Yuki Kajiura Live vol.#20 (June 2-Aug 3) & ～Asia Tour 20th Special SETLIST～ (Nov 2024)

Sounds like nowhere suits Hikaru? Moreso than Kalafina songs, lol. Cool. Then again, she wasn't doing the refrain here either.

ARIA too difficult a song it would seem for everyone - Joelle kinda struggling and yelling going by that bootleg recording. Interestingly enough she manages to compose herself for the softer post-bridge solo part. I guess she would thrive singing the song like that, rather than going all out like she seems to be in these refrains.

edit:
to be fair,
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1NtDzYRE91/
I feel like this audio seems to showcase Joelle a little better and more favorably particularly in the last refrains.
 
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I really wish they stopped doing that awful ritardando during the ARIA kajiurago. Joelle wasn't very good in the refrains, and it seemed her mic had a lower volume compared to Hikaru? Mebbe they could've had Yuriko sing the refrain, might've sounded kewl. Hikaru was not good, lol.
 
props to bili users for more

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1TjDvY2E8L/
I swear

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1S1D6YwEy6/
I reach for the sun ~ in the garden of sinners ~ ARIA

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1tSDkYTE9B/
ring your bell

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1ZqDvYwEgG/
Fanfare

https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1vPDqYYE9T/
nowhere

I'm listening to this "nowhere" and it's wild to me Hikaru can sound like this today.
Why is she constipated in Kalafina songs and her own songs like she is? It truly is a mystery.
 
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Setlist for Guangzhou, via DDK in Discord, source unknown:

Apparently this was the setlist for Guangzhou

the world
in the land of twilight, under the moon
MC
vanity
My long forgotten cloistered sleep
I swear
fiction
I reach for the sun
in the garden of sinners
ARIA
Magia
MC
Kimi no Gin no Niwa
ring your bell
to the beginning
MC
Yasashii Yoake
Obsession
Senya Ichiya
the main theme of “L.O.R.D”
absolute configuration
luminous sword
MC
蒼穹のファンファーレ
En. the image theme of Xenosaga II
En.nowhere
En.MC
En.into the world
 
MATERIALISE please, thought I don't know who would replace Kaori's counterpart. The micro volume setting up seems to have an unbalanced mixdown? Sometimes I could barely hear Joelle while Hikaru sounded a bit loud and overwhelming other?
 
grunty said:
I'm listening to this "nowhere" and it's wild to me Hikaru can sound like this today.
Why is she constipated in Kalafina songs and her own songs like she is? It truly is a mystery.
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Holy shit Hikaru sounds amazing in nowhere. Aria was a struggle and a half but she's back to early Kalafina in nowhere.

You're right, truly a mystery.
 
The mystery is how can she still find difficult to sing her first ever song as Kalafina after so many years of performing it again and again, but nowhere that's not performed even close in numbers of performances by her she can sing it better ?
 
Hikaru is indeed singing just Kalasongs lmao (except nowhere). 0 surprises but it would be great hear her kajiurago again.

Lorde-Kowz said:
I really wish they stopped doing that awful ritardando during the ARIA kajiurago. Joelle wasn't very good in the refrains, and it seemed her mic had a lower volume compared to Hikaru? Mebbe they could've had Yuriko sing the refrain, might've sounded kewl. Hikaru was not good, lol.
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I must agree with this. ARIA bridge is one of my most favourite bridges of her discography but they always kill it with those chaotic vocals.
Yuriko and Yuki were the original vocalists for that bridge and Yuriko was able in that live, use her voice! 🤦‍♂️
 
grunty said:
Sounds like nowhere suits Hikaru? Moreso than Kalafina songs, lol. Cool. Then again, she wasn't doing the refrain here either.

ARIA too difficult a song it would seem for everyone - Joelle kinda struggling and yelling going by that bootleg recording. Interestingly enough she manages to compose herself for the softer post-bridge solo part. I guess she would thrive singing the song like that, rather than going all out like she seems to be in these refrains.

edit:
to be fair,
https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1NtDzYRE91/
I feel like this audio seems to showcase Joelle a little better and more favorably particularly in the last refrains.
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Wow! I was shocked at Joelle's voice being kinda raw-sounding in the first ARIA fancam shared by Azokad, but her audio seems cleaner in your version, which definitely showcases her more favorably, as you said. Joelle's head voice is on point and she seemed to carry the song more softly overall in her version than Wakana did in the original. The only place where she (Joelle) really went strained was in the final chorus (what would have been Hikaru's final chorus in the original ARIA live). I feel Joelle articulated the dancing kajiurago bridge (I call it "dancing" because Kalafina always danced at that bridge) and her voice shone there. She also sang the first chorus immediately after quite well with Keiko.

Another thing I noticed is that Keiko really brought in more prominent/fuller vibrato to match Joelle's more present vibrato (virtually at the end of every phrase). Cool blending from Keiko.
 
Welp, one miss doesn't negate how good she did in just about everything else. And that she did, going by these recordings. ;)

Not to mention she did "I reach for the sun" (and more) just before "in the garden of sinners" and "ARIA".

I really hope someone posts Senya ichiya, since I presume that's by rito and I'd like to hear how she does live. (She seemed perfectly fine in Fanfare from what I skipped around.)
 
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