Based on KOKIA's song under the same title: everything turns into a star.
changing the aspect is just hard.
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changing the aspect is just hard.
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✾ listen to the love ～aigakikoeru～
ただの音符の連鎖は音楽とはいえなく、心無きの能力は本物の感情をあらわせない。音楽というものは心の深くから流れ出す甘い水、傷を癒す一番のくすり、愛というなのメッセージを伝うてんし、天上からの贈り物。
Only chains of notes can't be called as music; heartless skill can't express the real emotion. Music is the nectar from your deep heart, it can heal the hurt and pain, it's an angel who passes the message of love, it's the gift from the heaven.
It was the first time I watched KOKIA's concert DVD, the 2007 Paris one. After watching it, I started to loop her “Cyouwa oto” time after time.
During the looping, I cried a bit.
During the looping, I cried a bit.
I couldn't tell why, I was not that sad, yet I was not that happy. That live had that effect to drive me into tears. The songs were so beautiful, her voice was so perfect, the lyrics were so touching, and the ambience was so warm and enthusiastic. I wish I were there, in the crowd, listening, enjoying, clapping, and yelling for her.
I've ever heard that she sings better in live than recording. Now finally, I knew that's true. Her voice was far more transparent than any of her recordings; though I've known that her singing range is wide, still I got amazed, from the first to the last song. The whole sound effect was amazing too. One song after another, she sang there, with smile and felicity. That live was very successful, each song was showed perfectly. Plus her own comment on some songs, I could get a better understanding on her and her music.
She is that an awesome singer! She sang both extreme high and low pitches. Her voice is sometimes strong and sometimes gentle, mixed coldness and warmth in different levels. I got most amazed by the song “Pink elephant.” She started to make sounds from very a low pitch that was pretty different from her normal singing/speaking voice, and I even thought there was a male sang... then, the tune went higher and higher. Not only for the widely expended tune she made, I got amazed by her could sing for such a long span, which would be more wonderful than the song “Ave Maria” from the album “The VOICE”! Goddess! She can also be an opera vocalist! Although the introduction was only made by different tones, I can tell that this part was a real epic performance!
I can't miss another song here too: “Cyouwa oto.” That's the first song when I knew KOKIA. KOKIA created her own music world, her own music language, and her special ethnic and remarkable melody. My heart flied to KOKIA since this song. For me, it's hard to stop looping it whenever I start to listen to it. You would get the picture if you heard the surging yelling from the audience. Masterpiece. I have no other word to describe it but it.
A new song, “les couleurs de Paris” was a special one too. KOKIA composed it based on her impression of Paris. In the DVD, the melody played by a music box firstly reminded me some traditional Paris tunes. I can't understand what she sang except one phrase, “les couleurs de Paris,” the colour of Paris. KOKIA, ah, KOKIA, I can apply the word “genius” on you now!
The other songs were all very nice. They were from the album “aigakikoeru” that KOKIA released in 2006 November in Paris. “aigakikoeru,” that means “listen to the love” in Japanese. What a warm words, and what a warm album. Frankly, I didn't pay more attention on the album at the first listening, but until I watched her live, listened these songs, I couldn't suppress my emotion. I felt happy mixed with a bit of sadness. Maybe I felt more sadness than happiness. I couldn't tell exactly. Maybe what I felt was neither sadness nor happiness, but only the pure feeling of love.
At that moment, I heard the love.
KOKIA said a lot in her “Interview at Paris.” She loves music; she wants to share her feelings with people via music; be gentle, kind, and warm with others; holding the best smile and the most beautiful voice to sing for more people. She wrote her songs with these thoughts in, and thus she got her own “temperature” of music; she has merged her silent love into the music.
Music can send messages from hearts. Even though people die one day, the music would hold the message and pass it down forever. Music can overcome the barrier of country, language and culture. “Music is an excellent gift from the god; music can hold everything together.” Suddenly, I realised that I can find the message from her songs.
Listen to KOKIA, I feel the love and warmth. Loving music is such a blissful thing, and gets me into tears of joy.
★ at the witching hour
first challange of complicated arrangement. I'm just hopeless at drawing sekushi characters. XD
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❀ the art that I can feel
It would have been the 15th times when I played the album “Die Kunst der Fuge,” in this afternoon.
I liked J.S. Bach when I was in elementary school; I still like him now. He's my god in field of music. No one can deny that his giant contribution in western music. At the time when I got his complete works, I didn't choose to enjoy his other works but only this one. As a result, I fell in love with it.
I need not to say more on the work itself; go to the web, you'll get enough. Maybe the combination of notes, the counterpoint, makes baroque music special enough for me. Fugues in this work were composed only based on a short piece of melody, a point that makes me mad.
“The governing idea of the work, is an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject.”
That's true. Though I didn't learn to play any instruments, I can't analysis fugues like an expert and I even can't understand what shows on wikipedia; I can only use my poor glossary of music to tell little on this work that they are in minor scale and based on a same motif; anyway, I still love the fugues, love enjoying them time after time in my darkish room in a sunny afternoon. I have no idea of why; I just like baroque fugues that much. They're kind of holy tones from the heaven. Music from harpsichord sounds so clear and grave. I can feel the power of healing inherited in.
No any other composers are as awesome as J.S. Bach; his “Die Kunst der Fuge” should be on his top list definitely.
♡ whitish delicacy
Since this morning it has kept foggy. Till noon, my city has been surrounded in complete mist. I don't mind that foggy days would get our traffic in trouble, I do love such kinds of days.
The previous hot days ended and now it's even a bit cold. Maybe such whitish situation would still keep for a while – I just met a serious thunder pouring 2 days ago, it's possible that this fog would be turned into another rain.
Yet I came to love this moment, I don't know why. The outside is just a patch of pale white, might be rather depressed for other people. But I cherished it. Look at toward outside, you can see only white foggy air but nothing else, inside the room it's a little dark. You enjoy a piece of peaceful and calm song by yourself, with a cup of warm tea on your table. Yeah, I'm not in my seventh heaven, but I've found the paradise of calmness in my mind.
The song that I've been keeping looping might have triggered this lovely emotion, 楽園のゆりかご ('rakuen no yurikago', that means 'cradle of paradise'), by Noriko Mitose. Her voice is sweet and crystal-like, and this kind of voice gives this song a quite serenity.
I'm in my serene day, holding a kind of delicacy that only I can feel; yes, I am.
♧ vintage love
In the day before yesterday, it rained all the day. During the night, I looped the song “vintage love” by KOKIA. To choose a song to fit the weather is important to get a good ambience. That night, only this song was the best one to fit the slightly cool or rather chilly time. That's also kinda strangely, since in such a peaceful song, I was drawing an extreme cute character, Sakura from the animation “Card Capter Sakura,” I didn't feel anything unmatched.
I love raining days, I love KOKIA and her songs, and that drawing in the raining night.
I love raining days, I love KOKIA and her songs, and that drawing in the raining night.
☆彡*ー*ー*★彡*ー*ー*☆彡*ー*ー*★彡*ー*ー*☆彡*ー*ー*★彡
vintage love
Music & Lyrics: KOKIA
Piano: Kiyohide Ura
translated by Kiyoko @ 2009-06-10
Piano: Kiyohide Ura
translated by Kiyoko @ 2009-06-10
雨ならいいのに．．．傘をさして寄り添う
目深にかざして人込みに紛れるのチカ チカ ネオンの谷で 肩寄せ確かめあうのこのまま朝まで 雨音に抱かれよう
そのまま眠りが醒めなければいいのに．．．ショパンの調べに似た雨音がずっと
秘密を守って静かに降り注ぐのユラ ユラ 揺れるろうそく
消える頃には明るくなるの朝まで止まない予報が当たればいい
都会の夜にはお似合いの寂しい音*・。*・。*・。*・。*・。*・。*・。*・。*・。*・。*・。it's fine even if it rains... we put up umbrellas and get closer
and hid into the crowd with our sights coveredwe confirmed each other, in the deep flashing neon lightslet's embrace in the tones of rain, all the time
it would be so nice if we never awake, all the time...like Chopin's melody, held the secret
the tone of rain continued in silencethe flickering candles swung and became brighter
at the moment of being vanishedthat would be so nice if the forecast of a continuing rain was true
there were only lonely sounds that fitted a city night