Mincho Mincho Mincho!!! 😍😊💕

We are lucky that we still can be at the rail in a small venue... if we want to 😍 I think the time for this is almost gone. BAND-MAID is gaining popularity, and even in the West they will probably play the larger venues from now on. I am glad for them, of course, but to see them on the horizon instead of at arm's length... Not so great anymore, of course. I actually hope they may play sometimes a smaller venue, like what they did in Shibuya Eggman for the Pre-US OKYUJI in 2022. I would be glad to pay even some very high price for that. Once in two years or something 😊

@@VladimirChupin, I agree, I am jealous of the fans at a NYC show before Covid when Miku walked off stage and into the crowd. I swear I'd lose my shit.

@@christophermoorhead5827 Yes, that was amazing... And it was so funny that she was like waist-high for the guys around her, and those towering men were so shocked by her appearance that they all could not say a word 😂

Yes, that OKYUJI was amazing 🙏 😍 ❤ 🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊

MISA MISA MISA !!! 🔥🔥🔥😍🙏😇

Yes, I also formulated it like this. A musician must be meaningful. HAL-CA is a very skilful and technical guitarist, but she's never technical for the sake of being technical. She's a "musician's musician," yes, but she's also "everyone's musician." Professional guitarists may analyze what she's doing and find many interesting things-but people like me, the non-musicians, can simply enjoy what she's playing. If she plays DAWN, I see with my inner eye a dawn over an ocean, or a mountain, or over the expanse of green fields, and I live with her (and MIYU and MIO) through that experience. I don't need to know what they are doing in technical terms, I just enjoy the picture they paint with their instruments.

Да, я тоже постоянно об этом размышляю. Талант - это такая узкая штука. У них есть талант играть на инструментах, но вокального таланта явно нет. На студийных записях они, понятное дело, как-то это организуют, в студии ты вообще можешь что угодно делать. А вот спеть вживую уже крайне сложно. NittPicc тут недавно обсуждала бендмейдовский Different, в том числе акустическую версию с рождественского концерта 2021 года, где Саики и Канами вдвоём. И она обратила особое внимание, что Канами поёт не в унисон с Саики, а с некоторым интервалом. Причём, как мне слышится, интервал этот диссонансный, то ли секунда, то ли терция. Но у меня с музыкальным слухом не очень хорошо, так что точно не могу сказать. Но при этом Канами не сбивается в этих интервалах - она их точно берёт, пусть даже это и диссонанс. Мику Кобато точно так же может - она постоянно вокруг партии Саики выстраивает свои хитрые интервалы, и всегда попадает точно куда надо. А в случае Харуки и Мию прям было видно, как им трудно голосом попасть куда надо. Они сочинили довольно сложную вокальную гармонию в Titan, и ну никак не получается у них её гладко исполнить. Я к этому спокойно отношусь. Ну экспериментирует молодёжь, пусть их. У них ещё всё впереди, поймут в итоге, как лучше это делать.

@@VladimirChupin думаю, это объясняется полимелодизмом. Я сам этим страдаю - это когда на одну гармонию вылезает несколько вариантов мелодии, и все хочется впихнуть в песню... А надо всего одну, максимум две - на куплет и припев, а когда вариантов побольше🫡

@@andrejshamin1452 Я вчера слушал когда The Planet of Metal, подумал, что вокальные... ммм... партии? даже партиями их не хочется называть... Ну ладно, вокальные добавки, - так вот, надо бы им на живых концертах пускать их фонограммой. Тогда всё будет просто отлично. На фоне этих ритмичных вокальных фраз можно будет уже в своё удовольствие пилить на гитаре и гулять по лабазу на басу. Если бы это как-то донести ещё до них. Ладно, пусть сами догадываются. Они сейчас вроде как принципиально фонограмму не используют, как я слышу. Метроном, наверное, щёлкает там у них и всё. МИО мог бы контролировать фонограмму со своего места. Ладно, всё равно слушать их крайне приятно. Как бы они там ни экспериментировали.

@@VladimirChupin возможно, они намерено используют интервалы в разнобой, вызывая ощущение неустроенности... Потому что несколько голосов в интервал между ними, по любому воспроизведут мелодию... Был какой то девичий ансамбль, до сих пор считается одним из ярких представителей не гармонической музыки.

@@andrejshamin1452 Не, мне кажется, просто не попадают в ноты. Петь на сцене непросто, на самом деле. Нужно и себя очень хорошо слышать, и остальные голоса. У них вроде есть наушники-мониторы, но фиг знает, может, там проблемы какие с ними? Не знаю. Я слушал рассуждения нескольких вокалистов и звукорежиссёров про мониторы, насколько важно там всё правильно отстроить, но сам я не музыкант и точно не представляю всех связанных с ними проблем. Из тех лекций я только вынес, что дело это крайне сложное. С удивлением узнал, например, что без наушников (или без монитора, который громко орёт тебе прямо в лицо) ты почти наверняка не сможешь правильно петь, потому что тон собственного голоса искажается, резонируя с твоим собственным черепом. А наушники или мониторы передают его ближе к правде.

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And she makes it look so easy... I am not a musician myself, but many guitarists say, a true mastery is when you play your instrument as if it's the easiest thing in the world... even though she is shredding like hell.

Ha ha 😂 When I listen to a new music, I do the same. If it does not immediately repel me, I just leave it playing at the background for some time, and after an hour or two I can tell if this music goes into my playlist or not. It helps me to overcome the problems with the learning curve in case the music is new and unusual.

It's magic 😂

Wow, nice nickname! 😍😂

@@ontaka5997 Depends a lot on how close I was to a loudspeaker... I actually liked Huawei P20 Pro better. My current Black Shark 5 Pro picks up bass frequencies very well, but it keeps regulating the volume on the fly, which sounds a bit odd at times.

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They are in that period of their development when they start to experiment a lot, it seems, searching for their true sound. For me, I think they already found it in GUERNICA. This new album, The Planet of Metal, is going in a different direction, so, again an experiment. But I enjoy everything they release, it's all interesting, in one way or another.

Yes, one of their best songs! Even in their own estimation.

When I tried to play ASTERISM in my office, my colleagues were also quite upset. One of them kept repeating, "It's a dubstep metal." I have no idea what dubstep is, to be honest. Or I have an idea, but I don't know why he hears dubstep in ASTERISM. I'm also not very familiar with Slayer, to be honest. To me they always sounded like just a lot of noise. But it was when I was a child. I heard one of their songs recently and was actually surprised that it has a melody. Whatever. Associations which we have when hearing some unfamiliar music can be very strange at times. For me ASTERISM sounds like they are building a lot on King Crimson-which I know they themselves recognize, MIYU and MIO even played a cover of 21st Century Schizoid Man.

@@VladimirChupin Yes, someone else who hears King Crimson in their playing. The Zombie more so than anything, Mio at times sounds like Bruford.

@@niiru4336 I would say more like Pat Mastelotto 😊😊💕💕❤❤

Hmmm... Now as you say it...

of course, but she's more emotive. absolutely loooove this band...

MIYU was too shy to go out with full improvisation, it seems. MIO was entertaining the crowd almost alone...

There were two places: Tsubame Stage and Ichigo Hall. On four days, there were six concerts in total, four on Tsubame Stage, and two in the big Ichigo Hall.

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I ordered three copies, just in case 😁 Two from their official shop, and one from CDJapan 😍

@@VladimirChupin I will also be at the Zepp Haneda shows in November. Are you going to those?

@@markberry9233 No, I will better wait until they come to Europe. My Japanese experience was not very inspirational, to be honest. The organization of the concerts is very strange, you have to be extremely lucky to be anywhere near the stage. Also, they speak Japanese during Omajinai Time, so, I feel lost, my Japanese is absolutely not sufficient to follow what they say. And to get a visa to Japan... it's a serious adventure in itself. I won two tickets for the Hall Tour, and in the end I decided not to go.

Yes, the whole event was pure joy... I was so close to these legendary musicians for four days. Talking to them, watching them perform... It was indeed awesome.

Yes, as much as they are amazing instrumentalists, they really struggle with vocals. Especially complicated things like what they tried to do here. Well, they are are still very young, and they simply experiment. In studio recording of The Planet of Metal these vocals sound fine. Let them try it if they want.

I would definitely confirm this opinion 😁

Yes, I have the same problem as Akane -- very difficult to go to bed before 1am 😑 Remember, the Maids were once speaking about their "ambitions" for the next year? In Japan they have this format, to write their "ambition" on a piece of paper in the most beautiful calligraphy, and hang it somewhere before the New Year? And Akane said that her ambition is "to go to bed before 1am." And I fully sympathize with her 😒

@@VladimirChupin 🥱 😲

Well, they did some walking around, that's for sure 😂 But in reality it looked fine, actually. Just a lot of room to breathe. They used the space quite effectively, I think. Going to the center, going to the sides. The cables have limited their movements, but it was fine, actually.

Absolutely!