Kalafina 「into the world / Märchen」20th single (Release April 5, 2017)

Liana_Ilia said:
*sigh*Keiko's chair flip at the end, and her dragging it.
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That's Hikaru, love. :innocent: I love her with that disheveled hairstyle, just blindly dragging that chair seemingly in a trance!
 
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Hayden Kurosaki said:
I'm sorry, I'm almost done. :bow:

But, a personal response to grunty asking why so many of us see Märchen as something "dark" or "creepy".
The reason I became a Yuki Kajiura fan was from hearing her Kajiurago music (specifically Mezame and Ensei while first watching MyHiME). For me, with Kajiura work, a song is all about aesthetic -- letting the instruments, progression and especially the harmonies put images, stories and desires into one's head without having to know the words. For instance, the percussion and time signature cuts seem tribal in a sense; I can see a night ceremony in the middle of a forest in progress. Yet the strings that come soon after make the image more Renaissance-esque. The sound of Hikaru's primary role in the verses gives off a feeling of bitterness and determination, adding up to vengeance. In the bridge, Keiko's self harmonization on top of the drums exudes a somehow incriminating nature in combination with Wakana's parts, which give off a sense of frantic struggle against whatever you're guilty of, with that descending "hoshigatte, hoshigatte" harmony making the struggle seem futile in the end.

As for a story, before seeing the rest of the PV for into the world and before seeing that 4 second snippet of Märchen, I imagined that while singing "into the world" at the end, the girls would walk into the water. For Märchen, they would come out tattered on the other side, holding bitterness that the world they ventured into so serenely gave up on them, and struggled through a forest to come across an abandoned mansion, refashioning whatever was left of the place clothing-wise and venturing into getting revenge on that hopeless world by starting to practice witchcraft . . .

. . . or something. :rain:

This is all what I see without looking at lyric translation. It seems very awkward but it's not really meant to be put into words, it's more like a picture, or a dance, but that's just me.
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I agree with you so much it's scary. With both comments.
 
Hayden Kurosaki said:
I'm sorry, I'm almost done. :bow:

But, a personal response to grunty asking why so many of us see Märchen as something "dark" or "creepy".
(...) but that's just me.
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I can certainly see witchcraft/tribal chant elements in the beat and in the repetition but, to me, there's just no "darkness" or "anger" in it. I see the whole song as very robotic/bland (constant volume, 4 samey bridges, samey vocals throughout). Your description of Hikaru's performance sounds about right but all I can do is wonder if she is even capable of delivering the melody differently today (not at the verge of screaming that is).

I'm honestly glad you like it though. Opinions etc. I can always listen to the opening minute of Zaregoto's kajiurago version if I feel like hearing this melody.
 
The whole anger part comes from Hikaru on the verge of shouting her lines... and the whole robotic and bland is actually in line with the song since the lyrics said "we've become empty trapped in a box" or smth like that. I actually didn't mind the bridge since in her recent works for Kala, the bridge is the only interesting part... tho sometimes she did overdone it by making multiple bridges for one song.

Anyway you couldn't blame people for saying marchen sounded like IEN when the short version did sound like IEN :p
 
TBH I think I might not be hearing the anger in Marchen (or enjoy the song) precisely because I enjoy the (spacious sound of the) kajiurago version and heard that one first. Marchen is just (constantly) loud to me.
 
I need help. I've been looping this single for the past two days @___@

I think Haru wo Matsu would be a GREAT first encore piece. Since there is no harmony, they could come on stage solo one by one and instead of all three at once.
That would be so lovely to see. Nghh
 
In the last one mf makes u go to amazon

(who the hell registered it as melfen lmao)

wow i LOVE the marchen instrumental, its almost as if it was BGM where Kajiura added vocals to. <3

Dat nonestop violin, that flute, that percussion, these drums during bridge 2 :hearts:
 
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God I adore the ending of the Märchen instrumental. The slow build up with the strings and then the epic guitar and flute ends it perfectly hnng
 
All of them were "nope"'d within 5 minutes. :XD:

God, bless and soften the heart of Japan's entertainment industries as a whole, and let them allow a fair use law.
 
Good thing I found them when I did. I'm sure there will be a cat and mouse game with Sony and posters for the next month or until they put the videos on the Kalafina Vevo account. Putzes.

I'm liking both songs. well... I'll play it a few more times before deciding. I feel these two songs have that After Eden feel to them. Haru wo Matsu..well... I'll play it a few more times before deciding. It's like... "We need a 3rd song to fill out this single. We got little time to put something together... Hey, I got this FY Yuuka song I never completed, let's have the ladies sing it and put it on there real quick." (not that there's any thing wrong with FY Yuuka songs... I'd like to hear some new ones.)
 
Hayden Kurosaki said:
All of them were "nope"'d within 5 minutes. :XD:

God, bless and soften the heart of Japan's entertainment industries as a whole, and let them allow a fair use law.
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I just checked and they are still playable for me. Must be some reason you are being blocked. Your country maybe ? Probably the same reason I can't get bilibili to work for me.
 
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