Distraction Therapy – The Next Movement

Some journeys begin with a clear destination. Others begin with a face glimpsed through motion, a remembered voice, or the quiet sense that it is time to move closer.

This episode of Distraction Therapy follows that second kind of journey. Across twelve tracks, the music travels through shifting light, deep water, fire, city streets, and imagined futures. It is an hour about meeting the world as it changes—and finding possibility without waiting for everything to become certain.

Masaharu Fukuyama’s “Girl 2012” opens the programme like a dated photograph: a particular person held within a particular moment. RADWIMPS’ “Piaf” and Ryu Matsuyama’s “blue blur” featuring mabanua keep that image in motion. Nothing remains completely fixed, but something meaningful can still be recognised.

With sakanaction’s “Amsfish”, the journey moves into deeper water. Progress here is not a straight line. It comes through responding to currents, adjusting to pressure, and discovering that flexibility can be its own form of strength.

Fire follows water in SEKAI NO OWARI’s “Honoonosenshi”, before Spitz offer the beautifully direct “Aini Ikuyo”: I’m going to meet you. The scale suddenly becomes human again. Distance is measured in streets, trains, footsteps, and the decision to set out.

At the centre of the episode, Yellow Magic Orchestra’s “Ballet” places disciplined human movement inside an electronic landscape. Kotobuki Hikaru’s “Life, Death, And I” then opens the view further, inviting us to consider ourselves as part of a much larger cycle of beginnings, transformations, and endings.

The programme does not stay still for long. Kenshi Yonezu’s “Lemon” gives way to the striking contradiction of RADWIMPS’ “Iron Feather”. Weight and flight occupy the same image. Protection and openness need not cancel each other out. We can carry what has shaped us without allowing it to determine every step that follows.

In “Monochrome Tokyo”, sakanaction return us to the city. Black, white, and grey may appear to limit the view, yet careful attention reveals texture, reflection, shadow, and countless changes of tone. A scene does not need bright colours to contain life.

Finally, Spitz leave us with “Mirai Mirai”—future, future. The repetition suggests more than one possibility: the future we can already imagine, and another that remains beyond our present understanding.

That is the movement at the heart of this episode. Certainty may be unavailable, but attention, connection, and action are still possible. We do not need the entire map before taking the next step.

Sometimes it is enough to send the message, leave the house, listen more carefully, or begin moving towards someone.

Featured Tracks

1. Masaharu Fukuyama — “Girl 2012”
2. RADWIMPS — “Piaf”
3. Ryu Matsuyama featuring mabanua — “blue blur”
4. sakanaction — “Amsfish”
5. SEKAI NO OWARI — “Honoonosenshi”
6. Spitz — “Aini Ikuyo”
7. Yellow Magic Orchestra — “Ballet (2019 Bob Ludwig Remastering)”
8. Kotobuki Hikaru — “Life, Death, And I”
9. Kenshi Yonezu — “Lemon”
10. RADWIMPS — “Iron Feather”
11. sakanaction — “Monochrome Tokyo”
12. Spitz — “Mirai Mirai”

Listen to Distraction Therapy Part 002 and make a little room for movement, uncertainty, and whatever might come into view next.