MARUNOHCHI MUZIK MAGAZINE PRESENTS WORLD PREMIERE OF GHOST BRIGADE
11/7にSEASON OF MISTから新作 “Ⅳ- ONE WITH THE STORM” を発売する GHOST BRIGADE。彼らの新曲 “ELECTRA COMPLEX” を世界初公開です！！
フィンランドの異端児、開拓者、そんな表現がしっくりくるバンドではないでしょうか。自らのFBページで”ジャンルレス”と宣言するその音楽性は確かにジャンル分け不能。同郷の INSOMNIUM を髣髴とさせる現代的で知的なメロディックデスメタルから OPETH ライクなプログレッシブさ。それに加えてMASTODON 的スラッジやCULT OF LUNA 的ポストメタルの影響も感じさせ、特筆すべきは TOOL のようなUSオルタナの雰囲気すら味付けに使っている点です。そういった要素を全て淀みなく融合させた前作 “UNTIL FEAR NO LONGER DEFINES US” は完成度の高い紛う事なき傑作でした。
それから3年、当然ながら期待高まる彼らの新作ですが間違いないでしょう！ELECTRA COMPLEX。この曲名を最初に聞いた時は確実に”勃起不全”だと思いましたが違います。”女児が父親に対して強い独占欲的な愛情を抱き、母親に対して強い対抗意識を燃やす状態を指す”そう。ユングがギリシャ神話になぞらえてそう呼び始めたんだとか。電子音を大胆に導入しながら静かに、メランコリックに幕を開け、募る感情を徐々に爆発させて行くように激しさを増すこの10分34秒はまさにそのテーマとシンクロしています。奇しくも11/7は先日10分の大曲を公開させて頂いた NE OBLIVISCARIS の新譜と同じ発売日です。これからのメタルシーンを牽引して行くであろうこの2バンドが同じ日に同じような長さの素晴らしい長尺曲を擁してアルバムをリリースする・・・これは何かの運命かもしれませんね。
“Cyclamen boasts a repertoire featuring both mathcore chaos and technical aggression to the seemingly polar opposite with post-rock atmospheres and calming beauty in a genre I like to call post-djent.” heavyblogisheavy
”CYCLAMENはMATHCOREのカオスとテクニカルな攻撃性、同時にそれとは正反対に思えるPOST-ROCKのアトモスフィアと静かな美しさを兼ね備えている。POST-DJENTとでも呼びたいね” こんな感じだと思います。2010年にこういった文章を書かせたCYCLAMEN、書いたTHBIH、どちらも素晴らしいですね。と言うのもこの4年間でシーンの成長と共にそういった音楽性のバンドが増え、人気も出てきたように感じるからです。先日あのKSCOPEと契約を果たしたTESSERACT然り、FALLUIJAH然り、THE CONTORTIONIST然り。そして今回インタビューを行ったVERSE VICAは彼らに続いてPOST-DJENTの新たなる地平を切り開き2010年代後半のDJOPINION-LEADERとなる可能性を秘めています。デビュー作ENDEAVORで彼らが提示したANIMALS AS LEADERSとMONOのハイブリッド的音像は確実にここ日本でも多くのファンを獲得する事でしょう。インタビューです。どうぞ。
MARUNOUCHI MUZIK MAGAZINE PRESENTS WORLD VIDEO PREMIERE OF FLYING COLORS!!
Steve Morse (Deep Purple/Dixie Dregs/ex-Kansas ), Casey McPherson, Neal Morse (Transatlantic, Spock’s Beard and a prolific solo artist), Dave LaRue (Dixie Dregs, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and more) , Mike Portnoy (Transatlantic, Winery Dogs, ex-Dream Theater) から成る夢のプログバンドFLYING COLORS。先日リリースされた2ndアルバム、SECOND NATUREからBOSTONのようなボーカルハーモニーとポートノイ氏の青髭が非常に魅力的な新PV、A PLACE IN YOUR WORLDを世界初公開です！！
【ABOUT “SECOND NATURE”】
【MIKE PORTNOY】:“The first album was very much a blind date, Although we already had ‘Team Dregs’ of Steve/Dave and ‘Team Transatlantic’ of myself/Neal, it was the first time that the five of us – seven if you include Bill Evans and Peter Collins – had collaborated together as a group. This time there was an existing chemistry, we had not only the prior experiences of making the debut album but also the 2012 tour as well.”
【MIKE PORTNOY】: “Direction was never even discussed. We just did what we do. I think perhaps not having a producer to ‘trim the fat’ possibly led to the songs breathing and expanding a bit more.”
‘Comfort’ referers to a german philosopher named Walter Benjamin and his work on the ‘destructive character’. its about the fact that some people actually find peace and comfort in destroying things. its described as a special form of catharsis. here are the lyrics to get more into it:
‘COMFORT’はドイツの思想家ウォルター・ベンヤミンとその著書’DESTRUCTIVE CHARACTER’に関連しているんだ。物事を破壊することで安心や平穏を得る人というのは存在する。彼らとその行為についての曲なんだ。感情浄化の特別な形として描かれているよ。歌詞を読んでもらうともっと深く理解できるだろうね。 BY EDEN CIRCUS
comfort
I am young
and I am cheerful
for destroying rejuvenates me
it clears away the traces of our own age
it cheers, ‘cause everything is cleared away
this means complete reduction
like rooting out
out of its own condition
out of myself
I am wading
knee deep and going in
and I may
never come back again
I got only a few needs
and the least of them
is to know what will replace what’s been erased
I see no image hovering before me
no greater picture of it all
I am wading
knee deep and going in
and I may
never come back again
I’ve got an insight into
how everything is simplified
when considered worthy of being torn in two
one only occupation:
make room – let’s clear away
empty space
someone’s sure to be found
who will need it
this great bond embracing – unifying everything
a sight that affords real pleasure to me
you pass things down to posterity
by making them untouchable
I pass on situations
by liquidating them
I am wading
knee deep and going in
and I may
never come back again
what exists is reduced to rubble – unrooted
not for the sake of it
but for a way
for a way of leading us through!
【ANOTHER SONG】
こちらは以前公開されたHer lovely hands upon the black earth という曲です。ISISやTOOLを感じさせる長尺曲でこちらも素晴らしい出来。アルバムが楽しみですね！彼らのFBページとレーベルLIFE FORCE RECORDSのリンクです。ぜひ合わせてチエックして下さい！！
MARUNOUCHI MUZIK MAGAZIN PRESENTS JAPANESE PREMIERE
9/22に発売となるフランスの奇才八弦師、Clément Belioさんのフルアルバム’CONTRAST’からまさに日本のファンの為の曲KEIRO NO HIを曲解説、メッセージ付で世界独占公開です。
【ABOUT KEIRO NO HI】
This track is actually the most “japanese” one of the album.
I’ve always loved Japanese music, especially mathrock…
Nah seriously, Japan has the BEST mathrock bands in the world haha, TOE, Lite, Mouse on the keys…
So that song is my humble tribute to them, and especially to Ryuichi Sakamoto and TOE.
Pentatonic scales, fun drums grooves, acoustic guitar, and in the middle of the song, an intense groove between all those elements.
The tittle, “Keirô no Hi”, is as you probably know, a Japanese holiday celebrated annually to honor elderly citizens, and this year I think it was on the 15th of september, which was the first date plan of album release… Also, as my grandmother died recently, so I decided to dedicated that song in particular to her.
Anyway, this is one of the most “authentic” track of the album, because of the multiple LIVE instruments recorded (by yours truly), hope you enjoy… By Clement Belio
この曲はまさにアルバムの中で最も日本的なんだ。僕は本当に日本の音楽が好きで特にMATH ROCKを愛しているよ。いや真剣に日本には世界で最高のMATH ROCKバンドがいるよね、TOE, LITE, MOUSE ON THE KEYS・・・だからこの曲は彼らへの控えめなトリビュートと言えるだろうね。特に坂本教授とTOEへかな。
My most humble tribute to your country is that song…
I’ve always been fascinated by all I could see from Japan, from the mathrock bands to the YouTube videos “wtf japan seriously” haha, from several comics to tv shows…
Well, I really want to come to Japan and see all of this at least one time in my life.
This song reflects that desire and that admiration, I really hope you enjoy that modest tribute to what Japan has best to offer :) By Clement Belio
’敬老の日’は日本に対する僕の最大限のトリビュートなんだ。
僕は日本に関するあらゆることにいつも魅了されているからね。MATH-ROCKバンドからYouTubeでみる”wtf japan seriously”(笑)。漫画やテレビも素晴らしいよね。
MARUNOUCHI MUZIK MAGAZINE PRESENTS JAPANESE PREMIERE OF SCHIZOID LLOYD
11/4にBLOOD MUSICからデビューアルバム”The Last Note in God’s Magnum Opus”を発売するオランダの新鋭PROG-METALバンド、SCHIZOID LLOYD。アルバムからのファーストカット、SUICIDE PENGUINを彼らの曲解説、メッセージ付で日本独占公開です！！
【ABOUT SUICIDE PENGUIN】
MESSAGE FROM SCHIZOID LLOYD
“Hello entire Japanese population! Or some nutcase metalheads in it. We are Schizoid Lloyd, six lads from The Netherlands, we make progressive experimental avant-garde rock/metal and we have a crazy new song for you called “Suicide Penguin”, which is the first track of our upcoming debut album “The Last Note In God’s Magnum Opus”, and you should most definitely give it a listen! You might end up with a song you like! Which is always a good thing. The song is not actually about a penguin with suicidal thoughts, or, maybe it is, but metaphorically speaking the suicide penguin symbolises a fatal urge or desire. You should youtube that penguin and you’ll know what I mean. Then there is this stuff going on with reincarnation, love, fear of abandonment, existential loneliness, getting tricked by the devil, gangnam style, and magic mountains, but I’m not going into that or I’ll maybe ruin all potential interpretations that differ from my own, which is already very abstract and vague. The best thing you should do is just listen to the music, enjoy it, or not, then listen to it again, and enjoy it some more, or not, repeat ad nauseum. Thanks a lot!”
“やあ、日本のみんな！メタルヘッズもいるだろうね。僕らはSCHIZOID LLOYD。オランダ出身、６人の若者だよ。PROGRESSIVE/EXPERIENTAL/AVANT-GARDEなロック/メタルをプレイしているんだ。今回君達に聴いてもらうクレイジーな新曲がこのSUICIDE PENGUINだよ。もうすぐ発売される僕らのデビューアルバム“THE LAST NOTE IN GOD’S MAGNUM OPUS”からのファーストカットだ。絶対一度は聴いた方が良いぜ！きっと気に入るはずだから！うん、そうなれば最高だね。
この曲は自殺志願のペンギンについて書いている訳じゃないんだ。自殺ペンギンとは死に対する衝動とか欲求のシンボルで隠喩なのさ。YOU TUBEでペンギンの動画を見ればどういう事か分かると思うよ。
このテーマは輪廻、愛、放棄される恐怖、精神的な喪失、悪魔に騙される、カンナムスタイル、魔法の山、そういったものに関連しているんだけど説明出来ないね。僕が既に持っている抽象的で漠然とした解釈とは異なる全ての潜在的な解釈を破滅させるかもしれないからね。とにかく音楽を聴いて楽しんで。ダメならもう一回聴いて。それでもダメなら嫌になるほど聴いて。ありがとう！
The freakish debut album by Schizoid Lloyd – a Dutch progressive metal unit whose incredible musical hodgepodge of interests shine through within moments of the 57-minute release – effortlessly hopping from Queen-fueled vocal harmonies to Mr. Bungle lounging to Leprous progression to short outbursts of lunar insanity and even a dash of singer-songwriter sensitivity and white boy rap (when required). Frank Zappa and Captain Beefheart would be very, very proud.
Schizoid Lloyd’s “The Last Note in God’s Magnum Opus” goes for pre-order on September 17th through Blood Music, with a November 4th release date.
Will be made available on limited edition high-quality vinyl, CD, and digitally through iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, X-Box Music, Spotify, Bandcamp, and every other digital service imaginable.
Jim : You mean, how are you yesterday? My today is your yesterday. Oh, I am great!!!! Haha
Andrey: Genki desu, thanks.
What do you like about Japan?
Japanese food, martial art, Cornelius, Yellow magic orchestra.
食事、武道、コーネリアスにYMO。日本が好きだよ。
Q1. Amogh Symphony is a multinational band from India, Russia, and US. I think Amogh Symphony began as solo project of Vishal. How can you,three members, get together?
Jim : I am Jim Richman, drummer percussionist for Amogh Symphony. I have been playing the drums over 30 years. I like ALL kinds of music. I like going to thrift stores and going through CDs, looking for ones to sell on Amazon. My drumset is a MADE IN JAPAN Tama Exotix 2005 Red Viking Bubinga kit with a Scandinavian Birch finish. I like all different cymbals. I use Vic Firth 5A and also 6A Birch sticks. Somehow, Vishal saw a video of me playing drums on Youtube. Thru Myspace, he would send me demos of his to check out. I would tell him what I thought. Fast forward and Vishal did ATOS. I knew he did it, but never heard it. Vishal asked if I would want to do a Richman/Singh Project. He sent me a short track to do drums on. I did that and realized it had to be Amogh Symphony. So I joined. Then Vishal found Andrey at the playground on the monkey bars.
【JIM】:僕はJIM RICHMAN。AMOGH SYMPHONYのドラマー/パーカッショニストだよ。ドラムは３０年以上叩いているんだ。どんなジャンルの音楽も好きだよ。中古屋でくまなくCDを物色してAmazonの出店サービスに出すのが好きなんだ。ドラムセットは日本製でTama Exotix 2005 Red Viking Bubinga kit with a Scandinavian Birch finishだよ。シンバルは全て違うものを使っている。スティックはヴィクファースの5Aと6A、バーチだよ。
出会いの話だけど、VISHALがMyspaceに挙げていた僕の演奏動画をYou Tubeで見たんだ。それで僕にデモを送ってきたんだ。チェックしてくれってね。彼に思っている事を伝えたよ。それから彼はABOLISHING THE OBSOLATE SYSTEMを作ったんだ。作っているのは知っていたけど聴いてはいなかった。そうしたらVISHALがRICHMAN/SINGHプロジェクトをやりませんか？と聞いてきたんだ。ドラムを加えるショートトラックも送ってきた。それをやって分かったんだ、AMOGH SYMPHONYをやるべきだってね。それで加入したんだ。ANDREYはVISHALが運動場のジャングルジムで見つけた。
Q2. And would you tell us your musical upbringing?
Jim : Started drums in high school. I would play along with albums of The Who, Men At Work, Missing Persons, Chicago etc…a lot of classic rock. Went to college, studied music, played in the Jazz Orchestra. I became a jazz snob and completely lost connection with pop music for 5 years. After, I made a habit of studying with the best teachers on the east coast. Jim Chapin and Joe Morello were instrumental in my hand technique. I always have been into studying jazz. I play a little bit of keyboards, mainly chords of songs. I know how to put together chords. I think every musician needs to learn as many chords as possible.
Q2:音楽的背景を教えて頂けますか？
【JIM】:高校でドラムを始めたんだ。THE WHO, MEN AT WORK, MISSING PERSONS, CHICAGO…そういったクラッシックロックのアルバムに合わせて叩いていた。大学で音楽を学んでJAZZ ORCHESTRAでプレイしたよ。ジャズおたくになって５年ほどPOPミュージックとは完全に距離を置いていたんだ。その後僕は西海岸で一番の先生達について勉強する事になった。JIM CHAPINとJOE MORELLOにはハンドテクニックを仕込まれたよ。ジャズを学ぶことには常に夢中なんだ。キーボードも少しなら弾ける。コードくらいだけどね。ただコードの仕組みは知っているよ。ミュージシャンなら出来るだけ多くのコードを知るべきだと思うんだ。
Q1: Anyway, Let’s talk about ‘VECTORSCAN’. I think lots of your fans surprised at drastic change of your music. Vectorscan is very different from Amogh Symphony’s earlier albums i.e. ‘Abolishing the Obsolete System’(2009) and ‘The Quantum Hack Code’(2010). Do you agree with that? From your website and fan page status updates, we read that lyrics are written in Assamese by Vishal’s late grandmother Labanya Prabha Nath. Vishal’s mother takes part in as a singer. There are lots of influences by traditional microtonal music and Mongolian/Asian Ethnic music. Please kindly tell us more about this. How all this happened?
Vishal : With every album, creating something new and different from previous material are what we always focused at. The first album ATOS was completely done by me alone. Then Jim helped me to upgrade the sound in second album TQHC. In this third album release, Andrey brought the microtonal and ethnic influence in the new album on which I studied further. Actually, it took me almost 3 years to study and explore further because I simply cannot stick to just one style and one sound. The concept story and some stanzas from poems/songs I found in my Late Grandma’s books had a strange puzzling connection that took me some time to figure out. Now, I was looking for someone who can sing like her, feel like her and sound like an advanced version of her voice. The only vocalist who could do that is my mother Kasturi Singh. She has a strong background in classical music, traditional dance, poetry and stories/ stage-dramas. She has control in microtones, intonations, vibratos and also she is versatile i.e she sings multi-styles of singing – jazz, classical, opera, Assamese folk etc. As a composer, I believe sticking to standard style of prog-rock or avant-garde music or jazz fusion makes things a bit uninteresting. Because for me, it’s important to see chemical reactions between different chemicals when mixed….that’s how I see the sounds.
Jim : Vectorscan is the polar opposite of TQHC. And also there are jazz, 10% metal, lo-fi electronic, etc. etc. But all in a background music score or soundtrack format.
Andrey: This album is more like a soundtrack to a movie rather than a ‘regular’ album. When you watch movies, you’re not after details. You need the atmosphere and the idea. And we’re delivering both.
Q1:では新作’VECTORSCAN’について話しましょう。多くのファンは劇的な音楽性の変化に驚くのではないでしょうか。’VECTORSCAN’は ‘Abolishing the Obsolete System’(2009) and ‘The Quantum Hack Code’(2010)といった過去の作品とは大きく異なっています。バンドのサイトで読んだのですが歌詞はチベット語でVISHALの亡くなった祖母Labanya Prabha Nathによって書かれているようですね。お母様も歌手として参加しています。音楽的にはマイクロトーン（微分音：半音よりさらに細かい）を使った伝統音楽やモンゴル/アジアの民族音楽の影響を感じました。それについて話して頂けますか？いったい何が起こったのでしょう。
Q2:Vectorscan has very magnificent concept story. Is the story of Vectorscan related to the concept stories in ‘Abolishing the Obsolete System’ and ‘TheQuantum Hack Code’ or is it a completely fresh new story which is not related to previous albums?
Vishal : It is. You can say that it’s a trilogy. I don’t mind at all.
Q2:VECTORSCANには壮大なコンセプトストーリーがありますが‘Abolishing the Obsolete System’ ‘TheQuantum Hack Code’と関係があるのでしょうか。それとも全く新しい話ですか？
【VISHAL】:そうだよ。トリロジーと言っていいと思う。
Q3:At first, I think Osir is a metaphor of China and Karna is a metaphor of Tibet. But Karna is a character from a hindu epic… Or is Osir a metaphor of Modern Society?? Does this story relate to real world? Or is this fully fiction, no metaphors whatsoever?
Vishal : Well, you have the story. If you read it more times, you will come to know it’s fictional, it’s related to real world and it can be just an imagination. We are thinking of posting the entire story on our site after release. It’s hard to explain in words. You just need to read it few times and think about it and understand it. I mean, what’s the point if things were all simple and straight-forward in life? Food for thought. Fuel for brain. If not a full featured film, I would love to arrange theater play on these stories.
Q4:’Junaki, Osinaki. Dhumuha, Saki.’ has aspect of Japanese traditional music. Is that right? And I heard Andrey can understand Japanese. What is Japan to Amogh Symphony?
Vishal : Junaki, Osinaki. Dhumuha, Saki is in Assamese. If translated to English, it means “A little glowing light, unknown. Storm, Lamp”. If you notice, the song titles are mostly written in rhyme-puzzles style or you can say hymns/mantras/chants styles used in tantric practices. Musically, it has Japanese traditional music influence with classical orchestration and jazz-metal. Andrey is specialized in traditional Japanese and Chinese music and instruments.
Andrey: What you said is correct. The arrangement indeed has a rather dark, sinister vibe to it, which is inspired by Japanese music. And yes, I speak some Japanese (along with some other Asian languages), I’m not too good though. As for Japan, it is indeed a bottomless abyss of a source for inspiration. Especially popular culture.
Jim : Japan is the one country that has bought the most CDs from us. We have great support from Kazuo and Asian Rock Rising. He has distributed a lot of CDs. We love Japan! As a matter of fact, a music school group in Japan, the Waseda Chanson Society, actually played one of our songs off TQHC. And it was amazing. They played it better than us.
【JIM】:日本は僕らのCDを一番買ってくれる国の一つだよ。Asian Rock RisingのKazuoには本当にサポートしてもらってるんだ。彼は多くのCDを扱っている。僕らは日本を愛しているよ！実は早稲田シャンソン研究会ってサークルが僕らのTQHCの曲をカバーしているんだ。素晴らしかったよ。僕らより上手いくらいだ。
【INSPIRATIONS】
Q1:Tell us about your inspiration – Krzysztof Penderecki. What is Avant-Garde according to you?
Vishal : Krzysztof Penderecki is one of the greatest influences for many avant-garde composers and theaters. For me, avant-garde is a state of mind where you begin to think after complete evolution. An edge of thought where you think of crossing the barrier once you’ve read and understood all instead of directly jumping to a new concept. A certain point where you believe knowledge could sometimes bring back some of the old concepts to replace some of the new ones. Fixing the mistakes of the neo-generation because the upgrade demands stability which neo-minds fail to execute due to lack of knowledge in history. It’s important to know “what all happened in all these years” before you think “what should come tomorrow”. A bridge between spiritual development and practical life where you can cosmic heal a disease yet you learn modern business statics. Basically, no boundaries.
Andrey: Easily one of the best avant-garde composers. You could say, he was one of the fathers of ambient music.
Q2:Do you think you are still involved with prog-rock/metal scene? Or does your interest focus on avant-garde/contemporary/jazz soundtrack music?
Vishal : The music itself is a complete misfit, it is very unstable. With all due respect, I don’t really know. But for now, it’s soundtrack music for ears.
Jim : Throughout my studies and playing, I always tried to play many different styles. I fit right in with contemporary/jazz, avant-garde, pop. I like playing music with dynamics and feeling.
Andrey: Genres kill music. When you want to simplify understanding, you create genres and styles. But music exists outside the boundaries people set. Call it ‘original soundtrack’ if the name makes it clear and simple for you.
Q3:So the core members in Amogh Symphony are multi-instrumentalists and composers. In addition to that, this album has a lot of instrumentalists, engineers and singers. The horns and brass sections are unbelievably unique in the songs. Tell us more about it?
Vishal: This time, I wanted to get an entire big band together. But I wasn’t happy with same old classic brass sections I hear in every record these days. Nothing bad about that. I work with different artists every day and produce different styles of music every day. Just tired of hearing the repetitive sounds again and again. The Goregaon Brass Orchestra is a bunch of horn players from this place called Goregaon located in Mumbai. My friend Venkat Iyer with whom I’ve worked in many commercial projects founded and recorded/engineered these phenomenal guys. Venkat is an experimental engineer/producer and I always wanted to include him in this album. He experiments a lot in recording/engineering with strange artists and musicians. Andrey played many instruments in this album. Then Mathieu Marcotte (Augury, Humanoid) introduced me to Youri’s monk vocals which he recorded and engineered. Youri is a stellar guitarist and experimental vocalist in his band Unhuman.Andy Nesbitt’s photography with cosmic and supernatural subject helped Andrey and Vasiliy to collaborate and create a great artwork for the album. Nikhil Nandakumar’s Carnatic microtonal harmonized violin, Shankar Das’ phenomenal microtonal trumpet work. Guest bass work of Manas Chowdhary in one of the tracks. My mother Kasturi Singh’s vocals and late Grandma’s mysterious poetries. It’s a full-fledged symphony. We need larger and bigger stage now if we ever decide to perform because there is absolutely no chance of using backing tracks.
Andrey: The endless album recording sessions were filled with experimentation. Prepared instruments, original one-of-a-kind playing techniques, inventing new approaches… The idea we had in the beginning was ‘to have the sounds of the whole world stuffed into the album in the most eclectic fashion’, but in the same time the sound would need to represent the concept. We tried to keep it as minimalistic as possible, but still ended up with something super dense. The album was re-written and re-edited dozens of times.
Q4:Would you tell me five albums that changed your life?
Andrey: I could name thousands but they won’t fit. The awesome thing is, any musical album has at least one message. Many of them influence our choices. I can’t be more specific. If you’re looking for suggestions, you’d rather start a habit of listening to a ‘new unexplored genre’ every day. This simple technique is sure to make your life and musical scope way richer.
Jim : Every album changes my life. I will list some good ones.
Chick Corea Elektric Band 1986. Come on, any drummer who was serious about the craft of drums heard this, and wanted to practice or quit.
The 5th Dimension – The Magic Garden 1967. Was this the first concept album? Incredible stuff.
Janis Ian – Miracle Row 1977. Made me ultimately realize that cool songs are worth listening to the words. Very nice album (Between The Lines too!)
Suffocation – Pierced From Within 1995. Made Death Metal the coolest. Saw them twice in a week that tour. (Malevolent Creations 1993 and 1995 releases kicked ass)
Frank Zappa – Man From Utopia 1983. A fun one! Only the vinyl is worth listening to. The CDs are messed up. Really dug the vocal transcriptions of Dangerous Kitchen etc…
人生を変えた５枚のアルバム 【ANDREY】:何千枚でも挙げられるけどどれもしっくり来ないんだ。驚くべきことにどんなアルバムも少なくとも一つはメッセージを残してくれる。そしてそれらの多くが僕らの選択に何らかの影響を与えるんだ。明確には言えないけどね。助言するなら毎日、新発見のジャンルを聴くようにするといい。単純な事だけど君の人生と音楽観が豊かになると思うよ。 【JIM】:どのアルバムも僕の人生を変えるよ。幾つか挙げてみるね。
Chick Corea Elektric Band 1986.真剣に技巧を学んでいるドラマーがこれを聴いたら練習するか止めるかどちらかだね。
The 5th Dimension – The Magic Garden 1967.最初のコンセプトアルバムじゃない？信じられないよ。
Janis Ian – Miracle Row 1977.クールな曲は歌詞も聴く価値があるって究極に教えられたよ。
Suffocation – Pierced From Within 1995.デスメタルを最高にクールなものにしたね。このツアーは一週間に二回彼らを見たよ。(Malevolent Creationsの1993、1995作も最高だった)
Frank Zappa – Man From Utopia 1983.面白いよね。ヴィニール盤だけ聴く価値がある。リイシューのCDは失敗だよ。Dangerous Kitchenなんかのボーカル改編はホント無駄だったよね。
【MESSAGE FOR JAPAN】
We are also looking forward to “Part 2 under progress”, What is your target now? Finally, Message for Japanese fans!!
