Highway Star Party 2026年7月25日（土）ー26日（日）

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Shibuya LOVEZ OPENING SERIES
HIGHWAY STAR PARTY 2026 -meets LOVE"Z"-
開催日：2026年7月25日（土）ー26日（日）
会場：Shibuya LOVEZ


＜２日間の各アーティスト出演日は後日発表!!＞
石田燿子/遠藤正明/尾澤拓実/影山ヒロノブ/
梶浦由記(FictionJunction)/喜多修平/
きただにひろし/GRANRODEO/JAM Project/
shuri/Sui≒Kanzaki/玉置成実/ChouCho/
寺田志保/Buzzed Monkey/春奈るな/
LINO LEIA/and more (五十音順)


さらに!!
「HIGHWAY STAR PARTY 2026 前夜祭」開催決定!!
2026年7月24日（金）ONLINE開催！
出演アーティスト：橋本みゆき／米倉千尋
and more...!!
 
The event title is quite the mouthful...

Edit:
Reading again,

"Shibuya LOVEZ"/LOVEZ is just the venue, correct?
Oh, and it's just opening now, hence the "opening series". OKAY. I see TMRevolution/Nishikawa is also performing two concerts in June and it's called the same way.
 
grunty said:
The event title is quite the mouthful...

Edit:
Reading again,

"Shibuya LOVEZ"/LOVEZ is just the venue, correct?
Oh, and it's just opening now, hence the "opening series". OKAY. I see TMRevolution/Nishikawa is also performing two concerts in June and it's called the same way.
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Yes.
 
Also Lantis has their 2day event there too in July. Must be a promising venue. Is it a new location or a re-brand of some older place?
 
grunty said:
There will be a special interview with Kajiura and Kageyama. They are collecting questions. The actual interview will be showing up on HS youtube channel in July.

https://www.highwaystarparty.com/topics
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https://youtu.be/RQ_sO9Y5QKc?si=GyZnf51UuaSw2ddQ

影山ヒロノブ × 梶浦由記 特別対談 【HIGHWAY STAR PARTY 2026開催記念】
Hironobu Kageyama x Yuki Kajiura Special Interview [In Commemoration of HIGHWAY STAR PARTY 2026]
HIGHWAY STAR Official YouTube Channel
 
CloisteredFlame said:
https://youtu.be/RQ_sO9Y5QKc?si=GyZnf51UuaSw2ddQ
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!! :D just found and watched that, and was about to post it here, but (as usual) it WAS already posted. 🧐

This is a really interesting interview in every portion. Subtitles actually appear to work well also.
Anybody else who would like to hear these early Kajiura pieces at the piano where her dad was singing? ; ] I wonder if recordings exist of that. ;o
That would be a true treasure.

🔴 Cif ~
 
I did ask Gemini, but it replied:

There are no official or publicly available audio recordings from this period. Making music together was a purely private hobby within the confines of their own home (or, as she herself jokingly recounted in a radio interview: they were, at the time, a “family that made a lot of noise in the neighbourhood”).

However, there is another, very personal account from this period that bears witness to her early enthusiasm for music: When the family left Japan in 1972 to move to Düsseldorf, Yuki Kajiura, then aged seven, wrote her very first piece of music. It was titled ‘Thank you, Good-bye’ and was a farewell song for her grandmother, who had stayed behind in Japan.
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Whoa, this departure must have been painful for everybody. ;o

Incidentally, the close musical bond with her father remained a defining guiding force throughout her life: Her father had always hoped that the two of them would give a small concert together when Yuki turned 20. Unfortunately, however, he passed away after a serious illness shortly before she reached that age. This painful loss and the realisation of just how short life can be ultimately gave Yuki Kajiura the courage to give up her secure job in systems development and devote herself entirely to music.
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Interesting. ;o - So did her father pass, when they were in Japan again?
Yes, her father passed away when the family were already living in Japan again.

Yuki Kajiura spent her primary school years in West Germany and returned to Japan with her family whilst at secondary school (middle school). She later graduated from university there and initially took a job as a programmer before devoting herself entirely to music. Her father died when she was a teenager – that is, years after they had returned to Tokyo.
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Alright. So unfortunately it is as you said: It is publicly unknown if such recordings exist.
Are there recordings of the young Yuki at the piano?

No, there are no recordings of that either – neither audio nor video.

Making music together during her childhood was purely a family affair in a private setting and was not recorded for posterity at the time. Yuki Kajiura did not view playing the piano in her younger years as preparation for a professional music career, but simply as a hobby that brought her close to her father.

All that remains from that time are the vivid and fond memories that she now shares with her fans in interviews.
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And there we have it. Apparently only stored as precious memories living within her. : )
Magical somewhat. ^^

What still exists today, is the legendary japanese/german school in Düsseldorf (built in 1970).
I wonder if they have more info about that, but I doubt they would tell a stranger asking.. ; )

🔴 Cif ~
 
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