Kazuya Ono

Intersoul, the second album by world-traveling artist "CitiZen of Peace," was born out of an exchange between the Pygmies of Gabon, Africa and the Bushmen of the Kalahari Desert.
Their rituals, which have a history of tens of thousands of years, revolve around "dance" and "rhythm. Their clapping and singing are fused with performances by top-notch Japanese musicians and sublimated into contemporary music.

The cover features artwork by Sean Caulfield, an artist who grew up in South Africa.
The artwork is based on a "shapeshifter" pattern that has been painted on rock walls for tens of thousands of years, depicting the mutation of humans into something other than humans through music and dance (= Trance).

In order to reproduce the texture of the original drawing that was done on plaster casts made from rocks using the same technique as in those days, the base printing was done on kraft paper with several coats of white paint.
As the book is opened and closed repeatedly, the ground color of the kraft paper peeks out from areas where it has been rubbed or where the ink has cracked at the folds, bringing it closer to the texture of a real rock surface.

The enclosed booklet contains field recordings made in the field, studio recordings made in Japan, and detailed records of the participating musicians for all the songs, so that the reader can follow in the footsteps of the artists.
The latter half of the booklet contains a short story, serving as a mechanism to help the reader feel the message of the album more deeply.