Fantasy Requiem

2025年10月8日 2025年10月22日

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A Japanese ritual of sound, memory, and vanishing light.

🩸 About the Track

“Requiem of Illusions” is a composition for what cannot be laid to rest — the echoes, the memories, the faint voices that linger after disappearance. The piece exists between dream and dissolution, fusing the pulse of taiko with the fragile resonance of koto and shakuhachi. It does not tell a story but rather opens a space — where sound becomes ritual and silence begins to breathe.

Part of the Phantom Tone project, this track continues the exploration of transient beauty and spiritual decay. Its language is born from contrast: destruction and serenity, prayer and detachment. In listening, one stands at the edge of illusion itself — neither living nor lost, but endlessly reverberating.

🌑 Concept & Worldbuilding

At its core, “Requiem of Illusions” reflects three thresholds of being:

Existence ⇄ Illusion： When does perception become delusion? The song suggests that illusions may be the most faithful form of truth.
Silence ⇄ Sound： Every tone implies its vanishing. The melody is shaped by what is no longer heard.
Remembrance ⇄ Forgetting： Memory resists closure — a requiem sung for those who never reached peace.

🕯️ Motifs & Imagery

Glass and Lantern： fragile vessels of light that inevitably crack.
Wind and Night： the dissolution of self, scattering emotion like petals.
Prayer without Faith： ritual as persistence rather than salvation.

📜 Lyrics – Original Japanese

[Intro (taiko & koto groove)]
玄冥の鼓　燦爛に堕つ
琴の斬刃　夢幻を裂く

[Verse 1]
昏冥の虚経　幻葬の環
玻璃獄の楼　燐光を孕む
魍魎も　永劫を偽り
泡幻に墜ち　理を喪う

[B-Melo 1]
空漠の綾　無窮の幻像
黙祷の環列　声も零れず

[Chorus 1]
空想鎮魂歌　哭けど哭けど
命なき徒　魂魄も無し
空想鎮魂歌　虚妄の響き
永遠は崩れ　ただ風に散る

[Verse 2]
寂滅の幻揺　灯を喪う
幽玄の楼蘭　朽ちて舞う
魑魅すら　常住を持たず
命題さえ　夢幻の如し

[B-Melo 2]
輪廻の螺旋　幻砂に墜つ
帰還も無し　虚空を抱く

[Chorus 2]
空想鎮魂歌　詠えど詠えど
時は喪せ　境界も無し
空想鎮魂歌　絶界に咲く
命なき花　夜に揺れる

[Outro (shakuhachi fade)]
声も零れず　祈りも無く　闇に帰る

🪶 Afterword

This work is a requiem not for the dead, but for memories that persist. It reflects the tension between presence and disappearance — a state where creation becomes mourning. The track concludes not with resolution, but with surrender, letting the final note dissolve into the void.