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A unique audio drama series created by writer/director Neil Cargill and musician/sound designer Simon James featuring an original electronic music score and full cast including Ian McDiarmid, famed for his role as Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars saga, as Cuttings – the radio ham who picks up a mysterious voice. The voice belongs to a girl (Joy McAvoy, from Ken Loach's The Angels' Share and Filth) trapped in an abandoned amusement park called Akiha Den Den.
Singer Wendy Rae Fowler (featured vocalist with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age) lends her distinctive Alabama tones to the multi-layered soundscape as it becomes clear there's a whole community there, whose words and music become woven into a mesmerising plea for help.
Everything becomes highly charged when one of the trapped inhabitants finds a way into our world – where his impact on us could be as devastating and far-reaching as an unknown, unseen virus.
Singer Wendy Rae Fowler (featured vocalist with bands such as Queens Of The Stone Age) lends her distinctive Alabama tones to the multi-layered soundscape as it becomes clear there's a whole community there, whose words and music become woven into a mesmerising plea for help.
Everything becomes highly charged when one of the trapped inhabitants finds a way into our world – where his impact on us could be as devastating and far-reaching as an unknown, unseen virus.
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Macrell in her observatory soaks in your voices, stories, first words, final words... but another signal has been swamping you - and it seems to be coming from deep within Akiha's rusting old arcade machines...
Their words have been reaching you – but what about the voices that have reached them? Incoming. Peri is devastated when she discovers the truth.
Coming soon, episode 6, 'Viral'.
Both Cuttings and Peri realise Monday Man knows something. Perhaps he knows you. Or do you know something he wants?
Both Cuttings and Peri realise Monday Man knows something. Perhaps he knows you. Or do you know something he wants?
Bullhook clings grimly onto life, while Peri warns that the rumours, ignorance and fear in Akiha will reel you in, brainwash you, tie you up in a tangle of words.
A trailer for episode 4 'Get Me A Stinking Goosefoot'.
With Cuttings silenced, Peri too is gagged. Trying to work out how and why, she leads us ever deeper inside her thoughts.
This week's Bonus OST is taken from Episode 3.
In between fortnightly episodes of Akiha Den Den we are sharing excerpts from the soundtrack.
This week, a piece of music taken from episode 2, and a scene introducing the thought mining cockroach, SIlph. It features heavy use of the EMS Synthi A, a 1971 synth from the pioneering British company that supplied instruments to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and various psychedelic rock bands of the time. Its sounds turned up in many early episodes of Dr Who (most notably Sea Devils with Jon Pertwee) introducing young minds to some quite challenging sounds!
Someone's watching. Squinting out from below a leaf, keeping an eye on the panatrope, the cantina, the wall all around. Silph sees everything.
In between the fortnightly episodes of Akiha Den Den, we'll be sharing tracks from Simon James' soundtrack. This clip 'There Are Others', featured in Episode 1.
Cuttings picks up a mysterious voice on his ham radio receiver – a girl's voice calling for help. Memories kick in that seem to offer clues to what's happening – memories of the so-called Monday Man.
A trailer for series 1, coming in September. Join our mailing list at www.akihadenden.com to keep up to date,
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