Stamped: April 19th, 2007 | Related Posts
Tagged: anime, yuki kajiura.

It is so emotionally exhausting to listen to my Yuki Kajiura. Everytime I feel an inner turmoil rampaging my heart, I feel so many intense feelings at the same time I cannot deal with it sanely when I listen to her work.
I feel love, passion, infatuation, I feel admiration, devotion, I feel exctasy, I feel like I’m in a trance, I feel wonderment, I feel like I am fully living and sensing all my awaken senses blooming inside of me.

Yes, that what her music does to me. I feel happy and in peace with myself.

I said it again already, but will repeat it again, there are many Kajiura tracks worth discovering, and I don’t know where to start.

Today I’ll focus on 3 tracks. Two of them just manage to make us musically travel along the tune so much the rhythms, the instruments and styles are various. It is unusual and can be destabilizing, especially when you were comfortably soothed by the grandeur of the music and then, all of a sudden, you go through a peculiar style change.
Anyway, it’s part of the Kajiuran style, you’d better get along with it:

1. Ring your song: Here is the apetizer to get you acquainted with the theme. It is a magnificent melody, sung by Eri Itoh. You will find the same melody in the following track…

2. Once upon a time there was you and me: This track is divided into 4 parts. The first one is a rather short, ethereal soothing chants leading you to the 2nd part… Then the 2nd parts comes along with its pan flutes. You feel like you’re in a boat in China, with the mountain and rice fields before your eyes.
My favourite part is the 3rd one, when the pan flutes give way to the strings that are now prominent.That’s when I close my eyes and travel, breathe the air and feel in peace. (part 2 and 3 can be considered the same… But it was a way for me to distinguish the pan flute part from the strings part).
The string blessful part is too short, the 4th part already shows its nose with its modern beats entangled with the mesmerizing chants. It’s the longest part, that fades away little by little until you only hear a distant voice and pan flute ringing…

3. I talk to the rain: Very Kajiuran song again with violins, choirs, techno beats and piano. It is a twofold song. The first part is slow and soothing, then you clearly hear the change of tempo leading to the rhythmic second part. I love this song!