音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

As a music blog, I have no reason to not mention recent releases, you know.
IMPORTANT: More text doesn't mean more love! :P

やなぎなぎ - ラテラリティ

I do love Nagi's voice, but somehow like Haruka, if I like her songs depending on who are the composers. This time, however, the single isn't my type apparently.
The first track, "ラテラリティ". There are too many electric elements used. I felt nothing but noise. The second song, "真実の羽根", which was collaborated with bermei.inazawa, is okay -- at least better than the first song. But unlike "Ambivalentidea", the second song isn't that impressive to me and to get me in looping mode. Just average, personally. Then, the last song, "link", is finally getting things more interesting in this release. This song was written by herself (if I remember right), and you really can recognise her style. The tune is cute, a brighter version if comparing with binaria songs. I like this one. Yet again, I'm not in quite a looping mood for the entire release.

みとせのりこ - Mille-feuille

I already knew that this best-album won't be very interesting. First, the tracklist was out long time ago and I didn't think (some of) the songs are that pop. I do know the word "pop" here actually means "catchy", but don't you think there are quite a lot of songs from "Centifolia" are also catchy? Also, if you throw some songs here into "Centifolia", you won't even feel weird, I mean the ambience would probably match well. XD
As for the new song, it's definitely not as impressive as her previous release "vierge automatique". To me, GUST-styled arrangement just made this whole album more dispersed in terms of uniformity. Both are best albums, but this one is definitely less worth trying than "Centifolia" (nooo, I do love leaves as well!! °A°). "Mille-feuille" is sorta like one casually-arranged-favorite-song-collection-that-fits-into-one-CD-length.

binaria - 双子のダイアログ

Now, binaria my love! <333
However, I've mentioned this maxi-single so many times before. I'll keep things simple here.
Relaxing, fantastic, abstract and unique. I've tried so many times to pull out some images from their music and I just found it's totally hard! Their music is free and formless. You can catch the melody, but the core of the tune is always one step ahead of you. This is a mysterious realm. You do stay, see, and feel, but you can't touch. (Ummm, I'm writing nothing here, huh?)

霜月はるか - 想いのコンチェルト

I'm NOT a huge Haruka fan. Like what I said with nagi's case, if I like her works depends on the composers. I love her doujin works very, very much, but her non-original works are always less tasty. -------- Anyway, I haven't even got a try of this album!!! orz

岡崎律子、ほか - 岡崎律子トリビュート -The 1st Star-

Okazaki Ritsuko Tribute. It consists of her unreleased works and a few covers by other artists. I'm a first-coming-first-love person, but this time, I looped this album a little bit.
In memory of Ritsuko.
Then, about the music here, "Agapé" is my favorite.
(Then this album dragged me into a Ritsuko looping mode.)

Polo Rockers X 霜月はるか - イミテーション

I didn't know anything about the other artist -- which is the main artist. I only got this for the sake of Haruka. Anyhow, this is a doujin work! I haven't tried the whole album, but I like the first Haruka song very much. The arrangement of using orgel is so great.

Annabel - miniascape

Not released yet, but I'll still include it here. It's finally about Annabel. I just said in previous post, this album could be the slowest one with its information coming so late! I almost kept refreshing the amazon page link and I got excited on Tuesday evening when I saw there was a cover image appearing! However, the tracklist isn't that satisfying to me. It doesn't include A LOT of my favorite Annabel songs. ---- Yes, I know that's a best-collection of her anime songs, even though, my ani-song favs are missing.
According to lantis, there are only one new song for the album. To me, there are three. Therefore, technically, I have owned 11/14 songs of this album. I tried to arrange the ones I have into the order of the coming best album, but they go so weirdly. Something is wrong, again, this album lacks a feeling of uniformity!
First, lots of my favs are missing, second, the songs are sorted weirdly, third, I prefer her doujin works much more, fourth... there is no fourth. The conclusion, it's not an album for me... u_u
So the truth is, never buy best-albums, it's burning your money!

Bonus:
The DECCA Sound - 50CD Box Set

I'm recently struggling to get this. 50CDs!!! That reminds me my music collection list. For the classical section, don't look down to that there are only a few lines for each composer, one line could be the master collection that contains 50 or 100 or even more CDs! xD
To today, I've done 10 CDs. I was hoping I could to love some "19-20 century classical music" via this set. Yet, no matter how I try, the door to "the other side" is always shut tightly.
So I gave up.
I finally realised (I shouldn't say "realised", basically I just didn't know the exact term to describe) that the basic thing for me to accept a melody is its tonality. Tonality, which most 19-20 classical or modern music do not have, so I have no way to love them. This is merely the key to my affection.
And I feel so good to know another term!

#1

Let's begin with some science:
The structure of human ear and brain actually defined what is harmony and how it sounds like.

Things related to nerve and reaction are always cool. This time, it's a combination between this field and my greatest fondness for music. So, when a sound arrives, your ears sense it in terms of wave and pass the signal to the brain. Multiple sounds form overlapped waves. If they are regular and organized, the brain turns on the switch of "comfortable" mode, and thus you are happy. If the waves are terribly layered, the brain tells you that you are "unpleasant" toward the waves.

--Therefore, human defined those pleasant wave overlaps as "harmony", and the unpleasant ones became "dissonance".

But we do need dissonance! There are different sound samples including beating, where close waves touch the same set of nerve, thus our brain lost its core and is about to snap. According to the research, even people who can't distinguish musical sounds dislike beating.

The thing is, I like it, beating! (Of course, that's a story about music and the resulting aura! My head is totally normal. xD)

#2
I suddenly noticed this new feature of Chrome yesterday--As an Opera user, you won't expect I catching up all chrome updates, will you?

The user switch~~

↑You can change the icons for different users; I wonder if it will support custom icons in future.

An awesome feature for people like me who own multiple google accounts, isn't it: personal+work+domain special... however, not applicable to non google users at all.

Speaking of computer related topic, windows photo viewer died for no reason since last night! Alright, I go using picasa photo viewer. -__-

Seems it's true that MS has only one thing can use, which is Windows. I already switched to use html for writing: easier to deal with formatting. Even not perfect for annotation and reference, it's pretty enough for everday casual notes.

Just read about it this morning:
KOKIA x Ito Masumi will collaborate again!
This time, it's for the anime "宇宙戦艦ヤマト2199", the ending theme song of its fourth chapter.
However, I have completely no idea about this anime. Just reading its title, another Gundam-like anime or something, I assume. Well, guess I should use movie here instead.
On air in next year, which is Jan. 12, and Blue-ray comes out on Feb. 22. So, when is its ending song coming out? And I do wish it becomes a new single, so I can buy it. Don't tell me it's tied up with the blue-ray!! I'll never watch this! (I've already been deceived by Broken Blade last year, pretty enough of lessons.)

According to KOKIA's blog, first, this song belongs to KOKIA's outwork, a.k.a. non-original work; second, this song was written in this June, after a hall-concert; third, this song is based on a witch in that show, so the ambience may be odd and full with "the-universe-feeling", and "shining" like a star; fourth, seems KOKIA is doing some other outworks as well, what are they I wonder...

Anyway...

I admit that I'm in seventh heaven when I see this detail. THAT'S KOKIA*MASUMI AGAIN, MY FAVORITE COMBINATION! <333 These two are the best!!!!

Hope more release info will be announced soon, so I can add this one to my "ultimate (fake) music collection list" (which is the substitution for my old "music" page), and code it in pink!! (btw, don't you think CSS is awesome? :P)
Also, Masumi herself is releasing a new album in December. The title is "Wonder Wonderful". I should pre-order this, shouldn't I?! xD

Then, I have to worry about Annabel's first album. Why there is still nothing about it yet? No tracklist, no cover image, even no title, and there are only two weeks before its release. Trust me, two weeks go fairly quick. Or are you giving us a huge surprise? But without actually seeing the entire tracklist, I can't decide if I should order this one, because I mostly only want to see she being together with nagi and myu and MANYO and... well, you know what I mean! u_u

First, let's bow to Maeda Jun the Archdevil! m(_ _)m
Don't ask for why, just go trying this:

幸せになる番／CANOE
Seems a limited disc specifically for a VA event in this summer. More detailed, July 29.
Cover image pretty!! （*´▽｀*）
Nagisa, Misuzu, Ayu, and... who's the last one? (?_?;)
And why our Kanade isn't here??? I know because she isn't from a virtual game. Yet still... (ﾉД`)

Although I don't mind multiple singers' collaboration, these four don't have a perfect match. I do admit I belong to Lia-fandom, but to be honest, her voice is the most stable one among all, and thus resulting a big difference when comparing with others. - -; If that's Lia herself performing this song, I will be hundreds of times happier.
Anyways, the melody and arrangement are great.
Second song is a remix of ED theme song of Little Busters!. I apparently didn't know this song before. It's another story-song (haven't read the lyrics though), and is just very Maeda-styled, which means it sounds abnormally hard to sing. Maybe since this song, I gotta love Tada Aoi! @w@
And again, can we someday have Key+Annabel? (´・ω・｀)

Then from some others' posts, the last unknown girl is Komari from "Little Busters!" Hmmm, should I watch this anime as well? But from previous experience. I shouldn't. I mean I don't like CLANNAD that much. Btw, here maybe I should state, I love key-label music as long as my favorite artists are in, but about related games/animes--of course I never tried any of the games--KANON Kyoto Version is my No.1, following Air. CLANNAD story is kind of "crazy" (or illogic). So I'm not expecting too much from Little Busters! so far.
Yet I need to add, Angel Beats! is probably the No.1 if including non-games.

Even I'm playing Dragon Nest much less now, I do love loli class in that game! So I took half of my Saturday to get a portrait of my most beloved character. xD

First, something new about Ar Tonelico.

Krut hymneth
It's gorgeous!!
and expensive (15540JPY=194USD)... ~_~
Anyway, I'll consider. See if there are many new releases I want, and if 2012 apocalypse will occur. :P
Not that bad since I haven't actually bought any of ArTone items! xD

There is also a special page for voting your favorite character. The highest ranked three girls will get specially composed songs (hymmnos?) from Akiko, Haruka and Noriko. Yet, I can't do anything for that -- I really know none of them! lol

Second, today, October 28, 2012.
The day for M3-30, which is also the day for binaria's new release "twin's dialogue".
But...
Why still no body shares it?? I can't wait anymore! The samples can't satisfy me anymore!! I myself won't hesitate to buy one, as long as I can... -__-'
So, commercial items are indeed good since we can buy easily!
Anyway, I said in last post, I did something solely from the samples, and during the weekend, I finally finished it.

An pre-image illustration of binaria M3-30~

P.S. on music page, I reset this for a "new music release" minder, and I plan to change content every 4-6 months or maybe half year -- though I need to decide how to deal with out-dated content then! :3

Yes, your eyes are not lying. Bears, not winter bells~

Which means currently I sleep as much as a hibernating bear, though I'm still aware of that binaria is having a new release on Oct. 28, which is this year's M3!

↑ Twin's Dialogue.
I finally realised I misread the new release's title as "duologue", due to their confusing event title that is simialr to this--anyway, there isn't much difference between the two words!
I can't they they had nothing since last winter M3's "bottle", but I'm never able to enjoy their collaboration with Haruna Ikezawa at all (would be great if they themselves perform the song...). So basically, I've been missing binaria for one year. Therefore, even I a non-sample-listener (I do tend to try more samples recently, probably since C82) tried the samples of the new release.
If only based on the impression of the samples, I'd say this single will be like their "delightful doomsday", which is harmonic, beautiful, peaceful and calm yet can stand out from all other similar music because of its uniqueness. I'm so pleased that I can loop the short samples for hours. XD;;

From the tracklist, looks like the first track is an short introduction. "Phenakistoscope". I even looked up this word. Never known this before. Hope the track itself is as unusual as the word! xD Then the second song. I was totally... can't find a good word to describe, so I'll use "refreshed" for now. It's so binaria! I bet I can loop the full version over hundred times. The third song reminds me Annabel's newest collaboration with bassy. But maybe it's too pop and not that impressive to me--at least not right now solely from the 50''-ish sample. However, again, the fourth song sounds very elated. It's so elated that I got another draft with the motif "twin, peace, night and fairytale". Are my brain cells running faster than the single itself? :P

Soon after binaria's M3 release, nagi is getting something new~

↑ラテラリティ/Laterality - Nov.7
What's wrong, both binaria and nagi herself like this kind of weird words being the title! However, good to me that I learned another new word! lol

Thanks to binaria's coming release, I'm back to doujin music (I got 400+ online playing record for GARNET CROW last week!). This time, I tend to play more quiet music, and gradually I got into the orgel world.
Don't know if I ever mentioned before (probably not), that I'm in quite a superb "winter bear mode". Two extra hours after an 8-hour-of-night-sleep may not even be enough. As if I can sleep all the way. Together with the first snow a few days ago, those orgel albums (of Akiko and eufonius) provided a superb aura to be more "winter bear" like! (´・ω・｀)
Just never forget my favorite music even being a bear! xD

Something more... still began from binaria. I have a habit to look around about this or that "keyword". After binaria's release news, the keyword naturally became "twin".
Therefore, bouncing thought, twin → conjoined twins; fail to separate, may share same organ including brain... Although it wasn't the first time I read the same thing, I still began to think, how those conjoined twins think if they share the same brain??? In that case, it's one brain controls two bodies? or two bodies fight for the only one brain? or...
Life is like a miracle, full of unexplainable wonders! （￣ω￣）

This time, it's all for new (and some old) releases! (And as usual it's hard to get a good title for this kind of content!)

#1. GARNET CROW - nostalgia

↑Impressive limited edition cover. Perfect match between white and red.
wait, it's not red...

When did GC release their last album? I can't remember. GC didn't bring up lots of exciting works after their "stay soul". However, "nostalgia" was such an impact that retrieved my heart. The C/W isn't that impressive to me, probably because my attention has been totally taken away by first song's incredible vigor. The most exciting part in the song, I would say, is the introduction--a perfect ensemble that has the power to drive me crazy (just in fangirl mode, not turning black! XD)
↓PV. IT'S JUST AWESOME!! I love how they produced the exact flow of music and each scene. The stage is also fantastic!! <33 *w*

#2. Otani Kow - JinTai OST
JinTai... I mean "人類は衰退しました (Jinrui wa Suitai shimashita)" or "Humanity has Declined". :p

Don't you think the title is kinda weird? I thought so when I first knew about it together with Masumi Ito's single work.
Frankly, because of the composer and ending theme singer, I started watching this anime. At least, the anime isn't bad. In a sweet fairytale style, mixed with crazy and absurd plot, it does make people happy. Thank that, I've been turned white completely. Kow Otani. Although I only have his "Haibane" series, I had no doubt that this album would be an awesome one (maybe I should try more of his works in future). Anyhow, only dreamy and adorable, Otani's music isn't absurd at all!! XDD
So, the conclusion, Akiko is the lunatic-driver and these two are indeed lunatic-healer!? lol if you want a moment of peace, try this album! <3

#3. Key + riya Spice Ghost - 此／彼／方

Ummm, I first misread as "special ghost". orz
The reason of introducing this album is simple. THIS IS THE VERY ORIGINAL VERSION OF NAGI'S "KIMI NO AIRPLANE"!!!!! Remember I ever said it's unfair that they reuse their old famous melodies without giving credit to them? Old fans all know it. Therefore, I vote for riya. u_u (I do like nagi as well! I gotta respect the first birth.)
I'm eventually satisfied now, because someone shared his/her copy of this album, I finished my lost track.
Off-topic,
Maeda your works are dragging people in tears because you were a psychology major?! °A°