Sunday, October 21, 2012

the GazettE @ REDNIQS 15/10 (2/3)


Please read here first:
Since we managed to find a recorded version of the radio we decided to translate it.
Please note that there could be some mistakes because they sometime speak at the same time or -especially Ruki- mumble.
If you find any mistakes please tell us in a comment so we can check and correct!







[talking about word recently looked for~]

Dj: the word you recently looked for on the net, what is it? Ruki-san wrote "unsolved cases".

Ruki: Exactly.

Reita: 'recently' my ass, he always does that! *laugh*

All: *laugh*

Dj: unsolved cases...

Ruki: I like this kind of news.. more than 'like', I found them interesting, unsolved cases in history until now, like a sudden and mysterious disappearance..

Dj: Archived cases but yet you don't know who the culprit is..

Ruki: Yes, archived cases.. that became incidents too etc.. so I look for only this type of things.

Dj: Eeeh… for sure not happy things..

Uruha: *laugh*

Ruki: It's true, they're not happy things. But this type of drama exists, doesn't it?

Dj: Eeeh, since they describe crimes, in the end you can take suggestions..

Ruki: No, because I'm not directly related with this type of things. It's just that as moral problem, on a large case.. [we can't grab what he says here >_<]

Dj: I see.. then, Aoi-san, the word you recently looked for is "MH3G"

Aoi: Yes, it's connected to MONSTER HUNTER 3G

All: *laugh*

Dj: ahh I see!!

Kai: Mohan 3G. [Mohan is the japanese short way to call Monster Hunter]

Dj: Mohan, isn't it? 

Aoi: Yes, yes.

Dj: So looking for this word…

Aoi: Exactly, if you play without looking for you, you'll understand.

Dj: eh? Really?

Aoi: Yes, yes, yes.

Dj: Kai-san plays Monster Hunter too, doesn't he?

Kai: Exactly. It's a boom among members now. *laugh*

Dj: So you go on with the game while looking for answers on the web?

Aoi: mah.. don't you hate doing it the long way?

All: *laugh*

Aoi: Every human being hates that.

Dj: ah is that so?

Aoi: Yes yes yes. You want to take the shortest way, don't you?

Dj: Even if you cheat...

Aoi: Exactly. Wait no, this… this is not cheating! It's something important between social informations. I'm not dishonest. 

Dj: I see. Speaking of Blue Kelbi Horn… 

Aoi: ahh... those.

Kai: *laugh*

Aoi: If you do everything in that way, you can have them. 

Dj: All three of them? I see..

Aoi: Exactly, exactly, exactly

Dj: So looking in the proximity…

Aoi: Doing your researches, you'll understand which is the shortest way..

Dj: But this is cheating!!

Kai: *laugh*

Dj: Good, than Uruha-san's word is liquid crystal HDMI.

Reita: Uuuuua!

Kai: *laugh*

Uruha: I'm sorry but it's something I like. 

Dj: What is it about?

Uruha: During tour I want to play PS3..

*someone snorts*

Uruha: *laugh*.. I think that connecting it with the PC is convenient and until know I bought setups to connect it with the PC but it's complicated and in the end it took time, so I thought it would be better to bought a liquid crystal..

Dj: One specific for games?

Uruha: But I'm still doing researches for the small, light and thin ones.

Dj: Even smaller of the standard model of the game?

Uruha: Yes yes, a type that you can have it on your lap and play while laying down.

Dj: Do you play like that?

Uruha: Ehm, not yet. *laugh* Not that much?

Dj: From now on?

Uruha: From now one.. It's better if I play with what I bought.

Dj: What are you playing with your PS3?

Uruha: BIO HAZARD  [it's the Japanese name for Resident Evil] and things like that…

Dj: ohhhhhh, so it's a game!!

Uruha: Unexpectedly games are a lot...

Dj: ehh they really are!! Good, than.. the word that Reita-san looked for is…

Ruki: Saving.

All: huhu

Reita: what? 

Dj: You could thing like that, couldn't you? It's Propolis!

Kai: *laugh*

All:  *burst out laughing*

Kai: In the end he was infected! *laugh*

Ruki: In the end eh! *laugh*

Reita: He (Uruha) talked about it so much, moreover mine health conditions didn't get worse during rehearsals 

Dj: I see I see...

Reita: I thought that maybe I was being deceived so I thought "let's try and drink it" and Uruha said to me "the one produced in Brazil is really effective."

All: *laugh*

Dj: So that's how it come about?

All: *laugh*

Uruha: Brazil's bees are really strong..

Dj: ohhhhh 

Reita: So I ordered and bought it and now I'm drinking it.

Uruha: More than a week passed, right?

Reita: More or less 10 days..

Dj: 10 day passed?

Reita: Now I'm all BINBIN. [Binbin is used to say brisk/lively but it means to be excited/to have an boner too, that's why Kai is laughing.]

Dj: Did you say BINBIN?? *laugh* Ok ok, for sure you can't separate from that during the tour, eh? 

Uruha: Awesome.

Dj: Uruha, does the maker donate it to you? 

All: *laugh*

Reita: Didn't he say it was the first time?

Uruha: How to say, it can be *laugh*

All: *laugh*

Dj: Ehm what will be of the GazettE image?

All: *laugh*






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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Shoxx 236 - Reita & Kai interview



The Gazette
from DIVISION to DIPLOSOMIA part 2
REITA // KAI


Interviewer: When you want to try talking about the GazettE's sound the presence of the low tune composed by the bass and the drums is extremely important. Speaking of DIVISION, in which way was this low tune sound created? Weren't there a lot more difficult aspects than in TOXIC?

Reita: Mah, the bass itself -as instrument- is originally an instrument that produces low sound but for sure starting with TOXIC its role became more and more important. Depending on the progress of each song, there's the necessity to play deeper and lower sounds than before.

Interviewer: Since different types of tunes were added in the low tune, the solemn feeling of the whole stereo image increased.

Reita: Since the low sound is not only originated from the bass, I think that the synergic feeling is important too. The low sound is produced from the kick part of the drums [1] and from guitars. For sure the low sound is unexpectedly a really strong additional element.

Interviewer: Saying even additional.

Reita: Well you see, for example in halls, when we are doing lives, the low secondary sound produced mixes with the sound inevitably resonating on the walls and things like that. The presence of the so called low sound -which can be called both supplement and basic sound, thanks to the creation of this album, made me ponder on the meaning of the presence of the bass.

Interviewer: In the end, did you manage to get a clear answer?

Reita: No, the solution didn't come out. *bitter laugh* At this point, the things I can try, I mean to do them all in this album. But is this in the end the answer? If it's like that, than the topic would be different.

Kai: I think it's really a difficult topic. The low sound is not something that comes out itself, because it's something that all members of a band have to possess. Examining deeper the topic, it's not only mine's and Reita's problem.

Reita: I just didn't want to make an excuse out of that. Since I'm in charge of the bass, the feeling of responsibility in taking-charge of the low sound became, day after day, stronger and I think I poured the fruits of this in DIVISION in dribs and drabs.

Interviewer: Far from 'in dribs and drabs'! I perceive a huge change as listener. With the sound too which became completely clear, the contrast of the low pass [2] became clear too.

Reita: Ah, It probably became clearer if you compare it to TOXIC. Saying it easy, before the flow of low sounds was rough, let's say that now it should be much easier to listen to it.

Interviewer: The deep sound of TOXIC creates an atmosphere of chaos, that was commendable.

Reita: That's true. Personally, I like that not-so-refined sound a lot too. *laugh* It's extremely and definitely pleasant the sound of the bass and it's pleasant to play it. This doesn't mean that I didn't want to use that kind of sound.

Interviewer: In a few words there was a conflict?

Reita: Exactly, to be hones it certainly was! Putting aside this personal interest, when I thought which sound would fit the best this album, in the end the answer came naturally and it was that probably a clear sound was the best without any doubts.

Interviewer: I see. So, Kai-kun, in your case: to which things did you pay attention while creating this album?

Kai: Speaking of which! At first, there weren't things that made me say "to what is better to pay attention?" per se. *bitter laugh*

Interviewer: Does this mean you fumbled?

Kai: To say the truth it was like this. Especially for DISC 2, since there was the theme "I'd like to do some new quality things in the GazettE". I started in a condition in which no-one, no even me, new the right answer.

Interviewer: In that chase, did you manage to exploit the know-how you acquired until now?

Kai: Sometimes we did. However, the way of thinking until now started from "anyway as first thing: recording drums with a good sound", this time I gave great importance to the ideal situation in order to record the sound of the drums as base (for the whole song) in the best way. At the same time, since that this time lots of sounds were added -more than in TOXIC-, it was necessary to think about a way of balance with them. Moreover, since these inputs were temporary even during the drum recording, I couldn't grasp the complete form in the phase while I was playing.

Interviewer: Does this mean that in your head you didn't do a kind of simulation?

Kai: However there was a limit. After I finished playing, since other members still didn't understand the exact passages and which kind of sound will be added, as first thing we focused only in recording a perfect sound and creationing a form that could fit in the sound of the drums to it. Later, we changed frequencies and etc. Without any doubts this were the recordings in which we faced unknown things.

Interviewer: It seems that opening a new way was harder than we -as third persons- could ever imagine.

Kai: No.. we proceeded at trial and errors more than we thought. *laugh* However, doing an album together.. I think that in the future there will be for sure a bond. Making of this a basis, we could go on with our next work. Moreover, that doesn't mean that we roamed around without reasons, because in the meantime the fruits we obtained are really a lot.

Interviewer: I would be happy if you could explain us which kind of fruits in a practical way.

Reita: Without any doubts, the most important was for sure realizing once again that if we make a solid sound -not influenced by any other factors- we play safe. Processing the so called "perfect sound" as soon as you do a not so refined atmosphere, even if you can dye it with different colors.. this is on the contrary something really hard to do. This time I understood that there's nothing superior than a simple sound.

Kai: In addition, the thing that there's a leg to stand on in the value of things, that was a discover to us. The studio that engineers advised us was really expensive. *laugh* However, since it was expensive, the feeling of release when we made the sound and the room feeling was completely different from any others.

Interviewer: Was it a studio in which it was easy feeling a sensation of being in the place of the real sound?

Kai: It was a studio in which it was possible to take out the resonances of the sounds in the finest details. In conduction with this kind of natural ambient feeling, this time it was Aoi who said he wanted to feel this feeling even more, since even the passage of cymbal sound was excellent, that satisfied even me. If you don't think about the price.. *bitter laugh*

Interviewer: If you managed to take out a perfect sound, let's think about it as 'priceless'.

Kai: You are right. Since that -through feeling the personal experience of a recording of a prodigious drums- I understood that you can do lots of things even in a normal studio, this was an experience of huge value.

Interviewer: I think that naturally every song is like a cute baby raised with the finest and tenderest care but I'd like each of you to tell the piece that you especially appreciate and that makes you say "I managed to do something I never did before".

Reita: For me it was Kago no Sanagi from DISC 1. It's a Kai's song but since he let me do freely what I wanted, I could play it using both pick and fingers. Even in the middle of the song, the part in which the bass is introduced and than it continues with the acustic guitar sound, at first it shouldn't be there. However, I suddenly had this idea and I ended up adding it. *laugh*

Kai: I like that part a lot!!

Reita: Even if the phrase seems a bit old-fashioned.

Kai: No, on the contrary it's excellent. *laugh*

Interviewer: According to you, Kai-kun, which is the song in which you feel like you did something you never did before?

Kai: Something I never did before? Mmmhh which should it be?

Interviewer: Listening to it, REQUIRED MALFUNCTION from DISC 2, I think that the drumming is extremely interesting?

Kai: Ahh, those two basses?

Interviewer: Exactly. It attacks in a sharp way and I think it's cool!!

Kai: It's ok it's cool but during lives how could I play it? That's the matter. *bitter laugh*

Interviewer: You created a music of huge quality so you'll have to fight against the pressure.

Kai:: Speaking of songs in DISC 2, in our next tour I wasn't sure if I should play them using a drum pad [3] or with the normal drum.

Interviewer: If you used the past it means you already took a decision?

Kai: Yes. At first I thought I didn't have any other choice than using the drum pad. However, since I thought that the raw sound not only is close to the digital sound from the equipment but that playing drums in the parts -in which dovetails perfectly in the middle of the raw sound- you can better express DIVISION's world, I decided that this time I'd played live [4].

Interviewer: What a great resolution!

Kai: It was really important the fact that other members spurred me in a steady way. Who broke the ice first was Uruha. Then Reita told me "if in lives we can't take out a raw sound, we can't call us a band, can we?" too. And since in the end everyone agreed with me, I was determined to do it too.

Interviewer: That's really an amazing episode!

Reita: I think "thank godness" too. If it was only about reproducing faithfully the original music, for sure it would be better to use the drum pad during lives or delivering the sounds added as they are, but we are a rock band! Moreover, for the fact that we are celebrating our 10th anniversary, we have to stay faithful to the "sound of the 5 of us".

Interviewer: And with that I'm really impatient for the fall DIPLOSOMIA 01 tour.

Kai: From now on the big topic will be if we could manage to fuse our sound with the digital elements.

Reita: In a good way, I've the feeling that in this tour the condition of 'constant restlessness' will go on. Probably, it will be a tour that we'll face with a feeling of distress and we'll probably create a much more artistic atmosphere from an optical point of view too.


[1] Bass drum
[2] Passes bass
[3] Practice pad
[4] With 'live' he meant with a normal drums, not the drum pad.







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Thursday, October 18, 2012

the GazettE @ REDNIQS 15/10 (1/3)

Please read here first:
Since we managed to find a recorded version of the radio we decided to translate it.
Please note that there could be some mistakes because they sometime speak at the same time or -especially Ruki- mumble.
If you find any mistakes please tell us in a comment so we can check and correct!

We decided to translate it for topics, this is the topic of more or less the first 10 minutes of the radio interview (before DERANGEMENT was played), in the end -right before the song- they spoke about the tour and things like that so we decided not to translate that part





Dj Asai: Since we have the GazettE as guests today, please introduce yourselves.

Ruki: I'm Ruki, the vocalist. It's a pleasure.

Uruha: Uruha, the guitarist. It's a pleasure.

Aoi: I'm Aoi, the guitarist. It's a pleasure.

Reita: Reita, the bassist.

Kai: I'm Kai, the drummer.

Dj: It's a pleasure to have you here. Good, all five members are here, aren't they? 

Kai Aoi: Yep.

Dj: Actually this is the first time you are here...

Ruki: Exactly.

Dj: That's why I want you to tell us lot of things.

Kai: Ok.

[talking about recent news~]

Dj: You're doing live here in Kansai and they'll end with tomorrow's live in Kobe. As first thing I'd like to ask you questions starting form recent news about you. Ruki-san lately enjoys spending his free time using various connections of video images.

Ruki: Ehmm, right before this tour started I absolutely didn't have free time… I was in a situation.. I shouldn't say unpleasant.. so, I downloaded a software and started rummaging into it. That was the first time for me, it was so hard I thought "it's impossible!". That's why when I've free time I keep busy with that and I think it would be awesome if I could manage to do it.

Dj: It's about video images that are used oft during lives..

Ruki: In images I created.. there are probably dark moments too..

Dj: You can create things according to the images you use...

Ruki: Mmm!

Dj: I see!! Broadening your role to that point…

Ruki: *laugh* exactly.

Dj: Well then, Uruha-san wrote as recent news "Propolis".

All: *burst out laughing*

Kai: Recent news?

Uruha: Mah, more than recent news I've to say that I've kept using it since an year or so..

Dj: What about its effectiveness?

Uruha: Ehmm, thanks gosh I can't catch a cold. 

All: *laughing*

Dj: It's because of the cold, isn't it?

Uruha: Mah. I heard it's used for increasing the immune defense system.

Dj: Aahh I see. 

Uruha: If there will be a world tour, it's better not to catch a cold.

Dj: Sure, of course.

Uruha: So I think it's better to increase my immune defense system starting already from now.

Reita: Already from now...

Dj: Mah, for sure it's better. 

Uruha: Reita-kun too...

Dj: He was influenced...

Uruha: Yes.

Reita: Yes. He (Uruha) is such a pain in the ass.

Uruha: Aaah this topic came out.

Reita: If by any chance I cough a little, he says "that's why you have to drink it!!".

Dj: Ahh I see. However, if despite that Uruha would catch a cold first, you could call him every name under the sun.

Reita: That's why I think “ Catch a damn cold! “

All: *burst out laughing*

Kai: He'll end up catching one...

Uruha: Ehmm.. my throat hurts a bit now *laugh*

All: *burst out laughing*

Uruha: I'm serious.

Dj: Will propolis be ok?

Uruha: *laugh*

Dj: Aoi-san plays guitar while on tour. 

Aoi: Ahh but, how to say it ..

Dj: Don't you drink oft when you are out?

Aoi: No no no, I'm not drinking that much! I went drinking a few times now too.

Dj: Ah really?

Aoi: Yes...

Dj: Among the Gazette's members, who is the one you go out drinking the most?

Aoi: No no no, it doesn't happen. Because they are serious people.

Dj: Serious?

Aoi: They are.

Dj: Ok, then, Reita-san is recently saving money! 

Reita: Mah, it's not that recent, I'm saving but not on my current account. I'm saving cash.

Dj: I see, I see. 

Reita: I'm saving them in my apartment. 

Dj: In your piggy bank?

Reita: No, not in that. When I bought a new belt, I bought one that had a sort of package.

Dj: *laugh*

Reita: I put money in there.

Dj: Coins?

Reita: No, only paper cash.

Dj: Ah banknotes!!!

Kai: *laugh*

Ruki: Reita always speaks about money.

Dj: Do you like money?

Aoi: He likes it!!

Reita: No no, I don't like money but...

Ruki: Are you being serious?

Reita: I like money a lot.

All: *burst out laughing*

Reita: I do like it.

Dj: How many 100 millions yen did you save?

Reita: No, I wouldn't say how many 100 millions…  I saved more or less 5.000.000 Yen.

All: *burst out laughing*

Aoi: What the hell of a belt you bought?

Dj: Is there a belt like this? *laugh* Then, Kai-san wrote "changing the house interiors" 

Kai: Yes… 

Dj: Did you do it?

Kai: I'm doing it but...

Dj: Mh

Kai: But it's really hard, finding the right disposition.. what's best to change first..

Aoi: Are you speaking about making modifications? 

Kai: Exactly, exactly!! Modifying.

Aoi: Ah, how could it be… 

Kai: In fact, it's not like changing the interior.

Ruki: I don't think you need to make any modifications...

Kai: No no no, recently I did it because I wanted to add some shelves and things like that.

Dj: What kind of apartment is it?

Ruki: An apartment...

Kai: Ah, Ruki saw it.

Reita: It's a nice mansion. 

All: *laugh*

Ruki: I'ts a normal apartment... 

Kai: You (Reita) are annoying *laugh*

Dj: Did you do it like rock star style, didn't you? Awesome?

Ruki: No, actually it's normal…

All: *burst out laughing*

Kai: Rock...

Ruki: Rock.. because it's a rock mixture...

Dj: You can feel the rock.

Ruki: You can't feel it that much..

Dj: Ah but was it arranged with a music room?

Ruki: Well.. there's the desktop but sound doesn't come out from the speakers..

All: *burst out laughing*

Kai: Then buy me new ones... 

Dj: So, changing interiors...

Ruki: In the speaker default setting there's the central part, isn't there? What was that… like line 6 or something.

Kai: There is there is.

Ruki: He didn't go there not even once!

Dj: So you don't use it at all? When you tried to change it you were on tour..

Kai: Exactly!

Dj: It's hard, isn't it? Good, in the end tour started, the tour that follows DIVISION which was released in August. You started from Kansai and I think this is the 5th tour date, how was it Ruki?

Ruki: Speaking about Kansai, we are little by little obtaining results but in this phase we keep going around and we are save by fans' passion, there are moments in which we have the feeling we are dragged. 

Dj: This time I had the feeling there were lots of images related to the sun not like before.

Ruki: Really? But the last time too we used different images, this time there are lot of abstract images. In lots of points there are things like rays directly into your eyes.

Dj: mmh, This...

Ruki: Is it unpleasant?

Dj: Absolutely not. 

Ruki: *laugh*







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Monday, October 15, 2012

Tiny bits of the GazettE @ REDNIQS 15/10

Please read here first:
Today the GazettE were guests at REDNIQS radio too, we didn't found a recorded version and we decided to translate a part of the interview. It was firstly written by a Japanese fan so they maybe be little mistakes in the order of people or something like that.
We may do a part #2 of this if we found something funny or someone else doesn't translate it so for now I'll just leave it as part #1.
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Talking about recent news~

Uruha: Propolis. It's been a year since I started taking it and thanks to that I can't catch a cold. I take it in order to increase my immune defense system.

Interviewer: You too, Reita, were influenced by Uruha and take propolis?

Reita: He's such a pain in the ass! If by any chance I cough a little, he says "here you go, drink this!!" and then I end up thinking "It's better if I catch a cold!" *laugh*

Uruha: Mah, although my throat hurts a bit now.

Reita: I'm saving but not on my current account, I'm saving cash.

Interviewer: Are you saving money in your piggy bank?

Reita: Nono, I put paper money in a package in the belt I bought.

Ruki: You, always talking about money!

- Reita denies -

Ruki: It's true!

Reita: I like it a lot.

- They ask Reita how much he saved -

Reita: More or less 5.000.000 ¥

Aoi: What the hell of a belt you bought??



Talking about changes (things they've changed or improved)~

Ruki: My apartment is just like as always.

Reita: The apartment of that beautiful mansion..

Ruki: That normal apartment.. That normal apartment..

- Then apparently it seems that Ruki went to Kai's apartment and describes what's in there -

Ruki: No sound comes from the speakers. *laugh*

Kai: Then buy me new ones!



Talking about something they looked for recently~

Ruki: A not yet solved incident. A mysterious and suddenly disappearance. I like this kind of things a lot and look only these.

Aoi: MH3G. If you don't look for it, you can't understand.

Kai: Monster hunter.

Aoi: Don't you hate making detours? Don't you want to take the shortest way? That's not dishonest, this is really important for information companies..

Uruha: Liquid crystal HDMI.

Everyone: woooooow!!

Uruha: I want to play with PS3 during the tour.. I think that connecting it with the PC is fine but.. I want something tiny and light so I can play while I'm lying down.

Interviewer: Which games do you play?

Uruha: Resident evil and things like that...

(the Japanese fan we translated this part form said that when everyone said 'woooow!!' Uruha lowered his voice)







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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Shoxx 236 - Uruha & Aoi interview




The Gazette
from DIVISION to DIPLOSOMIA part 2
URUHA // AOI


Interviewer: In occasion of DIVISION creations, the guitar team introduced new methodologies in the phase of creating sound.

Uruha: Until TOXIC we created the sound which was added by guitar technicians who thought about coordinating everything about instrumentation. However, this time we worked together with a tuning specialist. More than creating sound focusing on the equipment, as first thing we gave particular importance to sonority and the tension of guitar strings.

Interviewer: Which was in first place the reason of this choice of proceeding?

Uruha: Because the musical pieces in which we used an abundance of A tuning increased. In order to do it, there were various points we had to review.

Interviewer: I see. For this reason, now more than ever, you opted for a lower tuning rather than a regular one. Speaking of which, the effects, which can be perceived working with a specialist, what kind of effects are, concretely speaking?

Uruha: As I thought, the tension feeling actually stabilized. We used thicker gauges [1] and changed a little the way of changing strings, I thought "who knows if it will be different?". Naturally, even from the point of view of changing sound, it became a bit better with more tension. However, during the exhibition it's harder than before to play pulling strings [2].

Aoi: To say it simpler, generally speaking it became easier to play than before.

Interviewer: In other words, during recordings you can focus only on the execution.

Uruha: Exactly. Speaking of the instrumentations, both Aoi and I buy what we like and we use them constantly. Even more important, during recordings thanks to the improvement of guitar condition, we managed to create a situation in which we can pull out a sound without any stress.

Interviewer: For this album, the contents of DISC 1 and DISC 2 are different, about that, were there points that you as guitarists found hard in particular?

Aoi: I think there weren't. Unexpectedly, everything went on as usual.

Uruha: Exactly. The atmosphere changes from song to song but that doesn't mean that the guitar approach in both DISCs is different till that point.

Aoi: Speaking of the sound nature of both parts, since no matter which the song was, Uruha elaborated a certain path and I followed an other. Since Uruha is a person who's seriously studying the sound, I've nothing to say about what he proposes. *laugh* Only for very particular parts we consulted and work went smoothly from the beginning until the end.

Uruha: And then, in the mixing part, an original point is the big sound transformation.

Aoi: Maybe it's a rough way to say it but we recorded with "a sound that we can do as we want in the future".

Uruha: If we record a refined sound really original and typical of guitars, we can later add it combining it with the songs. For this reason, it was necessary to do a more hi-fi sound.

Interviewer: I see. In the last month interview Aoi said "a refined sound", was it about that?

Aoi: Exactly! Depending on the songs, the sound is distorted but the original sound is refined because it's high quality. We played all picking one by one with attention, during aggressive songs we played in an impetuous way.

Uruha: In the creation of this album the fundamental point was how to let the sound reach the listener even adding every kind of effect without any deterioration.

Interviewer: Actually, while listening to it I had the feeling that the clearness of the sound increased but behind that there was the fussiness of each member.

Uruha: To say something not important, we shortened as much as possible the gap of cave rewind.

Interviewer: This to shorten the so called electrical resistance.. doing like that aren't we going in a physics related topic?

Uruha: For sure. *laugh* Recently the staff say that "who can do and give importance to this kind of things is the GazettE".

Interviewer: I think that while you managed to produce a better sound, isn't there the fact that there are musical pieces that created an age [3] ? I would be happy if you could explain them concretely speaking one by one.

Uruha: It's a song I composed myself but the intro of GABRIEL ON THE GALLOWS was really difficult. Since the tempo is terribly fast, when we started pre-production, the right hand couldn't follow the tempo. *bitter laugh* I managed to learn how to play it right before the recording. It's not at all a speech of a new age or something like that *laugh* But for me it was the first time I played a song that fast.

Aoi: Speaking of the executing phase I didn't do anything in particular. I committed myself to do a constant execution that could match the song.

Interviewer: So you had a craftsman attitude?

Aoi: No, at least not yet. Because I think that what I'm doing right now as the GazettE is the best worked, doing the minimum work. Mah, probably if I'll refine more I'll change again, I'm playing some high quality guitars but what I've to do now it's a perfect execution more than going on.

Interviewer: So you're giving more importance to the execution with the team instead of the exhibition itself.

Aoi: If I wouldn't do it, I would have the feeling that I'll be left behind. Little by little hard songs are increasing. Even GABRIEL gives a hard time. I reaaaaally didn't want to play it. *laugh*

Uruha: I don't want to play it. I think that the feeling when he play it, like "what the hell is this song!!", was similar to mine. Even if it's one of my songs. *laugh*

Aoi: AHAHAH *laugh* Since we can't do anything about it, we just have to play it.

Interviewer: In a certain way, the most important thing is facing it with an extremely positive attitude. *laugh*

Uruha: Even for HEADACHE MAN, previously composed, was like this but thanks to the fact of doing lives you learn to play them while moving. This change is really interesting and I think it will be good if even the songs of this album will evolve in the future.

Interviewer: At the same time, as listeners, I think that the fact that this is absolutely not an hermetic album is important. It's an elaborated work but the impact and the feeling of attack are really strong and you can see that it's a quite explicit piece of work.

Uruha: In us it's strong even the feeling of doing a work that appeals to the listener sensitivity.

Aoi: We have the certainty of letting a much clearer sound reach you too, something more real according to us.

Uruha: Let's suppose there are fruits from this works, which will they be?

Uruha: Creating a single product following a precise concept was the first experience but it was funny the process that lead all of us until all of this. Despite the fact we looked at the same direction, the way of thinking of each one of us were different, we talked about it and gathered our opinions… this whole process was interesting and it was really worth it. I've the feeling that us ourselves, in a certain way, met a new face of the GazettE.

Interviewer: Even more, I think that the GazettE is became a band with a incomparable existence feeling. Musically speaking, while you kept doing what you like and having such a strength of persuasion is something really rare.

Aoi: This is because it's a visual kei privilege. Since oddly in the walls of music genres, visual kei doesn't have a specific genre, if you want to do something you can do it.

Uruha: What we, as band, can say is that we absolutely won't change in the visual kei field but then.. sometimes it's just about doing things we found interesting.

Interviewer: This greed seems to encourage even more this work!

Aoi: However we said it already: "it's a band that's earning the best things." *laugh*

Interviewer: Does it mean that the feeling is perfect, doesn't it?

Aoi: I think that the antenna receptivity is quite good. Previously, even BORN's Ryoga said that the GazettE are unfair, that things they want to do.. we end up doing them first! *laugh*

Interviewer: So, following the topic. After DIVISION, you'll start the tour -DIVISION- GROAN OF DIPLOSOMIA 01 in the fall. Did you think of which kind of scene to do in this tour?

Uruha: I'd like to exhibit the sound of the new GazettE in a solidly structured world. I'm really impatient myself.

Aoi: It's just it seems you need physical strength to play that A tuning. It's terribly rigid.

Uruha: Probably if we'll play it, our wrists will break. *bitter laugh*

Aoi: Maybe it's better if we strengthen our wrists before the tour. Moreover, since I heard awesome things from Uruha during the trouble of ear monitor during the previous FC tour, I would like to put into practice that things too. At first I thought that if someone tell me "You can't understand even things like that?", what should I do? But unexpectedly I finally found the answer, thanks gosh. *laugh*

Uruha: eh? You really thought that? You can ask me anything, let's share informations! *laugh*

Aoi: No no, I say it again, asking you something in your face embarrasses me. However, it was a long time since I did that. Wasn't it when went on tour sharing the same room?

Uruha: When we entered in this office it seems it happens quite a lot.

Aoi: We talked about guitars after going to bed until we feel asleep. *laugh*

Interviewer: It's a cuter than funnier episode.

Aoi: No, thinking about it now maybe it was something that gives a strange feeling. *laugh*


[1] Strings Gauge
[2] A way of playing they often use during solos, Uruha uses this technique quite a lote. For example: this video at minute 1:12 or 1:21
[3] He meant 'age' like.. they created something such extremely new that could create a new musical generation.






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Tuesday, October 09, 2012

GROAN OF DIPLOSOMIA 01 - 08/10 @ Yokosuka Geijutsu Gekijo



SETLIST
01. [Diplosomia]→[XI]
02. DERANGEMENT
03. Gabriel on the Gallows
04. VENOMOUS SPIDER'S WEB
05. VORTEX
06. Clever monkey
07. The Suicide Circus
08. DRIPPING INSANITY
09. 余韻 - Yoin
10. 影踏み - Kagefumi
11. 籠の蛹 - Kago no Sanagi
12. [Depth]
13. 歪 - Ibitsu
14. ヘドロ - Hedoro
15. VERMIN
16. Sludgy Cult
17. Headache Man
18. Attitude
19. Required Malfuction

ENCORE
E1. Ride with the rockers
E2. Tomorrow never dies
E3. Silly God Disco
E4. SWALLOWTAIL ON THE DEATH VALLEY
E5. COCKROACH
E6. LINDA~candydive Pinky heaven

DOUBLE ENCORE
WE1. 関東土下座組合 - Kantou dogeza kumiai


What happened?

FANSERVICE:
  • During Silly God Disco, Uruha and Ruki did something similar to the Choo Choo Train and they were really cute.
  • Aoi touched Reita's butt.
  • Ruki at the end took the microphone and bumped it vulgarly against his hips.
  • During Silly God Disco. Uruha went near Reita but when Aoi went there to Uruha, Uruha started to running to his side of the stage. He passed near Ruki who turns towards him and they touch each other hands. When Uruha went away he poked Ruki's shoulder and Ruki made a face like to say "that bastard!".
FUNNY:
  • During Kantou.
    There are two versions of this, since we don't know which one si correct, we'll write them both:
    1. Uruha and Aoi were doing high five. However, Uruha had his pick in his hand and it flew away so Aoi was left alone doing the high five. His face was a mix of this (;゚д゚)アッ…. and this ('д'|l!)ぁ゙… like to say: "eh? I'll do it by myself?"
    2. Uruha and Aoi were doing high five. However, Aoi's pick flew away and said to Uruha "next time, you'll do it by yourself!"
  • During Linda, Reita wanted to attract attention to him and Uruha so he started screaming. Uruha was looking at him laughing beating the time with his hands.
  • In the double encore, Aoi had his hand on his chest and stroked it saying "hurts!" and pointed then at Reita who joined his hands to apologize.
OUTIFTS:
  • Reita during DERANGEMENT was wearing his hood but when the song finished he took it off. During the 5th song he was playing the red bass.
  • Uruha was wearing a sparkling jacket and black trousers.
  • During the encore: Kai had a black tour T-shirt, Reita a kind of white cardigan and all the rest black, Aoi a kind of long black cardigan with black pants, Uruha had a long black cardigan too with a white shirt underneath and Ruki a kind of cardigan with black and grey pattern and B/W sneakers.
  • Aoi's hair was black with some pink on the left side. Kai's hair was like in the picuters.
MC:
  • Apparently there were no Reita's nor Kai's MCs.
  • Ruki: "Tokosuka, are you having fun??"
    Fans: "Yeah!!"
    Ruki: "Thanks gosh!!" --- "Maybe the hall is different, how many floors are there? First floor!"
    Fans of the first floor raised their hands.
    Ruki: "Second floor!"
    Fans of the second floor raised their hands.
    Ruki: "Third floor!"
    Fans of the third floor raised their hands.
    Ruki: "Fourth floor!
    Fans of the fourth floor raised their hands.
    Ruki: "Very good!" --- "Fifth floor!"
    Fans of the fifth floor raised their hands.
    Ruki: "Very good!!" -- "Ok, let's try again the first floor"
    Fans of the first floor raised their hands again.
    Ruki: "Second floor!"
    Nobody raised their hands.
    Ruki: "Eh? Second floor? Mah, it doesn't matter!"
  • Ruki: "I won't let you go home today!!" and then they started playing Silly God Disco.
  • During Venomou Spider's Web:
    Ruki: "Finally the tour started, since it's the first day maybe you're a bit confused but follow us with decision! without thinking too much!"
    ---
    Reita: "DIE!"
ATMOSPHERE:
  • DRIPPING INSANITY: Just before the intro a digital melody was playing and on the screen there was a drain and then a bath tub, blood was filtering in from the wall and a hand touching the blood.
  • YOIN: there were the sea and the beach and pictures of lanterns on the water. Like this. The intro left everyone stunned, listening to it live quivers so much that it touches you.
  • KAGO NO SANAGI: Before the intro, the lights were like red rays and the atmosphere was like in a cage in a pleasure discrict. During the intro only Uruha was lightened. This song is awesome live and fans should go to lives only to hear this song. Ruki took the mic and bowed his head a bit like he had a bad feeling. He played with his mic and when he tried to put it on the stand he couldn't. A voice saying "ah, he made a mistake" was heard and Ruki started swaying.
  • HEDORO: Fans said the atmosphere was really strange, it's a ballad but they didn't know the furi and they couldn't follow the band's tension.
  • [Depth]: on the screen there were B/W dead flowers.
  • 歪: on the screen the writing BREAK appeared and Ruki started cheering fans saying "Break break break! Say!"
RANDOM:
  • Ruki was really into Clever Monkey while singing. 
  • Yoin's solo was fantastic, he did do much solos so it was always a surprise. Maybe he made some mistakes but everything went smoothly.
  • As always some technical problems happened and it seemed the sound wasn't coming out for two times but everything was solved.
  • Just before Attitude 'Break Break!!' was running in the video and Ruki started doing the furi and fans followed him.
  • Kai almost never talked and just said "Kakatte Koi!!"
  • Finally Aoi did some headbanging and he was really cute.
  • Ride with the Rockers was a bit different, they all walked out on stage with different background musics.
  • Kai sometimes had a suffering face and sometimes laughing because songs are really fast.
  • During Venomous Spider's Web' intro, Ruki beat the time with his hands.
  • During Silly God Disco, Uruha raised his hands and moved them from one side to the other.
  • Kai threw his sticks to the third floor but they hit the wall.
  • Uruha and Aoi played back against back again.