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BAND-MAID 2019.12.13 NHK FM Music Line ( English Translation )

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(Introduction)-------------------------
Shiho Nanba: Shiho Nanba is sending the music-line. Tonight we had two musicians from the band-Maid. Please introduce yourself.
Miku: Wellcome home, master and princess. Kru-Po. Guitar vocal of Band-Maid, Miku Kobato, and...
Saiki: I'm vocal, Saiki.
Miku: Nice to meet you Po.
Saiki: Nice to meet you.
Shiho: It's been a long time since you appeared on this program since February last year. I think that time has passed so fast.
Miku: That's how much time has passed Po.
Shiho: How have you been?
Miku: I've been fine Po. It seemed like a moment from the last time Po.
Saiki: That's right. Hahaha.
Miku: There were a lot of things, but it seems like a moment in terms of speed Po. It passed so fast Po.
Shiho: That's why it was fulfilling. As usual, Kobato is a pigeon.
Miku: I am a pigeon as usual Po.
Shiho: I am healed already. Nice to meet you. Then let's listen to one song from the new album 'Conqueror'. Please introduce the song to listeners.
Miku: Please listen to 'Reincarnation' of Band-Maid.

(New York and Los Angeles) ---------------
Shiho: It's Music-line. The song I sent was from the new album, 'Conqueror' of tonight's guests from Band-Maid. I was drawn to the development of sprinting emotionally while wearing the sparkle and painfulness of the moment. It was super cool and cool.
Miku, Saiki: Thank you very much (Po).
Shiho: Tonight, we're welcoming Miku Kobato and Saiki from the Band-Maid. At first, I would like to ask you about your current situation. I think you have busy days. Since September, you have been on a world tour in the U.S.A.
Miku: I've been there Po.
Shiho: You had experienced live performances (okyuji) in America. How was the response this time?
Miku: It was the first time that we did a North American tour, and I was quite worried Po. We had live-performances (okyuji) in New York or Los Angeles, but masters and princesses of New York seemed to be harsh, and I heard in advance that it wasn't that easy, so "Oh, are you sure? Po." I was quite anxious, but before we opened the live-performance, tickets were all sold out, and we could greet the audience Po. I was happy with that alone, but when I actually started serving (okyuji), many masters and princesses said, "We've been waiting for you." They greeted us with great enthusiasm, so I was really happy Po. So, I feel like I'm confident that I get closer to the goal of conquering the world Po.
Shiho: Is New York said to be a harsh place?
Miku: I heard that New York was tough Po. The New Yorkers' eyes are not that easy Po.
Shiho: Some people threaten like that.
Saiki: Because we were also quite anxious, I thought it was a word including encouragement. Anything will be all right like that.
Shiho: The reaction may be completely different from country to country.
Miku: Even the same song will catch them with a different feeling at all. And American people will be riding in an easy-to-understand manner. Or the body language is quite intense, so when I said, "Wow," I was so happy to hear that voices were returned stronger many times Po.
Shiho: It looks like a lot of heat.

(overseas, a pigeon navigator)------------
Miku: Many overseas masters are bigger than Japanese masters, so the heat is naturally getting hotter Po.
Shiho: Did you have time to enjoy America?
Miku: The members went sightseeing a bit, and everyone took photos in front of Times Square Po.
Shiho: Do you spend a lot of time together while you are overseas?
Miku: When we go out, some of us get together Po. About the meal, we are usually together Po.
Saiki: Our band's navigation is Kobato. Kobato is quick to check, and even where we've never been, but she can find it right on the map.
Miku: I look like a pigeon Po. I am a pigeon navigator Po.
Saiki: Kobato, you have the blood of birds, haven't you? Ahaha!
Miku: So, recently, Sai-chan (Saiki) uses me and asks me where and where Po.
Shiho: It is very reliable, isn't it?
Saiki: Thank Kobato very much. Ahaha!
Shiho: You are good friends.
Miku: That's right Po. It seems to be so much better than other bands around here Po.
Saiki: I'm getting along so much that we are recently saying, "Too strange, isn't it?"
Miku: I didn't have a day without meeting with all the members these days, and if we didn't meet for two days Po. I would say, "Long time no see." And the conversation doesn't stop Po. "No, this is still the first time in two days.", and it seems like we haven't met for months Po.
Saiki: It's really like a family, maybe deeper than a family.

(refreshment, drinking)------------------
Shiho: I always think you are mysterious. You are lovely and happy, and I can't see a feeling of life. How do you refresh while you are busy?
Miku: What is it? Sai-chan, do you have anything Po?
Saiki: I wonder what. Well, we drink a lot of alcohol.
Miku: Kobato thought the same thing Po. However, we go to eat a delicious meal together Po. And when Sai-chan and Kobato go around in regions for promotion, even we don't have much time recently, but we like to eat delicious food in various places using the spare time Po. It seems to be the most refreshing Po.
Saiki: Drinking delicious sake. Kobato really likes Japanese sake.
Miku: Kobato likes Japanese sake, Sai-chan likes beer, and enjoys beer of various places Po.
Saiki: I drink beer.
Miku: Not all the members, but Sai-chan and me and the base mass love liquor and drink a lot Po.
Saiki: All members like Japanese sake.
Shiho: It's nice to drink with everyone.
Saiki: That's right.
Miku: It's said that if we do a closing party, we're like pirates Po. We drink well and eat well Po.
Shiho: That's how it closes.
Miku: With a lively feeling Po.
Saiki: It's a good closing. Hahaha.
Shiho: How do you get drunk?
Miku: It depends on personality Po. The bassist Misa-chan seems to laugh all the time while drinking slowly Po.
Saiki: I become gradually not to be able to understand what she is talking about.
Miku: When Sai-chan gets drunk, she smiles a lot Po.
Shiho: Your smile must be Kyun-Kyun.
Saiki: Guitarist Kanami often tells me that a lucky time has come.
Miku: Kanami loves Sai-chan very much. She says, "She's cute and too cute. If she gets drunk, Sai-chan will stick me."
Saiki: That's seemed so. I remembered it properly. Hahaha. She seems to be moonstruck with me.
Miku: Sai-chan would look like the opposite of this now. That gap makes me Kyun-Kyun Po.
Shiho: A lucky time.
Saiki: Please participate in our closing party. Hahaha.
Shiho: Surrounded by pirates?
Miku: It's OK because Kobato protects you Po.
Shiho: What will happen to Kobato?
Saiki: Kobato is just like a handsome guy.
Miku: I will be a caregiver for all members, finally Po.
Saiki: Kobato really drinks and keeps drinking until the end. When Kanami says that she can't drink anymore because she is weak for alcohol, Kobato says, "It's OK. I will drink it for you."
Shiho: You are navigating and drinking, and Kobato, you are strong‐minded.
Saiki: Kobato is strong‐minded. That's it. Hahaha.
Miku: Band-Maid is also with gaps, and members individually have gaps Po.

(festivals)---------------------------
Shiho: From summer to autumn, you participated in various festivals in Japan. Are you challenging festivals with a different consciousness than your usual live-performances (okyuji)?
Miku: I think that there are many masters and princesses who come to the festival and see us for the first time, and I am conscious that we would make them want to come back to our live performances (okyuji), so we make the setlist quite intense without much Kobato's MC (master of ceremony) Po. We hope to let the audience fell our energy and to make them enjoy the gaps of our band Po.
Saiki: There is almost no MC at the festival. And it's just like performance only.
Miku: It starts suddenly, and it's over like running away Po.
Shiho: Do you think it will be better?
Miku: That's right Po. Many people haven't listened to it so far. Or many people say, "It is said to be rock, but just idol nothing more." And many people didn't listen to us because we are in maid-outfit. So we are working hard to let those people beaten. It's our goal, Po.

(Band-Maid is shy.)-----------------
Shiho: Good luck with being a handsome guy. By the way, do you interact with other bands at festivals?
Miku: Band-Maid is a quite shy Po.
Saiki: Even at the catering service, we are gathering together only with our five members. But drummer Akane has a lot of friends, so I let her go alone. Hahaha.
Miku: Or, often, Akane introduces us to her friends, and we talk with them together Po. We are not misanthropes., but we are all shy Po. So we cast side-glances at other musicians, then we hesitate, "Let's go, oh don't go." like that Po.
Shiho: You are pretty modest.
Saiki: I want to acquire social skills and try to talk to many people.
Miku, Saiki: If we don't get sake, we will stay modest (Po). Hahaha.
Shiho: I also get nervous when I am in that circumstance.
Miku: In the case with live-performances (okyuji), we are OK. But otherwise, we become Kyun-Kyun, nervous Po.

(the manager washes their costumes by hand)--
Shiho: I think you are nice as you are. In a recent topic, she appeared on NHK Educational Broadcasting 'Shibuya no oto'. At that time, on SNS of the program announcement, there was information. It said that your manager washes your costumes by hand. Is that so? Your costumes are protected by your manager.
Saiki: Not only he washes by hands, but he also does the ironing. Pleats are quite fine, so it's a delicate and difficult task.
Miku: At this time, his ironing seems to be very fast. He said he wasn't sure at the beginning, but now surprisingly, he does it very fast. It ends in a moment.
Shiho: It is a man.
Miku, Saiki: That's right (Po).
Shiho: It is a tear-jerking story.
Miku, Saiki: We really appreciate it (Po).
Shiho: That's a good story. I feel relaxed.
Saiki: Band-Maid is a One-team. I just appreciate it. Hahaha.

(the year 2019, the secret of beauty)-----
Shiho: It's December, so this year is about to end. What year was this year for the band?
Miku: It seems like it was a very fast year Po. We set a goal and a theme at the beginning of this year Po. It's "turbulent (Gekido)" Po. We also went around the tour with this subtitle "turbulent (Gekido)" Po. It was a perfect year for us to say that it was really turbulent Po. We have been moving all the time, and we traveled around regardless of overseas or domestic places Po. We have done many live-performances (okyuji) in various places, festivals. And so many memories that I couldn't talk about, so I thought it was a turbulent year Po. So now it seems December Po.
Shiho: The remaining half a month, have you left anything?
Saiki: I like muscle training, but it wasn't enough to build a body as such that I had set the goal. I want to raise my hips.
Miku: When changing clothes, Sai-chan often asks me, "Did my hips raise up?", Po.
Saiki: Hahaha. Without others' opinions, it's hard for me to check it. So ask her to confirm it.
Shiho: So, to raise your hips was the focus of this year.
Saiki: Well, I trained my hips and legs to make my legs straighter. I have been doing my best, but half a month is not enough. Hahaha.
Shiho: You are already beautiful.
Miku: Sai-chan has a very high sense of beauty.
Saiki: There are times when I get into a slump. Hahaha!
Shiho: Please tell me the secret of beauty.
Saiki: The secret of beauty? The secret? Well, what is it? It may be my stiffness, or I want to complete something once I started it. I am very thankful for the video site on the Internet about the training. I have decided to do this training and stretching. Because I decide to do it first, I can do it. Hahaha. The secret is to make it a habit, isn't it?
Shiho: Are you strict with yourself?
Saiki: That's right. Yes. I don't think there's any regret. Hahaha.

(winning horserace tickets)---------------
Shiho: Kobato, how about you?
Miku: It was that there weren't many winning horserace tickets Po. I couldn't go to the racetrack often. But I will do my best at the end of the year because there are big races. But maybe I can't go to racetracks and see horses these days. Ah, it has nothing to do with the topic of the maid's beauty, sorry Po.
Shiho: But you are like a handsome guy.
Miku: I look like a handsome guy Po.

(The Dragon Cries)-----------------
Shiho: One song from the new album. Please introduce the song.
Saiki: The Dragon Cries produced by Tony Visconti, a famous producer from 'Conqueror'.
(Song)
Shiho: The edge is effective. It's heavy, and it has a profound feeling. I was fascinated. This song is also like a superman.
Miku: This is a 'simple is the best' song Po. Band-Maid has never been so simple and cool like this so far, so it seems to be a new type of song Po.
Shiho: I would like to ask you about songs from here. In the previous album 'World Domination', it was an album that manifested again the "World Conquest". It has been the goal since the formation of the band. What was your thought on the new album this time?
Miku: At the previous 'World Domination', we made it in a very busy schedule, so it seemed like we were desperately making songs Po. Our members felt that we were cornered to make an album Po. So this time, we decided to make songs gradually and continuously. We were recording and singing songs in between, not aiming to make an album. We talked to each other that it would be good to have a song like this or that during the live-performance (okyuji) tour, and Sai-chan asked guitarist Kanami to make it Po. When the final days of the tour were scheduled, it would be the time when we would make an album Po. We gathered songs we had been recording and produced the missing parts, so this album took the longest time to be completed, and it contains very versatile tunes.
Shiho: So many songs are offensive and aggressive.
Miku: When making music, Band-Maid always thinks live performances the most important, so this time while we were on tour, we thought that we wanted to do that kind of music and we hoped that we could see such a landscape, and then there are a lot of such songs Po. So we'd like people to hear this album and imagine the live performance (okyuji), or we hope that people would get more motivated to go to the live.
Shiho: Offensive and aggressive.
Miku: That's right. Thank you Po.
Shiho: 'Conqueror' that became the title of this album has the meaning of 'the one who conquers', and I feel a strong will that the band is moving forward towards the goal.
Miku: 'World Domination' set our primary goal of 'conquering the world', so this time it was quite a matter of the title. I made a lot of proposals. I want to select a stronger title than 'World Domination'. In the meaning that 'Conqueror' is 'the one who conquers', so we manifested that we want to be the conqueror of the future. We put this meaning into this title Po.
Shiho: Are you gaining experience and increasing confidence?
Miku: The more we play in various places, and the more people say "we are waiting," the more confidence we can have.

(the way of making music)-----------------
Shiho: You mentioned that this is the first album in about two years and that you devoted much time to the production. Did you have many discussions among the members?
Miku: This time, there are songs that we did the first way to make songs, so we discussed much. Usually, Kanami of the guitar made all the rough demos and melodies. Then she gave them to us, but this time, in No.14; Blooming, Kanami assigned us, 'Please make melodies Po'. Ah, Kanami doesn't say, "Po." (laughing) Each member offered one or two favorite phrases to Kanami, and then Kamani picked up a little by little to make a melody Po. So it became a different kind of melody which we never had. But, Kanami-chan herself doesn't remember which part is who's, and we all forgot which was which Po.
Saiki: After completion, I was told that this was of Sai-chan, but I didn't find it was mine at all.
Shiho: Is there something strange like that?
Miku: Where is it Po? Like that.
Saiki: Hatena (let me see)? Like. However, I felt that it became really cool.
Miku: The only thing I remembered was the new method of putting another melody in the second half of the main melody, 'far away'. But it was said that I submitted it as a hook. So was it Po? It's good Po.
Shiho: Is there something you felt important in terms of arrangements?
Miku: There are songs made with the new sound-making method. For example, overlaying the sound by programming on the raw drum sound, or combining sounds that are not just raw sounds Po. We tried new things that we have not done yet in terms of sound-making Po.
'Glory' and 'Bubble' had been released as singles. We also remixed those two to fit into the atmosphere of this album Po.
Shiho: Some songs would shine in your live-performance.
Miku: For this album, I consciously asked Kanami-chan to compose songs that master and princess could sing along. And I asked Sai-chan to suggest for Kanami-chan. Such songs would get livened up Po. So such songs became many Po.
Shiho: Would you tell me what parts of you have grown up through accumulating works?
Saiki: The previous 'World Domination' was a declaration of the conquest of the world, so there were some one-way or thrashing parts. But in this 'Conqueror', we have a feeling that we want people to understand why Band-Maid intends to be the one who conquers, so we want to and can snuggle up to masters and princesses.
Miku: Not only by ourselves, but we wish to be all together with masters and princesses and make songs, which makes me think that we have grown up Po.
Saiki: There are a lot of middle tempo songs. And I make an emotional part in the second half of the live-performance (okyuji). Then I wanted selectively songs that would shine even better and better there. So the number of people who like middle tempo songs has gradually increased, which shows our growth.
Shiho: Do you mean that you have also opened yourself?
Miku: I became strong to think that we want wider and broader people to listen to our music, and I think Band-Maid is widened in that part Po.
Shiho: There is a part that your overseas experiences have influenced your work.
Miku: Many overseas masters and princesses sing-along, so I'm writing songs and choosing words with the conscious of being able to be sung-along overseas Po.

(Tony Visconti)-------------------------
Shiho: The topic of this time is that the 11th song 'The Dragon Cries' was produced after receiving an enthusiastic offer from Tony Visconti, the producer of David Bowie and T-Rex. It's amazing.
Miku: I wonder if it is real (laughs). But Mr. Thomas came to know the existence of Band-Maid and wrote the lyrics. And he really loved us, and then Mr. Thomas was originally and friendly close with Mr. Tony, so he told Mr. Tony that there was a band called Band-Maid. And from that time Mr. Tony seemed to love Band-Maid, so they came to talk to us Po. They said that they would like to do a song together with us, so they were very welcome. So please do it Po.
Shiho: What did you talk with Mr. Tony?
Miku: Sai-chan and I performed vocal recordings in Tony's studio in New York. I was nervous Po. At first, I was anxious about whether it was OK. But Tony was kind and friendly, trying to get along with our personal stories, and taking care of us to be able to do our best Po. He was anyway encouraging us with praise. He is very good at praising us Po.
Saiki: He made us feel at ease very much, and he inspired us as well. He asked me, "What was the music in your background?" "I will listen to it because I didn't know it." He was talking to me very favorably. Hahaha.
Miku: When we were recording, even if I made a mistake, he said, "That was good." He praised me and said, "Let's use it." He mad a melody instantaneously, changed the melody work, so it has changed considerably, Po. This recording was perfect and very pleasant for us because he pulled our various drawers open Po.
Saiki: Since the comPosition was done by Band-Maid, he praised it, and he was very careful with guitarist Kanami, like saying, "Is it OK to change here?" Hahaha.
Miku: He asked, "Would Kanami get angry?"
(laughing)
Saiki: I said, "I don't think she would get angry at all." Mr. Tony is really cute.
Miku: After recording, we did the live-performance (okyuji) in New York, he came to see our stage. When we said, "Goodbye!", I was already very much touched.
Saiki: My eyes got moist, and I cried too. Hahaha.
Shiho: Mr. Tony became your master.
Miku: He seemed to be an overseas family member Po. It was a short period, but it seemed like it was so dense Po. I felt happy Po. I have only thanks Po.
Shiho: That's a perfect finish.
Saiki: He added Tony's view of the world in a nice way. So I was convinced that there was such an American sound and that Band-Maid might be able to do it in the United States with confidence.

(the order of the songs)------------------
Shiho: There are 15 songs on the album. Were you worrying about the order of the songs?
Miku: I was pretty worried. There were many songs with strong colors, so Sai-chan decided the first song should be 'Page'.
Shiho: As I expected, you have no doubt.
Saiki: Hahaha! Since 'Page' is a song that we tried the new method for the first time in drumming sounds and production itself, and it is also a form of the future Band-Maid, so I want to bring it to the first song. Then I asked, "Hey, Kobato. What do you think about it?" Hahaha! After that, with Kobato, I decided on the order of songs and got confirmation of all other members.
Miku: I wasn't sure what to do with the first and last songs, and where to put Tony's 'Dragon Cries'. But once that places were decided, things went smoothly, Po.
(Song: Blooming)
Shiho: I will inform the listeners about your future plans. (Omitted). Please give a message to the listener.
Miku: This time, with this album, its title was 'turbulent', and it was a challenge that we had never been done before or all the members themselves challenged, and the setlist was changed every time, and at each time of the live-performance (okyuji) should be special Po. So I hope people can come back to the live-performance again and again. And the final of the live-performance (okyuji) will be 'from turbulence to evolution', so the title is going up to one higher level Po. Since it will be a live performance that can blossom with the things that we have grown and challenged so far Po. I would like to make a wonderful live-performance (okyuji) together with many masters and princesses Po.
I'm looking forward to their 'welcome home'.
Saiki: 'Conqueror' is the album that all the members have done the best to make. So I want all of you to listen over to it many times and tell me which is your favorite song. I would be glad if you had any comments like "I like such a thing." So please look forward to it.
Shiho: Thank you very much. Tonight's guests were Miku Kobato, Band-Maid guitar vocal, and Saiki, the vocalist.
Miku, Saiki: Thank you very much (Po).

END
(translated by Fujita Iori)

 

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This is a conversation between Misa of Band-Maid and Chris Peppler.

 

2010.01.18 J-wave FM 81.3 Japan
OtoAjito (Sound agitating point or hiding place?)

https://www.j-wave.co.jp/original/otoajito/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuP2K9-jlts

Good evening. This is Chris Peppler hosting a smart little hour with a special guest to get drunk with the finest music. Today's guest is Miss Misa, the bassist of Band-Maid. Band-Maid is also active overseas. Misa is playing the bass with a super technique. What kind of music has she listened to so far? Let's hear what she says.
This program is brought you by Sapporo Beer, etc..


C: I have invited a guest this evening. Would you please introduce yourself?
M: Good evening. I am Misa of Band-Maid.
C: Thank you, Misa. Nice to meet you.
M: Nice to meet you, too.
C: I saw your live performance at the Summer-Sonic Festival and your base play has beaten me. At first glance, members of Band-Maid are all dressed up like maids, so people would think that Band-Maid would be a girls' pop rock group. However it plays solid rock with a pretty hard and awesome drive, beside they're all good performers.
M: Thank you.
C: Well, let's toast right away.
M: Toast. Delicious beer.
C: It's delicious. Misa, you like alcohol.
M: I love alcohol.
C: Do you drink at the live?
M: Yes, I keep on drinking during the performance.
C: The nibbles for drinks that you brought today are perfect for drinkers. Thank you, Misa.
M: Ufufu. Yes, I brought three things. Chikuwa (tube‐shaped fish paste cake like a bamboo ring) with soy sauce and wasabi, and the other is "fried potatoes as they are".
C: Is this so? Is it just fried?
M: It's a confectionery product called so. Also, I arrived at the neiborhood of this studio early today, so I bought another nibble. It is canned gizzards.
C: Do you like gizzards?
M: I love gizzards.
C: Then, you will always have them when you go to the yakitori shop (grilled chicken restaurant).
M: I always eat two sets.
C: You eat two sets. Then, please cut me kamaboko (boiled fish paste).
M: Not a Kamaboko but a bamboo ring.
C: Not a kamaboko, it's a bamboo wheel! I see.
M: I cut the bamboo rings.
C: Then I open the canned gizzard.
M: I usually buy them at convenience stores and supermarkets, but the Roppongi bamboo ring is amazing.
C: It's elastic.
M: Really.
C: Isn't it oyster soy sauce?
M: Yes. Ufufu.
C: That's amazing. Let's eat right away. From where do you have?
M: Then I'll start with a chikuwa. A little bit of wasabi.
C: Is it so good? Oh, it's a chikuwa. But good!
M: Ufufufufu. Roppongi's chikuwa is delicious.
C: Yes. Then, try eating gizzards. (Sound of drinking beer) Next, fried totato.
M: May I open it?
C: Looks just like fried potato. It's good.
M: You eat with good sound.
C: What is the taste?
M: Double cheese flavor.
C: That's perfect. You know properly. You know exactly what would suit for beer.
M: Ufufu. Wet things, dry things, things with wasabi.
C: Excellent. And where do you always wander?
M: My recent favorite spot is Sakuragicho in Yokohama.
C: Sakuragicho is cool, isn't it? Where do you live?
M: In Kanagawa prefecture.
C: Were you born in Kanagawa prefecture?
M: I was born in Okayama prefecture.
C: You were born in Okayama and grew up in Kanagawa?
M: I lived in Shimokitazawa (Shimokita) in Tokyo long time, because my mother and I came out of Okayama for the first time and then lived in Shimokitazawa.
C: I have lived in Shimokitazawa for about 6 years. That time was the most fun in my life. Living in Shimokitazawa is the best.
M: Ufufu. it's the best. I was able to find my favorite shop to drink after I was over 20, and it was fun.
C: Shimokitazawa is also a city of music, too. Musicians live a lot.
M: It's a town where we meet a lot.
C: Is your first encounter with music in Shimokitazawa?
M: My first encounter with music was around the age of three or four. I've been playing the piano for several years, and started playing brass instrumentslike horn and trumpet in elementary school, and went to junior high school when I touched the guitar. So I went to high school and started playing guitar vocals first. Ufufu. I tried it for half a year or a year, however a little, the band did not rather go well. I tried to form a band, but I could not do any activity at all. When I got in second grade of high school, my two-year senior frienf, who had already graduated, asked me to do the base.
C: Until then, you were a guitarist, weren't you?
M: At that time, I wasn't interested in the bass or wanted to do the bass, but when my senior asked me to play the bass, I became conscious of the bass for the first time, and then I took it in my hand. At first I borrowed one. The band was playing original songs from the beginning, so anyway I just started. At first, I was astrayed in various ways, but after five and a half years, I ended up with "the Smashing Pumpkins". I made a completely "grunge" sound with the bass on everything. I was doing live shows many times in Shimokitazawa.
C: I suppose Misa's mother loved music.
M: Rather, my mother implanted music in me. The greatness of music. The impetus was also made by my mother.
C: How did your mom make it happen?
M: It was a long-term education of talent. When I was in kindergarten, I was always listening to the music of "the Who", "Red Chili Peppers", and Japannese Okuda Tamio in my home or in the car. So I started to like music. My mother told me that, when she was cleaning up the room, I was doing "headbang" next to her (moving the head up and down to the rhythm).
C: You was doing headbang. Misa? How old were you that time?
M: It was in the lower grades of elementary school. So I was 8 or 9 years old.
C: What were you headbanging for? Was it "Red chili"?
M: What I heard from my mother was a song from "Red Chili".
C: I see. Which album do you like in "Red Chili"?
M: The album I bought was "a pink and white capsule" (Monarchy of Roses).
(a song of "red chili")
C: After all, did your mother give you everything or did you buy it yourself?
M: When I was in elementary school, there was a song that I became fond of for the first time, and it was "Jelly fish"'s "New Mistake".
(Jellyfish/ New Mistake)
M: I was addicted to this song when I was in the third or fourth grade of elementary school (around 10 years old).
(Jellyfish/ New Mistake)
M: When I was in the third grade of elementary school, My mother gave me a cell phone. Then I set it as a ringtone that lasted until being in high school. I kept listening to this until my second year in high school.
C: As to the base, you went to a music college. You had been learning the piano since you were little so you can read music, and to some extent, the theory is perfect. Right?
M: I went to a professional school for music. Well, maybe. Ufufu.
C: Are the other members reliable?
M: Our drummer and guitarist can read music score.
C: Sure. The level should be so high unbelievably.
M: Ufufu. I played the piano halfway through elementary school, so I'm not very confident about the theory. Ufufu, sorry.
C: Did you go to the professional school after you became a base? Or while you were still playing guitar?
M: After graduating from high school, I ended up choosing a professional school for music. For the first year, I chose the PA (Public Address) course, not the base course. I went to the PA course, but at that time I was also doing a band, and I was doing lives actively. It was fun and comfortable to stand on the stage. I could not go to school every day, so I was thinking what to do. Then, I moved to the base course from the second year.
C: I see. By the way, what surprised me was that while playing with a pick, you would suddenly slap on the way. Where do you hide your pick? If normal, the player will throw the pick, and play with another pick.
M: Basically, I only use only two picks in a live.
C: That's amazing. How are you doing?
M: Now I have my pick, so I'm going to talk about it now. But listeners can't see it on the radio, hahah. Anyway, with two or three fingers,
C: With index finger, and thumb.
M: And then, when it comes to slap, put your index finger flexed on the palm and do it with your middle finger and thumb. And you can return immediately.
C: Yes ~. Is that already you are used to it?
M: I won't drop my pick with this way.
C: Really? amazing. Don't you play fingerpicking?
M: I also play fingerpicking. But after all, there are more pickings.
C: Why is it so? Is the music you're doing good for picking?
M: That's right. And when it comes to quiet songs, middle tempo songs, and delicate songs, I think it's better to play with fingers.
C: I see. By the way, what is "Crosstown Traffic"（in 1968) that triggered your music?
(Jimi Hendrix/ Crosstown Traffic)
M: This is also a song my mother had been playing at home all the time. Listening to this song reminds me of my childhood.
C: It's cool to talk about kindergarten, elementary school, or childhood by this song.
M: I remember when I was in kindergarten or elementary school.
C: Cool. Like "When I listen to this song, I remember my mother." and my mom's memory is with Jimihen. You look cool. It's Rock!
M: Fufufufu. Yes, my mother might be thinking, "Everything went right for me.
C: Your mom should be having fun.
M: She says so exactly. She says the same thing.
C: She may be saying, "My talent education to may daughter has worked perfectly." Is it according to your mother's scenario? It's amazing.
M: That's exactly as her scenario. Thank you mom. Fufufu.
C: So, your mother will attend to your lives, won't she?
M: In Tokyo she will join us, and in Okayama, she is coming on an expedition.
C: Well, what's your favorite music recently?
M: The band I've been watching recently is "Ruido Rosa". It's a Mexican girls band. All members are beautiful.
(Ruido Rosa)
C: So your rival?
M: I don't think It's our rival at all. Rather I hope that someday we can get together at a festival. Although all the members are beautiful, the songs are intense, and they are really cool. "Ruido Rosa" consists of four members. Everyone is beautiful, but the sound is cool and cool.
(Pause)
C: Tonight the band-maid bassist, Misa is here. By the way, is the guitar vocal Miku the bandmaster of Band-Maid? Is she the leader? Is Band-Maid born from her idea?
M: Well, Yes. Kobato Miku originally worked at a maid cafe, and she also wanted to do music at the same time. So in short, she joined the talent office, and proposed it would be interesting if she crosses a band with a maid. From there, she gathered members. I was invited by one of the current members when my band that had been playing for just five and a half years was dissolved. But I said, "Can I think it over one day?" I wanted to continue music, and I didn't want to stop playing bass, so I ended up saying, "I'll join you." the next day.
C: I see. I am just watching YouTube these days.
M: You are doing so!
C: The overseas evaluation for you is amazing.
M: Thank you.
C: And every member is good at playing. So you are getting a very high reputation.
M: Mufufufu.
C: There have been many contacts from overseas.
M: Yes.
C: When did the band maid begin to take a shape? Before that, when was Band-Maid formed?
M: Formed in 2013.
C: Well, not a long time has passed as a band. So, when did you think it would do well? At first, I guess there was a time when you wondered what was it.
M: There was a time when I said, "I'm sorry. I would quit." That was before the first one-man live, and the person who was the manager at that time said, "Let's do a one-man live and look at the scenery. After that, you can decide it, can't you?" After all it was fun to do live, the visitors came thankfully and I thought I had to continue a little more, and it has been 5-6 years since then. Ufufufu.
C: When did you feel like you could go?
M: Two or three years ago. Ufufufu.
C: What did that trigger?
M: Maybe it was a live abroad. It was my first time to do live in the United States three years ago, but a lot of listeners came and it was the first time in my life that the tension was rising so high.
C: What was different? After all, the reaction of the listeners?
M: The pressure from the listeners was amazing, and the number of them was unprecedented. Ufufufu.
C: Do you have more listeners overseas? That's amazing.
M: Yes, there are many. The first live in Seattle in the United States came around 3,000 or 4,000. It was not a one-man, rather a part of the Sakuracon event of Japan. I thought they had come our live like this way even though it was not our one-man.　I felt happy. Ufufu.
C: That's why you taste it.
M: Yes, I can't stop. Hohohoho. Through my lifetime. Ufufufu. As it became more and more intense, I bacame much happier. Originally, I like "grunge". I hadn't listened to fast hard songs so much, but I still like heavy sounds, so I'm glad that Band-Maid is approaching the music I like in this new album.
("Thrill")
C: It's "Thrill". That's it.
M: Ah! Ah!
C: It's heavy.
M: Before this "thrill" came out, there was a choice to play such an intense song or keep it as it was. Everyone said that it was better to be intense. Especially our members said so and moved to this line.
C: Was this Miku's idea, too? That's amazing.
M: Yes. The first album, "Maid in Japan", was already a world-conscious album.
C: I think it's amazing. By the way, what about that "Po!"?
M: "Po!?" Ahaha.
C: Is that good in the band?
M: I have no choice but to accept. Hahahaha.
C: Without that, you're not "Band-Maid Po?
M: Not really, but Kobato wants to use it. Ufufufu.
C: She is going to keep that desperately. Already, it's her identity Po.
M: It is ", Po!".
C: But as a producer, it's amazing. Of course, maids are already well-known overseas as Japanese subcultures and pop cultures, but there is a huge mismatch between maid outfits and the kind of rigorous music that men would do. I feel this idea is amazing, Po.
M: Ufufufu. Yes.
C: By the way, you told tell us about some of your albums that you were absorbed in. How about "radiohead"? Did your mother also introduced it to you?
M: That's right. I went to see the "radiohead" live when I was the first grade of high school, and before that my mother made me listen to this album.
("radiohead")
C: Do you like "radiohead"?
M: I really love it. The live was really good. There is an album called "Rainbow", and they came to Japan on a tour of that album. So we went to see the live.
C: I went to see it a lot, but Tommy Walk is amazing.
M: That's true. It is cool. Tommy Yorke's dance is cool. Ufufufu.
C: It's just so strange what happened if someone else did it.
M: It looks like a Bon Festival dance. Ufufufufu.
C: He doesn't look at people. The standard is himself. Even if he is doing live in front of thousands of people, it seems that he is only watching himself, doing his own standard. It's not a weird meaning, it's not about appealing to people, it's about being honest with himself. He exposed that much!
M: Yes. Also, there's a member called Johnny, who hits toms, and plays guitar. He hits toms at live, and it's cool.
C: Hmm. Also, you like "Blur". Did your mom introduce it to you, too?
M: No, I found this myself.
("Blur")
M: I was hooked around the age of 20. I also went to "Blur"'s live.
C: When I first interviewed "Blur", they were very cheeky.
M: Is that so? It sounds like "Oasis" vs "Blur".
C: About in the mid 90's. Everyone in the UK was cheeky.
M: That's right. It's easy to understand.
C: But cool.
M: That's cool.
C: I really like "Sound Garden". Especially, Chris Cornell.
M: Ufufufufu. I like him. I feel sorry that he died and I couldn't see the live. Two years ago.
C: I couldn't see him. either.
M: I'm really frustrated. It's cool and the songs are really good. Hey. I wanted to see the live. Once!
C: This "Superunknown", I wanted to see it in live. If I pick up a recent male rock vocalist, Chris Cornell would have been nice.
M: Yes, I think so, too.
C: By the way, who would you like as a bassist?
M: Well, I like the base player of "Pixies". Her name is "Paz Lenchantin".
("Pixies")
C: Nice!
M: That's right. I'm not too conscious, but her playing figure is amazing. "Paz Lenchantin" plays a lot with fingers.
C: I see. She plays a lot with fingers. "Pixies" has the feeling of 80s, but 80s there were a lot of picking.
M: I first watched "Paz Lenchantin"'s video about eight years ago, and then I gotgoose bumps. Ohohoho.
C: That was so cool, wasn't it?
M: That was my first encounter with her. Mmumumu.
C: So, then do you still like female bassists? It will be your model. At least, the appearance.
M: That's right. It is different from a man.
C: But when you think about it, one of the charms of Band-Maid is that you are all pretty girls, but the music is manly. More manly than other women's bands.
M: Is that so?
C: When I close my eyes, you look like a man.
M: Muhahaha.
C: When I open my eyes, pretty girls are dressed like maids. That's right there.
M: When you listen to drums, you'll find my drummer is really a man. Fufufu.
C: She is a man, or she is a guy.
M: She is a bastard. Ufufu.
C: How to hit. How to take time between her favorite interval. She is a man. We can really know the difference between a man and a woman as a drummer.
M: Because each sound comes out clearly.
C: Yes. The place where the sound comes out in a single blow with a big bang, and the place where the sound is pulled out with a thump. So, I like that interval.
(Rinne)
C: Band-Maid released the album "Conqueror" in last December 11th. The title shows the strong desire of the band to be the conqueror.
M: Hahahaha.
C: Have you ever talked about conquering the world since early times?
M: Yes. We have kept saying so without change.
C: That's progressing steadily.
M: It's just like to be a conqueror.
C: When it comes to "Kankara" in Japanese words, it’s like kicking a can.
M: Is it a can? Ufufu.
C: No, you should be a conqueror. Is this the idea of ​​Kobato?
M: Yes. And the vocalist Saiki was thinking together.
C: And Tony Visconti was eager to do work with you.
M: Yes. There was a propose from Tony.
C: He wanted to do with Band-Maid. Let me do it as "Maid's souvenir". "Maid" also means "after world" in Japanese.
M: Is it a souvenir of the underworld? Hahaha.
C: He's more than 70 years old already.
M: That's right. Yes.
C: This guy has been a producer since the 1970s.
("the Dragon Cries")
M: This is the song produced by Tony Visconti. It's cool. Ufufufufufu. This song was also basically made by guitarist Kanami, so we made our own bass and drums and sent it to Tony. So, Tony was so happy with this song that he would be happy if he could add a little essence of his own.
C: What is different. Sounds? when Tony does it.
M: When Tony does it, the way he applies effects is completely different compared to our own mix. The reverb is tight, the distortion is more distorted than usual.
C: There must be no relaxation.
M: When I asked my mother to listen to it, she said, "It will come nicely."
C: Right. Why don't you ask him to do it again?
M: I would like him to do it.
C: World Domination Tour, Former Shibuya Public Hall, now i-Cube Hall in Shibuya, February 13th, 14th, Valentine's Day. The old Shibuya Public Hall is a hall of fame.
M: We are happy.
C: Do you have overseas expansion this year? UTA will deals with you like with One O'clock and Baby-Metal.
M: United Talent Agency.
C: That's what American management promotes for you. It's amazing.
M: Yes. I never dreamed that there is something like this in my life. Uhahaha.
C: It's thanks to your mother's genius education.
M: That's right.
C: And do you appear as Band-Maid in a new NETFLIX movie?
M: Yes. And one thing more, in July, we are the first Japanese musicians to attend an American festival where Limp will be.
C: It seems like your dream has come true.
M: One step closer to conquering the world.
C: What is your future dream?
M: In Japan, I want to do dome tours, and in the world, I want to go to big festivals. I want to do also overseas dome tours as one-man tour. I hope my dream will come true. Ufufufu.
C: I think that the vague dream is good like "conquer the world". Finally Limp.
(Limp Bizkit)
M: Cool. Sake goes on. Ufufufu.
C: Today's guest was Misa, the transcendental bassist of the band maid. Thank you very much.
M: Not transcendence. Ufufufufu. Thank you very much.

 

 

 

 

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He was supposed to have lived a life without any inconvenience. When he retired, he was the director of the protection section of the government office, so the retirement allowance and subsequent treatments should have been sufficient for his retirement life with his wife. He was supposed to have lived a life without any inconvenience. When he retired, he was the director of the protection section of the government office, so the retirement allowance and subsequent treatments should have been sufficient for his retirement life with his wife. "Did you consult with someone about the lawyer?" "No, a court-appointed attorney is fine for me." The response was cool, I thought he was not crazy. "You should know that it is a special case where a suspect can't afford hiring a lawyer. Your academic background report says that you are from the law department of xx university." "It's all fine for me to be with a court-appointed attorney." Consistently the incendiary comfirmed it. Even so, why did he try to set fire to his house? His wife was a woman who seemed to be haughty-look, prideful and vainglorious. After she knew that I was in charge, she brought confectionery and gift certificates not only to the Public Prosecutor's Office but also to my home of which address I didn't know how she found out. With a frustrating voice, she continued to talk in selfish things, and when I refused her souvenir, twitching her eyebrows, she delivered a parting shot and went away. That vulgar woman, like a pig, should be rolled into a police cell which was called a pig-box in Japan. Masanori had already lost his intense passion which he had when he started learning philosophy for three years and then theology. With a smile with feelings of resignation, he bewailed the degenerate decadent age of Japan for a while. He was saying, "If human beings have to take full responsibility for human actions, the mystery of this arson case will also be burdened by the next generation of innocent children as their own burden.", and he went to my wife's sickroom. What occurred did not wait for an argument in the court. Not because of God's providence, but because of the damage of the war due to the stupidity of Japanese politics, the man's house returned to ash together with tens of thousands of houses that burned overnight. But...