Harmonium

Titled after a type of reed organ, featured on the 1959 Kurt Vonnegut novel The Sirens of Titan as 'the only life form discovered on Mercury so far'. Hirasawa was fascinated by the word because "the keys are all 'different people'. If they weren't different, the music wouldn't work".

Connections

 * Hirasawa wrote another song influenced by The Sirens of Titan years later: "Welcome to the House of Chrono-Synclastic Infundibulum".