How I discovered Kajiura Sensei

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Raffaele_Megabyte

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Hello everybody,

I am Raffaele from Naples in Italy, and I am pleased I dscovered this site all dedicated to musical art of Yuki Kajiura, then I immediately sended sign-up request, and well, uhm... here I am! :w00t:

How I discovered Kajiura-Sensei art?

As many of us, I discovered of her by listening soundtrack musics and songs in Madoka Magica anime.

I am member of PIXIV artists community, and some years ago, PIXIV site begun being fillled with Madoka Magica fanart.
As being curious of that new phenomenon of massive fanart all of a sudden, I found by google that it was a new anime aired in TV. It had immediately an enormous success (and still continues to) and people on internet discussed that it has a superb soundtrack.

News about soundtrack revealed to be true. For example Kalafina Magia is really one of the most superb japanese anime ending songs I ever listen before! :touched:

Two years ago Madoka Magica was aired on italian national broadcast so I follow the anime and I was amazed that many of the songs contained italian spokesn or even recall Medieval/Renaissance musics with italian lyrics. Well, I can only be honorred of that.
Obviously my homeland related contents are perceived as truly "exotic" and interesting for japanese manga, anime and music artists.

Two days ago, I watched again Madoka Magica, but this time in original language on site popcorntv.it that is maintaned by official italian importer and distributor Dynit.
This second time I became curious of discovering if the musics I listen are real Renaissance music used in the anime as cover songs, or perhaps if it is modern music made by modern japanese musicians to resemble ancient european music.

Well, as you can imagine I discovered the musical fine art of Kajiura-San.

Now I become member of this beautiful site, and I am planning to enjoing it together with you.


Ciao,

Raffaele
 
Welcome Raffaele! Have a good look through the site as you get the time. Yuki Kajiura has written many other soundtracks also which are worth hearing.

Please ask as many questions as you like about Yuki Kajiura's music!

Picture from my last trip to Japan:

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Welcome to cpm, Raffaele!
I was amazed that many of the songs contained italian spokesn or even recall Medieval/Renaissance musics with italian lyrics
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Those lyrics aren't Italian but are inspired in part by Italian. We call her made-up language Kajirago : )
I recommend watching Noir since one of the main themes is in Italian, canta per me ^^
Enjoy your stay! :sohappy:
 
@ Kugayama:

Thank you Oh Wise One...

:w00t:

@ Aki:

I can assure you it is perfect plain italian phrases mixed with japanese phrases.

I was just talking at phone with a friend of mine, a professor skilled in ancient italian poetry, greek and latin and as a scoop all for canta-per-me site we are preparing full translation of at least 2 songs, Sis Puella Magica and Credens Justitiam.

Sis Puella Magica is a well structured song, i.e. it expressed a full little story, while Credens Justitiam is a song made of italian phrases that have not a structured story from the beginning to the end but just express sensations and feelings, yet sure have a perfect meaning, despite what you read everywhere in lyrics about Kajiura-San.

:glasses:
 
I was just talking at phone with a friend of mine, a professor skilled in ancient italian poetry, greek and latin and as a scoop all for canta-per-me site we are preparing full translation of at least 2 songs, Sis Puella Magica and Credens Justitiam.
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Huh interesting :ayashii: I always can pick out some Latin words but didn't know if the others had meanings too. Please do share your translations when you're finished~
 
I discovered Kajiura-san's art in El Cazador de la Bruja.
It was so beautiful ! I did a lot of research and and I became a fan. :dote:
Then, I found this fansite and... Here I am !
(I'm French so forgive me if I make mistakes language, please !) :innocent:
 
Welcome Daphné, we have very few from France so you are very welcome! How about making your own introduction thread ? :)

Raffaele_Megabyte said:
@ Kugayama:

Thank you Oh Wise One...

:w00t:

@ Aki:

I can assure you it is perfect plain italian phrases mixed with japanese phrases.

I was just talking at phone with a friend of mine, a professor skilled in ancient italian poetry, greek and latin and as a scoop all for canta-per-me site we are preparing full translation of at least 2 songs, Sis Puella Magica and Credens Justitiam.

Sis Puella Magica is a well structured song, i.e. it expressed a full little story, while Credens Justitiam is a song made of italian phrases that have not a structured story from the beginning to the end but just express sensations and feelings, yet sure have a perfect meaning, despite what you read everywhere in lyrics about Kajiura-San.

:glasses:
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Interesting, I am also interested. However I believe at if it was fully italian it would be indicated so like it had happened with 'salva nos' or 'canta per me' in the past
You can read more about Kajiurago here http://canta-per-me.net/lyrics/about-kajiurago/ those arent things we made up, but extracts from interviews of Kajiura-san and some of her vocalists.

You can find the official lyrics for credens justitiam here
http://canta-per-me.net/lyrics/credens-justitiam/ (those lyrics were also published in the Madoka Magica collection booklet http://forum.canta-per-me.net/threads/madoka-magica-music-collection.4930/page-4#post-244115)

and here are other official lyrics for songs that we have found:
http://canta-per-me.net/lyrics/zodiacal/
http://canta-per-me.net/lyrics/himeboshi/
http://canta-per-me.net/lyrics/mezame/
http://canta-per-me.net/lyrics/image-theme/

welcome to the forum MB-kun! :XD: (we already have some raphael I think)
 
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Welcome! I am Liana, and as you can see I have been here for awhile, so if you have any questions let me now. heh I am also a fan of Madoka. I watched it with my brother because of the music, since I was already a fan of Yuki, since her time in Noir, but I do love that soundtrack. Salvae, terrae magica is my favorite probably. (Love Celtic music) Anyways, welcome and hope you like it here. (I hope to see the new Madoka movie soon. Maybe I'll watch it today even. :dote:
 
Well, as a newbie I dunno if Kajiura wrote also celtic songs. I hope so because I love celtic music.

But sure Salve terrae magicae is mainly a song built on a medieval themes from area of french style and italian style used in banquets and noble parties. You can recognize it by the usage of cymbals and flutes, while music from celtic area deals mainly with harps and bagpipes (it is common so but is not a strict rule, so there can be exceptions).
See for example this video of italian medieval music and compare the music style with Salve Terrae Magicae.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2Ga0DbdQE
 
Indeed it has the same style, and even flute play is similar at parts.

Yes she has wrote a good amount of Celtic musics, 1 found in. Hack Sign, or luminality ( called. Labyrinth), 2 in noir, 2 songs in Fiction ( cynical world, red rose,) and most in Xenosaga II OST. Oh and I guess that SAO OST. 2 has some as well.
 
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Hello, welcome to the forum, neighbor! :sohappy:

I am also interested in those translations, so please, do post them :bow:

I hope you enjoy your stay here! :goodjob:
 
Welcome to CPM, Raffaele!
Those Kajiuran lyrics are what made me drawn to Yuki Kajiura's world as well. I first encountered them in Pandora Hearts, and I would recommend that you try listening to its OST (and perhaps watch the series too)

Hope you find the time to participate on various topics on this forum!
 
Raffaele_Megabyte said:
Well, as a newbie I dunno if Kajiura wrote also celtic songs. I hope so because I love celtic music.

But sure Salve terrae magicae is mainly a song built on a medieval themes from area of french style and italian style used in banquets and noble parties. You can recognize it by the usage of cymbals and flutes, while music from celtic area deals mainly with harps and bagpipes (it is common so but is not a strict rule, so there can be exceptions).
See for example this video of italian medieval music and compare the music style with Salve Terrae Magicae.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl2Ga0DbdQE
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oh wow you're right :ayashii: YK grew up attending operas, so maybe that's one source of inspiration for such medieval/Italian/French songs?
 
Well, she grow her childhood in Germany that is a place were classic music is very apprecciated and you can find plenty of classic orchestras events, and mainly the father make her accultured to classic and lyric opera as he was deep into it, and she got all this heritage, so sure nowadays I can found some expressions in her lyrics that directly came from Opera language, but medieval music is another story. You should really study and love it, because it totally has different sonorities and many modern artists dislike it.
 
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^ since you like celtic tunes, I suggest you to listen to the soundtracks of the Fairytail anime, by Yasuharu Takanashi. I have spotted a few musics on the first soundtrack that are copy-paste from the soundtrack of the Heroes of Might and Magic game, but its still very good. They are 5 soundtracks in total, 1 of a movie and 4 for the anime. Most musics are either soleily celtic or combination of celtic with medival and metal. and Remi (http://canta-per-me.net/yukis-vocalists/#Tanaka Remi (REMI)) sings in some of them too.
 
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