the title practically speaks for itself. this post is a result of staying up until 3 am listening to music sung by the same guy in different fonts. wow! these opinions are my own and not objective fact unless u want them to be...
the main band releases missing from this post are from amethyst, django, gold rocks and gold seventeen...and surreal street which is his only solo album so ill just be talking about whatever i listened to. although i wouldn't mind being given any releases from any of those bands.......heehee
most of this i found on a certain file sharing platform with pixel art of a blue bird as its icon (wink) im unsure abt putting the zipang releases up on youtube myself but ill link to whichever ones are on youtube already. (btw nearly every album cover on here is from vk.gy)
starting off VERY Strong with liberty trip from when the band was called p.u.a . the EP contains a song called ECILA (or alice?) which was eventually remade into all by myself when they renamed themselves to pjuer. its my favorite song off of the EP. i also really liked how close to you III and IV transition into each other, it adds a sort of concept to a really simple EP which can be really flexible since it was never intended to be fleshed out anyways. i'm literally listening to ECILA as im typing this. i love it so much... i love the sort of symphonic the songs are...id say they remind me of bands like diru and maybe even savatage? the title track wasn't too special, but the other songs are definitely gonna stick with me lol esp close to you VI and ECILA. listen here! Be warned close to you IV has a really loud scream in the middle of it
amongst pretty much all of aoi kondo's band names, pjuer was the shortest lasting one, with this releasing a mere month after liberty trip. or at least one of the shortest. while zipang as a project itself was very short-lived, this was especially...well...short-lived since this demo tape only has one song called all by myself. honestly, not much difference b/w this demo tape's song and ECILA because...well...its...a remake of ECILA with the lyrics altered :^) still really nice though. listen here
the first release as zipang!!! kyuukyo hatsubai! wow! where do i even start with this GOD this maxisingle is genuinely so good...most of the songs on it are adjacent to symphonic metal or soft visual and my favorite song on it is zanadu -dear amadeus-...i wouldnt do it justice by describing it but its genuinely really good q q its sort of split into two parts? probably lol (mp3 of this ver of zanadu here (8 MB) )
all by myself also has a remake on this CD in higher quality than the demo, and every track here is present on their first album
zipang's first and only full album, taisei houken! 12 tracks of soft vkei goodness......zanadu -dear amadeus- also has a new version on this album mp3 here blaaaahhh
i also really enjoyed 3rd attack...it was a pretty brash song for what it was, but to contrast that there was also alone and sent of restoration. both of which gave me the feels. sister was also really nice! its a sort of message from the members to the fans. i liked it a lot....hits different listening like two decades later...this album overall was such a nice listen, both with the new songs and the songs from the pilot maxisingle :-)
AHHHHH THERES A SPIDER
when velvet spider first formed it was just two guys. two dudes. aoi of course and jimmy from 44magnum (which is like...a super old band. like 70s old)
this album in particular interested me because i first found out about it when my favorite pop'n music song was passion girl and listening to it a few days ago practically started this zipang flavored mess im in. ikenai michael and cocomotion are easily my favorite tracks. like 60 of my 80 lastfm plays are from this album alone. dont get between a girl and her favorite j-rock album
i dont know how to end this but velvet spider is on spotify listen to it. if you read all of this i love you
~cat
