音時雨 ~Regentropfen~

✯ Rain and Wonderful Trip

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
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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

❈ Depressing Pleasure

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.

❆ Above your hand, there is..

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
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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

✽ Tracks that I can loop forever [beta]

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

❈ Tracks that I can loop forever [alpha]

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!

✯ Maeda Jun Rulz!

I believe my blog is a music-focused one.

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.
1. 終わりの世界から / 2. ふたりだけのArk / 3. Killer Song / 4. Flower Garden / 5. 無敵のSoldier / 6. 凍る夢 / 7. Executionerの恋 / 8. とある海賊王の気まぐれ / 9. 雪の降らない星 / 10. 火吹き山の魔法使い / 11. Last Smile / 12. Heroの条件 / 13. この惑星(ホシ)のBirthday Song
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:
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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.
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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.
My current favorite Yuki song is Emily's "my long forgotten cloistered sleep", which belongs to Yuki's "old style". I don't want to say it, but it's so true.
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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! = =#

♤ Irresponsible Update

Lots of stuff have been changed, now what I need is a new blog post! :come:
Changed stuff:
Last.fm - brand new
deviantart - brand new
twitter - resumed
photo gallary update methond - google plus
blog template - from cold to warm
lastfm and dA, as what I wanted, to unify my online account name.
Re-organize is always tedious, but...
YOU KNOW HOW AWESOME "THAT" SONG IS?
twitter account, I don't have much to say but I'm so happy to resume it.
'Cause I talked to Masumi Ito directly! <3
So I will keep twitter-ing from now on~
I was super Moed when I saw the background image from another one's blog, so I decided to use it for my blog too, and that's what I got today.
Just a few color code changes but I still got a page for this template, just in case.
Unchanged stuff:
I mean half of my existence. Music~
I just experienced another reorganization of my music library two weeks ago.
And I deleted 13-GB-ish stuff. OMG, so much!
Music that I never ever wanted to play for second time should be deleted forever without any hesitation. Yes. :clean:
Plus, as usual, though there is no detailed review/description about new music I got, I need a list since January's absence.
みとせのりこ/片霧烈火/他 - 子午線のパラディドル
Annabel - anamnesis
ALI PROJECT - 凶夢伝染
eufonius - プリズム・サイン
島みやえい子 - リピカ
GARNET CROW - Goodbye Lonely
奥華子 - good-bye
倉木麻衣 - OVER THE RAINBOW
KOKIA - 心ばかり
KOKIA - 夢追人
堀江由衣 - 秘密
Almost forgot, there was another anime I liked a lot.
"Another".
Horror anime, I like, and the story isn't that insane as Umineko that made me dropping. I even watched that anime twice in a row!
And got scared pretty much. The truth is, I couldn't full-screen last two episodes at the first time...
It's like what Annabel said in her interview: "It's scary, yes you know, but you just can't stop staring at the screen."
這是自婊咩... :thunder: