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Kalafina さんについて
この度、Kalafina さんのライブ開催が発表されたことにつきまして、私の方に もお問合せをいただいておりますが、私梶浦由記は今回の公演に一切関関与し ておらず、またそれ以前に今回の公演開催について、主催の方からも、またメ ンバーのどなたからも、正式なお知らせも説明も一切いただいておりません。 そのような状況ですので、ご質問いただきましても何もお答え出来ることがご ざいません。申し訳ありませんが今後の Kalafina さんに関するお問い合わせ は、ライブを主催される方、もしくはメンバーの皆様の所属事務所の方へお願 い致します。
Kalafina の皆さまは今後、私のプロデュースを離れ、私の知らない所で新しい Kalafina として歩まれることを決意されたのでしょう。私は私で、将来また一 緒に Kalafina の音楽を紡げる道を探ってはおりましたが、それはもう叶わぬ未 来となりました。大変残念ではありますが、メンバーの皆様がはっきりと選ば れた道です。これはもう互いに音の道を探す一人一人の人間ですから、そのよ うなこともあるでしょう。
皆様もご存知の通り、本当に素晴らしい三名の歌い手さんです。今後もファン の皆様へ、素晴らしい歌声、音楽を届けて下さるに違いありません。かつて、 約十年に渡り、共に音楽を作らせていただけた幸福に改めて心より感謝を致し ますと共に、今後のKalafina さんのご活躍をお祈りするばかりです。
梶浦由記
OK.
I'd been off the webs for about 48 hours due to some heavy work project we were working on for almost the full 48 hours.
Got a comment on YouTube in Japanese telling me something about Kalafina reunion and just thinking "HUH?" I was going to respond then decided to come and check here and it seems like it's real. I have a few thoughts and I may be wrong in some aspects but I just have to share for the record. My feelings are not mixed, they are firm in one direction, Kajiura's (based on the initial info I've seen and my feelings over time):
1. I care FAR LESS for a Kalafina reunion than for the legacy of Yuki Kajiura and her art, since the beauty of her music is why we are all here. Anything that diminishes that is unacceptable to me. She left Spacecraft (and Kalafina) because of disrespect to both her and her director, Mori, who I heard was fired when he didn't want to go with the changes (feel free to correct me if I mixed up any details).
2. Kajiura's melodies and lyrics and arrangement is the reason why we know Keiko, Wakana, and Hikaru, and why they've been rated as the artists they've become. If they'd been singing average JPop music they would never have shone as much as they did, since we can agree they are unique but not necessarily the strongest vocalists. She took a chance on them and gave them a high pedestal in terms of vocal writing to shine on, which is the essence of their careers.
3. I personally (and strongly) feel that Wakana's decision to not follow Kajiura (though she had every right to) was part of the reason she stayed back - apart from her solo career I feel she broke personally with Kajiura. Spacecraft couldn't have forced her to keep silent from speaking to the Kalafina/FJ girls all these years. She personally made that decision (again, I speculate, but I suspect).
4. I know this was speculation, but when I and
@Lorde-Kowz spoke about seeming friction between Wakana and Kaori during a concert, I feel that was actually the case, for reasons we may never know. There may have been simmering issues over the years. At that time I had begun to build a feeling (watching some lives again) that maybe Wakana had some issues with a sense of entitlement and maybe feeling that she didn't have to sing under Kajiura again (which is fair), or that Kajiura was holding her back. Maybe, just speculating.
5. The fact that Wakana posted first about it, and there's no mention of Kajiura, and she's working with her own solo-career composer for this even though I thought she'd left Spacecraft, would seem to indicate that SC never held the gun to her head about working with Kajiura (as so many of her fans tried to say to defend her from criticism over the years, as if she had no say); and if Spacecraft actually forced her at the time, then she (Wakana) has decided to continue with that separation, making it her personal choice, deciding not to work with Kajiura. Maybe she felt Kajiura leaving Kalafina was selfish (only thinking of her ideals) and directly put Wakana, Hikaru, and Keiko's careers as Kalafina in jeopardy, and so she (Wakana) had enough and felt justified in looking out for her own career, and even reclaiming Kalafina without Kajiura. Kalafina was the main money maker for Kajiura, and the ladies and so losing it must have been a hit on their finances, personally.
6. To be honest, the latent disrespect in the entire thing is enough for me to personally not be interested in the anniversary, as I don't care to hear a watered down version of what Kajiura created, even with the ladies reuniting, especially without Kajiura being credited or acknowledged.
7. I don't know how Keiko and Hikaru can look her in the eye in the future, unless they were acting on an impression that the higher ups had connected, though I wonder why they wouldn't ask Kajiura about it to confirm. I am trying my best to give them the benefit of the doubt here. If they went behind her back to set this up for the sake of satisfying the fans, and making money, maybe assuming Kajiura would be a stumbling block if she was still against working with SC (since they own the brand and whatnot), then I am against that and the girls should know better (especially Keiko most of all). Who knows, maybe overtures had been made in the past and Kajiura refused on principle. Against, trying to look at things from the other side..
8. Maybe SC felt that Kajiura doing FJ covers of the Kalafina music she wrote, is her making some sort of claim on it (I don't know if there is any legal aspect to this) and they're trying to head her off by using the actual "Kalafina" name and doing an "anniversary live", so they claim the public sentiment and make Kajiura out to be the one stumbling block preventing reunion, then that's an attempt to tarnish her reputation (especially looking at her tweeted response to clear any speculations about her involvement, and seeming caught completely by surprise).
9. Kalafina was formed in 2008 and had their 10 year anniversary in 2018. What kind of anniversary are they celebrating in 2025? They already passed the 15th anniversary milestone, so it's 16? 17?
10. I look forward to reading all our thoughts, but I have to say, I have a real bitter taste about all this right now.