Anime "Once Upon A Witch's Death" ED 「花咲く道で」produced by Yuki Kajiura sung by Aoi Teshima

Decretum said:
It's quite calming, and once I got past my initial thoughts on Teshima's performance I started to appreciate her emotionality.
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That’s the overall vibe of her vocal, calming and somewhat unaffected (or differently affected than usually expected from a singer).

It’s like she allows her voice to be somewhat transparent for the underlying music and arrangement to be “seen through” her performance.

I am pretty sure she can sing more connected but chooses this now-signature style. Her voice really shines with high-level, acoustic instrumental arrangements.

Another singer that uses lots of breath for effect is, of course, ReoNa, though differently and for different purposes and styles of music. I wonder if she was influenced by Aoi …
 
SurgamIdentidem said:
But then again, I've been listening to a lot of classical music in the past with my parents, including to stuff like Wagner where sometimes the key changes every couple of bars...😅
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I can imagine that.
SurgamIdentidem said:
However, the problem is, that the "false end" sounds too final here.
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Yeah, the way Aoi ends the vocal and the floating backing vocals and the instruments fading away was very final (no lingering strings to connect back to the last modulated verse). I don't know if that decision from Kajiura is tied to something in the story. It just seems too intentional to throw us off.
 
There was a simple solution. Just don't introduce a shite keychange for the middle verse. :p

but it is what it is. I have to say I don't go back to the song much (as of now). :/
 
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