The preceding album trilogy comprises the soundtrack for the colossal 12-parts feature program "Umi no Silk Road (The Silk Road of the Sea)" which was broadcast over a 1-year period starting from April, 1988 on NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai), Japan's national public TV broadcasting network. These albums which debuted the group's works could also be called the foundation of S.E.N.S. upon which their majestic world of music has been constructed. Even now, ten years after that dynamic sound was first heard, it still rings with a freshness.
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