The piano interlude for “Fake Wings” was so intricate abs expressive. That is my favorite of this trio of songs. This was the first time I realized the sensitivity and intricacy of Kaori's voice. She sang in almost a speaking style which felt so intimate, broken (like broken wings) and fragile. I believe this video is what made me have really start to pay attention to her as a vocalist. She made me feel that song. "Miezaru Ude" was another song that more recently cemented my respect for Kaori as a skilled singer and solo lead - a role she doesn't really get to have in FJ as much based on the way the vocal composition is envisioned.
They said that Fake Wings was a lullaby for a dying child. A lullaby should be sung softly and sweetly. And because the child(fragile) is dying, you will feel broken in which Kaori has given a good interpretation of it.
Wakana's line at 5:58-6:03 was just beautiful. How she just opened her mouth gradually to change and expand the effect of her tone. That was my favourite in the song. I also loved the first duet with Kaori and Yuriko Kaida.
The run from 8:23 -> 8:52 is beyond elegant and uplifting I LOVE IT
2 года назад+2
10 years post. 14 years music. Kalafina before Kalafina! Only 421k views?? Only 3.8k thumbs???! I wonder why Google is hiding classic gems like this from people for so many years...
This literally brought me to tears. I am speechless... I have never had music do what 'Mezame' did to me. It's mind blowing... I have always passionately loved music, and been aware of the power it can hold, and have over us. But this... This is something completely new. A song alone has never made me bawl my eyes out like a child just out of pure beauty and power alone. This is why I have, and always will, love music above anything and everything else in the world. There is nothing like it, and we as a human race are blessed to have it. Yuki Kajiura is by far my favourite composer ever. I could pick out any of her songs and immerse myself in the pure beauty that it is. I may sound ridiculous. I mean, it's just music. I'm obviously just being a pretentious little twat right?. But I'm not, at least I think I'm not. These are just my true feelings on music.
Beautiful thoughts, Monika! It's amazing that, almost six years after I decided to share this video, so many people find it and connect so deeply with Yuki's incredible music. I'm so very happy you liked it, and thank you so much for sharing your feelings on it, which I echo wholeheartedly. Thank you!
Yeah, I have known about Yuki Kajiura's music for a while through anime. I had watched Madoka Magica and loved the ost. I knew she made amazing music, but it was only recently that I decided to try and just listen to some of her music in isolation. I've been listening to so many and have loved them all, I was listening to just a lot of Kajiura's songs in succession until I reached this one and was blown away. In fact, I went and bought a Yuki Kajiura live CD because of this. It wasn't this one, I didn't find it. But when I do I'll probably buy that one too if I can afford it. I'm glad you enjoyed my comment and that you agree with it :D. Thank you for sharing this, even though it was six years ago. I'd still have loved Kajiura if I hadn't seen this video, but not to the same extent. I intend to share Kajiura's work with how many people I can, in hopes they can get to connect with it the same way, or if nothing else just giving her more of the attention she deserves. hehe, I guess maybe that same passion for sharing her work is what made you post this video come to think of it.
@@WikiPhaedriel This is still my favorite anime music that hits me the hardest and pull at all the heartstrings at once. Partly because My-HIME was one of the first anime shows I watched when introduced to anime back in the days and of course it's because Yuki-sans fantastic music. I think this is still the best battle song i've heard so far. I have found some more really great ones but they are few that can make your emotions explode and invite the onion fairy. 😉Ceui is one other.
Liked this back in 2015 and back again in 2020 and it still sounds as magical and as charming as the first time! Total eargasm and one of the best live performances ever! God I wish I were there!
My H.I.M.E Супер аниме без вариантов.... А такие песни ее только дополняют и делают роскошнее. Все блага Юке Каджиуре! Делает фон для хороших настроений не только народу Японии, но и для других стран, ценящих качество исполнений... Обратите внимание на разделение голосов по октавам, и в то же время их разделение по мотивам музыки! Кто с музыкальным образованием - сообразит. Очень огромное достижение - найти такие голоса и настолько правильно их распределить. Юки - красава)))
Sadly that's how bad Spotify is when it comes to J-artists...only a small percentage of their work is available on Spotify. I really would've abandoned Spotify if not for the fact that listening to music there actually supports the artists :/
3:10 Kaori has this skill of expanding her tone to resonate wider and farther like she did hear on the last word, “find” Wakana has that mournful and emotional high-pitched voice. That unique resonance that stands her out. Keiko always warms up and softens to blend with her.
I have no words to describe those feels. It's so beautiful. I can recognize the originals song but don't know where I heard this before. Still, Yuki Kajiura is absolutely talentuous, she deserves 10000 more ovations from all over the world. So much better than stereotyped, annoying musics from most of western countries. Japan will always be the best !
5:43 This breath was not needed from Wakana as it broke the vocal line. 5:59 Loved the way she opened up he voice into the belt, which changed her vocal colors and gave more resonance at the end.
I remember back in 04-06 it was Yuki kajiura vs Yoko Kanno (had to look her up, I forgot her name), which when looking back is comparing apples to meatloaf, but it was a thing.
Nick Cervenka both Yuki Kajiura and Yoko Kano are outstanding and evocative. The main difference is the range of their musicality. Yuki has mastered a particular style, a blend of chant/classical/techno, and varies which particular influence is strongest in a particular piece. It’s relatively easy to tell if an anime OST is composed by her just by hearing the music. Yoko Kano, on the other hand, is seemingly able to compose in any style. Escaflowne is grand musical power on the order of John Williams or Jerry Goldsmith, while Ghost in the Shell (movie and anime series) are much more techno and rock influence, then Cowboy Bebop is jazz. She has also composed using bosa nova (Wolf’s Rain) and several other styles; to the point that, ifyou don’t know she’s the composer already, you’ll be surprised to learn that she is.
@@mmasque2052 Kajiura style can't really be summed up as chants, classical, and techno. At most, very specific tracks, like Salva nos. Her style has been influenced by opera, world, Celtic, folk, ethnic, pop, Arabian, rock, plus the styles you mentioned, and other styles depending on the project.
@@mmasque2052I think you’re right about the width of Yoko Kanno’s writing across several very different genres and definitely her industry influence (I think Sawano Hiroyuki cites her as an inspiration). Her deep compositional and writing skills and initial seclusion from non-classical music shaped her openness and hunger for exploring other styles. Kajiura is also widely successful and a major difference with her is an emphasis on vocals as a core expression of her musical writing, coming from her early exposure to opera and choral music. Her persistent use of harmony, vocal counterpoint, in a pop/rock context is unique, and I’m sure something that singers (main and guest) appreciate in working with her. Since her heaviest influences were opera, classical and early Beatles rock it reflects in her writing as well. Talent meets early exposure (deepest impressions that never leave) and different shifts in interest and teachers and opportunities along the way add up to who each composer becomes.
But I do get what the other guy was talking about. When looking at Japanese composers their work after about 1999 feature English lyrics over Japanese lyrics. Yuki Kajiura, Yoko Kano, and Akira Yamaoka to name a few. Just that English in japan is cool like Japanese in America.
Ensei: Wakana + Keiko + Yuki = Perfect Harmony!
I started sobbing helplessly at Mezame. Again --'
I think I love Kajiura Yuki as much as I do Tchaikovsky
I swear every time I hear Mezame I get the chills through my whole body. Such an epic piece.
Same here.
Mai hime has one of the best OST in anime period.
here I am 29 me who used to listen to this when I was 13. I still get the same chills and I can't help but cry listening to this masterpiece
Same Epic Battle OST. As expected from Yuki Kajiura.
The epic bettle OST music Queen.
I can hear real angels. they can sing the phone book for all I care.
I know five years is a long time but I don’t think phone books were still around 😂😂
JK it’s just a reminder to listen to these guys
@@salehsaber4306 i can still find some hidden tomes here or there. 5 years later. and these girls are still the best.
U alive?
First the light and fragile voices...
Then the dark and melancholy voices...
Then energy and passion from all the voices!
この頃のかおりさんの声が何とも言えず好き…今の歌声も好きだけど…
The piano interlude for “Fake Wings” was so intricate abs expressive. That is my favorite of this trio of songs. This was the first time I realized the sensitivity and intricacy of Kaori's voice. She sang in almost a speaking style which felt so intimate, broken (like broken wings) and fragile.
I believe this video is what made me have really start to pay attention to her as a vocalist. She made me feel that song.
"Miezaru Ude" was another song that more recently cemented my respect for Kaori as a skilled singer and solo lead - a role she doesn't really get to have in FJ as much based on the way the vocal composition is envisioned.
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I started following FJ because of Kaori and Yuriko's version of Fake Wings. 😁 And the rest is history.
They said that Fake Wings was a lullaby for a dying child. A lullaby should be sung softly and sweetly. And because the child(fragile) is dying, you will feel broken in which Kaori has given a good interpretation of it.
@@ljmilanes3105 I didn’t know that. Wow! There’s strong emotion to that song then!
Words can't explain how I feel hearing this...
True.
Its been years since this and yet i still get goose bumps even in 2018
well i got all the time when Wakana,Keiko,Hikaru,Kaori, Yuuka and most off the YukiKajiura singers, they have angels in voice
Me in 2019
Still rocks in 2020
2021 and it still sounds like angels singing
2022!!! The voices are so angelic
There are times when you really don't need to understand the language in order to enjoy the music. This is definitely one of those times. Bravo!
Wakana's line at 5:58-6:03 was just beautiful. How she just opened her mouth gradually to change and expand the effect of her tone. That was my favourite in the song. I also loved the first duet with Kaori and Yuriko Kaida.
what is the name of the song ? 5:58
@@marinasosa7560 Mezame.
thanks
I forgot the Mai-Hime OST was this good, Mezame is incredible.
7:52 Yuriko's rocking movement. Cool!
今でも自分が舞-himeを好きなのは、この曲の影響が大きいです♪
I wanted to cry on Ensei. I wanted to feel something
fake wings is one of my favorite songs of all time.
Dallin Corman same
Intimate expression.
Yes with Kaori’s version ❤
I love how Yuki Kajiura plays with emotion instead of being one of those stiff piano players....I love Ger and fiction junction yuuka!
The run from 8:23 -> 8:52 is beyond elegant and uplifting I LOVE IT
10 years post. 14 years music. Kalafina before Kalafina! Only 421k views?? Only 3.8k thumbs???! I wonder why Google is hiding classic gems like this from people for so many years...
いつ何度聴いても素晴らしい音楽に歌声だと思う。
ずっと大好きだ。
Yuki kajiura music and songs are the best
i loved how kajiura started jamming along with some of the solo's :D she is suchfun to watch XD
This literally brought me to tears. I am speechless... I have never had music do what 'Mezame' did to me. It's mind blowing... I have always passionately loved music, and been aware of the power it can hold, and have over us. But this... This is something completely new. A song alone has never made me bawl my eyes out like a child just out of pure beauty and power alone. This is why I have, and always will, love music above anything and everything else in the world. There is nothing like it, and we as a human race are blessed to have it. Yuki Kajiura is by far my favourite composer ever. I could pick out any of her songs and immerse myself in the pure beauty that it is. I may sound ridiculous. I mean, it's just music. I'm obviously just being a pretentious little twat right?. But I'm not, at least I think I'm not. These are just my true feelings on music.
Beautiful thoughts, Monika! It's amazing that, almost six years after I decided to share this video, so many people find it and connect so deeply with Yuki's incredible music. I'm so very happy you liked it, and thank you so much for sharing your feelings on it, which I echo wholeheartedly. Thank you!
Yeah, I have known about Yuki Kajiura's music for a while through anime. I had watched Madoka Magica and loved the ost. I knew she made amazing music, but it was only recently that I decided to try and just listen to some of her music in isolation. I've been listening to so many and have loved them all, I was listening to just a lot of Kajiura's songs in succession until I reached this one and was blown away. In fact, I went and bought a Yuki Kajiura live CD because of this. It wasn't this one, I didn't find it. But when I do I'll probably buy that one too if I can afford it.
I'm glad you enjoyed my comment and that you agree with it :D. Thank you for sharing this, even though it was six years ago. I'd still have loved Kajiura if I hadn't seen this video, but not to the same extent. I intend to share Kajiura's work with how many people I can, in hopes they can get to connect with it the same way, or if nothing else just giving her more of the attention she deserves. hehe, I guess maybe that same passion for sharing her work is what made you post this video come to think of it.
Monika i feel you dear yk works are all far above and her singers wow all about is really impressive
@@WikiPhaedriel This is still my favorite anime music that hits me the hardest and pull at all the heartstrings at once. Partly because My-HIME was one of the first anime shows I watched when introduced to anime back in the days and of course it's because Yuki-sans fantastic music. I think this is still the best battle song i've heard so far.
I have found some more really great ones but they are few that can make your emotions explode and invite the onion fairy. 😉Ceui is one other.
I couldn't have said that better, this is exactly how I feel too ❤❤❤😭😭😭
Liked this back in 2015 and back again in 2020 and it still sounds as magical and as charming as the first time! Total eargasm and one of the best live performances ever! God I wish I were there!
They're really amazing especially wakana *_*
Yuki kajiura's pieces are not just simple but awesome
how i love this.
I love this. So much talent. It must've been amazing for the people who saw this in person...
i just realised how similar ensei and mezame are XD
The whole video is totally incredible!!!!!!
Ensei is the short prelude version of Mezame, from the Mei HIME anime.
oooohh i see. thank you! xD
That contralto (Keiko) is so good.
She is.
every single time i listen to this, i cry.. every. single. time.
2021 and still make me goosebumps
Its been years since this and yet i still get goose bumps even in 2019
I listening those songs everyday. This is beautiful and I'm moved by this songs. Yuki Kayiura is the best.
Still listening to this 2021! 💚
2024 ❤
My H.I.M.E Супер аниме без вариантов.... А такие песни ее только дополняют и делают роскошнее. Все блага Юке Каджиуре! Делает фон для хороших настроений не только народу Японии, но и для других стран, ценящих качество исполнений... Обратите внимание на разделение голосов по октавам, и в то же время их разделение по мотивам музыки! Кто с музыкальным образованием - сообразит. Очень огромное достижение - найти такие голоса и настолько правильно их распределить. Юки - красава)))
She's amazing!
One of the most beautiful songs i've ever heard and i cannot find it on Spotify. Curses.
Sadly that's how bad Spotify is when it comes to J-artists...only a small percentage of their work is available on Spotify. I really would've abandoned Spotify if not for the fact that listening to music there actually supports the artists :/
Oooo so much memories with these songs...damn..my eyes are wet now..
It´s so good. I feel the adrenaline run into my body when listen Mezame
Still love their live performances😭
3:10 Kaori has this skill of expanding her tone to resonate wider and farther like she did hear on the last word, “find”
Wakana has that mournful and emotional high-pitched voice. That unique resonance that stands her out. Keiko always warms up and softens to blend with her.
Wowowowow. My ears. What just happened.
LOVING IT! OH MY GOD!! THESE LADIES ARE WONDERFUL!!!
It's incredible that they sound this amazing live.
there is just some music that gives you goosebumps no matter what.
God i love Wakana's voice *awestruck*
Hmm is 14-13year i noot hear this masterpiece😌,i still remember it
Blissful eargasm :) Thank you for the music
+Vanessa Belen Fitting words... :D
Sweet tender ear lovin
I still listen and makes
goosebumps in 2022
Unbelievable video, truly. Amazing. If I were in the audience myself, I surely would've died from the. overwhelming awesomeness of that performance.
i miss listening to their music 😍
10:53 Keiko is on a rampage. :)))) I love them so much!!
Rampaging Keiko. She only comes into that one in a while, when with Kaori.
that Yuki Kajiura for you !!! the best song creator ever !!
Watching this put a knot in my throat so tight I can barely swallow. So much emotion and beauty all crammed in together at once.
this is so much better than the original songs :) people should do mash ups of yuki's songs :D that would turn out into a masterpeice
I got goosebump! the vocal is awesome.
Sugoi she is amazing I want to buy this DVD is fantastic.
Pure EPICNESS !!!Love it!
These were songs right out from a woman's heart... Ms Yuki Kajiura's heart...
🤓
amazing!!! i wish i had a voice half as good as this
+ SilverSkyCloud you can... theyre humans and so all of us its just practice they did have this kind of voice because of practice coaches and studying
@@steveace66 Exactly. It takes dedication, practice and love of singing.
I like this voice! She's amazing! *0*
Absolutely wonderful.
If i ever got rich, i will definitely invite Kajiura to play in my Country
Salam 2 jati
6:01 The width of her vibrato at the end is something I'm not sure I've heard from Wakana elsewhere. ❤❤❤
U guys made this story alive forever it is because of your amazing and awesome songs. Really love with all your songs!
BEST LIVE EVER ❤❤❤❤
Love love LOVE Yuki Kajiura's music!!!
Awesome song with live vocal. The best!!!!
This is just amazing... ❤❤ I wish I could've been there 😭😭😭
It's already 2021still no one can beat their harmonization
I have no words to describe those feels. It's so beautiful. I can recognize the originals song but don't know where I heard this before. Still, Yuki Kajiura is absolutely talentuous, she deserves 10000 more ovations from all over the world. So much better than stereotyped, annoying musics from most of western countries. Japan will always be the best !
I hope they stay themselves.
I thought this was going to be horrible.... but omg it sounds amazing
WHY did you think this would be BAD!? Just WHY!?!?!? YOU MUST ANSWER ME!!!
TT 3TT Well to be honest, I'm not ashamed. So there.
Yuki Kajiura is best!
I love this song , it's wonderful
this is wawww... so amazing...
hermoso arte noy hay duda que yuki es la mejor
5:43 This breath was not needed from Wakana as it broke the vocal line.
5:59 Loved the way she opened up he voice into the belt, which changed her vocal colors and gave more resonance at the end.
Beautiful...
Simply beautiful.
Saïkyo Yuki Kajiura and Kalafina!!
Fiction Junction.
2020 😭😍💓💓 Nice song buena música
Their piano player rocks!
That's Yuki Kajiura, the composer of this song! And I completely agree, she's amazing!!!
The music is all her!
legends
Mezame is just... so awesome.
Who's listening to this in 2020?
You mean 2021? :)
@@joaocosta6243 September, if speak more precise?
2022 👍🏻
Sorry its 2024
yuki kajiura and fiction junction never dissapoint me
is sad wakana leave the group and kalafina disbanded T_T
wow! what a voice!!
I remember back in 04-06 it was Yuki kajiura vs Yoko Kanno (had to look her up, I forgot her name), which when looking back is comparing apples to meatloaf, but it was a thing.
Nick Cervenka both Yuki Kajiura and Yoko Kano are outstanding and evocative. The main difference is the range of their musicality. Yuki has mastered a particular style, a blend of chant/classical/techno, and varies which particular influence is strongest in a particular piece. It’s relatively easy to tell if an anime OST is composed by her just by hearing the music. Yoko Kano, on the other hand, is seemingly able to compose in any style. Escaflowne is grand musical power on the order of John Williams or Jerry Goldsmith, while Ghost in the Shell (movie and anime series) are much more techno and rock influence, then Cowboy Bebop is jazz. She has also composed using bosa nova (Wolf’s Rain) and several other styles; to the point that, ifyou don’t know she’s the composer already, you’ll be surprised to learn that she is.
@@mmasque2052 Like I said, there is no point in comparing the two.
@@mmasque2052 Kajiura style can't really be summed up as chants, classical, and techno. At most, very specific tracks, like Salva nos. Her style has been influenced by opera, world, Celtic, folk, ethnic, pop, Arabian, rock, plus the styles you mentioned, and other styles depending on the project.
@@fv1170I agree.
@@mmasque2052I think you’re right about the width of Yoko Kanno’s writing across several very different genres and definitely her industry influence (I think Sawano Hiroyuki cites her as an inspiration). Her deep compositional and writing skills and initial seclusion from non-classical music shaped her openness and hunger for exploring other styles.
Kajiura is also widely successful and a major difference with her is an emphasis on vocals as a core expression of her musical writing, coming from her early exposure to opera and choral music. Her persistent use of harmony, vocal counterpoint, in a pop/rock context is unique, and I’m sure something that singers (main and guest) appreciate in working with her.
Since her heaviest influences were opera, classical and early Beatles rock it reflects in her writing as well.
Talent meets early exposure (deepest impressions that never leave) and different shifts in interest and teachers and opportunities along the way add up to who each composer becomes.
my absolute favorite song from dot hack well done :D
Mai hime - best anime OST of all time
Yeah!! Yuki is the best of the best :D
me encanta esta cansión
MEZAME!!! EPIC!!!!! LUV DAT SONG!!
5:05 was beautiful o-o
Fake Wings ♡
That's my jam. With the piano and Kaori singing intimately.
@@TheSeeking2know so mesmerizing! It's my jam as well
i love this
KEIKOOOOOO💗💗💗💗
Why is the way she plays the piano soo weird? Whatever she is superb
Kaori sooooo cute 8)
.hack brought me here but their voice made me stay beautiful
if u speed up the song mezame to 1.25,it has this rock vibe in it
2022 and im.back hear.i miss them alot
But I do get what the other guy was talking about. When looking at Japanese composers their work after about 1999 feature English lyrics over Japanese lyrics. Yuki Kajiura, Yoko Kano, and Akira Yamaoka to name a few. Just that English in japan is cool like Japanese in America.