It's also the official website name. Official Website. C was founded by Maya, a guitarist for musician Miyavi his support band Ishihara Gundan Ishihara being Miyavi's real last name, Gundan means 'brigade' or 'army' in Japanese and a guitarist in his own band The Sinners.
While still with Miyavi, Maya and other support members also played live shows as LM. Later they were joined by Aiji of Pierrot. C made their major label debut in October , releasing two singles, "Trailers Gold " and "Trailers Silver ".
As began, the group came out with a third single, "Oh My Juliet", which was the 2nd ending theme for the Red Garden anime. In , LM. The act of standing on stage wearing make-up itself is a sign of coolness.
Aiji: I really love traveling. I love traveling and playing video games. Although I like cities as my travel destination, I prefer the southern islands, with a lot of nature. I mostly go to the beaches, but I also love the mountains. Although I've been working as a professional musician for over 10 years, I haven't listened to many genres of music up until recently.
I didn't grow up listening to music from other countries, but 5 years ago I finally started to be interested and listening to it. Recently, as we can easily listen to music from all over the world, I enjoy listening to my favorite music via Amazon Music at full volume.
They are not that major, but I am looking up Korean musicians and listening to their music. Also, there are music rankings, so I love to listen to the top ranking of dance electro and pop charts at full volume. Usually, Lady Gaga is on top of the ranking. And I also listen to Halsey. There is a lot! Aiji: I like making things, so I would be a designer or a potter. Making plates and pots. I was doing it when I was in my twenties and I enjoy it.
I think I would like to be a potter or designer. Be a YouTuber! I just came up with that laughs. I would open up a small gym. I am not an expert, but I would offer advice on training and on the body as a fitness trainer.
I will open up a gym! I think my training is an extension of LM. C, but right now it would be something training related. Next, I would like to ask you about your songs. Well, we made songs little by little. We also made new songs during those tours. As we did it remotely, via telerecording, we were working separately and not in the studio together. We work together on the mixing, but the rest of the recording process is done individually.
Aiji: There is nothing fun about song production. Producing demos for the members and staff to listen to is hard and exhausting.
Only when we decide on a song little by little does it get fun. It is fun from the point where we are working and producing with people, exchanging data with maya, talking, and checking. Because I seem to have more time. If you compare now to the times where I had to write many lyrics and we were working on many songs.
Compared to those times, I now have more time, peace of mind and experience, so I think that I am now able to write lyrics with more peace of mind. However, I haven't been able to write any recently. It is the recording that is fun. I think the work of recording songs and new music at home alone is fun. Aiji: All of them were made with love, but the one that seems to have a slightly different mood than the previous LM.
I think it's a song we were able to write because of the past 14 years. I'm looking forward to its completion.
But I think that just living becomes a connection to the next work. As I am dealing with words, I feel that by living everything around me is connected to music. I would say that I capture my emotions and things that move me in my life as much as possible. I think I'm inspired by everything. Since I listen to a lot of music these days, I think I'm inspired by music that is different from what we've done.
Aiji: For me, it's similar to what maya said, but I often also get inspired by images. I also often feel inspired by a scene in a movie or something else visual. It's relatively biased, but I have specific hobbies, so I feel that making clear what I like is my motivation to create music, and it is also connected to inspiration. I think it's important to know what you like when you make art or music, and that will become a source of inspiration. There are little fixed matters.
Like the in-ear monitor. I sometimes forget it. And we decide together. Basically, I choose songs that suit the performance and I think about the flow. I think it became my duty, since the vocalist does MCs and needs to think about the flow. C digest and choose the best-of songs from all the songs that were released in the meantime.
There is a difference depending on the country, as for example, we sometimes go to Taiwan with an album tour, so in that case, we would base our setlist on the album. Maya , did you know Aiji before? Maya : Yes. I've known him since he was about nineteen years old. He had a great influence on the locals. People get the wrong idea. Have you been doing your present music style, rap and electronic techno pop mix since before you started working together? Maya : When I played in my former band, I didn't make that many songs; I didn't even join the band, really.
After the band ended and I started to make songs by myself, I realized that I didn't know how to make songs, so I tried to make various songs with pop.
Basically, I don't have any favorite genre, so I tried to take good things from different genres. I still try to do that now. When you listened to Maya 's music for the first time, did you think, "He is interesting? Well, I thought he could do various things.
Maya 's voice was different from any other voice ever in the history of the visual kei scene, so I thought if I made good use of his voice, he could develop into something even more. Maya , how did you find the transition between going from guitarist to vocalist?
Was being a vocalist always your original intention? Aiji : It was almost like he was forced to sing. How was that? Maya : Well, it was a total surprise! Most of the time they wanted to be a vocalist themselves, but in my case, it was just an accident laughs , and we really searched for someone but we couldn't find a good person, so that only left me. Did you write lyrics by yourself? That's why my senior said, "Why don't you sing by yourself?
Maya : Yes, vocalists generally do, but I wasn't a vocalist. So it became like, "I'll do it. Aiji : Yes, he does. While he doesn't play in our lives, he plays guitar in our recordings. Well, we don't really decide who is the guitarist and who is the vocalist at all between us. So, Aiji may one day take vocal? Maya : There are times where he sings. Aiji : The chorus.
Maya and I do it all together, and it's not a unit of guitarist: Aiji and vocalist: Maya , between us. When we come out in the scene and do our lives, we do such a style that we are often seen like that, but when we make the music, it doesn't matter.
How do you create sounds? Do you create them progressing them together? Or do you make all of your demos separately and then put them together? Aiji : We do it the latter way. We make songs respectively, collect the demos and then we share our ideas at recording.
C , your music and looks changed totally. Did you have any confusion while doing this? Aiji : I had no trouble. Now, I make music without thinking about anything.
I don't have any restrictions about genre either, so I have a lot of freedom. Aiji , what kind of music were you into when you were in Nagano prefecture? I listen to a wide array of music. Maybe fans would think I listen to rock music, but my favorite artists are unexpectedly more pop. Though you are not quite a 'normal' visual kei band, you do pay a lot of attention to your appearance. Lately you look very colorful, why is this? Aiji : That's because of our tastes. We think of the Aiji and Maya that do LM.
C , and it's currently like this. Do you design things by yourselves? Aiji : We work with a designer together. Is that with everything, such as your costumes, CD jackets and live staging? Aiji : Well, we don't leave everything to others. We can't be satisfied unless we let everything go through our filters somewhere to put our tastes into it. Aiji , from the viewpoint of your fans, your big change is surprising.
Aiji : Really? I don't feel like I changed so much. Not so much on an individual level, anyway. You have coined the term "New Century Electro-Rock," what exactly does this mean? Aiji : Nothing really. Well, the word was made by the producer. He has a dog named Moco-chang, which is where part of the name LM. C comes from. Menu JpopAsia Search Login. Albums Videos C YouTube. C [i]LM.
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