This is beyond intricate! Sokoninaru - Zettaiteki Sanpunkan | REACTION

[@edwardl9683]

Oh yes. Had to stop looking at the video in that one, it was doing my head in. 😂 Loved it.

[@80mtn]

The thing that gets me about Sokoninaru is those stops! Thanks Mark! Your pronunciations were great actually! 🙂

[@markabusireactions]

Well that is wild lol, I fumbled my through those words in a panic 😂 and you’re right, the little pauses that they do is technical as f*ck

[@785boats]

Been a fan of this band for a few years now. Such clever writing and performing. And the drummer is a special talent. Always love your reactions man. Great analysis as always. Intelligently, technically, & subjectively. A great mix. Some fantastic videos & playthroughs on their channel.

[@markabusireactions]

Aw thank you! I really appreciate that! I’ll definitely be doing more of this band!

[@domperignon778]

Wow! Hugely technical yet catchy track! Love it! The compression and noise gating on those guitars was insane. I'm going to go search out whether they manage to dish it out live.

[@markabusireactions]

Let me know lol, that would be quite an impressive gig!

[@domperignon778]

@@markabusireactions From what I've briefly seen, yes they can. That's really something.

[@785boats]

Yes they can absolutely play at this level, live. Plenty of great stuff on their channel.

[@powbobs]

They kill it live.

[@michaelthain4488]

Chaotic but organized and kinda catchy as well. Love the vocals from Juko and Misaki as well as the instrumentation

[@markabusireactions]

It’s a cool kinda controlled chaos. It sounds completely all over the place, but you can tell every single note has been very carefully thought out!

[@powbobs]

@@markabusireactions Yes, Juko, the guitarist, is a genius. And yet, amazingly for someone from Japan, neither he nor Misaki can read music.

[@spinnymathingy3149]

Mate, so happy you have taken the leap of faith in my suggestion to listen to SOKONINARU. If you like complex magic then here you are. This song is reasonably simple for their style. Some of their songs have more detail in the intro than most bands have in their career. And by the way I’ve heard they play these songs live, it’s not a feat of production 👍🇦🇺🤘

[@markabusireactions]

Dude, you should totally check out the band Meet Me in St Louis, I think you’d like it a lot. Basically an English-speaking version of this.

[@spinnymathingy3149]

@@markabusireactions thanks, never heard of them, I’ll take a listen. So here’s a suggestion for a completely off the planet SOKONINARU song, reference their name then SUSPENDED FOURTH. This song is a live mash up of 3 famous Japanese songs, recorded live, in 1 take. I had to watch it at least 10 times to take it all in . (This sort of cover song is what they do for fun they put 1 out every month or so , separate from their originals) I’ll put the link separately as sometimes KZbin censors a link

[@spinnymathingy3149]

@@markabusireactions SOKONINARU, Suspended fourth kzbin.info/www/bejne/omrLi3uLisiGY8Usi=lJ3oknlVtwmk1TLB

[@markabusireactions]

@@spinnymathingy3149 I can’t promise I’ll get to it soon (November is pretty full already), but I’ll do my best!

[@spinnymathingy3149]

@@markabusireactions dude, no sweat, even if it’s just for your listening pleasure. I just love the way their music gives me a mental workout trying to understand and pick up everything that’s going on. Their Spotify playlist is great for staying awake on a long road trip. No fuckn chance of nodding off 😆

[@Shiroar]

Ooooh I ADORE Sokoninaru! 🖤💜 They define mind blowing. As others have said, this is one of their more straightforward songs despite the skills it already showcases 😅 Some of my favourites for their controlled chaos are Saitei, Gou Ni Moyu, and Tenohira de Odoru. Don’t know if you have any plans to revisit them in reactions though, but they’re well worth at least checking out on your own if not. Oh and they also have a (sort of) Christmas song! 氷上の埋葬 (I think it translates to “burial on ice” which is clearly a very joyful title for a Christmas song 🤣). To me it’s if “crisp snow” was a song. It’s beautiful and emotional even without understanding a word of it.

[@markabusireactions]

I definitely plan on revisiting them! There’s just far too many bands and not enough time haha

[@Shiroar]

@@markabusireactions always the problem 😂

[@Greg-om2hb]

This song is rather straightforward for a SOKONINARU number. TENOHIRA DE ODORU is an amazing song. Maybe you could compare the OMV and the live performance - kzbin.info/www/bejne/gabUXn9_pr-Hj5I They also do many, many covers songs. One favorite is"Yoru ni Kakeru" (夜に駆けるlit. "Racing into the Night"), by the duo YOSSOBI. The original song is keyboard based, so sokoninaru’s cover sounds refreshingly different. - kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqSYd5tsm9tld5Y

[@spinnymathingy3149]

Agree, their cover songs are great, I wish they would be available on Spotify ?? My favourite cover is their mashup containing Suspended Fourth and 2 other songs, a masterpiece done in 1 take.

[@Parker--]

I just heard about these guys very recently myself. Some of their stuff like this is top notch. It's intricate as hell but still plenty catchy.

[@markabusireactions]

I was surprised I’m not gonna lie!

[@ClaudioQuinones]

like a tus videos, por seguir a los jaivas... y seguir aprendiendo de musica

[@TehPhysics]

Ah, you started off in the shallow end of pool. Probably for the best. Most people end up with whiplash from songs like 'TENOHIRA DE ODORU'. I'm curious to see what you think of them when they really go nuts.

[@y.suzuki320]

👍👍 try IKUO / Easy come, Easy core, next🎻

[@kevinallen4743]

Hi Mark, having listened to 11 Band maid reactions tonight I commented on a few to suggest Sokoninaru. Then I checked your channel and found this so ignore those comments as you've already done what I was asking. Like your short sweet style of reaction that is informed by some experience of being in what seems like a fairly regular band, why have you chosen to give this up, you must miss the buzz of the PA and venue engineers who have day jobs? Will join your discord and try to push more obscure and innovative stuff your way mostly Japanese but Germany, Poland, Ukraine & Australia have some good stuff too.

[@stevekane4922]

1) they do it all live. 2) there are, in my opinion, more and better songs by them. This one is really ott.

[@powbobs]

Ah. You’ve found them. This song is practically a ballad for them. Everyone will request Tenohira de Odoru and Gou ni Moyu. You will be amazed. And yes, Japanese bands of all genres are spectacular.

[@洋-u7e]

NEMOPHILA、Unlucky Morpheus、もお勧め。 NEMOPHILA / RISE [Official Music Video] kzbin.info/www/bejne/qHWWh4B3opJsn6M [ Official Live Video ] Unlucky Morpheus - 「Black Pentagram」 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iIbMg5-LfLKHrbs そこに鳴る / 掌で踊る【Official Music Video】Sokoninaru / Tenohira De Odoru kzbin.info/www/bejne/pGiwqqJ4oM5src0

[@destinationsunnyside250]

Sokoninaru started out as a Ling Toshite Sigure cover band, you can hear their influence in LTS songs like Telecastic Fake Show. Sokoninaru has taken the LTS frenetic style and made it their own. Ling Toshite Sigure is not as popular in the west because their vocals are not as readily appealing to western ears. Their concerts are a special experience, if you find a recording of an entire LTS concert you will understand their popularity inside Japan.

[@markabusireactions]

I have an LTS video on the channel somewhere I think! Either that or it’s a Patreon exclusive… Yeah I just checked, it’s a Patreon exclusive, sorry. But I enjoyed them a lot!

[@garylai363]

This comment has nothing to do with the band.... but, Much better pronunciation than most people do. At least you said every consonant and vowel that was there instead of making up new ones that aren't there. LOL The easy thing with Japanese is that it's almost totally phonetic. When you see a consonant or vowel, it's pronounced basically the same way all the time. You don't have all the exceptions like you do in English, with different sounding G's C's and every vowel etc. Vowels are always "AH" "EE" "OOH" "EH" "OH", for A, I, U, E, O. All syllables are usually broken down into a consonant and vowel sound. So for example, Sokoninaru is Soh-Koh-Nee-Nah-Roo (So/ko/ni/na/ru). When you have a combination vowel like "ai" in Zettaiteki, it's just "AH+EE" together, which ends up sounding a lot like "eye", but sometimes it can be extended to 2 syllables like "eye-ee". The double consonants in "tt" just give it a bit of a pause and accent. Instead of "Zeh-tah-ee--teh-kee" it's more like "Zet-tah-ee-teh-kee". Clear as mud right? Easy right? It's like learning to read as a grade schooler.😂 (I am not Japanese btw, I just learned some very basic things from classes etc)

[@markabusireactions]

That’s gonna help me a lot!

[@powbobs]

Yes, double consonants denote a glottal stop.

[@powbobs]

@@markabusireactions You’re definitely miles better at pronunciation than any English person I’ve ever met. Plus one for the Scots.

[@markabusireactions]

@@powbobs thank you!!

[@daaaaaave]

The biggest thing is you’re doing a soft i, like in “kid”, instead of a hard i, like in “ski”, when you’re saying the “ni” in the band name. Everything else isn’t bad. Combo vowels are the same as separate vowels. There’s just no gap between them. In Japanese, everything is context free, pronunciation-wise.

[@markabusireactions]

I think I know how to say it now! Pointless now the video is up, but I’m learning the rules for future videos ☺️

[@daaaaaave]

@@markabusireactions The vowels are also read the same as in Spanish, or Italian, if that helps at all. Even if you never studied those, you probably know enough food names or musical terms to get it. Pizza, mezzo soprano, and tiramisu covers all of them. The biggest pronunciation hang ups in Japanese for western speakers are the R/L sound, and tsu, I think. If you didn't have to learn thousands of Chinese characters, and two separate alphabets, spelling in Japanese would be really easy, because you can actually just sound it out.

[@markabusireactions]

@@daaaaaave yeah, I doubt I’ll be learning the language anytime soon, but just being able to pronounce the band names correctly would be fine with me 😂

[@powbobs]

And yet the language itself is extremely contextual.

[@kicorse]

That one wee cowbell was intentionally silly, and a recurring joke. In their song "Saitei", they made and temporarily pinned a comment to their own video which was simply the timestamp of the cowbell. Amazing band. I like this song but it isn't among my favourites. "Tenohira de Odoru" is most people's first Sokoninaru song, but lots of other great options too. Saitei, Indelible Time, Gou Ni Moyu, plenty more but not much point listing them..... Btw, I have never seen anyone get offended because a westerner unintentionally mispronounced a Japanese word at the first attempt. (Well, if you mispronounce "Nemophila" - the name of a Japanese band - at the first attempt, people will come after you, but technically that's not a Japanese word.) You pronounced it well enough that I can't confidently correct you.

[@markabusireactions]

I did a video on Hanabie, and every comment was about my pronunciation of their name lol, so I figured I should make it obvious that I’m at least trying not to butcher a language! 😂 The cowbell was funny, it didn’t detract from how cool the song was lol

[@kicorse]

@@markabusireactions Ah yeah, forgot about Hanabie. But I'm sure nobody was genuinely offended (same for Nemophila, of course).

[@markabusireactions]

@@kicorse they’re on my list for next week, I’m pretty sure!

[@powbobs]

@@markabusireactions You should really start with the MV for Dissension if you’re going to do Nemophila.

[@whitenoiseerra]

As for Japanese bands, sokoninaru and paledusk could become more popular.

[@markabusireactions]

I have one of them coming later this month!

[@victorlara4998]

🤮🤮🤮🤮💤💤🤬

[@markabusireactions]

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