Vanterra Arts – Tales of Haruki (10/2025)
Tales of Haruki is an AI-powered concept EP blending City Pop warmth, ballad intimacy, and narrative songwriting. Released in October 2025, the project follows Haruki, a fictional Tokyo salaryman, through five chapters of love, loss, reflection, and rebirth.
Stats
- Type: Music EP
- Genre: City pop / AI-Pop Fusion
- Release Date: 03/10/2025
- Label: Independent
- Copyright: All tracks have been composed and produced by Frederik Schrader with the help of ChatGPT and Suno AI.
Tracklist
- Summer of ’84 | 4:08 | *2025
- The Waters of Sumida | 3:28 | *2025
- The Yellow Dress | 3:44 | *2025
- Stuck In The Past | 3:51 | *2025
- A New Day | 3:35 | *2025
©2025 Vanterra Arts | Frederik Schrader
Press
If you like your well-crafted Pop songs that are on the lighter side of the genre’s sound, there’s a very good chance that you’ll love it too.”
Frederik Schrader about “Tales of Haruki”
“Tales of Haruki” continues my exploration of what happens when creativity meets code. Where City Bops was a love letter to retro City Pop energy, Tales of Haruki turns inward. It’s slower, more personal, and more narrative, a musical short story told in five parts.
Each song is a scene in Haruki’s Tokyo: Summer of ’84 captures youthful love; The Waters of Sumida reflects quiet grief; Yellow Dress in the Crowd revives a memory that was never meant to last; Stuck in the Past freezes time in nostalgia; and A New Day finally lets the light in.
What fascinates me about AI is not how fast it works, but how deeply it can mirror our own emotions when guided right. Every lyric, chord progression, and arrangement began as a human thought. Suno AI turned those sparks into sound, but the soul, that fragile imperfection, remains mine.
This project also gave birth to Haruki, a character that embodies the quiet melancholy of Tokyo life. His songs are modern fables: digital yet deeply human, transient yet timeless.
Just like the city itself, Tales of Haruki moves between light and shadow , between routine and rebirth.
It’s a story about learning to let go. See for yourself.