音時雨 ～Regentropfen～

There are three I've been looking forward long ago.

志方あきこ - Laylania
Stories from a fantastic magic world. I can't stop staing at the goldfish from its HP....
The first song really shocked me. Such a new style for Akiko, which reminded me the last song from ArTone Vocal Collection. Bouncing light jazz tempo, blinking light, dream and reality. Although I can't fully accept Akiko's style changing yet, it's not that bad as an opening song. Since "Ta Fatie", everying is returning to "normal" Akiko, which I like really. xD Track3 "不条理≧楽しい?" is another MOE song--not as MOE as "EP=NOVA/.", but it does make me laughing happily. BTW, in booklet, she wrote in full-kana in song info region, which is exactly like what's in "EP=NOVA/." lol
Then, Track5, which is the insert instrumental track, it has a mysterious and retro melody, and I'm wondering what kind of story is behind this track~ (I just decided to actually buy this album 'cause the booklet is so pretty! <3 Then I will read the entire text and see what it says xD).
Track4, 6 and 7 are the rest typical Akiko song, yet, I will still emphasize the last song. When I just saw its lyrics... WTF?? text I can't read!! Then when I saw the compose+lyricist, ahh, I'm released (you know why!).
And I want a similar design for my blog... *_*

伊藤真澄 - Heart of Magic Garden
Lantis famous songs featured by Masumi's rearrangement?! I didn't know too many from it, but from the three I knew, Masumi is really a magician who can turn everything into pure light! She even purified SeishoujoRyoiki. LOL Superb strings as usual.
I also liked track3, just tried the original version, and, lol.. what a crazy song! Her rearrangement is much better to me! XD
Songs I didn't like before became good as well. Listen to Masumi's work, I always feel happy and in ease. Thank you! <3

島みやえい子 - Onkalo
From her own liner notes, "Onkalo" here means "伏魔殿", which is "pandemonium". So, how will she depict this place in the song? I only tried the preview on official website so far. Still waiting for my copy to arrive. Σ(ﾟДﾟ) I do believe Eiko-sense's works are always excellent!
She just mentioned that she's done therapy.
Congratulations, Eiko-sensei!!!

Yesterday, I was MOED by Noriko too.
♫ ティル・ナ・ノグ
♫ 鬼さんこちら
♫ Mirage of Sands
I never watched Noriko Lives before, so I was excited, and I was amazed by that how brilliant she sang (and dance)!
I also got a super-video (super because of its length), which is a collection of many Noiko eroge songs. Oh, god, I never knew Noriko having so many works are not included in any of her albums...

So, basically, recently is my Aki-Nori addict period again.
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD!

I was too tired to write the experience in last night.

Due to my love(?) to my cells, I gotta go to univ in last night--the sky looked like 20:00, which was 2 hours earlier than the actual time. It seemed to rain; the sky was in a pale, grayish blue. It was not too cold (so we do have summer).
It took about the same time as walking to the station when the bus arrived, but it was the beginning of my unexpected night luck.
The driver first asked me where I was going, "so what about this, I'll drive you to the train station beside the university, which will take only 5 minutes." -- There were like 4 or 5 other passengers in the bus, and seemed that the driver would take them to their closest destination.
Well, not bad though, I thought.
"I'm okay with it, just, shh.." he then turned off the light that shows the bus number.
"See, you haven't even seen any train." he said when we arrived university, "and you don't even need to walk across the bridge."
That was true, and such a nice and funny guy. I don't know how the bus company system works, but I assumed the driver was on his last run. Somehow, the familiar station also became so fantastic after the superb short trip.
On my way back, it was so exciting--it really rained.
At the train station, I was lucky enough that it didn't take so long for the train.
By looking at the scenery in the rain, reflecting the warm and yellow light, what appeared in my mind was the last scene in Bungaku Shoujo movie--though it's a bit different--so I tried to hum the melody of its ending theme song.
However, walking in the rain again, without so many street-lamps, KOKIA's "vintage love" then occupied my heart--how sweet the moment was!
Wonderful trip, thank to my dear(?) cells. xD

Self-note: I'm wondering if it's possible to make my blog displaying the time like Japan TV programs.
I mean, instead of displaying "2012-Jun-14, 01:20", I more want to see "2012-Jun-13, 25:20", which is indicating my "June-13" hasn't ended yet. Seems it's hard to perform, at least I can't do it. So I'll write it here, maybe as a future reminder? :P

Seems doujin artists are dominating my heart.

↑ from the last 30 days.

Anyway, I gotta love another single by a doujin artist -- at least I think she's from doujin circle.

Yanagi Nagi -- Ambivalentidea

Before I listened to the songs, I saw someone posted the lyrics first. OMG, I saw bermei.inazawa! -- which meant the songs HAVE TO be great.
The introducing piano in "Ambivalentidea" is excellent. The transparent notes, with strings accompanying, settled the trembling "gothic" ambience. In contrast, in "白くやわらかな花 (A white, soft flower)" the ambience is a bit brighter. Both songs are in typical inazawa style, elegant and basically darkish -- I like the unique halftones especially! Nagi's voice fits the melodies so well too. However, the third song "halo effect" isn't that excellent like the others, though it's not bad. Probably, it's because "halo effect" doesn't have those unique halftones and thus it's rather like a general jpop.

However, I didn't want to mention this single particularly in my blog, until today, a rainy day.

With breeze, it was a bit cold, but I love the fresh air in the rain; looking at the raindrops falling down, flowing along flowers and leaves, or gathering into puddles.
Isn't it superb to listen to the first two songs in such a rainy day? The rather depressing songs could give me pleasure.
--Nothing but fantastic.

New music is always exciting, especially this time, it was like q drug, corrupting my mind. Well, as what I wrote previously, I made a favorite music list and had revised it twice. I thought that list was finalized for a while, since I hardly set a song as REAL favorite.
However, if keeping the list up to date, I gotta revise it again as the new music was released.
So, I was slapping myself. orz

Anyway, I don't really mind a new favorite being in my collection though...

Above your hand - Annabel

Soon after M3, she got something new, which was out of my expectation. Again, myu-san was involved -- pure yuri music, I like. In a fresh style, "Above your hand" is probably the most relaxing song among all new music since this year. The song does give me an early summer ambience. Not quite loveable, but can be played for several times in a row.
Then, the main poison, the c/w song. I had never known I could get a play count that was around 120 in just two days. The first time of listening experience wasn't that impressive, but I noticed the bouncing melody in the middle part, which was vert interesting in aspect of both the melody and vocal. I got interest and I'd like to play it again, to obtain a better general picture of this song. Than that was the beginning of my crazy affection.
OMG, the song is so sekushii!!
Depend on the singer, myu-san can make completely different types of music, while all her works worth to listen. In case of with Haruka, it's completely a cute style, whereas in case of with Annabel, it turns to be of both mystery and delicacy. I think such style changing is also affected by the singer's tones. Anyway, in "blind hunger", I'm completely attracted by the way of how Annabel sings. Her flexible voice, her breath and pausing are so charming! <3 By the way, the interlude, which contains piano and percussions, is also my love~ However, the song's introduction sounds so normal, just like what a common delightful Jpop song may have! Yet soon after the introduction, the melody turns the ambience dark -- so naturally! You are such skillful at making songs mysterious, my dear myu-san!! Moreover, the lyrics is sekushii too. Hard to describe, but there is definitely something subtle inside the text (a ghost story?!), making a perfection combination of words and music. Or is that the power of yuri?? The two can really collaborate superbly! xD
Nonetheless, I still want to say, the cover girl is really not Yuuko Ichihara? See her hair-style, her eye-color, or the background hydrangea, such a combination gave me a strong impression as soon as I saw the jacket. That's Yuuko!!! xDD

The truth was, I should write something earlier, but I didn't get time. Because of today.
I will never tell you that I got distracted after my own talk -- isn't that normal? lol

On my way back, I saw this guy. ↓

A cute chick! =w=
But too bad, my phone can't focus, so you know where it is? xD

Also, it's almost summer June, so we should see flowers blooming!

Yet I actually do enjoy snow during our "summer time"! :P

Alright, since yesterday's looping list, today I made another more complete list again.
This time, I included all original soundtracks, and "whole album that I can loop", which was omitted last time.
As a result, I ended up with a 9.2GB-ish collection. -.-
But, at least this time, I won't change songs in my player for quite a long while...
Since my portable player has only 3.6GB-ish free space, I finally decided to use lossy format, 'cause I don't want to remove any song here. =A=

So click here to view my favorite tracks beta version~ :3
After converting them to 320, I got 330MB left so I may put other new favs in future. xD

I don't know if I will have a finalized version, probably not, I love them all!

Ahh, btw, I renamed some of my drives. I used to use female names, but now I changed my mind.
What am I using for drive names? Lemme show you! :P
You should know my CDE disks, and, "melodia" is my portable player, and "Apokalypse" is my flash drive!

↑ Isn't it nice and special? lol
and I gotta rename my other hard drive disks and flash drives soon once I use them! xD

Since I began to use full track flac plus cue, I came to the problem that I couldn't skip and select my favorite tracks on my portable player. So I tried to put my favorite albums, but, it couldn't satisfy my strong desire to loop a specific track.
Time to gather all my favorite tracks in my limited player!
By exporting single tracks only once, I don't need to change tracks as frequently as before (I hope).
Therefore I got such a list, in alpha version though. xD

I hardly put original soundtracks there, so that list is definitely incomplete, but it fits into my 3.67GB player perfectly.
I may keep updating that list, though I'm lazy to do this tedious work (select, export, copy and post) soon again.

From that list, what you would know? KOKIA has the most numbers of songs. I didn't do it on purpose, it's just how it came to.

Doesn't it look nice? XD
Yet it's not easy to get another loopable 20MB ish track, so I stop here!

麻枝准+やなぎなぎ -- 終わりの惑星のLove Song
↑ My new looping target!
Since January, I've been looking for this album. "Killer Song" is so great! Also, since January, I was wondering why the last song in "Killer Song" mini album sounded so familiar.
Then, I got the answer while organizing my music library.
-- The exact the same melody of riya's song "道しるべ/michishirube", which I just lost by chance. :freeze:
Orz...
It's so unfair! They made so many "reprises" of their famous (?) old works, like those in "yukar", and this time's "きみのairplane". At least re-release riya's "kanakona"! :clp6:
I know I'm off too much...

Anyway, I do love the album. Just like Key + riya's "Love Song", (definitely they are similar, I knew that since I read the leading line of the special website.) each song is telling an entire love story. Delicately written in words, to give you enough about the main frame, but let you think more than what's hidden behind the limited length of each piece of lyrics.

Because "Killer Song" was too bright to flash everything over xD, I didn't pay much attention to track1 since the album. Now, I love it; nothing better than this song to be the leading song; especially love the introduction (it's like a slow version of "My Soul, Your Beats!" no?). Track2 has a quite great tempo, and track3, no more words here, it's too well known long before the album's official release.
Then, track4 is sweet and sad, and peaceful, whereas the lyrics of track5 gives me a strong feeling of regret, plus, if I didn't watch the music video before, I would lost in following the lyrics with singing (probably the most difficult song?). Track6 is pure narration, this kind of expression is interesting, and the "background music" is simple, but made me wanted to loop it... (plus I haven't figured out the entire story in this song... orz)
Track7 and 8 are two typical story songs, and, track8 should be my favorite "new" song, no matter from the music itself, or the story, the arrangement, everything... And section from 3:46 have the power to stop my world!!
Track9, although the context is ambiguous to me, the ambience did reach to my heart. I said track4 is sweet, so as a contract, this song is sour (no wonder that I have the power to extract tastes from music :P). Track10 is another story song, nothing special to restate. Track11 didn't impressed me so much either, it's partially due to the illustrations, and more due to my hatred of that kind of "idiots" (那貨就是個廢柴啊，英翻無解，殘念). -_-''
As a summary, we got track12. Before I read its lyrics, I noticed something, some "keywords" from previous songs. After reading the lyrics, I more assured it's a real concluding song. But why I recalled Sound Horizon's "Elysion" final track? lol Then, at the end, oh my god! It's Air! u_u
Finally, track13, you may think it's the conclusion, or a new beginning. It was supposed to be as same touching as "Love Song #1" conclusion song (I mean "そして物語が終わる"), but, at least to me, it's not that touching. Yet I love the illustration! xD
-- However, how could you make the "female" looking so young? She's having a baby! Nvm, I understand it's the sake of artistic expression, and I just can't accept that...

So, till now, Maeda Jun has collaborated with riya, Haruka Shimotsuki and yanaginagi (I'm saying only doujin singers), so next time...
PLEASE COLLAB WITH ANNABEL! :star:

Alright, after the main thing, let me introduce a few others.

霜月はるか -- 零れる砂のアリア
Haruka's new album! A story happened before her 2nd (?) Tin Dalia series album -- I didn't knew that until I caught some familiar motif during listening.
Typical Haruka's folk style, nothing special, but still worth to listen. What different was she added narrations, which reminded me Sound Horizon (ohh, the second time of mention SH in today's post! SH curse? :P).

石川智晶 -- この世界を誰にも語らせないように
Chiaki's new album! I'm so happy! Much, much better than her ex-collaborator, who's lost in her unchangeable dull style. You know who I'm referring.
Even though I can't even memorize most songs' melodies, I love Chiaki's works so much. I can loop her works without being aware. I think the special magic in Chiaki songs are the various ways of using the "voice". She can really sing across 4-octave, can't she? xDD So in this album, the most specific song should be track2 "The Giving Tree" and 9 "夏の庭/Natsu no Niwa/ Garden in the Summer". Yes, there are accompanying instruments, but what I remember from it is only the overlapping, echoing and contiguous voice.
Voice Magic. If using some fantastic description, I would say Chiaki is the sorceress of music. Actually, I'm really, really happy that Chiaki began to work on her own.

Then, as a kind of responsibility (?), I would like to mention two more works I got recently, and they are definitely NOT special enough to get their jackets shown here. :reg54:
Kalafina -- to the beginning
I have to admit, this single is good, but that's all. Seems Yuki is making Kalafina more like a general idol group rather than the hidden singing princesses with dark magic. I couldn't regain that kind of impression when "oblivious" was released anymore. The increased using of percussion and electric instrument unbalanced everything. If Yuki used more acoustic instruments, I bet I would love them much more and give them more positive comments.

Yuki Kajiura -- Fate Zero Anime OST
I even didn't know it was released long time ago. -_-
And, the content. Oh, damn, it's pretty KnK-like! I mean, no impressive tracks that makes me want to loop anymore. More ambience-making tracks are just lurking among the entire album. Kind of boring.

Summary.
- Maeda Jun is April's No.1, followed by Chiaki and Haruka. Yuki's stuff is forgotten by me, even not completely.
- Believing Key+riya's "Love Song #1" is better than Key+nagi's "Love Song#2", though I love both of them, and I'm looking for Key + Annabel.
- M3 is coming, Haruka has no new release (not surprising), but Annabel does have some! What I know now from her twitter, one song would have lyrics with emoji! Sounds exciting.
- binaria, wake up now, plz! = =#