Nashiki’s environmental music captures the beauty of Japanese four seasons. Hear the white stillness of winter. Basho, who happens to be a Nashiki’s beloved haiku poet, was the master of employing seasonal words in his poems. His poems visualize the seasonal essence, as Nashiki’s music on this “Winter / White Stillness” album captures the same kind of essential, distilled image of each season, using the title that could have been winter seasonal words such as “White Stillness”, “Frozen Lake” and “Snow Water”. Nashiki’s music is deeply related to haiku sensibility since both are essentially an attempt to commune with nature, human action to link nature to their life. "Winter cold air as clear as it can be Becomes a rarefied wind to fill up the sky I must duck myself spontaneously The interior of my respiratory organ The tiny cells of my heart That far distant light All resonate and quiver" -Yoshinari Nashiki