AYAKO

《AYAKO》为HOLTON BLACK发表的第二张迷你实验专辑。这次他将音乐独立出来，成为作品的一部份，这也是他首次尝试填词，而专辑氛围也如词是“一场野性的奔放”。只属于他的音乐风格在这张专辑显得更加立体。

专辑名称取自他撰写的小说主人公，彩子的日文发音“あやこ”。此角色与他一同经历了难以捉摸的精神世界，也探讨了许多关于人矛盾的心理。因此“AYAKO”象征著矛盾、贪婪的爱和自由的牢笼。而这些概念奠定了这五首歌曲的基调，皆象征著私人的精神领域，充分地表现出只属于他的黑色浪漫。

序曲〈THV〉描述了面对困境时，是要选择自首、战斗，还是一如既往地逃走？而带有大量重复旋律的〈BROKEN+TENDER-COOLER+COOLER〉，描述了身为在此世代孩子犯错时与追寻自由的心境。再来是有如在施展魔法，又像是自我催眠般呢喃的〈KUGAHARA〉，以及一个对于自身感到困惑的乌鸦少年〈EMO BIRD〉，最后由迷幻感十足且滂薄的〈VISION〉一曲，再现他自身所体验过的画面与梦境，为整张专辑做一场带有延续性的谢幕。

上张专辑描述了梦的迷幻与有趣之处，此张专辑则是当一个梦的旁观者，站在某段距离观看梦与现实之间的挣扎与徬徨。探讨梦是使人面见事实，还是逃避现实；是使人堕落，还是强大一个人的心智。

他以一段文字作为《AYAKO》的概念总结：“现实与梦的距离，或许在某时也曾经被人算计。你既是男人也是女人，以无法被定义的身体，创造出另一个身体。你一如往常地向前奔去，仿佛永无止尽，一生皆要悬在梦里。”

"AYAKO" is Holton Black's second mini experimental album. This time he made the music an independent entity and became a part of the work, and the music style became more three-dimensional in this album. The album contains a total of five songs, all of which symbolize the private spiritual realm and fully express the black romance that belongs only to him.

The title of the album is taken from the Japanese pronunciation of Ayako, the protagonist of the novel he wrote, "あやこ". This character experienced the elusive spiritual world with him, and also explored many contradictory psychology of people. Therefore, "AYAKO" symbolizes contradiction, greedy love and the cage of freedom, and these concepts set the tone of the entire album.

The overture "THV" describes when faced with a difficult situation, should you choose to surrender, fight, or run away as always? "BROKEN+TENDER-COOLER+COOLER", which has a lot of repeated melodies, describes the state of mind of being a child in this generation who makes mistakes and pursues freedom.

Then came "KUGAHARA", which muttered like it was casting magic, or hypnotizing itself, and "EMO BIRD", a crow boy who was confused about himself. The last song "VISION" combines all the past and reproduces the dream scenes he has experienced.

"The distance between reality and dreams may have been calculated by someone at some point. You are both a man and a woman, and you create another body with a body that cannot be defined. I will hang in a dream my whole life."