ANCIENT FUTURE" is a musician's坂本龍一and electronic music pioneer Christopher Willits.

After the release of their first collaboration, "Ocean Fire," in 2008, Sakamoto sent Willits several piano compositions to build upon.
Ancient Future" is a work that encompasses the entire trajectory of creation, fulfilling one's destiny, and all that we experience in this world, as well as the inner struggles, clarifications, and acceptance of answers.
and the struggle within the mind, the unraveling of problems, and the acceptance of answers.
The cycle of six songs moves back and forth between narratives of a sort, as a work that has a story to tell and a piece of life to explore.

The album opens with the tireless energy of "Retentive Reminiscence," and then surrenders itself deeply to the inward music of "Abandoned Silence" and "I Don't Want to Understand. Then, "Levitation" dissociates the audience into cold, disjointed pieces.
The flow of the album comes to a close with "Completion," a song filled with serenity.
This perhaps represents the kind of experience in which one finally realizes oneself.

Despite the conceptual coherence, as the album title "Ancient Future" suggests, contradictions intervene at the heart of the album, and opposites appear within each song.
For example, there are loops of noise and feedback in the background of delicate melodies that gradually ripple across the surface of a calm lake. But the contradictions are not conflicts at all; they come together to create the logic that is the essence of the album: that we are a collection of experiences and knowledge, of light and shadow, of positive and negative.