вторник, 09 сентября 2008
“Making many steps…...”
HITSUGIHITSUGI, has there anything changed recently?
My parents moved. I was a little sad because I had lived in that house for 20 years. When I cleaned up my things and found small scores on a pillar, I was really moved.
During your move, I heard you stayed in Ni~ya’s home.I didn’t have a place to sleep because of my move.(laugh) I don’t sleep in other member’s homes often, so it was so strange. (It was the first time for Ni~ya that other members came to his home.) And I felt it was historic.
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I thought Ni~ya grew up here. Ni~ya hasn’t moved since he was born, so I felt more of his history. I had a good experience and it was funny.
A funny experience.(laugh) How was your recording going?
There was a tour and various things during that, so we had to stop working often. But it doesn’t mean we couldn’t concentrate, but we concentrated on both our music and keeping a grip on ourselves. But I had enough time to do my work. About the music, these days I don’t long for guitar heroes anymore. I think I don’t have to stand out by my sound and I’ll turn my Visual style into my advantage.
What do you mean?
Visual kei are often said that the appearance is showy but the sound is…..Of course the sound is steady and in addition, I don’t have to do something special to stand out. But my appearance is something like “Wow!?”.
You do steadily and firmly, and your appearance has no opponent.
It has been said that Nightmare doesn’t look like a Visual kei band without me. If I don’t put on make up, we aren’t Visual kei anymore.
Recently, members use simple make up. So you put all your hearts into creating music in this recording.
I was really serious. It was like that I was working trying to absorb many things that I was thinking about and getting lost.
In [~lulu~] which is the last song of this album, you made lyrics collaborating with SAKITO.
When SAKITO brought its demo to me, I thought I liked the feeling of this song. The world view of this song was established, so I thought SAKITO wrote the lyrics already. When I asked him “May I write the lyrics?”, he said ‘OK’ so easily that I said ‘Ah? Really?’.(laugh) I brought my lyrics to him soon the next day.
It means that something inspired you, HITSUGI.
The words came into me. I didn’t talk with SAKITO about the images of this song. I gave the lyrics which I wrote, then SAKITO added his words and phrases to it.
What did SAKITO say?
SAKITO said he imagined the scenery of a broad sea, or a huge blank, not a crowed downtown street. And the image of a morning sun that shines into an empty room. My original image was also a vast place, but not sea nor grassland nor sky, even they don’t have colors. I was staying in a empty vast extent, not worrying about staying there but just asking myself why I’m here, and trying to realize myself again, which was my vision.
The images of both of you mixed to become the song. I felt the lyrics as if I was floating in the middle between ‘positiv’e and ‘negative’.
I only thought that I wanted to make lyrics which had no emotions of gladness, angriness, sadness or happiness, neither sad nor happy. I think every human falls into such an emotion sometimes, for example feeling empty one moment, which I wanted to express in my lyrics even we can feel like that slightly.
Why did you want to write such a feeling?
The situation of the lyrics that I wrote at first is a coma, which is where I can’t open my eyes, I don’t even know whether it’s caused by an accident or by an illness. For example if one comes from a coma, we often hear that he/she comes from a coma because they worked hard trying to come back. But I wanted to write the situation not concerning whether he worked hard or not.
You mean feeling, not will, don’t you?
Yes. So I’m thinking about “Can I love myself?” in a coma. And if I can’t love people and the environment surrounding me, I don’t want to wake up, but if I can love them, I want to wake up.
Where did the keyword of a coma come from?
I don’ know. It came from when I thought about the situation of nothing and no colors.
Only in the feeling?
Yes. As if I’m alone only with memories. It’s the situation which I can feel everything is flat.
I don’t know exactly, but it seems similar to when we were in our mother’s tummy.
Ah, it might like that. It’s like the feeling for the world which you are about to be born into.
It’s like a stage before emotion…..
I thought I could change the emotions after I felt them.
HITSUGI, do you have a wish to return to nothingness or emptyness?
Maybe subconsciously. Well, there is an excitement in this song, which is difficult to explain. It touches my heart, and if I didn’t feel that, I wouldn’t have wanted to write it, because I had never said that I wanted to write lyrics of songs that other members made.
This song has a mysterious charm. It’s so simple, it feels like floating, but has something very attractive to it too.
Well, it seems that both an ending and a new beginning coexists together in this one song. This song seems to be the last song, but it also seems to be the beginning.
Yes. This album seems aggressive as a whole but finally it returns to a quiet zero.
Don’t you feel like “Where am I?”? It’s like you aren’t landing but disappearing softly. ‘lulu’ means to continue long and narrow in Japanese. It seems to continue into the next song and the beginning of the album.
HITSUGI, you seem to want to give birth to your own meaning in this album.
Yes. I think in "anima" I opened the curtain and in "the WORLD Ruler" I could go a hop and a step ahead.
So the next should be a jump?
No, I’m still in a step, like a hop, step and another step.(laugh) I’ll make many steps to make a longer jump.
If you could change the world, what would you do?
Uhn….I think everyone wishes there were no wars in this world, but I wish everyone’s heart would become several percent gentler than now, even just a little bit.
That’s nice.
If everyone could have 5 % of kindness, this world would change a little bit, I think.
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