exist any more. Only the ruins of our civilisation endure...and one lone robot child exploring it in pure isolation, destined to never understand what it all means.

[@salma-amlas]

Wall.e

[@bizarrestar4043]

i found a ladybug outside the public library, we hung out for about an hour before i went home. sitting outside i realised he'd come with me so i said good bye again. later i found him still in my hair in my kitchen and i laughed for so long with my mom

[@twentylush]

This is the music that plays when you see fresh flowers on the grave of somebody you dont know, who died almost a decade ago.

[@Leadhead]

God this thing is beautiful...

[@nouveau_nouveau]

I never expected to see you here. Keep up the great videos!

[@Picklepvp2]

@@nouveau_nouveau He actually mentioned it in a KZbin video talking about music.

[@deadlincoln7729]

You mean life

[@meloveganja6988]

Do I know you from somewhere

[@lucascaiah]

Your last video is phenomenal, Leadhead It's surely great knowing your channel and works, keep it up!

[@weaselhack]

this sounds like the music that plays on the Start screen of a GameBoy game but if you didnt press A for like 45 minutes.

[@namaste91]

This is such a precise description,damn!

[@joancaic2853]

I'm pretty sure you knew it but kzbin.info/www/bejne/amq9fJJ7i7x8eK8 (Haruomi Hosono - Video Game Music) mostly-retro.com/2015/01/07/game-music-revue-video-game-music-1984/

[@GoldieTamamo]

Nah, less GameBoy, more Mario Paint.

[@jackstack9367]

This is the kinda music that plays when you're going down your long, dark hallway at 3am and for whatever reason you just... Sit down. And you think. Your cat walks up to you and you pet him, and as you look at him your loneliness has had a level of happiness settle onto it, much like oil on top of water.

[@helgenx]

I tied a fly's leg to a string and he led me here.

[@NOL365]

I tied my leg to the fly's core and it flew me to minute 26. I regret nothing. Though the breeze is somewhat sour and I'm sure that I know somebody down there in the green-like breeze.

[@dominicsmall6502]

Two Ghosts getting married ☺

[@nomadical95]

[@yehorsemenyuk2415]

++++

[@gilespeterson6832]

Dominic Small That would be a good ass game tbh

[@coltoncurlee2423]

Awe happy for them

[@TroubleBrotherTV]

This is exactly the perfect music for when I'm grocery shopping for lettuce in bulk.

[@eyywannn8601]

You secretly a character from Avatar?

[@mdog4909]

bro how did you describe this perfectly

[@nobreath181818]

The is the music that plays when you realize you are older than your parents were when they had you.

[@raccoonchild]

How dare you...

[@Somnivore7]

Jesus

[@thefatherinthecave943]

24 now. Mom was 21

[@mikemathers4524]

My father died before I was born. I'm now older than he was when he died. 39 this December.

[@kavajarrace]

i feel like i've already died and i'm experiencing the end credits

[@TanM]

They're enjoyable this time, aren't they?

[@eyevix]

life grips

[@MoltandMigrate]

Life Kicks (butt, that is!)

[@liam-vy5ty]

death grips

[@tarjr94]

lmaoo

[@facksmasheen]

i've not seen footage

[@tristanwh9466]

I laughed way too hard

[@t.c.bramblett617]

This is soundtrack music to cook tiny food to.

[@helenalestrange8557]

You have social anxiety, you're in a crowded train. But today you feel very comfortable on this ride because you are one station away from where you are to meet your favorite person.

[@michaelrhudak]

I love this.

[@raginbakin1430]

This is beautiful. Thank you for this comment.

[@puppable]

This is the saddest that happy has ever been

[@iamupinacloud]

I like that! XD It really depends on perception. I like to think of it as the happiest that sad has ever been. ;p

[@Jorgee-]

I moved houses in 2005 I think. My old room was yellow, small, and could barely fit a toddler but I never, ever thought of it as cramped. I grew up there and had dreams of santa visits, motorcycle dumps, children’s movies, and soft mulch on the little blue bedpost that I called my own. I’ll never go back to see the room that made me who I am today. I’ve probably completely forgotten what it looked like back then, what I looked like back then, but this song makes me feel like I just opened the door one last time and walked in, smiling that all my little plastic friends are still sitting on the carpet right where I last left them, the lot of them just waiting to be played with.

[@taniapandia4264]

this is the most melancholic and beautiful comment on youtube

[@Dante-444]

nah bruh dont make me cry like that. just got off work and its 1:25 am mane

[@julianmeneghinidotremont7427]

Fucking ninja onions

[@air_]

This shit almost got me crying bro

[@lugiakid781]

this is the music when you open a board that you never noticed in your closet and find a civilization of tiny mouse people living in your walls with tiny beautiful old European country houses

[@matthewhack6510]

i think i read a book like that once, but can't for the life of me remember

[@hi-fistereo8987]

@@matthewhack6510 Mrs. Frisby and the rats of Nimh?

[@matthewhack6510]

@@hi-fistereo8987 that'd be the one! you just opened up a memory i didn't even know i had, thank you.

[@hi-fistereo8987]

@@matthewhack6510 haha no problem. I hardly remember that book myself, my teacher read it to the class when I was in maybe 1st or second grade!

[@thatbitchnoemie]

The first song : your soul ascending to the next world just after you died The second song : sitting nervously in purgatory nervous because you have no idea if you deserve heaven or if you're going to suffer in hell The last song : the deep calmness you feel after you've been sent to neither heaven nor hell, but to a quiet hazy greyish-white space when all you can do is remember the good times of your life.

[@augustogaidukas975]

Ten years ago, I lost my first love to a lymphoma. I then decided I would be a doctor and aid people with cancer. Now, ten years later, three weeks from graduating from medical school, I hear this and remember her once more, and how we loved each other in our way. Carol, I did it for you.

[@danbobs25]

This is too beautiful in a bitter sweet kind of way. Hope your medical career is going well for you.

[@susuleta]

This can’t be real :( if it is I cried for your love ❤️

[@kathfabros9602]

You are the flower.

[@ianbreeden7381]

God bless you, Jesus Christ is king!!

[@akito7025]

Hope u have a beautiful life dear

[@respekt7409]

I guess that repeating note represents the drops of water, and the flower is us. Haruomi Hosono is watering us.

[@jimi0rig]

deep comment is deep

[@feli6277]

water me

[@pablocordero4991]

water me harder daddy

[@JoJo-rs3oh]

Water me father

[@Isabella-sx7hv]

hhnnnng im a thirsty little flower . you have to water me with your PEE mr hosono

[@xjasm0]

This reminds me of every mango I ate as a boy.

[@famousfriend2472]

this lowkey made me tear up a little

[@raksh9]

Your comment reminds me of every boy I ate as a mango.

[@loganmohler737]

@@raksh9 your mango reminds me of every comment I ate as a boy.

[@michalkocourek5401]

@@loganmohler737 Your every ate me. Reminds of I. A as comment. Mango boy.

[@BenLovee]

@@michalkocourek5401 (as your every comment reminds me of a mango boy I ate).

[@user-of5gd9gy6n]

this music makes me want to water my rock garden

[@jaymondkreek854]

It’s my 365th day sober from alcohol and drugs , I wander in my room sipping peppermint tea watching my memories. Laughing at the rage fueled would be regrets . But I’m no weak soul, for everything’s turned out just the way it was supposed to. Now that I’ve stop running and started to breathe.

[@christophfurler7252]

Keep on Jaymond! :D

[@KaiomiD]

good for you man, lost my mom to addiction, tried her whole life to get away from it, some never do. i know it wasn't easy, but you did it, i upon many others are proud of you.

[@PapagenoDispo]

i'm so proud of you, man!

[@MMM-jh6gp]

This is the perfect example of progress and love within your own character

[@Haiylin]

You've come so far! I wish you nothing but good memories and happiness ♡

[@Tantacrul]

The song your Atari sings while waiting for you to come home.

[@nly]

Oh hey Tantacrul, didn't expect to find you here! Shame about Eurovision this year, huh? There were some really strong competitors.

[@neolulubeats]

tantacrul !!! love u and your vids man

[@Pixelbane]

The music that plays when you go through old messages of a friend who you have grown apart from. Happier times encapsulated by the viscous amber of time.

[@PiquesandCreeks]

This fucked me up a little

[@ch0colatec0ff33]

This is what it feels like to find a skull in your backyard, but it doesn't scare you. You simply leave it alone to rest there.

[@emoji-lover625]

Actually this is what the end of school feels like. Not as in, every day but once you completely finish school

[@Pheeze]

This is like when you open a shoebox expecting it to be full of childhood knick-nacks and objects with sentimental value only to find a single periwinkle shell you picked up from the family beach trip 22 years ago

[@r_a_d_i_o_]

this music sounds like a mirror

[@sprotte6665]

+

[@dinofs1]

don't know who you are but you're exactly right. you see yourself in the mirror out the corner of your eye in a wooden attic; between you and the mirror is a beam of light in which several motes of dust are floating a little faster than usual, like clouds on a windy day; you pause for the second, half bent over to move a box, and aren't quite sure why

[@oscarbergutube]

you fucked me up nice

[@dezeman8062]

Jesus the second track is so intense, imagine trying to fit your change in your wallet while grabbing your grocieries with a huge line behind you and an attractive cashier watching you with a look of intense boredom.

[@DMetcalfe94]

Somewhere, nestled in a hole in the earth on a breezy hillside, a red panda and a field mouse have made friends. Throughout the day, they’ve gathered enough moss and soft grass to furnish their hole and keep them warm for the night ahead.

[@magiclynx9932]

This song is the quiet after you cry when you can’t feel much of anything but a shadow of happiness and you wonder what you were even crying about. No matter how hard you try you can’t remember. There’s nothing but this song and dried tears on your face.

[@spinningindaffodils]

Pretty popular with the insect crowd

[@snorkfroken7056]

?

[@snorkfroken7056]

ou cheeze I read "iscest"

[@horsecorpse]

@@snorkfroken7056 hahahahahahahahahahahahha

[@snorkfroken7056]

ian hoffman 🙂

[@AllSeeingThai]

Probably the incest crowd too

[@mattilib1]

Listening to this, staring at spreadsheets, crying my eyes out. fuck

[@jo1e-de-v1vre]

It's been a while since you've come home. Your parents are older now. So are you. If only that goodbye hug could last a little longer.

[@TallerVRS]

This comments hit hard. I'm someone who had to cut my dysfunctional parents from my life. Thanks for posting, I would say something to make sense, but none of the comments do.

[@adamnelson4859]

This is the music that plays in a lonely taxidermists head when the stuffed fox gets up, looks at him then pads out the door. He sits, dumbfounded.

[@rizzrustbolt4841]

This song is like a child's drawing of an airplane hanging in an empty house.

[@SolarWarden613]

wtf

[@Blueskyhat]

Sad, weird and utterly but inescapably profound

[@sajiste]

we gotta novelist right here 🙏

[@nickbryant2318]

Damn bro this one is the best

[@levmade]

I wake up at 5 am when everyone’s still sleeping, turning up that album and do my morning routine with no lights in a complete darkness (shower, teeth, dressing up etc.). All of this has such a weird chill vibe with this music, like I’m alone in a strange world with no one else in it, but it’s not depressing or sad, it’s just peaceful

[@mishavoid]

This sounds like Frederic Chopin shrunk down to the size of a mouse and explored life in a small garden. He builds a hut made of peony petals and carves a canoe of cucumber to traverse the Big Puddle. On the other side of the Big Puddle is a tall sunflower that towers over him. Rather than feeling intimidated, he is overcome with a sense of adventure and begins to climb. When he finally reaches the flower he meets a ladybug. Together they bask in the sun of a gentle afternoon.

[@Jukau]

I bet you are good at baking

[@rianjams]

BEST ONE

[@dezeman8062]

Please watch Studio Ghibli's 'Arrietty'. I bet you'll love it.

[@mishavoid]

@@dezeman8062 Great rec! I have seen and do love that one!

[@BeingAwakeisPainful]

I have a peony garden! 😁

[@milamurray855]

the age of technology's ability to recover music that has been hidden away for years in forgotten cassette tapes will never become excessive, will never become too much. thank you for sharing what could of died silently before reaching this unsuspecting community of willing listeners from all worlds, from all times.

[@mrjoejon6882]

Dead tapes are the universes secrets now

[@maty6799]

@@mrjoejon6882 exact.

[@davidcoulter2283]

I played this at my vacuum cleaner's funeral.

[@craigharrison1274]

XD

[@quirkyquintus]

LOL

[@osmith9212]

that sucks

[@jilliantrujillo9173]

LOL

[@richyrich5049]

I got a laugh out of this. My condolences, by the way.

[@rehmutwehmut]

When you realise that life is a long chain of moments, snippets of seconds, and every single one is substantial. Even if it appears like nothing happens at all.

[@funeralbug6402]

My bugs is watering my flowers with their tears

[@hjshea]

I would play this in my basement if I were raising moths

[@angelicreinforcement3373]

I usually hate it when people write stories in YT comments, but this one is just spot on (for track 1) :D Awesome!

[@tylerjohn8435]

It's not everyday a KZbin comment makes me cry

[@Paisteboy69]

+bythefireside27 that us actual art. Please become a poet

[@quindickinson1787]

With your permission, I would love to illustrate a comic with this story.

[@tyhen12]

Link the comic here when it's drawn!

[@TehNarwhalz]

There are few ways to enjoy being alone that are enduring enough to sustain you through the years. Habits change, your home changes, the weather changes. However nothing is more constant than perhaps the beating of your heart, even as irregular, sped up, or slowed down as it may be. Without a sense of direction or an idea of what to do with the day, the heart still beats and time does not stop. It is the only constant joy enduring enough to grab your attention when nothing else will. Perhaps sit on a bench or on the ground, under a tree, and do nothing. Sit on your couch in your home, or stand at the window, or lay in your bed, alone, and do nothing. You will see what grabs your attention, once nothing else will, and you have exhausted all the things in front of your eyes, in your ears, in your nose, and even that which you touch. Senses are fleeting, but the heart beat will endure. Until it no longer does.

[@mattt180]

Among all the hilarious replies here, I really enjoyed this comment. I keep hearing about meditation and think, "I know that would be good for me." Maybe I'll really give it a shot after reading this.

[@pointthree3]

Someone is waiting for your call, and you are waiting to call them.

[@Windwolvesfly]

The first song is how it feels to come back to an empty house in the middle of a spring rainstorm after a long day. You're tired and ready to relax and as you're taking off your shoes and your damp clothes you're struck by the fact that this is it. You've lived your whole life up to this moment to get here, and you sit down and think about how you're going to go to work tomorrow and do the same thing, week after week, and you're struck by a melancholy nostalgia for the freedom you had as a child. There's a calm acceptance that comes with it, your life is alright, but there's also a crushing loneliness that comes with realizing the death of your past self and all the opportunity they had. You sit, staring at the corner of the carpet that has been fraying for as long as you can remember, and embrace whatever the future will bring you.

[@Undressful]

And the second?

[@Windwolvesfly]

@@Undressful The second song is driving home at night on an unfamiliar road. Your GPS is spotty and redirects you every time you've got signal long enough for it to reconnect. You've got more than enough gas to get home and you don't have responsibilities tomorrow, so you're not in a rush but it's still unsettling to be so utterly lost. You look off to the shoulder and you see a deer for just a moment. It's too dark to see whether it's still there when you look in your rear view mirror.

[@the_illuminati_thugga3810]

this comment gave me an existential crisis

[@drivebypoet]

I just graduated college and broke up with my girlfriend a few months ago, so this comment hit home for me.

[@swellfoop]

This sounds like a moth mourning its brother on display at a museum a few hours before the museum opens

[@kbs1212]

Gregory E 😢

[@mdog4909]

BRO

[@germansalas6159]

Damn

[@Marutsero]

Brings back memories that I never had.

[@justenwhite7288]

There was that one time.... *stares to the distance*

[@joseabanto3901]

Is that Blade Runner plot?

[@billytalty]

Good bye father, I made it to California.

[@woozie___]

I drove around with my newborn son in the car one time playing this and he just quietly listened, presumably looking out the window as the world passed by him in reverse from his rear-facing car seat. After some time had passed I pulled over and turned around so I could see him in the mirror that hung behind his seat. I asked "are you doing ok bubby?" and he smiled at me

[@e.b.reinhardt5349]

I bathe my cricket to this.

[@morningcoffeecat2271]

E.B. Reinhardt aww :3

[@yungctrlfreak]

bravo

[@Undressful]

HAhAHAHAhAHA TOP

[@kostismougios3597]

I vote for this comment to be pinned.

[@rachelw821]

That seems about right!

[@GritaThePig]

Like that one town in a JRPG where everyone keeps asking if you've seen Billy because he went missing and his parents are worried

[@iankowalczyk8455]

Billy is okay.

[@Dp3silk_]

Lmao

[@kettlestew]

Hint: Billy is in the Forest.

[@0average_enjoyer044]

earthbound

[@the_illuminati_thugga3810]

People are too good at writing little stories that perfectly encapsulate the feeling this music brings. I simply can't compete.

[@Caillouteletub123]

You feel sorry for yourself?

[@olddentist4596]

This is the music that plays when you realise you can’t compete with the high standard of stories encapsulating the experience of listening to the rare Hosono cassette

[@PacProductions123]

maybe once or twice a year i come back to this upload specifically just to read the comments people have left since. they're more scarce now. but yet, i wish to see you. understand a stranger who i will never meet. we are everything and you are the universe. i love you

[@esso2259]

this music is like waking up after sleeping for thousands of years and finding out you’re the only person left on the planet and everything’s really overgrown with plants and moss and there are wild animals wandering everywhere

[@greenlemon5259]

No thats plantasia, great listen

[@nickpavloff8977]

I hate it when that happens

[@joshc8574]

made me lol hahaha

[@gardikagigih5704]

your imagination is amazing. wkwkwk.

[@armandorivas5154]

Only not plants and moss, only lichen

[@ThexMaNGoZ]

Sounds like walking into the Pokémon Center but Nurse Joy is a replicant

[@Hahahahahafuckyou]

THIS

[@bluetannery1527]

this wins

[@ikaros4203]

LOL YEP

[@alissongraf7577]

One of the best ones

[@hampeblixt7677]

When you dissapear but the music is still playing

[@mattparkin7224]

I've just closed my eyes and thought about how this song takes me back to the simpler times of childhood. I feel sad that we no longer live in the simpler times of the 90s and look around my room to realise that it is filled with pieces of art that represent every decade since the 70s. I realise that when we yearn for the past, we yearn for the good elements and that that version of that time period can only ever exist in the mind. It is time for me to live in the present.

[@woozie___]

Good for you, some don't realize this their whole lives, and suffer mightily for it. Hope all is well

[@michaela2279]

listening to this music makes me feel like i've been walking for 10 miles with a pebble in my shoe, only to take it out and find out it's a human tooth

[@KutsaiChan]

holy shit

[@sprotte6665]

and you know that you should be frightened and you know that this is not right, but you just smile and don't know why

[@blackplains4381]

what

[@rottendisplay]

i laughed so hard reading this

[@lauratrejos1528]

erik idiot OMG... I totally get it right now... Like the feeling of something being inherently wrong, but you just not feeling it is worng but beautiful instead... why do I feel like i've dreamt about that exact same scene??