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Since I got all the OST scans from George a while ago, I've been slowly working on the liner notes for some of them. Most of them don't have notes, and many (like SIGN) aren't written by Kajiura-sensei, but there are a few that are.
Here's what I have so far:
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Noir OST I
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Noir OST II
(This is not written by Kajiura-sensei, but it has descriptions of a lot of tracks and such.)
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Le Portrait
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Currently working on .hack//EXTRA, SIGN I (the non-song notes), Mai-Hime I, Pandora Hearts I-II, Tsubasa I, Velveteen Rabbit, and Hokuto no Ken.
Here's what I have so far:
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Noir OST I
もっとメロを!
梶浦由記
NOIR.まず数話分の脚本を頂いた段階で、音楽のイメージ云々の前に「続きを~っ!」と身もだえする面白さでした。
実際の音作りに入ってまず作ったのが“Canta per me”と言う曲。霧香のテームでもあります。この音イメージを全体の中心に置きたいと思って作った私的なメインテームでもあったのですが、すんなりと監督からOKを頂き、その後はとてもスムーズに音作りを進める事が出来ました。
BGMなのにウタモノOKというのも楽しかったですし、通常メロが立ちすぎるものは嫌われるような状況下の曲にも、監督から「もっとメロを!」と熱いご要望が。(よっしゃ!)BGMと言うよりはイメージチューン感覚で曲作りを進め、NOIRの音作りについてはあまり苦労した記憶がありません。浮かんで来るイメージをそのままメロに乗せ、ハイどうぞ、と差し出したという感覚ですね。とても楽しい作業でした。また、真下監督から頂く曲イメージの説明が私的にはとてもツボで......言葉を聞いているだけで世界が果てしなく広がるような説明&
タイトルを下さるので、ミーティング段階から燃え上がる事が出来ました(笑)。
魅力的な登場人物の多いNOIRですが、とりあえず私はクロエ派です。まだ私も物語の行き着く先を知らないのですが、クロエ、死なないでね......。お願いしますね、真下様、月村様!
"More melody!"
Kajiura Yuki
Noir. To begin with, at the stage where I received the episode scenarios, before the music images and so forth, there was an interesting place where I worried, "It's a continuation!"
While doing the practical sound creation, the first thing I created was the song called "Canta per me". It's Kirika's theme. It became my personal main theme, and I thought while creating it that I wanted to place that sound image in the middle of the entire OST. I got an OK with no objections from the supervisors, and afterward I was able to continue the sound creation very smoothly.
Getting the OK to do singing in the BGM became fun, and even in circumstances of songs where going beyond the normal melody seems to be disliked, I got a hot demand from the supervisors for "More melody!" (Whew!) Progressing through the music-making, in the image tunes from the BGM, I don't have many memories of hardships on the NOIR sound-making. Taking on the image that comes to mind in the melody as it was, it was certainly high, and I had a sense of reaching out. It was a very enjoyable work. Also, the explanation of the music image that I was given by Director Mashimo was personally very good......just listening to those words, it gives me an explanation and title of the world that seems to spread out without end, and from that meeting onward I was able to burn even hotter (laugh).
There are many fascinating characters in NOIR, and I was at once a fan. What's more, I too don't know the point I'll end up at with the story, but I'm a fan, undying.......Thank you very much, Mashimo-sama, Tsukimura-sama!
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Noir OST II
(This is not written by Kajiura-sensei, but it has descriptions of a lot of tracks and such.)
凄いよ、梶浦由記。/文・北山茂
「NOIR」のサウンドトラック、第2弾である。
あの「Canta per me」や「Salva nos」を始めとする名曲の数々を収録した「NOIR ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK I」に続く第2弾である。
当然、期待も大きければプレッシャーもだっかいわけである。
しかし。
まずは黙ってアルバムに針を落として...もとい、CDを聴いてみて欲しい。
凄いよ、梶浦由記。
今回のサントラIIは、シリーズ後半で使用するため新たに作曲された楽曲を中心に構成されている。いくつかの曲について、私なりに簡単なコメントをさせていただく。
1曲目の「Le grand retour」は、タイトルどおりグラン・ルタゥールーアルテナの壮大な理想をイメージさせる曲。「ノワール」では珍しく?開放感溢れる曲だが、その実しっかりと別のニュアンスへと展開していくさまは脱帽。劇中では20話での使われ方が印象的。
2曲目「Secret game」は、衝撃の25話・Aパートで使われる切なくも美しい曲。おそらくクロエファン(梶浦氏も含む?)にとって、涙なしには聴けない曲になるのでは。
霧香のミレイユに対する想いを切々と綴るシーンで流れるのが5曲目「In memory of you」。「Romance」(サントラI収録)同様、古川昌義(実は私、この方の大ファンなんです)のギターと佐藤芳明のアコーディオンによる、BGMらしからぬエモーショナルな演奏が秀逸。
6曲目の「Colosseum」ではバグパイプが使用されているのが斬新。どことなくブリティッシュ・トラッドを連想させる8曲目「Maze」といい、アルテナの待つ「荘園」が近づくにつれ、音楽のほうも中世を意識したものになってくれわけである。
16曲目の「Killing」はサントラIの「Canta per me」と対象をなす曲。後者が非常な運命に翻弄される少女・霧香のテームだとすれば、「Killing」は生来の殺人マシンとしての霧香のテームであるといってよいだろう。決定的な霧香の変貌を描く第22話では、この2曲が効果的に使用されている。
今回も何曲かのボーカル曲が収録されているが、一番の注目作はラストに収録された「Indio」だろう。梶浦由記にとっても思い入れのあるこの曲は、劇中では「まさか」と思った箇所で使われ、メレイユの霧香に対する想いを見事に表現していた。オンエア当時からファンの間で「あの曲なに?サントラに入るの?」と話題になっていた曲でもある。
その他、ファンにとってはシリーズ後半からお目見えした「Salva nos」の別バージョン(7曲目)や「Canta per me」の別バージョン(13曲目)に加え、11曲目の「Power hungry」や「きれいな感情」のピアノバージョン(18曲め)といった、サントラIでは収録されなかった楽曲が収録されているのも嬉しいところ。「でもまだあの曲や、あの曲が入ってないじゃん」とおっしゃる貴方に、ここで朗報である。11月7日発売予定のCD「Blanc dans NOIR~黒の中の白~」では、人気の高いボーカル曲の日本語バージョンを各キャラクターが歌う12cmCDに加え、サントラI・IIに収録されなかったBGMのアウトトラックを集めた8cmCDが付属するのだ。(ちなみに本ブックレットの詩集は、オリジナルの言語を対訳したもので新アルバムに収録される日本語バージョンの歌詞とは異なります)
とまあ、最後はなんだか宣伝臭くなってしまったが、サントラIを気に入ってくださった皆様は、必ずや本作も気にいっていただけると思う。そして、真からそう思っていただけたなら、そっとご昭和願えるだろうか。
凄いよ、梶浦由記。(プロデューサー)
Wonderful, Kajiura Yuki. - Sentences by Kitayama Shigeru
This is the second Noir soundtrack.
It's the second installment from the "Noir Original Soundtrack I", which had recorded such songs as Canta Per Me and Salva Nos.
Naturally, when hopes are this high, the pressure is also high.
Even so.
First of all, dropping the pointer for a silent album...basically, I want to try listening to the CD.
Wonderful, Kajiura Yuki.
This being the second soundtrack, she was able to centrally organize the compositions she created new, for the sake of using them in the second part of the series. I'll give very simple comments regarding a few songs.
The first song, Le Grand Retour, like its name, is a song that imagines the magnificent ideal of the Grand Retour Altena. "Noir" is rather strange, isn't it? There are songs that overflow the floodgates of emotion, but in fact her goal here was to firmly develop the song toward an entirely different nuance. In the drama, the handling of twenty episodes is impressive.
The second song, Secret Game, is a painfully lovely song that uses the shock of the 25th episode's A-part. Perhaps, it becomes a song that a Chloe fan (Kajiura-shi too?) can't listen to without tears.
What plays during the scene that solitarily composes thoughts of Kirika's confrontation with Mireille is the fifth song, In Memory Of You. It's quite like Romance (from the first soundtrack), having the guitar of Furukawa Masayoshi (who, coincidentally, I'm a big fan of) and the accordion of Sato Yoshiaki; it's an emotional and excellent performance that doesn't sound much like BGM.
In the sixth song, Colosseum, the use of a bagpipe is a novelty. The eighth song, Maze, is one that somehow suggests the British tradition; coming closer to the Mansion where Altena waits, it turns into a sense of Medieval music.
The sixteenth song, Killing, is a song that targets the first soundtrack's song Canta Per Me. Where the latter is Kirika's theme for the girl who can make light of an extraordinary fate, I think Killing is Kirika's theme for when she's a pure murder machine. The 22nd episode, which paints Kirika's definite transformation, effectively uses these two songs.
This time, some songs are vocal ones, but I think the one I noticed the most was the last song, Indio. This song, which also concerns Kajiura Yuki, was used at the point where you think "Never!" in the drama, beautifully expressing thoughts of the confrontation between Mireille and Kirika. Since it was on the air back then, it was a song that brought up the subject of "What's this song? Is it included in the soundtrack?"
Otherwise, concerning fans, there's also a different version of Salva Nos (seventh song) in this release, and a different version of Canta Per Me (thirteenth song), as well as piano versions of the eleventh song Power Hungry and Kirei na Kanjou (eighteenth song); it's wonderful that compositions recorded in the first soundtrack are also recorded here. For you who say "But again, those songs, those songs aren't there!", there's good news here. There's a 12cm CD where each character sings Japanese versions of the very popular vocal pieces, and an 8cm CD is included with the BGM outtracks that weren't recorded in soundtracks one and two.
(By the way, in the booklet's anthology, the Japanese version lyrics recorded in this new album differ from the original words printed.)
Well, this last publicity is pretty terrible, but I think everyone who was pleased with soundtrack one will be definitely pleased with this work too.
Wonderful, Kajiura Yuki. (Producer)
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Le Portrait
「コゼットの肖像」の音楽は、色々な意味で
今の自分のありのままを取り出した、そんな作り方でしたでしょうか。
この作品に初めて触れた時、
そこに流れている気持ちや色が妙に今の自分としっくり来て、
結果とてもマチュラルに音作りを進める事が出来ました。
多分ここにある曲群は、
普段自分が一人でいる時に頭の中に流れている音にひどく近い。
それを何も飾らずそのまま取り出しただけ。
そんな気が致します。
そんな我が儘な、ある意味とてもシンプルな音達です。
作品と共にお楽しみ頂ける事を祈っております。
梶浦由記
For the music of "Cossette no Shouzou", there were various meanings; it was produced as I am now, with such workmanship. When I touched this work for the first time, the emotions and colors that streamed from it, strangely, perfectly fit my current self, and the result was that I could continue to the sound-making very naturally. Probably, the tunes that are in this collection are terribly close to the sound that usually flows into my head when I'm alone. They were produced just as they are, adorned with nothing. I created in that sort of mood. With such selfishness, the meanings they have are very simple tunes. I pray that you will find enjoyment together with this work.
Kajiura Yuki
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Currently working on .hack//EXTRA, SIGN I (the non-song notes), Mai-Hime I, Pandora Hearts I-II, Tsubasa I, Velveteen Rabbit, and Hokuto no Ken.