Why do you like and/or what do you like about Yuki's music?

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I've come across a lot of negative comments, so how about some positive ones for a change?

To some who consider her stuff as "non-virtuosic", I say that part of the beauty in her work rests in its simplicity, but it's not always merely simple. I like the elegance and harmony of the chorus, classical, pop, electronic, new age, and ethnic blends. She definitely has her distinctive style even if you take out the vocals. I like the, erm, Kajiuran 'bwooonnngggg' signature sound, lol (for lack of a better term).
 
A unique sound says all. I love her genre diversity, and the way she blends different styles into one. Her techno-operatic works were practically the final revelation for me, whereafter I became musically omnitolerant. :XD: She also has a gift of creating really beautiful music, melodies and arrangements that TOUCH the right strings, evoke tears and smiles at the same time (I don't consider myself too sentimental, but I often feel like melting at the sound of Hepatica, Tears, Margaret etc., and I sometimes have an urge to start dancing around the room when listening to KnK6-M02 :dote: ). Her music is gorgeous and elegant, and while I hear that elegance in her works, no talks about "decreasing quality" can ever alarm me.
 
Yes, yes! It's unique, different and one of a kind! :shy:

~It has a different "feel" compared to other music... It's emotion-filled..lol, by that, I mean you can feel or know the theme of the music just by listening to the sound of the instruments.. :nosebleed: (Am I making myself clear..? lol.. :XD: )

~It's very relaxing.. very comfortable.. makes you feel like flying.. And if it's a sad song, it makes you feel like crying...

~Ooh! oh! I know! It's like beautiful, well-conceived Novel! ( :uh..: That doesn't make it any clearer, now does it..?) Anyway, I meant that it gets better as the song progresses, gets better as you listen to it more and also gets much more better as you reach the climax of the song... :dote: like a beautiful Novel..

~I lack vocabulary... so... I don't think simple words and statements such us the ones I just typed would be able to express how much her music means to me... :love:

:sohappy: :sohappy: :sohappy:
 
I love how she can combine different styles into one song... Especially when she combines techno and opera.
It's just nice that she composes things from quiet piano medleys to louder rock songs. I know a few composers that don't try anything outside of their comfort zone.
 
What I like about Yuki isn't just that she mixes musical genres--plenty of people do that. It's that she does it in a way that isn't just smashing stuff together. It's creating something definitively new from first principles, resulting in a body of work whose myriad influences are really down there in the woof, which I feel makes it both more referential mechanically and more original artistically than the output of somebody like Kanno (brilliantly talented glorified mix artist, but still glorified mix artist in my opinion) or Kou Ootani (a highly creative and skilled composer but with a narrower range of musical experience, so to speak).

Yuki's work may be diverse but it is never random. Take 'Slipstream' and 'Corsican Corridor', for instance. They both have very distinct melodies and timbres ('Corsican Corridor' perhaps a bit more so than 'Slipstream') yet clearly fall within the same pavilion. The same could be said of 'Oblivious', 'Progressive', and 'Sprinter', or pretty much the whole El Cazador de la Bruja soundtrack.

Of course, I could be talking out of my arse because of my mental problems involving making connexions and analogies, but that's what I hear.
 
~Ooh! oh! I know! It's like beautiful, well-conceived Novel!
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Kouichi Mashimo once said that Yuki "is a storyteller that just happens to know how to write music". :touched:
And before the .hack//CPM series, there was one of Yuki's stories translated somewhere here... not sure if it remained :uh..:
 
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Yuki's work may be diverse but it is never random. Take 'Slipstream' and 'Corsican Corridor', for instance. They both have very distinct melodies and timbres ('Corsican Corridor' perhaps a bit more so than 'Slipstream') yet clearly fall within the same pavilion. The same could be said of 'Oblivious', 'Progressive', and 'Sprinter', or pretty much the whole El Cazador de la Bruja soundtrack.
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That's called composition style. Meaning that even if she wrote a gazillion billion compositions, you still know it's by her. :groucho: And despite some put downs from others around here about that, why do they keep listening anyway? :ohoho:
 
Exactly. She both combines a lot of different influences and has her own composition style. She's not just a mixer.
 
Are you talking about "The Echo of the instruments"?
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it survived! :touched: :sohappy:

And despite some put downs from others around here about that, why do they keep listening anyway?
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Because it IS beuatiful.
Put downs usually derive from the ever so invisible borderline between "composition style" and "autoplagiarism", and many people tend to presume the latter apriori. Me, I'm not sure about "Corsican corridor" and "Slipstream", but I'm pretty sure that "Dawn is falling" sounds very similar to "Hear our prayer", but I despite the similar structure I somehow never had the impression of two identical songs. It's like a wordplay - change just a letter or two, and you have a completely different word. The same can be applied to Elton John, to Mike Oldfield (and his numerous Tubular Bells allusions :XD: ), and I don't mention Mikiya Katakura here, or I'll be dogpiled. :ohoho: But we all had better learn the difference with time, because a composition style is common (not to say inevitable) for composers. Stamping all as "repetition" and "autoplagiarism" is not a very safe policy here. :ayashii:
 
well... if I have to think why did I like her in the first place, I think it is because of these factors :

-Structure
Her works build up. Sometimes it start very slow, and it takes sudden changes in the middle, it becomes fast paced or emotional.
-Dark, Mature themes
-Combination of instrumental and electronica
 
combination of instruments
melody of the songs
the back song (or sound?) very great
 
I love Yuki's music because of the extremely unique, entrancing vibe it gives out! Her music always takes me somewhere else mentally, probably it's because some of her songs do sound like meditating music at times. Plus, it's also extremely relaxing that I sometimes listen to her music to help me fall asleep! I know, that sounded weird. I also love how it ranges from relaxing to epic, almost apocalyptic. But the number 1 thing I love about her music is that it has an extremely good surreal feel to it(I've been using extremely too much, but that's just how I could decribe how wonderful Yuki's music is), and completely love it! So I guess that's pretty much it!
 
What I appreciate the most about Kajiura's style is the way she "ponders" the importance of the melody. That's actually something that lots of japanese composers do, but I believe that this care to elaborated and beautiful melodies has been lost with years in mainstream music, and for me Kajiura is one of the few composers that still give to the melody the importance that it deserves.

If you listen her songs, you always can identify strong and long lines of melody that express her style. I really appreciate that.
 
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