music in sakanaction's first thread [サカナクション]

[oaristos]

Both "Wasurerarenai no" and "Nylon String" sound amazing. I haven't been following them for a while now, but every time I listen to any of their songs I'm reminded that they're such an incredible band. It's sad that the album has been postponed, but I'm still excited for it!

[Bigtop]

Originally Posted by Meat Pao

Album postponed to June 19

Why is it being postponed?

[Xianghua]

^ They're not happy with the outcome and they want more time to work on it.

a longer preview of nylon string, 60 second calorie mate CM

[Meat Pao]

Reminds me of how Endless took them 1 year to work on after many revisions (the demo snippet that played in a clip in the DocumentaLy DVD sounded quite different!). I love that Ichiro (and the rest of the band) is/are such perfectionists cos it shows in their music.

Oh well, we've waited for 6 years, what's 2 more months right? HAHA

[Xianghua]

Tour special site: http://sakanaction.jp/feature/tour2019
includes seating map for each venue!

Goods

Spoiler:

News coverage: https://twitter.com/hello_new_69/sta...42645745623040

A fan report said there were 3 new tracks they don't know the name of, but they sound really good. Can't find the setlist :O

[Meat Pao]

I saw the setlist a while back!

Opening
1. Aruku Around
2. Yoru no Odoriko
3. Kagerou
4. Minority (New song)
5. Aoi
6. Sayonara wa Emotion
7. Eureka
8. years
9. Nylon no Ito (new song)
10. Hachisu no Hana
11. Wasurerarenai no (new song)
12. new song
13. new song
14. INORI
15. SORATO
16. Music
17. Shin Takarajima
18. Identity
19. Tabun, Kaze
MC
20. September (I think it's one of the songs from Ichiro's former band, Tachiman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJT5kf28yPg)

Encore
21. Bach no Senritsu wo Yoru ni Kiita Sei Desu
22. Yoru no Higashigawa
MC
23. Goodbye

Source: https://lyfe8.com/sakana414jyake/

[Xianghua]

Thanks, Meat Pao!
Now it makes sense one of the new song names is minority, I thought it was random that it was on the goods.

It was interesting to hear September!

[Meat Pao]

Covers are out: http://sakanaction.jp/news/detail/1685?categoryId=1%2C2

Don't really understand the Japanese that well but seems to be a double-sided cover? I quite like it!

[Xianghua]

It was designed by an artist duo Nerhol consisting of Ryuta Iida (not the poet lol) and Tanaka Yoshihisa.

You can see their work here!
http://nerhol.com/
http://www.ykggallery.com/artists/nerhol/exhibitions/

[Meat Pao]

Just came back from their concert at Osaka Jo Hall and it was AMAZING! The art direction and visuals are unlike their past concerts that I've seen on YouTube. A large chunk of the show made use of the screens (almost ceiling-to-floor vertical rectangles, 13 of them that spread even beyond the stage) and a translucent curtain with projections on it (which they have done before). Really nice.

Thought I'd share some impressions for select songs in the setlist:

Spoiler:

Opening: Starts off with Ichiro behind the curtain with just him strumming his acoustic guitar to September (later performed in full before the encore) till the first chorus. The camera angles were from the top and from the back, before it starts playing the album teaser clip that was posted to YouTube with the counter to 834.194.

2. Yoru no Odoriko: Screens use the same visuals as the past few tours with the geisha dancing in a black CGI grid box thing lol. But I love this song so much I'm not complaining!

3. Kagerou: The screens for this song was really cool and colourful. Mostly shows a young female mouthing the words to the song with geometric shapes bouncing about from my memory. Given the production value I think it might be used as a music video at some point. Also the song structure is slightly different which I think might be the album version (as opposed to Sakanazukan's movie version) with a guitar solo and a bit with just the synths and Yamaguchi singing the chorus with an echo effect.

4. Minority (New song): I love this song! It's super groovy with the same vibes as Kagerou. Also has the "gospel chorus" element that is distinctly sakanaction.

7. Eureka: Made use of the screens and projection curtains at the same time. Screens were of a woman looking out a bus window and tearing while images of Tokyo in black and white were projected on the curtain.

9. Nylon no Ito (new song): To me it sounds like whatever's in the Calorie Mate ad with little surprises. But I can't remember much haha

12. new song: This one has ambient music vibes (with a super long intro, not sure if it'll be the same in the album). The melody at some point actually borrows from mellow's chorus.

13. new song: This song is about peanuts or something (the screens at the sides literally show a woman cracking open peanuts and stuff). The main screen looks pretty music video-esque too. There was fire and stuff on stage for the chorus! Very Ayu-like. Lol

14. INORI: This shit sounds so good in a live setting, the bass is amazing. The stage gets elevated here so the band performs the DJ set from above, like their NF Launch tour.

15. SORATO: Seems to have added embellishments to the entire track compared to the music video. Opening has a slightly robotic woman's voice saying "SORATO". Additional effects here and there throughout the track.

17. Shin Takarajima: The visuals for this are super colourful! This time they even got a group of dancers with pom poms a la the music video which is something refreshing. The main screens also feature the same dancers dancing in a black room. Really cool.

Before performing September, Ichiro also explains why the album is titled 834.194 - turns out it's paying homage to their Hokkaido roots as it's the distance from their Sapporo studio to their Tokyo studio. I guess that also explains the constant use of that timelapse on the Japanese expressways in the trailer and tour videos. He explained this before performing September in full to close the main set, which he explains is from his "Sapporo days", which makes sense since it was from his band before sakanaction. Looks like the song is getting reworked for this new album, and the arrangement seems fitting as an album closer like Asa no Uta.

On a random sidenote I didn't want to buy the tour shirt but after seeing Ichiro wearing it for the encore I thought it looked cool and bought it right after the concert. HAHAHA

[Kacku]

Thanks for your report, glad to hear the concert was great! Love hearing about the new songs, I'm getting excited for Minority and the ambient song based on the descriptions. And nice to know what the title is about! I think it's sweet of them to refer back to their roots.

[Xianghua]

Thank you for the detailed report! It sounds like a really creative show.

And I'm glad we got an explanation of the album title lol, if it wasn't for you Meat Pao I don't know when we would have heard about it. It's really...specific but sounds better now that we have the context.

[Kacku]

The official tracklist has been announced!


DISC-1 35 38 52 9000 / 139 41 39 3000

01. 忘れられないの (Wasurerarenai no)
02. マッチとピーナッツ (Match to Peanuts)
03. 陽炎 (Kagerou)
04. 多分、風。 (Tabun, Kaze.)
05. 新宝島 (Shintakarajima)
06. モス (Moth/Moss?)
07. 「聴きたかったダンスミュージック、リキッドルームに」 ("Kikitakatta Dance Music, Liquidroom ni")
08. ユリイカ (Shotaro Aoyama Remix) (Eureka)
09. セプテンバー -東京 version- (September -Tokyo version-)


DISC-2 43 03 18 9000 / 141 19 17 5000

01. グッドバイ (Goodbye)
02. 蓮の花 (Hasu no Hana)
03. ユリイカ (Eureka)
04. ナイロンの糸 (Nylon no Ito)
05. 茶柱 (Chabashira)
06. ワンダーランド (Wonderland)
07. さよならはエモーション (Sayonara wa Emotion)
08. 834.194
09. セプテンバー -札幌 version- (September -Sapporo version-)

Whatever happened to Minority? And I'm surprised that SORATO/moon isn't on the album! But lots of new songs, I'm excited.

[Meat Pao]

I’m reading some of the Japanese comments and most of them seem to think Moth/Moss is the new title for Minority. They never explained why they think so though. Let’s hope that’s the case! Yeah I’m pretty bummed about SORATO not making it either hope it appears on a future release!

Edit: just saw one of the IG comments saying that Ichiro confirmed in a magazine interview that they changed the title for Minority. I guess it could be Moth/Moss!

[Kacku]

I figured it might have been renamed, thanks for sleuthing what the new title could be! I'm also bummed SORATO didn't make it either on this album or Sakanazukan, I'd like to have an official release and not just a YouTube rip.

[Xianghua]

That's weird since their goods have MINORITY written on it.

[Meat Pao]

Ah my bad, this was the song that had the chorus that sounds like mellow's. hahahaha

[Meat Pao]

Album is out!

Streaming: Spotify | Apple Music

Extended Calorie Mate CM with Nylon no Ito:



Sakanaction will also be performing Wasurerarenai no on Music Station this Friday night!

[Xianghua]

finallyyyyy i feel like we've been waiting for this for ages.
thanks to KarenPang for sending me the album download, i re-uploaded it to google drive.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1gg...woBjDKxlzLVbCj

new version of Kagerou!!

i just finished listening to disc 1 and i'm loving everything so far

[Kacku]

I really like this album! Not a single bad song on it. My favorite new songs are... all the ones on disc 2. The album also got me to reevaluate some old songs, while listening through I was like "Wait, was Goodbye always this good?! Hasu no Hana had all this going on?? Kikitakatta Dance Music was this fun and funky???" so good job there!