What are you listening to right NOW?

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Lúa said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AHoVuOntU8

I didn't know this existed, shimotsuki haruka's remembrance rondo with kaori oda. I love Haruka's child like voice without being gracing. And Kaori gets to display some range. Also I love that the still have worked recently together.
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This is a beautiful collaboration. 🌹🌹🌹

The juxtaposition of their voices is very interesting. Really fun to hear Kaori do the register changes and use her head voice multiple times.
Haruka's straight, mostly unadorned voice (sometimes she brings it a bit of vibrato) contrasts nicely with Kaori's more soulful and dynamically shifting voice (using breath, changing expressions).

This is a really good vocal showcase for the both of them. It would be really cool to see a live performance of this song.
 
grunty said:
Well if we're going for Kaori and Haruka...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5RjANzl5l74

young-ish Kaori foreba
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This is nice.

grunty said:
young-ish Kaori foreba
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Oh yeah!

That pointed (rather than light or breathy) head voice at 1:16 is a power Kaori rarely uses, sadly. I always like when she gets to do a head voice duet harmony with Yuriko or Joelle. It's one strong point she has, but doesn't get to use as well.

She can go breathy falsetto, light head voice, connected head voice, and belt to quite a high pitch level. It's part of the reason she's so versatile.

Her kryptonite is essentially the kinds of songs she gets written for her; that's where she gets failed most of the time. That and the fact that she from time to time goes slightly off-pitch in a live setting and doesn't seem to realize it.

I don't know what her view is of her own career and how she wants to be seen as an artist. In my view, she always shines in Haruka's fantasy compositions, such as this song, and also with Sound Horizon, as well as (I would say to a slightly lesser degree, shock!) Kajiura's (only because Kajiura doesn't give her the focused solo vocal writing as much that would make her shine, in my opinion). Basically she needs interesting melodies to sing in a solo context.

Kajiura utilizes her often as a mirror to the main lead soprano (previously Wakana, now Joelle), so she sings the verse 2 (or comes in out of the blue in a supposedly solo song as you've been complaining about) to give a contrasting voice to the first lead vocal. You might not get Kaori leading a series of songs with strong lead in a row, apart from maybe YKL16?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMoBRH86Aig&list=TLPQMjkwNTIwMjV-xg1v5ytW7w&index=2
ELISA connect EFP - Eonian

I just realized I haven't really heard ELISA sing outside of that collab with Kalafina back in the day.

Speaking of Kaori, this is a simple song that she can easily crush vocally, but not sure about visually.
Hikaru would just turn it to a rock song with her heavy vocals and DEMAND a strong electric guitar solo. This is too pop for her.
 
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