About the album

The title "symphil" is a neologism coined by Hasunuma. "Sym-" means "together," and "phil-" means "to love something." By combining these, he created "Symphil" to convey the nuance of "a new Phil."

The overarching themes of the album are "recovery" and "coexistence." The concept is "to cherish oneself, and to affirm others and the world outside of oneself, and to live together." In the face of the current state of modern society, how can we create a situation by empathizing, understanding, and adapting, rather than trying to change or resist? This concept was born from the recording work of Shuta Hasunuma Phil in the summer of 2022, the first in several years, and from conversations with people he hadn't seen in a while, such as friends and colleagues, as well as from the experience of loss.

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