Uruha (1/3) - Groan of Diplosomia 01 Pamphlet

GOD PAMPHLET
URUHA another myself
Interview

Interviewer: This time, what was the concept of your photoshooting?

Uruha: As first thing, the meeting regarding the photoshoot for this Pamphlet took place during the FC only tour. The designer, Yoda-san, said "think about what do you think 'division' is", he told that like he was giving us homeworks. *laugh* I thought "Ah I got it, interesting.." but it was really hard too. From the point of view of the meaning of the work, isn't it something like "scission" or something similar? Even if I was looking for an answer based on that, I couldn't find anything. Moreover, I couldn't come up with an other word to replace 'DIVISION' with. In the end I realized that, since inside of me only one realty was left -which was: "we made an album"-, I thought it was better to express this concept. The album we made this time, since it something we created 'carving out' our actual selves, it can be seen as something that basically express ourselves. So I thought at a 'mirror'. Division, for me it's a mirror, that was my conclusion. Despite that, there wasn't a way to take photos placing a mirror. Moreover, I had no idea how to represent this concept.

Interviewer: So, how did you come up with such an imposing photoshooting?

Uruha: Well, the designer developed my idea. In the first place we rented the terrace of a building, we spread out silver aluminum and then we took photos as if that was the mirror.

Interviewer: I'm feeling hot just imagining the scene.

Uruha: It was awfully hot. *laugh* When I actually tried to stand there, it was like I was in a oven. *laugh* Speaking of the outfit, I was wearing a kind of suit. I thought "let's get over with these photos!". I was incandescent like I was generating electricity. *laugh* Luckly, we managed to take awesome photos. After that I came back to the studio and they told me that this time I had to take photos surrounded by squared mirrors that will become like a whole magic mirror.

Interviewer: It was like being inside a kaleidoscope?

Uruha: Exactly. Moreover, the cameraman, Hirano-san, was trying to bring us slowly to an unpleasant direction. *laugh* To get things worst, being surrounded by mirrors is really tiring. I don't know quite know the reason, I was the feeling like everything was spinning.

Interviewer: I see, however Yoda-san took out a really complex theme!

Uruha: I really was complicated. *laugh* Since the same homework was given to all members, could we ponder even in moments when we couldn't keep from laughing? At the same time, I thought "could it happen that we come up with the same idea?" I think that if something like this happens, it could just be when a theme on such an obvious argument is given and you end up taking it slightly. However, if we can really find a concept about "DIVISION" according to ourselves, it's impossible for the ideas to correspond.

Interviewer: A job in which you reflects like in a mirror. I think that in each album there's something like that, however speaking of DIVISION you can feel in particular and very pronounced this nature, can't you?

Uruha: Without any doubts, since each time we think we want to do a certain thing. However as time goes by this experience mirrors itself on different things. This mirror is like a mirror inside the imagination. I could even say that it reflects my real self.. for example, speaking of this album, if ideals and things I'd like to do are embodied in DISC 2, speaking of DISC 1 you could say that it mirrors the reality. Moreover, the mirror symbolizes the image that we harbor etc… it's like to say "the things we'd like to do are in a certain way, however the image that fans see is different". You can perceive that reading opinions that arrives through fan mails. For example, when we want to go ahead towards a new direction, we work having crystal clear in mind the new image. However, inside fans' mind there's still the image till that point. This kind of deviation is interesting but sometimes is sad too. Because, no matter what we'll do, I think without any doubts that this deviation will keep on existing. Of course in the proportion of some people there's a difference between the ones who are coherent and the size of this deviation.

Interviewer: I think it's unluckily that fans and band could evolve at the same peace and speed.

Uruha: Yes. It's probably impossible. Moreover, this difference can't be calculated.

Interviewer: Perhaps this can be said inside the band itself.

Uruha: Exactly, it's not possible to be all the same. I don't know if it's momentary but basically we should be similar however there are times when we are completely different. So, of course, there's this kind of gap. Moreover, I think there are times when you can't cancel this gap.

Interviewer: For sure. However it's really interesting. Thinking about the shade of significance of a piece made by your band, you had the possibility to deeply reflect on other sides beside the musical aspect.

Uruha: It's rather a spiritual side. However I can say that even I had fun doing all of this.

Interviewer: You have the feeling that the chasing of ideal and reality is something without an ending. However, in the past, there had to be a time when -even imagining it- you couldn't even get near that. Compared to the past, now can't you say that the reality and the ideal arrived near to each other?

Uruha: If we try and interpret it in a positive way, it can probably be as you say. However, reaching such a point of reality consciousness.. I think it's a consequence of this age. Since we know we can obtain -in a second- a plethora of various information, if we try and search for something we know nothing about, couldn't we comprehend it? For example, if we'd like to know what people, who went see us when we took part to a festival, really think, we could easily find out about it. I think it's really practical, however there are things that it would be better not to know at all from the start too. There's a part of people who ended up loving festival when they know strange things happened.

Interviewer: If you understand that the reaction was awesome, everything becomes more natural.

Uruha: When you find people you don't know saying something like "I had fun!" or "I didn't expect that but it was great!" etc. You realize that there are lots of people without prejudices towards this type of music or Visual Kei, that's why it makes me happy taking part to festivals and it became amusing for me too. However, in the end it made me realize that probably I was the one being influenced. *laugh* It happens this too.

Interviewer: Speaking of the reality in this way, I think it's good thinking that it's something favorable. It's the same for forecasts?

Uruha: Yes, but sometimes it's unpleasant. Being able to comfortably obtain information changes you. Basically I've a negative nature. *laugh* That's why if I generally know nothing I have a propensity for thinking negatively and probably my works too would become darker.

Interviewer: In other words it means that, in this way, you find yourself in a "original" situation. You are able to create something that should be born in a completely natural way from yourself? Does it means it's more difficult to create in a direct way?

Uruha: When you hear positive opinions, aren't you more confident? So the result is that your work too will be full of that confidence. I think that this is really positive of course. However, it can also be that this is not your 'real' self.

Interviewer: Does it mean that in the end you can feel a bit of regret?

Uruha: It happens that I feel like I'm not completely satisfied. I think "I'm not being able to fully pull out the real turbid side that should be inside of me". It's like a feeling where the fog is dissolving mysteriously. This, I think, it's not bad… but..

Interviewer: It probably means that when it's reflecting in that mirror is something different from Division, even if you are trying to reflect the actual Uruha in that mirror that doesn't have any shadows nor distortions.

Uruha: How can I say it..? If I hadn't been influenced at all, in a situation in which I can't at all hear information, other opinions, etc.. maybe the band wouldn't be what it is now since before Division. If we hadn't hear anything, voices around us, who knows what we would have become? If it wasn't for those voices, maybe we wouldn't even had the desire to be what we are now. It's a strange subject but I've the feeling that if we had been people who weren't influenced at all, we wouldn't mature at all in this way and the way of being of the band itself tells the different influences experienced. I've the feeling that I've just said something extraordinary. *laugh* Interviewer: I think I know what you mean. What kind of people and what they think of you? And even if you wouldn't like to now, in the end you find out about that. This is for sure a current worry in contemporary society.

Uruha: It's exactly because we are in the middle of this kind of society. And since time moves on we can't do anything about it. Ultimately, there's the freedom of not joining the system of the so called social networks. Maybe it's because when I wanted to join visual kei this kind of things didn't exist? However, precisely because I was a fan, I dreamed about various things and I think this made the charisma of the artist much stronger. Everything was in the world of imagination. In particular, I think that probably this tendency was very strong in the visual kei world. People thought things like "That guy sure as hell don't go to the toilet." *laugh* I couldn't even image (the artist) eating or something similar. But this was the fun. Probably the imagination ability is much stimulated through printed interviews and such than showing vivid images through videos ecc. In these days things like these aren't disappearing? Now you can see everything. This is why I don't use SNS [1], I've a vibe that opposes against this. Since I'm an artist I can't think it makes sense to show a reality that should be better not to show, or the production process in a precise way etc. Even if from that you could take joy, I think that this is just an extremely superficial joy.

Interviewer: It happens too that the distance between you and the listeners shortens considerably.

Uruha: That too, it comes out a part that will get damaged because you are showing your naked self. I think this is just a spoiler [2]. Moreover, I think that because of that the listener stops using their imagination. For example, if I wrote regularly daily routines of my live, fans could think "ah it's a completely normal guy". In reality I'm a normal human being and there are pros of being a common person too. *laugh* However, I think that not showing this side is something good in today's visual key. But at the same time, since there's not a more comfortable way of gathering information, even I use it daily. Of course I feel the contradiction. This is without any doubts this is the world described in IBITSU lyrics. That world is certainly that song. For now, I think that probably is expected that that song exists. In reality, even when I didn't think about all of that, it happened that I wanted to make a single out of that song. But that didn't happen. I thought "Pulling this song out during the meeting for this album's songs isn't maybe the right time for this song?"

[1] Social Networking Service
[2] He means something that shouldn't be shown.





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Aoi (3/3) - Groan of Diplosomia 01 Pamphlet

GOD PAMPHLET
AOI abrasion
Interview

Interviewer: So did you get your head together?

Aoi: Who knows… however, I deeply hate going to conbinis. The day I'll meet someone while doing shopping in a conbini, I'll be really depressed. *laugh*

Interviewer: Someone.. are you talking about fans?

Aoi: Exactly. It's easy that just when I'm doing shopping there, I meet them. *laugh* I wonder why is that. *laugh*

Interviewer: Since they are fans who came to the live, I think the time you do this kind of things in the end it coincide for the both of you.

Aoi: Probably. Since I don't want to get out of the hotel, I stock up. For example, when we stay in the same hotel for two nights, I stock up for two days. So if people saw me, they could think "does he eat so much?" *laugh*

Interviewer: Moreover, people who drinks alcohol buy it in big quantities, don't they?

Aoi: Exactly, I buy a lot. Even buying alcohol is a pain so I buy packs of them. *laugh* They'll think "how much does he drink?" *laugh* It's something I hate. It's a good chance to tell you, since during tours I don't go every evening shopping at conbinis, I'd like you to understand something: even if you see me there, please pretend you didn't. *laugh*

Interviewer: I want you to understand that, eh. *laugh* The fact that you go around for taverns, bars doesn't mean you are the kind of person who enjoys the taste of different places?

Aoi: Not so much. Since I usually go to Izakayas. If -going into the right place- there are different things is the best… I don't do things like.. going around and looking for a place so I can drink different things. Above all I want to drink. *laugh* And then, while you're looking for a drink, couldn't you already drink a shot? *laugh*

Interviewer: You're seasoned… which is the alcohol you like the most?

Aoi: Recently as first thing is beer, then I really like Shochu [1]. In the past I said Whisky but I grew tired of that. *laugh* Now I say "Shochu is the best!" *laugh*

Interviewer: Shouchu, it'd be a good thing if it's not left over.

Aoi: Really? I leave it over.

Interviewer: … isn't it maybe because you drink a lot of it?

Aoi: Ahh you think? *laugh* Since whisky's flavor is strong, it happens that you grew tired of it and you can reduce it. While for Shochu ..you can drink your fill. *laugh* I can even say that each part of my body perspire alcohol by now. *laugh*

Interviewer: Wanting to drink your fill with alcohol easy to drink is something of heavy drinkers, isn't it?

Aoi: I want to drink a lot of it by now. *laugh* Then, when I wake up the next morning, my throat is super dry. *laugh*

Interviewer: It's better if you put near your pillow some water when you sleep.

Aoi: Of course, I always do that. *laugh* When I come back from bars, I absolutely buy water. However, sometimes it happened I forgot and the next morning I felt like shit. *laugh*

Interviewer: I feel you. *laugh* In the end you drink tap water.

Aoi: I do, I do. *laugh* I normally drink it by now. *laugh* Having such a dry throat is so terrible it can't be described. *laugh*

Interviewer: Please, don't forget to buy water, ok? So you get drunk… how can I sau… not speaking of Izakayas, is there a food you absolutely eat when you go into a place?

Aoi: Hokkaido's Ebi [2] ramen. It's not that I want to eat it but I really like it and other members too. That's why we usually go and eat it. It's in those moments that we go all together eating or when we party the end of something.

Interviewer: For bands who holds together for such a long time, such a thing seems natural.

Aoi: Probably. It doesn't mean we don't get along well but if you always stay together you end up feeling suffocated. Of course everyone's taste is different. Fans usually say "isn't it better to go with the other members?", I answer "No, It's not." It's worst to force ourselves and go out eating together. I want to say this too taking advantage from this interview.

Interviewer: Respecting each one of your individuality is the pillar that allows a band to hold together for such a long time, isn't it? Aoi-san, aren't there food you would like to eat?

Aoi: When we go to Osaka, I absolutely eat Takoyaki. To say the truth I only eat Takoyaki. *laugh* After drinking, there's a Takoyaki restaurant open till morning. It's good too. *laugh* They don't pour sauce, instead it's mixed with the broth. It seems it's really famous. But I forgot the name of the place. *laugh*

Interviewer: Eeeh?? You can't remember it?

Aoi: I can't. When I go to Osaka, I always go there having fun with members of bands of the place. So, after I drank like a fish I asked "isn't there a Takoyaki restaurant?" and they said there's only that place opened. In a few words, since there's just that place open, I eat Takoyaki only there. *laugh* But it's good!

Interviewer: If you'll remember the name, please let me know. So, during tours, do you do something? Like paying attention to your physical?

Aoi: I don't.

Interviewer: I thought "would it be rude if I ask"? It seems there are a lot of people that during tours go running or do muscle training.

Aoi: Eh….

Interviewer: What does "eh…" mean? *laugh* Then, you can have plenty of sleep.

Aoi: Not at all. Everybody says to me "since you don't care of your body, wouldn't it break dawn sooner or later?" *laugh* Not thinking too much is the most important thing. *laugh* Even if I don't care, my body will be ok. On the contrary, when I go back to Tokyo, its conditions get worst. *laugh* Moreover, during tour even if I drink till morning, I still have to work and couldn't it happened that they could forbid drinking to me? That's what worries me a lot. *laugh* That's why during tours no matter how terrible the hangover Is, I try and avoid to be late at the live's hall or I do my best not to show how tired I am. And when manager says to me "Aoi-san, please control yourself." I get a hold on myself. *laugh* Sometimes it happens I wake up late but not as in the past.

Interviewer: During tours, isn't it normal since the flowing of the day is set up? Maybe that's why your body doesn't break down.

Aoi: It could be. However, I really feel like shit in the morning. *laugh* I've nausea and my body feels heavy. Moreover, I think I stink of alcohol quite a lot. However during the live, the alcohol goes away too with the sweat. When the lives end, I feel again my strength back and I want to drink again. *laugh* I say like "Ah, I've to fuel!" *laugh*

Interviewer: You're the sample of a rock musician. *laugh* Did it happen at least once during the tour that you felt extremely bad and did a live in really bad conditions?

Aoi: Maybe never. However, I'm thinking about how to sleep properly in bed. *laugh* Covering myself up really well with the futon. *laugh* If I'm at home, I just throw myself on the bed and I fell asleep like that. *laugh* That's why I catch a cold. Since I know it, I try and pay attention during tours. I try to do at least this well. *laugh*

Interviewer: The hotel is dry and since the air-conditioning works perfectly, I think this is great.

Aoi: True, when it's cold but even in plain summer I feel cold. Moreover, when I feel I'm getting a cold, I take the medicines they give me in the morning. It's better to take them as soon as possible, so they have an effect. I took Loxonins [3] but when I do it my head hurts because of the hangover. *laugh* Loxonis is the best. *laugh* Even if I'd go to the doctor, they'll prescribe me only Loxonis in big quantities. *laugh*

Interviewer: You reached the end of the line, eh? *laugh* Is there something you absolutely have to do before lives?

Aoi: Recently it happens that I play guitar. And then I do some light bending and stretching exercises. Uruha does some accurate stretching, he prepares the mat and do it there.

Interviewer: Is it ok if you suddenly head-bang without doing stretching or similar before?

Aoi: It's just one of those things. *laugh* You get whiplash. *laugh* But it never happened to me. Speaking of which, at least two times I exercised listening to a radio for gymnastic exercises. I think that's great. It makes you think good of it. The first lessons of gymnastic exercises at the radio is awesome… I know just the first one. *laugh* During summer holidays if you do it seriously, you sweat a lot, I don't know if doing it listlessly too. It's hard, at the beginning you're out of breath.

Interviewer: Ah.. even if you know that radio's gymnastic exercises are effective, how come you don't keep doing them?

Aoi: Well.. during the previous tour, there were lots of things to do before the live. When a lot of your time is taken away form these things, in the end the checking of the guitar comes first. But in the next tour I want to persevere with exercises at the radio. *laugh*

Interviewer: Absolutely do that. It seems you can dived artists among who -accumulating experience- consider lives as an extensions to their normal life and who consider the stage as a special place. What do you think about that?

Aoi: To say the truth, there were times I thought it was a real pain. But that was simply an egoistic behavior. Even now it happens it's a pain but I consider it something particular inside of me. Going on a stage is a fun but I'm afraid of it too. It's not fear like being nervous but how to convey everything to people watching me. Since I'm the kind of person who pays particular attention to that, I remember well fans' reaction. During previous lives this opinion come out too and now I'm wondering if everything will be alright. Fans who speak about music are really nit-picking. Sometimes they are out of place but generally they're right. Critics from those fans are really painful. *laugh* However, I'm happy because it means there are some people who listen to us with passion. Lately, these kind of fans are increasing and I want to respond well to their expectations. When I think about that, I can't go on stage as if it was an extension of my normal life.

Interviewer: Impressing. I think isn't the fun of a live going on stage with motivation and managing to take out the sound you wanted?

Aoi: In the past -during tours- I had the feeling like I was there by chance. Since then for sure there's a part of my way of thinking that hasn't changed. It doesn't mean I took it lightly but now the feeling is deeper. Moreover, each time I face the live with a precise pourpose. I pay more attention to how I could appear too. I'm sure if you come and see me live, I'll manage to convey the fact that I'm on stage with that awareness.



[1] Shōchū
[2] Ebi means prawn.
[3] Loxoprofen






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Aoi (2/3) - Groan of Diplosomia 01 Pamphlet

GOD PAMPHLET
AOI abrasion
Interview

Interviewer: Basically, even if you can play your solo without difficulties when you are home, when you play it live you are anxious, aren't you? *laugh*

Aoi: Exactly. At home, I actually think "I'm so good!!" *laugh* Maybe at lives I'm dragged in that kind of atmosphere.. ? Inside, I think the most challenging part is the guitar solo in YOIN. Besides the fact that it's not a simple solo, this time I want to bring it to the point of playing it with passion.

Interviewer: You're conveying us the fun of trying and do all of this. In order to face this tour, it seems you renewed the equipment you are going do you use, right?

Aoi: I completely replaced it!! It's without any doubts different from the one used for LIVE TOUR 11 VENOMOUS CELL. First of all, the amp, since for VENOMOUS CELL I used a CORNFORD amp, I think the sound too gave a modern feeling. Even if it was a bit high gain. Now I use a Divided by 13, which doesn't distort. Actually I used it 2 o 3 years ago, I stopped using it but now I'm doing it again. Moreover, I bought a Marshall that has the same age as me. It's a two input JCM-600 with master volume. That makes me really happy!! I like it a lot!

Interviewer: It's an original 2203, isn't it? People say that since it has a particular sound it's difficult to play.

Aoi: No, I think it's a great sound! It's the same model Nuno Bettencourt from Extreme used and I wanted one from the same period. When I found it, I immediately bought it. Even when I go to the studio and play I think "Marshall has a really great sound!" and then "Aahh, this is the sound!!". Even recently, a certain guitarist, who uses a modified Marshall, wrote a tweet "Guys, you don't know the real Marshall!!". It seems there's a place like a Marshall museum in Yamaguchi prefecture. Apparently the owner said that it's a big loss that no-one knows the real Marshall. For sure there's a Marshall in every rehearsal studio but aren't they overused amps and so not in good conditions? The ones used in live houses are like this too. It's the same for me. Since it happened to me to only play that kind of Marshalls, I didn't know the real sound. I thought the Marshall had a frail and not strong sound and that the way out of the sound was slow. But for the JCM-800 I bought, they did a complete maintenance and I've the feeling it's totally different from the Marshalls I played until now.

Interviewer: That was a really good investment!

Aoi: For sure! Moreover, in the past I thought that the sound when you directly plugged the guitar in an amp, which could distort, was the best. However, recently I learned to use both the distortion by the amp and the Effect units at the same time. [1]

Interviewer: Eh? Are you serious?

Aoi: Yes. *laugh* I didn't use comps at first. So now I'm a so called "normal guitarist" *laugh*. Like, I line up all comps with the distortion unit and the effect unit.. now, speaking of Multi Effector I just use the Delay audio effect. In the past I thought that arranging a lot of amp racks was the coolest thing to do but now I don't have that feeling anymore. Since now I can use the effect unit with the distortion unit, even with the JMC-800 the sound is easy to create.

Interviewer: Divided by 13 doesn't distort very much and the timber is vintage-kei but it's extremely Hi-Fi.

Aoi: Exactly. It's an extremely Hi-Fi sound. That's why I'm still not sure if using the Marshall or Divided by 13. I think I'll find the solution during the rehearsals for the tour. However, I didn't go for the fancy. In the past I used 3 or even 4 amps but now I usually end up with just one. *laugh* and it doesn't matter which amp you use, the distorted sound you create using the bucking and the crunch tone are the same. I thought of regulating the distortion with the guitar volume without changing the amp settings.

Interviewer: Really? Isn't it how guitarist from the 70s played?

Aoi: Exactly *laugh*. Uruha said "doing this kind of adjustment.. wouldn't it be hard during lives?" but I've the feeling that if I won't do in this way, there will be a sound that won't come out… that's why I even substituted the volume pot of the guitar. In the past, during lives a used a pot A turner in order not to change sound, even if the volume decreased when I hit it with my hand. Now, I decided to use a B turner, it changes the gain and the sound volume. In the past I used the multi-effects, the distortion using the baking, the crunch tone, the clean tone and I selected in details the sound for the solo but now I'm going towards an old style, let's say analogical. I hope that in this way it will be easier to apply the change to the songs. To say the truth, during the fanclub tour and the festival I did it shiftily. *laugh* In this way I've the feeling like not to touch it as usual. Even during rehearsals I realized that I was calibrating the sound with the volume in a natural way!! Since the extremely tricky sound and the clean tone are extremely different, I regulate the sound with the multi Fractal Audio system. The "wah-wah" and "whammy" effects, I play them directly with the amp. Let's say I resolved this way.

Interviewer: Don't you have the feeling the guitar is somewhat alive when you can regulate the sound with the guitar volume?

Aoi: I do! *laugh* I'd like you to experience this during a live.

Interviewer: In the next tour is important to pay attention to Aoi-san's right hand, isn't it? Moving on, let's speak about guitars!

Aoi: Recently I changed the pick up. How to say… it belongs to single coil [2] and humbucker [3] groups. I found the pick up that has a distortion like the Humbucker but it remains the typical sound of the single coil. I bought the Bill Lawrence pick up privately and I had it shipped to my house. The guitar I use is the same one, however since I changed the pick up it has a different attitude. The sound is more real and catchy. I looked for so long for a good Humbucker with the dimensions of the single coil but I couldn't find it. One like that was made by ESP but I wasn't convinced. So I tried the Bill Lawrence and when I did, a melodious sound came out! It hit me so much that I use it for all guitars.

Interviewer: It was a great sound 5 or 6 years ago, perfectly mixed with other musical instrument and it gave a deep feeling, now it changed for sure.

Aoi: Now that I finally perfectly understood the touch of the picking, the sound is real. I think that if I'll make kohai guitarists play with the set up I'm using now, they'll say it's extremely hard. Because it's a sound in which the impetuosity of the play is direct, moreover it's not fluid and it doesn't distort as it seems. I'm using a picking set like this. There's no doubt that the sound is extremely crystal clear. Moreover, the shade is different with Uruha's sound.

Interviewer: It seems like you are satisfied with your new equipment.

Aoi: Let's say yes. Speaking about Bill Lawrence PU, it's not much compatible with the multi Fractal Audio system multi-effects. When I play it directly with the amp the sound is really rich but if I use the multi effects, the timber changes. It doesn't matter if it's a good sound or not, the multi-effects create a multi sound anyway. Since the different timbers are more emphasized I can say it gives a security feeling but I think sometimes this is a disadvantage. That's why I find interesting that with a PU, a guitar and an amp the result doesn't change. However, I was a person that thought these things were too much trouble. But recently, since the sound I want to create is clear, now creating that sound is extremely funny.

Interviewer: You move on with something new. During lives, you alternate among different guitars, what what's their utility?

Aoi: Actually I'd like to use just one guitar. However, since the GazettE uses different tuning, I've to do it this way. Who knows if there's a main guitar..

Interviewer: You have a lot recently, but is there one with which you can create a standard sound?

Aoi: There is! Actually two, the A-III in which the Synchro arm is installed [4] and the snakeskin A-III[5]. They create a sound that suits me, how to say.. now the sound is much more mild. Then there's the completely black A-III I recently created, with that one too I'm managing to create a sound which conveys a great feeling.

Interviewer: Among the original models you created with ESP, you care more for the A-III than the 艶~en~[6], don't you?

Aoi: Yes. But I use the 艶~en~ too. It's just that for the 艶~en~ the body material is different. For the others is alder, but fort the 艶~en~ if we used alder, the sound would be light, I had the feeling that high would be too hight. That's why its body is in mahogany. So for these 4 guitars we make tunings different for each one of them and then I play them for songs. However, when people usually ask me "which is your main guitar?" I usually answer "The ESP Forest[7] I use at home." *laugh*

Interviewer: Is it the guitar you are using since a long time?

Aoi: Exactly. It's a model for sale, it's the Forest in which a Hambucker is generally installed *laugh*. No, at home I don't use models created by me. I use the Forest to practice, let's say that it's probably the guitar I use the most *laugh*. However, since my models became interesting, right now I'm making guitars to play at home.

Interviewer: When you're done, please show them. Going on, I'd like to ask you things about the tour and such. During the tour, you go around a lot in the cities?

Aoi: I'm the kind of person who goes around in taverns, bars. Or I lock myself inside the hotel. However, I generally go out drinking. When I don't go out drinking, it's because I can't catch the manager. *laugh*

Interviewer: I.. I see. *laugh* During our off days don't you go out sightseeing?

Aoi: I don't. When we move from one place to an other, once we arrive, I don't say anything if not "Is there a tavern/bar?" *laugh*

Interviewer: There aren't cities without taverns or bars. *laugh*

Aoi: No no. Sometimes I found them. Near the hotel there's nothing… just darkness. *laugh*

Interviewer: When it's like this there's no choice...

Aoi: I stay mad in bed. *laugh* Or I buy sake in the hotel but then I want to go to a Izakaya [8]. However, there are moments I'm tired of this. *laugh* Thinking about the past, I'm less attached to the fact of going out drinking.



[1] Effects pedal
[2] Single coil - for a strong sound.
[3] Humbucker - for a full-bodied sound.
[4] The third one.
[5] This one.
[6] The first one from the right.
[7] This one.
[8] Izakaya






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Aoi (1/3) - Groan of Diplosomia 01 Pamphlet

GOD PAMPHLET
AOI abrasion
Interview

Interviewer: While facing the realization of the LIVE TOUR 12 -DIVISION- GROAN OF DIPLOSOMIA 01, were there themes you wanted to stick to?

Aoi: Isn't DIVISION an album with 2 CDs with different concepts? It was divided in two: one part with really strong electro elements and the other one in which you can find the new form of the GazettE until today. It was necessary to gather these two parts during lives but if we think about the bond it has with TOXIC, isn't it all much easier? Even when preparing the setlist, there's the feeling that you can combine the songs without much difficulties. From the beginning the GazettE was a band that crated various kind of music and we showed different faces during lives. Since we didn't begin the tour yet, I don't know but I think lives won't divert from the actual the GazettE image till the extreme.

Interviewer: I can't wait to see the lives! The hard tune used in DIVISION, while exploiting electro elements, gives a feeling that it can create a different atmosphere than before.

Aoi: When we were interviewed about DIVISION, words like electro or dustup came out, I couldn't fully understand the meaning… so I thought that since it's out of my competence, it would be better to hand it to Uruha and Ruki. However, facing lives, I thought it could be impossible if I didn't know at least a bit of what kind of things they are. So I did some researches and unexpectedly it was interesting. *laugh*. Starting from this, I'm recently having fun dabbling with the synthesizer. That's why I'm really busy. Because I've to both play guitar and dabble with the synthesizer. *laugh* I've just started recently with that, I'm still in that phase in which I look everywhere for buying equipments and stuff.

Interviewer: What you are doing now, could it be aimed to the future more than the next tour?

Aoi: Let's say it's now in my view of things. There's nothing better for me than understanding it too. In the end, the synthesizer is an electronic sound that goes 'pi-' or 'bu-' [1], adding them you create sounds and that's interesting. If I've to say it I think it would be good to exploit all of this during our next tour. Creating a SE using the synthesizer, playing it between the main part of the live and the encore. But I think I won't be in time for that. I've got the idea too late. *laugh* Even if it's not possible for this tour, I think I'll do it soon.

Interviewer: You are full of good will as always. Speaking of stage set [2], gimmick, etc.. which kind of things were conceived?

Aoi: I think it will be a pattern in which images will flow using LED. I don't know yet which kind of images but they could be things to awake the imagination. Ruki is taking care of that this time too. Moreover, since the staff said that the nature and quality of the images are better than TOXIC, I'd like you to look forward to it.

Interviewer: I can't wait! Speaking of the pamphlet of this tour, it's important that you are using photos in which the DIVISION concept is expressed from each member.

Aoi: The suggestion to do this kind of photos came from Ruki. Even doing only one point of view of the concept with all members would be fine but this suggestion points to put in motion our mind. Since it could be a good opportunity to show the way of being of each of us, I thought "why not?".

Interviewer: While DIVISION artwork has a form that express the concept as a whole, looking at the pamphlet photos you can understand how DIVISION is perceived from each member. For this reason, I think fans will be extremely happy.

Aoi: Just like that, since you will be able to see the personal part of each member. Our photos are.. how to say.. really forward, extremely ambiguous and staff told me "what do you want to do?" Since that, from when the suggestion came out to the photoshoot not much time passed, I thought I could simply express the first thing I had inside myself. These photos were taken basing on this. The theme is "tearing the skin off" and from the point in which the epidermis is ripped, you can see the inside of the body.

Interviewer: I thought that maybe you were representing (from the divided form of DIVISION) the nature of the two faces: the outer face (the exterior part) and the inner face (the interior part).

Aoi: It's not like that. the GazettE keeps changing, doesn't it? Among all of this, since I work in this band I feel that you can't always remain the same. While the band goes by, don't you have to change skin more than once? I think that probably while doing this, evolving is necessary. I wanted to express this not in a grotesque way, not with blood, but I turned on a mechanic feeling. That's why I lacerated the skin of a man in the flesh, not to say "I'm a machine". I'm introducing the image of 'changing skin' in my own way.

Interviewer: The part where the skin is lifted.. is it some special make up?

Aoi: Exactly. Even if I say it's a special make up, they were just some kind of pleats attached to the skin. *laugh* The make up staff took them already shaped so since they had to just attach them, it didn't take much time. The photoshoot too was fast. As a whole, about two hours. I thought that it could take a whole day but I was lucky to finish so soon. *laugh* It's awful keeping the tension during a long photoshoot. I thought "doing a solo photoshoot is the best!" *laugh* When we took photos, the designer told me to kind of scratch the part where the skin was torn. However, I wanted to convey that the skin was torn not that I lacerated it myself. In the end, we took that kind of photos too. Since we were in the middle of producing I thought to express my opinion. *laugh*

Interviewer: I look forward to the fulfillment of the photos! Heading towards the tour, what are thinking privately? Aoi: Inside of me, a part from the huge respect of being a part of this band, there's the desire to show myself even more. I think that realizing this is an advantage for the band too. However, doing this during lives is hard. Especially in the tour for this album. Because if you don't move along as in program on a certain level, there will be negative consequences. For this reason, I don't know how it will end. In this note, the goal of this tour could maybe be to blow away all mistakes? *laugh*

Interviewer: But.. do you make so many mistakes?

Aoi: I do.*laugh* I don't want you to misunderstand. The mistakes I talk about are not just elementary things like doing a chord wrong. For example. When I go and see lives of young bands, it happens that exhibitions do not fit together [3] and members run far and wide until they are dead tired and I say "where are you going in such a hurry?" *laugh* Maybe you are busy jumping while playing a song with a fast tempo or showing yourself. However, doesn't it lead to mistakes too? These kind of exhibitions.. I think they lead to mistake from the point of view of the whole song.

Interviewer: It's a weak point without any doubts.

Aoi: Since they are less evident than chord mistakes maybe there are lot of listeners who don't realize that but these mistakes are worse. The mistakes I talk about are the shades of the picking, the precision in the ensemble, a pleasing groove, etc.. it's a topic of this level and I don't want you to mistake it with elementary mistakes. However even if I say that, in the previous tour I didn't play the guitar solo, I turned around! *laugh* But I said sorry lot of time for that. *laugh*

Interviewer: It's true. *laugh* I speak with lots of artists and I can divide them between people who make mistakes but they don't care about it and people who's tension crashes.

Aoi: In my case the tension falls down. That's why it's dangerous for me to make a mistake. I arrived to the point of thinking that it was a shame. I don't care if it's one or two times but if it keeps going on I sag. I think "I can't really play today" and I can't have fun during the live.

Interviewer: In these moments, even if it's not like this for sure, don't you have the feeling that people in the first row are laughing at you?

Aoi: Just like that. *laugh* That's why I can't look at fans. *laugh* Even if I don't care in the exact moment I do a mistake, while time passes I think "I made a mistake before!" and from that moment I sag. *laugh* Moreover, during fan club tours, fans and band are close and this is good but in the next tour I want to 'leave' the fans. I don't do it egoistically, I want to show this attitude. In this condition doing a mile a minute mistakes is different. Now, I'm in a phase of constant preparation. *laugh*

Interviewer: It's wrong playing straight, still in order to prevent the mistakes, isn't it?

Aoi: Exactly. After doing a mistake-less exhibition I want to make a good impression too. Speaking for visual key, isn't the standing and way of showing themselves of hardcore bands hectic? That's why some bands mess up with the exhibition but there are anyway people with a good play. I want to point at that. the GazettE messed up too in the past, there were parts connected in a natural way but you couldn't say that they were harmonized in a clear way. *laugh* Since fans are maturing with the band, fans who give lot of importance to the listening and not only to have fun and go wild are increasing. That's why I seriously read fan letters, etc.. and when things that are not good are pointed out I think "ah, sorry.." *laugh* It's hard but I'd like for both parts [4] to have fun. And I think that from now I've to desire this even more with this awareness.

Interviewer: It's really admirable that you are pointing that high even now! Among DIVISION songs, if you have to name a song you have fun playing and, on the contrary, a song that makes you feel the pressure, which would they be?

Aoi: I think that each song gives a kind of satisfaction while playing it so I'm impatient. In an interview I said that I made my part of guitar really simple.. but when I looked back at it, I thought I was doing my utmost. Moreover, when I make new songs for the first time, I'm always unsure during the rehearsal but this time I made them well combined. Who knows if they'll convey a good feeling. There's not a particular song that makes me feel the pressure. For Kago no Sanagi acoustic part, I've the feeling that I can do it in some way, unexpectedly I think I can play it. I practiced and I think it's good. *laugh* It's really true that practicing is very important, it's not a fib. Recently, I practice a lot with the guitar playing not only our songs. Yesterday, we started the rehearsals and I felt that this way of practicing is giving its fruits. Until that moment, since I played alone, I didn't realized that but when I play with the band I can fully understand that.

Interviewer: This is the proof that if you gain experience and practice, you make progress. Moreover, the fact that you are not against playing the acoustic guitar during lives is a strong point of the GazettE.

Aoi: Really? I don't know that. However, I can understand why lot of guitarists don't want to play the acoustic. But I want to play as soon as I can Kago no Sanagi. Maybe the song during which I feel more the pressure is Yoin. Probably because, during the live, when it slows down I've to play my solo. *laugh* I wonder why I played the solo in that song. *laugh* It would be better playing it in a fast song. *laugh*



[1] We think he meant high and low sounds.
[2] Everything related to the stage: lights, screens, images on the screen etc.
[3] We think he meant that members are not harmonized together.
[4] Band and fans.







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

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

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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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