It’s Easy Listening
If you want to put on some refreshing but distinctively “hand-made” music, try this out:
Couple days ago I stumbled across a fan cover album, a collection of renditions of Maaya Sakamoto’s tracks. What’s so remarkable is the quality of these songs–it’s almost as good as those for-sale-at-Comiket fan albums. To be fair it was rough but let’s just say it’s worth your time to try it out.
Most of the tracks are from Sakamoto’s Lucy-Nikopachi-Shounen Alice era [affiliate links], and that’s fine vintage. The collaboration came about through the organization of a fan forum community, Maaya’s. You can read the thread here. (The YKDB thread also sheds some info too.)
If you want to grab a copy of this “First Live@Purple Pro Audio” (it is a live studio album), the best way to do it is via this zshare link, uploaded by one of the people involved in the project. By the way, they call themselves “The Other Side of Lucy.” Definitely fans alright. Annotated copypasta++ incoming:
- Vocals: Pippa (
England ) - Guitar: Jerome (
France ) [International collaboration!] - Mix and Master: Simon
- Where: Purple Pro Audio Studio (
Leeds ,England )
- Makiba!
Alice [Uncanny] - Kodoku
- Daniel […I can so use a Park Amsterdam cover]
- Pocketto wo kara ni shite [uhh. use a kazoo?]
- Chibikko Folk [enjoy your faceless male backup singing?]
- Yukka
- NO FEAR/aisuru koto
[not bad for a Yunagi Loop track, almost better than the original] - pilot
- here [I think this is a good song for a guy to sing, coincidentally]
- yoru [fierce]
- alkaloid
- yubiwa [the arrangement is worth it, let alone the other stuff]
- Gift [this song suddenly got a lot more creds]
- Secret Track: Gift ~why not? why not? version~ [Amusing secret track is amusing!]
Digging around on Maaya’s you can also find their older works, here. To download, you can sign up for an account on the forums. The tracks there includes Yoru, Gift, and Yubiwa, although I’m not sure if they are the same ones as I have yet got a chance to check.
Looks like I’m going to have to bust out that bootleg recording from that Shounen Alice Studio Live sometime soon; this is basically channeling all of that.
When it comes to things like this I’m not even half as critical as I normally am, so I’ll leave it up to the listeners to give this a shot and make their own judgment. It’s just that I really need to take a break from listening to Nyan Furo all the time…
:O
Oh, I saw this in the jpopmusic forum, the karaoke thread. I dl’d it, listened to a few songs, and found them pretty cool. I’d say the recording is clean compared the usual mixes. Major props to those involved.
It’s got original instrumentals, so it’s more than just Karoake :o
Hm. Didn’t say it’s karaoke. just found it in that thread.
Got a link to the thread? I want to know who posted it XD
Here’s the link. http://www.jpopmusic.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=3327355#3327355
Thanks Ten. Looks like Dillpops really want to get the word out.
I agree with her sentiment, naturally…
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