Thank you!
I'm glad the Japanese ambient influence came through, I absolutely love Hiroshi Yoshimura, if you wanna check out a couple related artists who were more of a direct inspiration for this one have a listen to Fumio Miyashita & Shiho Yabuki :)
I'm glad you found the 'rule-breaks' effective, I thought this would be an easy challenge as I often use a lot of notes outside of the key but for some reason this one really wanted to stay in A minor and I could only fit in an occasional Bb with it still sounding good, so I had to go through the list and try out various others, I was also surprised at how a lot of the more subtle changes could be quite dramatic and effective!