Where is space? Is it in our brain? Or is it outside the planet Earth? Dhidalah poetically answers the question with their 2022 album 'Sensoria.' The two songs 'Soma' and 'Black Shrine' are from their weekly jam session in Tokyo. The band leader Gotoh usually records these sessions and shares it with the other 2 members Masahito aka Bin and Ikuma. After listening to the jam recording, they each get inspired by the flow of sounds and find a connection to the outside world. In the following week and with their own understanding, they try to recreate the (essence of the) jam. 'Invader Summer' and 'Dead' (track 2 and 3) are written by Ikuma, who is known to be a natural space head guitar monster with his own interpretation of space. The last 20-minute long 'Black Shrine' was inspired by the Japanese folklore Yokai, the spiritual and sometimes shapeshifting creatures living in the dark mountains of Japan. Space is free space, 'Sensoria' is a thoughtful, supernatural example of a Japanese trio space. How is your space like? Deep in the middle of the night, or in bright daylight, in the smallest of rooms, to the vastness of the forest, listening to 'Sensoria' will open you up to a new sense/kind of space.
