
When asked "If you were to compare the band to a color, what would it be? Mr. Asai answered, "Brown. When we were photographing him after the interview, I remembered that question and asked him, "If you were to describe the current Asai-san with a color, what would it be?" He answered, "Blue. The answer came back to me: ...... "a deep blue".
, which must be an infinitely clear blue, reminiscent of the sky depicted in the art book.
As the frontman of several bands, Mr. Asai creates music, publishes art books and picture books, writes, and occasionally cooks, all of which are done in his creative whims, but all of his works are filled with clear colors. This is because his works express his purity itself. It is precisely at times when our minds tend to become as muddled as a smoothie with many ingredients, filled with information that blocks our feelings, that we want to look up at the sky and take a deep breath. Mr. Asai's clear blue works will surely relax our minds in the same way that looking up at the sky does.