saifonica -- Sekai wa Nagai Yume（世界は長い夢）

From Litalico

Well, I've learned a new term today: yakyoushou（夜驚症）. It means "night terrors". Thankfully, I've never experienced any of those before although I often have dreams of getting lost in some environment in a fairly Kafkaesque manner. How about you?

The reason I ask is that I came across this track from an album by the band saifonica which is titled "Yakyoushou" and was released in April 2016. The track itself is titled "Sekai wa Nagai Yume" (The World is One Long Dream) which could fit quite nicely into what "Yakyoushou" is talking about if it is meant to be a concept album. Written and composed by saifonica vocalist and guitarist Shintaro Takeuchi（竹内信太郎）, the song is one hard rock (and maybe dystopian?) adventure albeit with a nice and slick smoothness punctuated by some juicy bass by fellow member Luka（ルカ）. The one other member is drummer Chan-Kana（ちゃんかな）and apparently all of them have had vocalist duties.

Unfortunately, there isn't much provided on the history of saifonica: no origin year and no discography outside of finding "Yakyoushou". However, their website does state that the trio is an alternative guitar rock band who also likes to bring in elements of jazz, funk and bossa nova. Apparently, their policy is "...to pursue the music we want to make without being bound by trends".