Byakkoya - White Tiger Field
Byakkoya - White Tiger Field (白虎野) is the tenth solo album by Susumu Hirasawa. It is described as "an imaginary navigator for driving reality ... will push you down to the space-time labyrinth". The title is based on the name of a Vietnamese oil field. The album is, alongside BLUE LIMBO and Planet Roll Call, part of a trilogy that revolves around the concept of "Dystopia".
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Susumu Hirasawa.
| 1. |
"The Westward of Time" (時間の西方 Jikan no Seihō) |
6:10 |
| 2. |
"Byakkoya - White Tiger Field" (白虎野) |
4:47 |
| 3. |
"The Stillborn City" (生まれなかった都市 Umarenakatta Toshi) |
6:39 |
| 4. |
"The Man from Memories" (記憶から来た男 Kioku Kara Kita Otoko) |
5:00 |
| 5. |
"Water Vein" (水脈 Sui Myaku) |
5:48 |
| 6. |
"CODE-COSTARICA" |
3:41 |
| 7. |
"Fern of the Planet Sigma" (Σ星のシダ Shiguma Hoshi no Shida) |
5:21 |
| 8. |
"Probability Hill" (確率の丘 Kakuritsu no Oka) |
4:42 |
| 9. |
"Byakko - White Tiger" (白虎) |
4:57 |
| 10. |
"Parade" (パレード Parēdo) |
5:45 |
Track information
- The same year, Hirasawa composed the soundtrack to the anime film Paprika, which features "Parade" and "The Girl in Byakkoya - White Tiger Field" (白虎野の娘, Byakkoya no Musume). The latter is an alternate version of "Byakkoya - White Tiger Field" with slightly different lyrics and Lola's pitch altered to reflect a female voice.
- "Byakko - White Tiger" refers to the White Tiger of the West, a creature from Chinese mythology.
- A line from "Nurse Cafe", a song from SIREN, is the chorus to "Parade" in reverse.[1] Furthermore, the P-MODEL song "MONSTER A GO GO" (from the unmade album MONSTER) can be heard in the ending fade out.
Personnel
- Susumu Hirasawa - Vocals, Electric guitar (TALBO Secret FACTORY ICE-9), Electronic keyboard (Roland A-37), Amiga, Personal computer, Digital audio workstation (Cakewalk Sonar), Synthesizers (EASTWEST Symphonic Orchestra, EASTWEST Symphonic Choirs), Vocaloid (Lola, Miriam, Meiko), Sampler (NATIVE INSTRUNENTS Kontakt), Sequencer (Bars'n'Pipes), Programming, Production
- Nguyen Ngoc Hoa (BOUGAIN VILLAEA) - Voice on "Byakkoya - White Tiger Field"
- Masanori Chinzei - Recording, Mixing, Mastering
- Syotaro Takami - Translation
- Toshifumi "non graph" Nakai - Design
- Presented by CHAOS UNION/TESLAKITE LABEL: Kenji sato, Rihito Yumoto and Mika Hirano
Interactive Live Show
INTERACTIVE LIVE SHOW 2006 “LIVE Byakkoya” (INTERACTIVE LIVE SHOW 2006 「LIVE 白虎野」) was the ninth Interactive Live Show played by Hirasawa. The story is about different branches in time and creatures that control the probability of any branch being taken.[2] It features the character Σ-12, which was inspired by a blind man Hirasawa saw crossing Sukhumvit Road late at night in 1996.[3] The show was directed by Masaru Owaku,[4] who chose six other artists to create visuals for select segments of the show.[5] The motion graphics duo twenty2product[6] also made visuals for the show, returning from the previous Interactive Live Show.
Two months after the shows, a reservation pamphlet was distributed in limited quantities. With it came the (LIVE白虎野 BGM特選, LIVE Byakkoya – White Tiger Field BGM Selections) CD, which included three tracks of BGM from the soon to be released Memorial Package and Hirasawa's MC from the third and last LIVE Byakkoya show.
References
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