Sorry for not posting anything! I kind of forgot! Lol:) I hope these will convince you to forgive me :)
Looking back at “the GazettE TOUR 09-DIMSCENE-”
Ruki: I think it was an experimental tour. I thought we would break the flow from what we had done up until then, challenge ourselves to do new things, and then find something new. In our lives, the images we used played a big role. So we really did things the way we wanted to. However, I think we did not have enough live concerts, I think one more tour after the one-man tour would have been best.
What was the album DIM to you?
Ruki: I think it was very similar to the composition of our live performances. DIM was the first thing we wanted to do as a band, and it was nearest to the world view that we wanted to express. So after we made the album and did the tour, I feel like my eagerness to create has increased even more.
About the new single BEFORE I DECAY
I think it's because we made DIM that we were able to make singles. We made BEFORE I DECAY after finishing DIM and starting the tour, so we didn’t have much time. (smile) So we had to keep running. Well, I don’t know how long we will last. (laugh) We didn’t really have time to face one another and talk about things, so I think I’d like to do that in our next development.
About the live in Tokyo Big Site on December 24th
Ruki: We want to do it lightly since it’s a single live. But honestly speaking, I want to do a tour more than a live. (laugh) Well, I won’t say more…..(laugh)
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In [DISORDER], really a lot of types of songs are recorded, and exactly I can express it "rises above the genre".
Aoi: We performed many types of songs, did not care of genre from a long time ago.
- I felt you chased it more. Then, it is consistent.
Ruki: As our image, I wanted it to have an image, like a "hoodlum". It is like, hoodlum in urban, or adult hoodlum, and sharpen image. I think that all songs in it are linked to these images. Then, it became an impulsive album, I think. When we finished all about this album, I felt we could go back to the period when we started a band... This album became, like, " the first step".
- This is the first full album for you, and did you care about "the things you can do because it is an album"?
Uruha: Yes! We tried to do something exactly fits my taste, or things kinda maniac. [SARABA] is so, too.
- In the order of the songs, did "something because of album" reflect?
Uruha: The order of the songs is like an set list in our concerts.
Ruki: Then, we wanted to add SE. It is like, there is an entrance, then, an exit.
-Where is particular point for each of you in this album?
Kai: About the drum, I was particular about the sound so much this time. I used 2 snare drums for 1 song, and changed the tam drum's tuning for each song. I thought it would be interesting if I was particular about the sound thinking about the whole thing in the album.
Raita: About the bass guitar, I changed the machines, so the sound became better than before.
- How about the guitars?
Aoi: I tried to not play kinda "floating phase". Sometimes it would be tiring of, and I hoped I could listen to it as long as I could because it is an album. But I emphasized where I should. I guess I could keep appropriate balance.
Uruha: I played it emotionally. That is all. Well, when I listen to the songs in it, the visions of each songs are flashed on my mind. I endeavored it to embody to the sound. I imagined how I can express the scene or people by the guitar when I listens to the songs.
- Haven't you ever tried to express something by your vision before?
-Uruha: No, I've never thought about it, but this time... I could see them. The songs are told something to me, and I just answered to it.
- And, I felt particularity in the sound of the guitar this time.
Aoi: The recording of drum and bass was finished fast, and there is a free time for about 1 and half day. So, I could talked with an engineer each other about the sound which I make.
- Then, how about vocal?
Ruki: About how to sing, I sang them as usual. This time, I think, the lyrics and melodies, that I was particular about. I was almost burst. I was, like, wanted to run away (laugh). I could not concentrate, and I was like, "OMFG, I cannot write them!"
-Then, let you explain your album, new songs mainly!
*THE -$OCIAL RIOT MACHINE$-
Ruki: Aoi brought this original.
Aoi: When we decided which songs would be recorded in the album in our meeting to select them, there is no song, which is like to come as the 1st song in the album and nor loud music, then, let me compose it. ... It was the first time for me, to compose a loud music in GAZETTE.
Ruki: It was nice about the incredible structure.
Aoi: I thought it is good, like, "feeling something strange, but also feeling nice.", when listening to it.
- I think the name of the title is also interesting.
Ruki: This word is already existed from the period of "~MADARA~". Translate it in Japanese, it means "Shakai Boudou Ki"
- It is so-called coinage. I thought it have meaning, like, "make a revolution".
Ruki: Right. I think this kind of image, Gazette is.
*Carry?
Ruki: I brought an original of it. My image is, like, bats are flying it it. Or a motion picture, "Frankenstein" (staring by Robert de Niro)" was floating in my mind as an image. It is not the theme song of it, but I imagined it.
Uruha: (When I hear the original) I have never imagined it has such a gothic image. So, I did not expected this song became so.
Ruki: Actually, this song is gothic core.
Reita: I've never expected that he sang it in English, and I thought it would be more melodious. Well, this is melodious, too, but I felt a little mysterious atmosphere.
- Did you plan to write down this lyrics in English from the first?
Ruki: I tried to write down it in Japanese first, but... I could not express it well. So, from the sound, I felt it would be cool if I write it down in English, then I decided to do so. There is no meaning more than it.
- However, it is "tour de force", because you made it very long English sentences.
Ruki: I do not know if it is correct. ... well it is specially visual. When you will see the movie, then, try to listen to this song, the message in it would be convinced well.
*Maximum Impulse
- I heard Uruha brought this original. It is impressive to me, because the main part of this song is really cool, or I felt it enjoyable atmosphere.
Uruha: I composed it from the main part, and I wanted it to have an enjoyable atmosphere. Then, It became like, I pasted each parts that I wanted from before. There are puzzled part for Ruki, right?
- In the A part of the song, the Hip Hop part, I thought "Does really Ruki song it?!". It was really manly (laugh).
Uruha: I wanted him to became manly.
Ruki: I did not know how low make my voice, then I thought "it would be too much~?" (laugh).
Aoi: No, you are really manly.
Uruha: Well, the key word of this song is "male" and "pleasure".
Ruki: About the lyrics, it expresses that my experience when I got an impulse to a music. "Maximum Impulse" means it. I compared it with a drug. Drug have an addiction, and music, too.
*HANAKOTOBA
Aoi: I brought an original of it.
- It is really lyric and wonderful song, isn't it?
Aoi: I wanted it to be a dramatic number (laugh), and it is like a flowing, and also there was an emotional part... I minded to contrast it.
Kai: It was really difficult to express my feeling in this song. It was so hard because it does not make a point on the force.
-About the lyrics, what kind of image did you get from this song?
Ruki: First of all, Aoi told me the image of the song was hydrangeas, but it became nothing with it (laugh). The image that I had was not a flower... like...almost a horsetail.
All: a horsetail!?
Ruki: What can I say that? It is really dirty flower...
Aoi: You mean, the flower which blooms on the crevasse of asphalt, don't you?
Ruki: Yes, that's right. like, be splashed water by a car. Dogs are too, there are pedigrees and mongrels. It is kinda discrimination. I wanted to express it.
*Tokyo Shinjuu
Ruki: I brought an original of this, and it is kinda Japanese old style song called "Kayoukyoku". But I wanted it to be different type of it. I said to the members that "it would be the similar type of [Juu nana sai (17 years old)]."
- The sound of bass guitar was emphasized in this song.
Reita: I was really conscious about the old style Japanese song.
Ruki: It is like hick but cool song.
-About the lyrics, the theme of this song is "runaway", and it is archaic and romantic.
Aoi: Cuz, he is a romantist, different from his appearance!
Ruki: Occasionally, At the ending scene of a drama, a theme song is playing when an actor say something in it. I had this as my image. Well, detailed, the image of the drama is "KITA NO KUNI KARA (Japanese popular drama series)".
- Hotaru chan (laugh) {the name of the parson who appears on the drama}?
Ruki: Not Hotaru, but Jun {Hotaru's brother} (laugh). Well... kinda worm sadness. Did you understand it?
*SXDXR
Ruki: The theme of this song is "SEX, DRUG, ROCK'N'ROLL", and it is like Rock'n'Roll which dislikes Rock. I had an image, like, delinquent, or crooked. It looks to match with sunglasses.
- Who brought an original?
Ruki: I did. For me, it is punk music.
Uruha: But the main part of this song is pop, remarkably.
Ruki: Punk musics that I knew are pop, or catchy. The melodies of them.
- There are some real names such as "Kurt Cobain", "Courtney", "Marcom" in this song, and it contains the meaning of homage to them?
Ruki: Yes it does, as the images that I have. Ah, do you know that? It is said COKE contains Cocaine long time ago.
Reita: It is a tale that I told you guys!
Aoi: But, this tale is a common sense?
Kai: I knew it from before, too~.
Reita: You Liar!
All: (laugh)
*Anti pop
Reita: This song was not finished to compose when recording the drum part. It was really eleventh hour.
Kai: I felt anxious that I haven't felt recently (laugh). We made it by force. I think this force appears on this song.
Uruha: This song, which original is brought by Reita, didn't have anything but introduction when he brought it, then shift to other member, like, "someone, compose it" (laugh).
Reita: My brain didn't work (laugh)!
Ruki: He composed only the jazzy part of introduction.
Reita: No! I composed till the jazzy part changed tempo suddenly. Anyway, I had only an image "change the tempo suddenly". I wanted to do that. But, as a result, it became so cool, so it was nice for me. If I have time to compose it, it don't have such a force. I was like, "God, No time, no time!", so it became a speedy tune.
Uruha: Ah, I felt achievement when we finish to record. I listened to it best in this album. I think this song is a most important point in this album, for Gazette.
Reita: If this album doesn't have it, there is no stimulus in it. Anyway, it must have a exiting song in an album.
Kai: This song is a spice in this album.
*7gatsu8ka (shichigatsu youka)
Uruha: You need to check this song! The lyrics is really nice! I cried. I will push this lyrics!
- I heard it is a sequel of [Wakaremichi].
Ruki: Basically, I like a sequel. As the contents of this lyrics, it is a tale of 2 years later of [Wakaremichi].
- As [Wakaremichi] is popular in your concert, this song would become important part in it?
Ruki: So, it is like, "Good bye, [Wakaremichi].
- So, you mean, you hope this song would replace instead of [Wakaremichi]?
Ruki: Yeah.
Aoi: But, isn't it nice if we play both [Wakaremichi] and [Shichigatsu youka] in a concert?
Ruki: It is too silly!
Aoi: Oh, is it silly (bitter smile)?
Uruha: But, this is a tale 2 years later of [Wakaremichi], isn't it? So, isn't it good?
*Saraba
Uruha: I brought an original. The image of this song is like, sunset, country side, or Showa period... I imagined the surface of the ground is still soil not asphalt, then also there is sunset.
Ruki: When I write the lyrics of this song, I saw a discussion about war on TV. Then I thought "it matches with this song!" When I listened to it at first, I thought it was like a war song.
- Then, antiwar song in the manner of GAZETTE was born..., right? Uruha, what did you think about the lyrics which has a strong message, as a composer?
Uruha: I wanted him to write meaningful lyrics, and I composed this song as I hope so. I did not want it to become a love story, so it was really nice. This album, which title is [DISORDER], and contains many distractive songs. But, finally, like, we can see it from the calmless view point. I like something distractive, but, from the realistic point of view, the war is not good...
Ruki: This album expresses a hero's "disorder". Something in human mind was expressed with these 12 songs. If you understand so, I think everything will be linked.
Uruha: Well, I think you can interpret as you feel. This album is very "disorder".
Reita: Anyway, we did the things in this album that we wanted to do!
Aoi: 12 songs, each of them has various color, and will not be tired of listening to them, also I think the musical personalities of Gazette were spread. This is an album which became our pabulum so much.
Uruha: When I started a band, with thinking of "I wanted to perform cool music" or so, but recently, I felt that "I want to convince something to our audience". So, I think this album became the chance for us to convince something to them.
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