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Billboard JAPAN spoke with Official HIGE DANdism for the current version of its “MONTHLY FEATURE” collection, highlighting today’s leading musicians and jobs. The four-man band lately launched Rejoice, its initial cd in practically 3 years.
Starting with their breakout 2019 launch “Pretender,” they have actually produced plenty of hits, come to be a precious band throughout the nation. Their October 2022 launch “Subtitle” was a particularly huge success, asserting theNo 1 place on 5 of Billboard JAPAN’s graphes for the initial fifty percent of 2023, such as the “JAPAN Hot 100” graph. Rejoice, their brand-new cd, includes an overall of 14 tunes, consisting of “Subtitle” and “Mixed Nuts,” the opening style of the SPYxFAMILY anime.
Billboard Japan spoke with all 4 participants of the band concerning what resulted in the production of this brand-new cd and the expanding assistance they’re appreciating from abroad followers.
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When did you initially begin working with the total picture and principle of your brand-new cd?
Satoshi Fujihara: When we completed our last cd, Editorial, we were speaking about making our following cd a much more happy one. The last cd had actually radiated a limelight on deep-down sensations and moody concerning the future, we intended to alter the state of mind and enter a better instructions following.
How have the previous 3 years, considering that your last cd, been for you, as a band?
Fujihara: Our follower base has actually been expanding considering that 2019. When we started, I assumed I could locate that uneasy, however over the previous 3 years, I have actually ended up being comfy with the truth that I live a type of uncommon life, in a common sense. An extremely honored life. At the very same time, it’s likewise seemed like we have actually had the ability to increase our capacity, constantly making every effort to develop also much better songs, however not in a calm means– rather, we have actually had the ability to do that while having a good time. It’s been a very productive and pleasurable 3 years.
Daisuke Ozasa: I study these years we have actually ended up being a lot more certain in the songs we such as, our very own specific personality, and the sort of songs that has actually formed us with the years. I assume that all appears with the songs on the cd.
Masaki Matsuura: The conversations we had while producing the brand-new cd were loosened up and comfortable. I assume that signified simply just how much we expanded over those 3 years.
Makoto Narazaki: Of training course, I wish to improve, and I wish to videotape great tunes. But in the past, I seemed like I needed to hold myself approximately a truly high requirement, while currently I seem like I can simply be myself. I assume that the entire team’s ambience has actually transformed similarly. It really feels a lot more open, with even more space to take a breath. There’s this feeling of “Why don’t we just try to have fun with everything we do?”
I make sure you placed a great deal of treatment right into the setups of the tunes on the cd, and just how the tunes create, however you’re stating that a person of your driving pressures was a much more basic feeling of “It might be fun if we did this” or “It could be interesting if we did that”?
Fujihara:Exactly Without that, it would certainly simply be a copy-and-paste task. I assume that technique of preparing tunes is a much more all-natural design for us.
I assume among things that makes Official HIGE DANdism’s songs so enticing is that it enters instructions that the audience isn’t anticipating. Your tunes handle all type of music obstacles.
Narazaki: One of the largest and most famous instances of that is the framework of our tunes, however we’re likewise tackling brand-new obstacles with our tone and in various other locations which possibly audiences will not observe. Songs are a lot more enjoyable if there’s some playfulness to them, and it’s terrific to pay attention to a finished track and resemble, “that sounds really cool.” When you can do that, there’s the capacity for doing it with various ideas, also, which offers its very own brand-new obstacles. I locate that actually pleasing.
Which are each of your favored tunes on the cd?
Narazaki: For me, it’s most likely “TATTOO.” We all obtained with each other in the workshop, launched the DAW, and we were considering the trial information on Satoshi’s computer system, speaking about just how we desired the track to seem. The trial had these classic synth and key-board noises. It might simply be me, however I locate those type of noises tacky however at the very same time sort of cool. Like, they place me comfortable when I hear them, or they strike my fancy at the time. They’re prompt, in a strange means. That’s why I such as “TATTOO.” “Nichijo” and “Get Back To Jinsei” have a comparable feeling. If you consider each track as a stew, after that it resembles they’re various stews however they have comparable flavors. They have that very same local color in time, that very same sort of classic taste. After working with them, when we dealt with the various other tunes (on the cd), I obtained that very same feeling of awesome cheesiness which very same classic sensation.
Fujihara: For me, it’s “Sharon.” In regards to music concept, what we’re doing is a little fiddly, however completion outcome is exceptionally all-natural. I’m really pleased with just how it appeared. Now, we’re practicing it to prepare for online programs, and the power of the band actually finds. In a means, it’s a really trustworthy track– I can really feel comfy offering myself approximately the songs, that makes it among my faves.
Ozasa: I such as “B-Side Blues.” It’s the initial track that the entire band has actually tape-recorded in a solitary take in concerning 5 years. The entire cd isn’t precisely loaded with notes, however this has also less notes than the majority of, so the sensation of each of our efficiencies finds really strongly. It’s likewise a lovely track for bringing the cd to a close. The word Rejoice has this photo of extensive, effective delight. The cd begins with exceptionally energised tunes, like “Get Back To Jinsei.” But as the cd advances, the delight it reveals comes closer to home. Little by bit, it comes to be a lot more individual, a lot more concerning things we worth in our very own lives. The cd finishes with “B-side Blues,” which genuinely reveals this individual delight.
Matsuura: Of all the tunes on the cd, the procedure of videotaping the drums took the lengthiest for “Mixed Nuts,” so it left the toughest impact on me. It has a great deal of jazz aspects, and the pace is quickly, making it a difficult track to play. I do not have a jazz history, so I had a person that made use of to play jazz reveal me the ropes. There were a great deal of situations like that, where I was researching brand-new points, and when I have actually obstructed with various other artists, often they’ll ask just how I played my component on “Mixed Nuts,” or they’ll claim they assume it’s a truly intriguing track. It’s the sort of track that stimulates a great deal of talk as a drummer, and was a lots of enjoyable to play.
I anticipate you have actually been speaking with abroad target markets, as well. Tell us concerning what their response has actually resembled.
Fujihara: Yes, we’re obtaining a great deal of messages on social media sites from abroad followers, in languages we can not check out, asking us ahead to their nations and execute. It’s an odd sensation, however likewise a terrific one. We did as soon as play in Korea, a very long time earlier. There were just like 3 individuals in the target market. That makes all the comments we’re receiving from abroad target markets currently really feel that much unfamiliar person.
On Billboard JAPAN’s Global Charts, tunes like “Pretender” are likewise preferred in Korea. They’re ranking extremely in different nations throughout Asia.
Fujihara: Every time we listen to a follower stating they’re awaiting us to play a program in their nation, it makes us wish to go there and execute much more. We have not done any type of abroad programs because that program in Korea, however recently we have actually been speaking about just how it would certainly behave to execute abroad at some time in the future.
—This meeting by Tomonori Shiba initially showed up onBillboard Japan
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