I love love love Hikaru's power,intensity and husky tone, Keiko's energy,stability,powerful lines,but Wakana's strong,clear,melodic and beautiful vocalisation (aaahhs parts) especially THAT AMAZING HIGH NOTE @2:06 steals the performance for me

@TheSeeking2know

2 жыл бұрын

Enjoy your expression of the differences in their vocalizations, and I agree with them. I know Wakana hit that high note but the section was also supported with backing track (I think of Yuriko Kaida's voice) to create that fuller (doubled) vocal effect and also harmonize. Notice as that section proceeded after Wakana stopped the backing track continued in the background giving maintaining that haunting / ethereal feel.

I love, love, love Kalafina

5:29 Hikaru is really and truly a talented vocalist. She can sing many kinds of vocalization. She sometimes sings like a rock vocalist or an Enka"演歌" singer. Amazing!

@Piggy_Piggerson

9 жыл бұрын

I also love Hikaru very much!

@Earthling0719

9 жыл бұрын

(o^_^)b Yeah! Me too,me too, meeee toooooo!

@sonickatana2401

8 жыл бұрын

keiko is my favorite, but damn, when Hikaru is good, she is super good!

@TheSeeking2know

2 жыл бұрын

Versatile indeed. I think it shows a varied musical intake growing up as well. She sang with distortion at times and was often changing aspects of the vocals or just their delivery in different lives, experimenting with different ways of emotional expressiom.

wakana's voiceee... :'D

Their band is the best!

Out of any part of this song, my always-and-forever *FAVORITE* part is 2 minutes into the song, with Keiko on main vocals. It's not favoritism -- blame Yuki Kajiura deciding to ask Miss Kaida (in the studio) to help accentuate that *chilling* mood-change!! And I really have been studying this song; I keep forgetting that Hikaru is the versatile girl. Like, with the (to-be-honest, tenor) vocals during Keiko's part, I thought that Hikaru would sing main while Keiko did her *thang* as the trademark alto of all of freaking Japan!! But Hikaru helped carry fabulously. Wakana? Fabulous. But when are they not *ALL* fabulous. (Rhetorical question; we all know the answer, love or "hate" them.)

@TheSeeking2know

2 жыл бұрын

I love your expressive description. This song is such an upbeat delight of a song. As a Japanese commenter said on another version of this song on KZread, Yuki Kajiura knows how to combine light and dark (and I would add fast and slow, high and low) and make it just work! I really love Hikaru in these songs and always enjoy hearing her harmonize low with Keiko, with her gentle, low-volume, warm sound. One of the best parts of Yuki is how she handles the handing off and switching of parts from harmony duets to the part to instrument breakdowns and all that!

@TheSeeking2know

2 жыл бұрын

Yuriko Kaida is such a gem and accentuated a lot of Kalafina's songs. She even hit a G5 around 2:46! Her harmonies made everything better.

Their songs are amazing

Badass solos from the band!

It's such a pity Wakana's high notes weren't as loud and clear in the recorded version. The Live version sounds more powerful and evocative.

@shascabiosca405

9 жыл бұрын

Jehraldeen If you haven't known yet,that vocalisation/improvisation/adlib (or whatever people call it) which started around 1:42 was originally sung by Yuriko Kaida in the recorded version. The other Wakana's parts in this live version are all hers in the recorded version.That reminds me of FJ's Yuki Elemental Tour, in Gaika,Yuriko took Wakana's vocalisation parts,and didn't sound as powerful as Wakana's too.Interesting,I guess it's one of her strengths that really drew me into liking Wakana as a great and talented vocalist.

Now anybody tell me how should I describe Kalafina's music direction to people I'm trying to introduce it. Except "fucking amazing" is a legit style now :)

@zulfanadesnatyaimama883

10 жыл бұрын

you portrayed my feelings since I knew them first in 2010 perfectly.

@ivansherbinin

10 жыл бұрын

zulfana desnatya imama :) when I first time heard "hikari no senritsu" (something like 4 years ago too :) I literally dropped a tear. I wasn't prepared for the song to be THAT emotional :)) Have you find out "Alleluia" already? It's really good (obviously :)

@zulfanadesnatyaimama883

10 жыл бұрын

Ivan Sherbinin of course :) I am trying to be always in the first row of knowledge when it comes to Kalafina, LOL. since they released "Alleluia" around summer last year, they have released another two singles, "Kimi no Gin no Niwa" and "Heavenly blue" (this one is still PO only). "Kimi no Gin no Niwa" single even has three tracks, which is pretty rare because usually Kalafina only has one (or mostly two) track when releasing a single. if you haven't listened to them, I'd suggest you to do so.. it's bliss for your ears :)

@lalmirch

10 жыл бұрын

Neo-Classical Gothic Pop

@ravenlord4

10 жыл бұрын

Baroque pop and/or chamber pop. Basically it is symphony and classical music composed in a modern setting.

I love how about 2 minutes in, Yuriko Kaida is likely backstage somewhere, doing her _actual_ part. It's happened before.

@Piggy_Piggerson

6 жыл бұрын

It might be playback? It sounds almost identical to the studio recording, with Wakana's voice overlayed on top of it.

@calebc.4343

6 жыл бұрын

Despite the sound, Yuriko Kaida has been backstage before (in stage rehearsal videos), for Kalafina (and other projects such as Yuuka), and so I'm just thinking she's there. It sounds, to me, less processed than the studio version.

Wakana is great like any other sopranos but for keiko shes got a fucking awesome alto range! Most girl can sing high notes but rarely for low notes! If I were to ask who is the best among the group id go for keiko, trust me if you' re a singer appreciating her range this much is not confusing at all. I just love alto singers.

@sonickatana2401

8 жыл бұрын

shes actually a contralto. its just that for the more upbeat songs like this one she doesnt sing as deep as she normally would.

@JayeMallard619

8 жыл бұрын

+Sonic Katana .. but then she can also do mezzo soprano, can't she? I'm thinking of the parts she sings in Everlasting Song with FJ for instance.. that would be mezzo, no?.. But it's really just a question of what each individual person's natural range is. To me Keiko's got all the easy parts!.. It's Wakana (and even more so Kaida from FJ) who loses me here and there.. 1:50-2:14, forget it. ;)

@FokinRG

8 жыл бұрын

+HijaDelMar6 Even so, regardless of the listener's range, Hikaru and Keiko have a more extensive than Wakana. I dare to say that Hikaru MAY have the largest range of the three, but she tends to sound nasal on her mid/higher range when she's the lead, when she's harmonizing she does it VERY WELL (Hikari No Senritsu is the best example of what I'm trying to say). Wakana has a similar issue, as she tends to be the less stable. And Keiko may not sing higher notes often, but her control of her lower and mid ranges is just INCREDIBLE.

@JayeMallard619

8 жыл бұрын

Alle Gretto Agreed, no doubt Hikaru and Keiko (and FJ' Kaori(!) and Kaida) have more extensive ranges than Wakana. I listened to a version of Hanamori no Oka, a FictionJunction song in which Kaori usually sings the lead, from an event where Kaori was missing and Wakana took on the lead. It was... strange. ;) Wakana, in my listening experience, just cannot sing in a ''normal'' pop-y voice. Conversedly, to me the Kajiura girl who has the most impressive range and control of her voice throughout that range is Kaori. I don't know. I guess the way I see it is that singing the lower ranges doesn't put nearly as much stress on the vocal chords. To me it's about as ''strenuous'' as speaking is. The soprano range, from my perspective, is what requires so much technique and control, and I therefore find much more impressive. Don't get me wrong, I adore Keiko and indeed cannot find anything to fault in her singing, but in my eye she gets all the easiest parts, whereas Wakana, despite her more limited range, has the hardest job in Kalafina and therefore gets more kudos from me. It's like if we asked both Keiko and Wakana to drink a glass of juice without making funny sour faces, but Keiko's glass was orange juice and Wakana's was lemon juice. Can you really say that Keiko demonstrated so much ''control'' by keeping a straight face? ;) Not really, she just had it easy. But I'll be very impressed if Wakana manages to do the same on her lemon juice.. Silly example, but just trying to show how, to me, we're just not comparing apples to apples when comparing Keiko's and Wakana's voices and tasks within Kalafina and FJ.. Again I love Keiko. I just don't see what the craze is about. So she sings low. So what. If anything, good for her that that's her natural/comfortable range. Her vocal chords are much safer than the rest of them Kajiura girls.. ;)

@notnotmurico8783

8 жыл бұрын

Technically Im an Tenor singer and an active member of university choir, for me who's been singing all those high notes which im destined to sing with, i can't help but adore the deep sound of bass and alto and in my perspective I've never heard a contra alto in person so Keiko is really one of Kind. And for me singing low notes is really disturbing as I can't hit them right so I can say that rather alto and basses complexities are really in different level in contrast with tenor and soprano

Sometimes I think Keiko's voice is really low and then I remember most of her notes are too high for me -_- That aside, Kalafina are freaking amazing.

@sonickatana2401

8 жыл бұрын

Keiko is a contralto. so yeah she has a really low range, which is usually shown in there slower songs, its not nearly as low in their songs like this one.

何だってすぐにこんな風に 溶け去ってしまうの 夢だってすぐに立ち消えて 笑って済ますでしょう 残るものは何 ほんとのこと 歩いて来た道で もぎ取った何か 喉元に つかえたままのsignal I gotta goin’ keep believin’ 昨日永らえた怒りなら 見込みはあるのでしょう 尖ったネジをギリギリと 焔を放つまで 許さなくていい 自分のこと 錆び付いた心を 足りない答えと 苛立ちを 逆立てて進むの 空の蒼が そのまま海へ落ちて行く 雨を運ぶ風の行く丘へ 遠く光る 銀色の雲呼び寄せて 澄んだ声で歌い出す いつか…… 泣いて放たれる想いなら 手放して構わない 転がってみれば 少しずつ 何とか動くでしょう 残らなくていい ギリギリで手にした光から 逃げ出した夜の 私の事 私は許さないわ

Kalafinaの「Signal」が大好きです。❤️ Anime「蒼き鋼のアルペジオ（ARPEGGIO OF BLUE STEEL）」のopening songにmatchしているからです。(*´ω`*)

I'm getting goosebumps.

Very Nice,..

Long live Kalafina! :)

@dakotafrank1931

6 жыл бұрын

Long may they reign!

@soon_to_emerge

3 жыл бұрын

That didn’t age well :(

various opinions;-)for me as a singer it is Wakana the most impressive.no matter the voice beautiful or not she is the strongest actually.

格好良い( *´艸｀)

so fucking awesome

I love this music !

@emmad3567

8 жыл бұрын

Same :)

Just listen to the studio version. It's way better. Probably one of the best songs I've ever heard. Dat accordion.

@shascabiosca405

9 жыл бұрын

M. VL Kinda agreed,the only parts that I think better than the studio version are Wakana's parts.I wonder if the Budokan live version still sound like this.

@MVL-mk9ss

9 жыл бұрын

Hikaru was very nice but music itself was horrible imo. Accordion was pretty good but not as awesome like in studio version (one of my favorite things about this song). Also drumming and those random solos in the middle just killed that song. Extended outro was ok though.

❤❤❤❤❤

kalafinaロスです…（´；ω；｀）復活してほしいです！！！

にっこにっこに～

Great performance Don't like the drums and the band introduction in the middle though