I just came from the office in Kawasaki." Akamatsu Haruko said, "Everything went well today."
"Thank you for your hard work," Shinichi Iwahashi said.
The furniture in the recording studio is rudimentary, not even a decent sofa.
Nakamura Masato brought a chair over, and Akamatsu Haruko thanked her and sat down on one side of the square table. The three of them each occupied one side of the table. With this configuration, if Miwa-chan didn't go to the hometown meeting today, it wouldn't be a problem to have a table of sparrows. .
There were music scores scattered on the table. Akamatsu Haruko confirmed to him: "Can I take a look?"
"Please." Iwahashi Shinichi said.
Akamatsu Haruko picked up the one closest to her, read the score silently, and asked: "Are you sorting out Yoshida-san's music?" She probably knew the production process of this band.
"Miwa-chan's lyrics, Masato-san's music." Shinichi Iwahashi said, "How does it feel?"
Akamatsu Haruko finished reading the one in her hand and picked up another one, ""Bigmouth's Counterattack"?" She couldn't help laughing, "What an interesting theme."
"It's a lyric that only our Miwa-chan could come up with." Shinichi Iwahashi said.
Akamatsu Haruko said: "You sounded very proud of Yoshida-san."
"After all, he is her 'guardian'." Iwahashi Shinichi took advantage of Miwa-chan's absence and tried his best to make an advantage.
A "third party" came who knew music. Masato Nakamura couldn't wait to hear the outsider's opinions and showed the finished demo to Akamatsu Haruko, "Akamatsu-san, let's listen to it and see the actual effect."
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"The flavor of foreign music is very strong." Haruko Akamatsu expressed her thoughts after listening to the demo.
Both Yoshida Miwa and Nakamura Masato were deeply influenced by Western music, and the songs they wrote have a very strong Western flavor, which is different from traditional Japanese ballads.
Akamatsu Haruko can hear the key points with one ear, which is quite impressive.
"It took a lot of effort to ensure that it matches Miwa-chan's style while also maintaining my own style." Masato Nakamura explained.
"It took a lot of effort, that's true." The person who answered was Iwahashi Shinichi.
As the first person to handle Yoshida Miwa's lyrics and music production, he can be said to have the deepest understanding of Yoshida Miwa. For the few songs produced by Nakamura Masato this time, Iwahashi Shinichi imagined the effect of having Yoshida Miwa sing them, and there was no sense of dissonance.
It is tailor-made and can fit perfectly, which shows that a lot of effort has been put into it.
Akamatsu Haruko, who suddenly came to visit, was pestered by two people and asked her what she thought after listening. When the topic came to an end, Akamatsu Haruko paused and mentioned another thing, "Actually, there was a musician who came here this time. I want to introduce you to Iwahashi-san."
"Oh?" Iwahashi Shinichi was very interested.
"He is an all-round musician, he can play bass and keyboard, and he can also play drums a little. In terms of composition, he is deeply influenced by the police band, and he is also very good at writing aor (adult lyrical rock replaced with adult for harmony)."
"Hmm, it's quite detailed." Shin Iwahashi nodded, "Isn't it a treasure you found in the underground music circle?"
"If you were digging for treasure, you wouldn't be able to dig in such detail in just a short while." Akamatsu Haruko smiled.
Compared to when she first came to Iwahashi Shinichi, Akamatsu Haruko's personality has become more easy-going. This is probably due to the fact that she worked hard to learn to be an audience after the attack.
Being in the audience not only taught her how to appreciate a performance, but also how to feel other people's emotions during the performance, making her more humane.
For people who have been ill for a long time, their human feelings will be weakened by the disease.
Watching a performance cannot cure this side effect, but for Haruko Akamatsu, she seems to have discovered a new feeling in understanding others and feeling empathy.
"That's true."
"Actually, he is the son of my mother's friend. Although he was born in Tokyo, his family moved to Kobe because of his father's job transfer. During that time, he and my family moved around frequently."
"You have also heard from my brother that I was in poor health when I was a child. I hardly went to school and rarely interacted with peers. My mother was worried that I had no friends of the same age, so she specially introduced him to me."
"He had been visiting my house with his mother at that time. About three years later, his father was sent to China again, and the whole family moved with him. I never saw him again."
"When the cherry blossoms are in bloom in Kyoto, I make a special trip home to enjoy them."
People in Kyoto have a special attachment to their hometown. Although you can see cherry blossoms everywhere during the cherry blossom season, the Akamatsu family, as a wealthy family in Kyoto, still retains a strange idea that if you can't enjoy the cherry blossoms in Kyoto,
, then it is not considered a complete time to spend the cherry blossom viewing period.
It was the same this year. Although she was in Tokyo, when the cherry blossoms were in bloom in Kyoto, Akamatsu Haruko chose a Saturday to go back to enjoy the cherry blossoms. Then she heard her mother mention that her friend's son dropped out of college halfway through and decided to make a living through music.
I went to a music college and just graduated this year. I had nowhere to go, so I had to join the underground music scene.
"When you heard this, you were laughing in your heart, right?" Shinichi Iwahashi teased her.
Akamatsu Haruko is the lead singer in an underground band, and also works part-time in his production company. She attends performances in the underground music circle when she has time. This is completely different from the impression and expectations of her family in Kyoto. If she is found out, it will bring a shock to her family.
I'm afraid he's no better than the son of his mother's friend who quit his job to live in the dirt.
"A little bit."
Akamatsu Haruko remembered her mother's somewhat regretful tone when she mentioned him, and admitted with a smile. She seemed to have developed a strange bad taste in doing something that was not allowed without telling her family.
Then he continued, "A while ago, my mother told me to visit her friend Chengcheng's home for some matters. I happened to meet him when he came home to pick up some things and chatted for a while."
"I asked him what kind of music he was doing, and he gave me a self-made album. After listening to it, I thought his music was great. He is still free, so I thought maybe I could invite him to the company.
I was good at making suggestions, told him that I was also making music now, and asked him if he wanted to come to the company too."
"I gave Iwahashi-san's name and I heard that it was the production company you opened after becoming independent. He was also very interested. He said he was willing to meet and chat with Iwahashi-san," Akamatsu Haruko said.
Shinichi Iwahashi's fame in the underground music circle is evident. Not only that, he also has a very positive reputation.
"Of course, it's not appropriate to tell you this suddenly and ask you to decide whether you want to see him or not." Akamatsu Haruko thought quite thoughtfully. She took out a tape from her bag and handed it over, "This is his original song.
Please listen to it."
Shinichi Iwahashi took it over.
Masato Nakamura, who listened to the story with great interest, was also very interested in this boy who dropped out of college to pursue music. This came from the sympathy of similar people. This big brother was a serious person who had passed the Aoyama Gakuin University, but he failed in the exam.
I thought my major was boring, so I dropped out and became a musician.
This courage to quit at the drop of a hat is very powerful in a sense. It’s not that I dropped out of school, but my inner confidence in music that surpasses everything else.
After pressing the play button, Iwahashi Shinichi heard a somewhat slender and soft male voice. Hearing such a voice made him feel a little surprised.
He continued to listen, and the more he listened, the more surprised he became. This person's music was very well written, and his style of music was quite mature. After listening to several songs in a row, he found that he had quite a personal style and characteristics.
It would be a great thing if we could recruit such a composer.
"Very good." Iwahashi Shinichi said, "If I could meet him and convince him, I would feel honored."
"Just hearing you say so about him will probably make him very happy."
"So, Akamatsu-san, how about you introduce me to our meeting? ...By the way, I haven't asked him his name yet."
Akamatsu Haruko told him, "My name is Kuribayashi Seiichiro."
Seiichiro Kuribayashi.
Kuribayashi Seiichiro is actually one year older than Iwahashi Shinichi, but when they met, the person who appeared in front of him was a man of medium height with long hair, his appearance was as slender as his singing voice, and he looked a little girly.
's youth.
Just by looking at it, it seems that the older person is Shinichi Iwahashi.
Akamatsu Haruko came to the recording studio with him.
After saying hello, Shinichi Iwahashi invited Seiichiro Kuribayashi to sit in a cafe near the recording studio, "There is nothing to entertain you here."
However, Seiichiro Kuribayashi was obviously more interested in everything in the recording studio than the coffee next door, "Iwahashi-san, are you making music now?"
After the Girls Rock Festival, Shinichi Iwahashi became famous in the underground music circle. At that time, Seiichiro Kuribayashi was about to graduate from the music college. He heard the name of Shinichi Iwahashi and was deeply impressed.
After graduation, Seiichiro Kuribayashi has been active in the underground music circle. During this period, companies have expressed interest in him. However, Seiichiro Kuribayashi is either dissatisfied with the company's policies or their arrogant attitude.
Recently, a small production company called Being lent an olive branch to him. The representative's attitude was very good, saying that he would respect his choice and would not force him to do anything he didn't want to do.
Seiichiro Kuribayashi accepted the business card and said he would think about it.
After dropping out of college, he moved out of his hometown in Chengcheng and rented a house outside. When he went home to pick up his things, he didn't expect to run into Haruko Akamatsu, whom he had known since his boyhood.
Akamatsu Haruko heard that he was making music and asked a few questions. Seiichiro Kuribayashi, who has a gentle personality, directly gave her a tape he made.
Unexpectedly, after that, Akamatsu Haruko contacted him again and said that she was also making music now.
The little girl in my childhood who was frail and sick and didn't talk much, said that she is now the lead singer of an underground band and also works part-time in a music production company.
Kuribayashi Seiichiro told her that this derailed life trajectory was shocked, but then she thought that when she was a child, she was timid and had not completed the first big rebellion in her life, dropped out of college and decided to pursue music.
Does music really have such charm?
Thinking about his decision, Kuribayashi Seiichiro felt that this was indeed the case.
However, apart from Akamatsu Haruko's current part-time job, what attracted Seiichiro Kuribayashi's even more attention was the production company where she worked part-time, the production company run by Shinichi Iwahashi.
That person whom he respected from the bottom of his heart even though he had never met him.
Kuribayashi Seiichiro promised Akamatsu Haruko to have a face-to-face talk with Iwahashi Shinichi. The meeting place was Yoyogi's recording studio.
Kuribayashi Seiichiro was interested in the recording studio. In this case, he skipped the step to the cafe. However, it was still a little more grand than when he entertained Watanabe Wan Yumi. Instead of making instant coffee, he went to the vending machine in the lobby.
I bought canned coffee from the cargo plane.
Drinking canned coffee and chatting about music.
Seiichiro Kuribayashi was curious about Shinichi Iwahashi's reasons for establishing a production company and was interested in his future production policy. Shinichi Iwahashi answered all these questions one by one.
After that, it was Iwahashi Shinichi who asked Kuribayashi Seiichiro. He first praised the music on the tape he heard from Akamatsu Haruko, and then pointed out the interesting and deficient aspects of his music.
Kuribayashi Seiichiro has always been very confident in his music. He was a little unconvinced by the shortcomings pointed out by Iwahashi Shinichi. But when he heard what he said, he couldn't help but sweat quietly, and then he felt that Iwahashi-san's ears were frighteningly sharp.
.
Iwahashi Shinichi may not be a good cook, but he is probably a good gourmet. He is very sensitive to music. After listening to a completely arranged song, he can point out the beauty in it with his first ear.
weaknesses and shortcomings.
The balance in Seiichiro Kuribayashi's heart unknowingly tipped towards Shinichi Iwahashi.
"Please let me think about it." After all, he still remembered the business card of being in the drawer.
Moreover, compared to being, the shortcomings of Shinichi Iwahashi's genzo are obvious. Now with Shinichi Iwahashi, he has nothing, but if he joins being, he can start his career as a professional musician immediately.
Seiichiro Kuribayashi was tempted by the fact that his music could be heard by more people. However, he also thought of the shortcomings in his music pointed out by Shinichi Iwahashi, the shortcomings that he himself admitted.
After thinking about it, Seiichiro Kuribayashi decided to go to Shinichi Iwahashi. With these shortcomings in mind, he made up for them as he walked.
This was certainly due to his trust in Shinichi Iwahashi. But besides that, Seiichiro Kuribayashi thought that now seemed a bit like the time to decide to drop out of college and go to a music college.
Give up a path that everyone thinks is right and take an uncertain path.
Now it is zero. Adding being, it goes from zero to one hundred. Adding genzo, it goes from zero to ten.
However, Seiichiro Kuribayashi does not believe that the path that seems to be correct must be correct, because no one knows where a path leads.
After deciding to sign the contract, Seiichiro Kuribayashi contacted being’s representative and stated that he would not join being.
The other party was very surprised. The two parties had a very happy conversation at that time. They thought that the addition of this new person would be a matter of course, but they did not expect such a result.
"Does Kuribayashi-kun have any other ideas?"
"No, your company is very good. It's just that I have other choices in mind."
