Zy 42: Nightmare

On September 7th, Nightmare will complete their Killer Show series with a live concert at Tokyo Kokusai Forum. Then, without stopping for a break, they will release a new single, Lost in Blue, which will be the start of their new series. In this interview we asked Ruka, who wrote the music and lyrics to this song, and Sakito, who wrote the music and lyrics for the coupling song, Kaiseki catharsis, as well as the other band members, about the theme of this new series.


Ruka, this series will continue up until your next album. What theme are you working to?

Ruka: I want to strip things down, take away all the decorations, almost like I am naked. I am not an expert, but I think that we have become more and more complicated since our beginning. Now, with me being almost 30 years old, I don't need to do that anymore.

So it is not your age (laugh), but more that you want to return to your origins?

Ruka: Yes, I think so. I want to return to my real beginning. Before I started music, I listened to a lot of BOφWY, THE BLUE HEARTS and other simple, eight beat music. Now I think that I want to make music like that.

Really? I think that Lost in Blue is eight beat with a simple arrangement, but this development is quite unique, isn't it?

Ruka: Do you think so?

Yes, because it flows from intro to A melody, A melody, B melody, A melody, then a guitar solo. Then it goes back to B melody and the main melody is modulated thoroughly. And that main melody appears just once and the modulation continues to the end. I thought you made it like that so we could feel the story even without lyrics.

Ruka: Huh...

What does that mean? (laugh)

Ruka: It's just funny that there are a lot of writers who think deeply about parts that I have not really thought that much about. You guys don't have to think so much!

It's my job to think about these things! (laugh)

Ruka: Ahahahaha! (laugh)

Sakito: But when you look into things as deeply as that, there are things that we discover, like other ways of thinking.

Hitsugi: Yeah, like we'll use that in our next interview! (laugh)

I'll have to send you my bill! (laugh) How did you feel when you listened to Lost in Blue?

Yomi: I thought that it suited summer, but it was kind of strange that it did not have a midsummer nor end of summer feeling about it.

Weren't you surprised at how it progressed?

Yomi: Not especially. I thought that the B melody that you described before was the main melody.

Ruka: I deliberately made that obscure. Maybe I don't need A, B or main melodies anymore.

Sakito used to make songs like that right?

Ruka: Yes, but I want to make a Z melody one day!

Well that's not simple! Nor does it sound very naked! (laugh)


For the rest of the interview, please refer to Zy 42.
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