New Music in Town ♫♪
Hello my dears readers ☆
Within the last weeks I got to listen to many new CDs. I want to give a little review to some of them.
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First I want to start with AJISAI’s new mini album “WORLD ENTRANCE E.P.”
This album actually was released in June, but it seemed to be impossible for me to get it, because it was only sold at their lives in Japan and while there is not such a big international fan base I also couldn’t find it anywhere in the internet. Luckily it was possible to buy it at a little Japanese internet shop after a while and my sweetheart bought it for me. So in October - after four months - I was finally able to listen to it.
The mini album includes seven songs, there I remember especially one songs, because I really liked it when they played it on a livestream in the internet a while ago. This song is called “Fukai Mori” and has this special AJISAI-sound. Ok, most of the songs have this special sound and that’s why it’s very difficult for me to say which song of the album I love most. I think “Kimi ga ite Boku ga ite” is a very catchy tune and I could sing along in the refrain very quickly. I also like “Sakura ga saita nara” very much, a very nice ballad - and for sure “Saboten no hitori goto” is also a great song as all the other songs.
All in all, it’s a great mini-album with a lot of wonderful songs which I all started to love. Hopefully a new full album will be released so and I can get the possibility to see them live someday again. Somehow I really miss them.
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Next new album is the one of MIYAVI, called “SAMURAI SESSIONS VOL. 1" and was released on 14 November 2012.
First thing I like is the cover - and a fan-made version of it which made me really laugh (insider joke). All the songs are cooperation works with other musicians. Actually, I don’t like the first two songs so much, but then this album starts to really get awesome!
For sure, “Day 1” with YUKSEK is still great. I already loved it when the single has been released. Then comes “Silent Anger” together with TAKESHI HOSOMI. To tell the true, I never heard of Takeshi Hosomi before, but I really started to like his voice - so much that I later googled him and tried out to find more music of him. So I totally love this song. “Pleasure!” is a song I really look forward to listen to at a concert. It must be so much fun to sing all together. “Ooooooh~eeeeeh~oooooh! Oooooooh~laaaa~laaa!” ♫♪
One song I also really love on this album is “HA NA BI” with HIROMITSU AGATSUMA and JIN OKI. Agatsuma is playing Shamisen in this song and it sounds so damn awesome. I really love the sound of shamisen - and when Miyavi is rocking to it, it’s even more awesome.
The last song is “INORI WO” together with SEIJI KAMEDA and MIU SAKAMOTO. It’s a wonderful ballad, which makes me see Miyavi sitting at his girls bed and singing this as good-night-song. His voice and Miu Sakamoto sounds very good together. It for sure will become one of my favorite ballads of Miyavi.
Conclusion: The album doesn’t start with my expectations, but it because pretty awesome after a few minutes. I can’t wait anymore and hope every day, that he announces to come back to Germany. We saw him last time in April 2011 - that’s tooooooo long ago!
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Last album for today is “Shangri-La” from MUCC which was released just a few days ago. Well, I just listened to it for the first time today. But my reaction was pretty heavy, so I already want to write about my first impression.
The album starts with a really heavy and rocking sound and after listening to it for two~three times I get used to it. The fourth song “Arcadia” makes it all become a little bit more melodically & electronically and makes me start to really like it. The already known song “Nirvana” is as great as it was released as single.
I personally like “Shuuchaku no Kane”. The beginning is so wonderful - and the whole song, too. One of my favorite songs of this album. “Pure Black” is a song that made me dance through my room (laugh). It sounds very funny! Same with “Marry You”. I want to listen to these two funny songs live!! With “MOTHER” we have another rocking MUCC-like ballad, which I really love a lot.
The title song “Shangri-La” - which is the last song of the album - coursed a burst in my mood. After dancing around happily and sat down and started to cry within a minute. I don’t know what the song is about right now, but it simply touched me deeply. Somehow it reminds me a little bit of “Sanbika” from “Kyuutai” album, but this also makes me cry always when I listen to it.
In the end, I just can say that this album really crashed into me with the first listening. There are not many albums which make me smile, dance and cry while the first listening. MUCC did it!
I can’t wait to go to their concert again. I want to see Tatsurou and his dorks again!
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Hahaha, I just realized that all reviews are about musicians I already so live.
Confirms, that I’m a real fan of every one, doesn’t it?
Hope you all have a nice weekend! See you soon! ☆