A Hymn of the Crucifixion

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Ruki Personal Interview

2009 – 12 – Zy #50 Ruki Personal Interview

At the end of 2009, it is the Gazette who are completing their year with a Christmas concert at Tokyo Big Sight on December 24th. As the opening for 2010, their fan club tour will be starting, to which all the fans are probably looking forward to. It is astounding, that this is actually some activity for the band in a while. What will be next for this band? What are their feelings? After quite some time, we have been conducting a personal Interview with Ruki again and we’ve been carefully listening.

♫ This time we are looking towards the 50th issue of Zy magazing, but the first time the Gazette have ever been on the cover of it (in issue 27) came rather sudden an unexpected.

Ruki ♥ [That was during the release of [NIL]. Of course I remember! (laughs)]

♫ At that time, the band had already been playing at a big hall, and it had been in its full shape already, still, the path you have been following there after was a really fast one!

Ruki ♥ [First of all, ever since [NIL] 4 years have passed already. When thinking about that album, it feels so light and not as serious, when it comes to the mood (bitter laugh). Not as many copies have been sold of that album at that time either----That’s been the case until two years ago. Therefore, it does not seem a lot like a memory, but time has been flying ever since. So in proportion, the feelings concerning our activities have been built bit by bit.]

♫ Did you plan to be releasing a lot more CDs from that time?

Ruki ♥ [Not really. After all we have been going on a long tour [2007-2008] there after. Then we have been releasing [Guren] and [LEECH]. Actually, after that, we wanted to go into producing the album, however, we decided to release [DISTRESS AND COME], which had been a coupling song for [LEECH], originally, so the making of the album got postponed.]

♫ Well, that has been the case, but the album has become incredibly strong, and after all, this year [DIM] has been release without problems none the less and you have also been on a tour. … and this might just be my personal opinion, but it seems like you haven’t been on tour much this year, have you? (laughs)

Ruki ♥ [That’s certainly the case. In 2009 we really haven’t been on tour much, as we had said/planned before. After all we really wanted to go into song making, but somehow, we the process wasn’t very forthcoming until then. (laughs)]

♫ Huh? But that’s not very good, is it?! (laughs)

Ruki ♥ [Still, it’s not like we had a lot time to ourselves. (bitter laugh). We were always busy with something. However, lately we do have some free time, and it is good that we do have some time to think for ourselves.]

♫ Ok, since you do have some time now, are you able to get and have some input from here and there then?

Ruki ♥ [That’s certainly the case. And isn’t that the time to solidify your grounds? Everyone can make up their own mind, right now … Still, it can’t be said, that we are actually on vacation right now. However, we are able to get refreshed as a band, too, which seemed to be a good idea at that time.]

♫ So were you actually able to get refreshed?

Ruki ♥ [All of us got a little of our independence back, and that would strengthen the will to be working as a band again, wouldn’t it?]

♫ To get refreshed is certainly something we haven’t heard from you yet (laughs)

Ruki ♥ [Uruha suddenly started saying this. When he was meeting up with people from our sempai bands or other people…he felt like he needed to confirm, what music is to him… looking at our manager. (laughs)]

♫ Do you do that a lot?

Ruki ♥ [When everyone is meeting up … in the early days, we would meet often, but if we do it now a days, our staff would be influenced by that, wouldn’t they? Be it with the equipment or at the studio, there is so much involved. So, we’d just be disappearing unnoticed, maybe.]

♫ Leaving empty handed, with one last bang; I’d think that be really cool if you could do it now.

Ruki ♥ [Our guitarist can do it like that. I am more of the type, who likes to be in a certain mechanism. (laughs)]

♫ I see. (laughs) Then, when speaking of your work and duties and the input to it, how about watching movies and things like that. Especially for someone writing lyrics, it seems important to have these sorts of outside stimulations.

Ruki ♥ [When I am watching such things, it’s not like there is really anything. When there is a song, I am thinking about how I could do it best. However, if there is no song, I can’t write lyrics either. I don’t have much of an inspiration, then.]

♫ So are you working on new songs right now?

Ruki ♥ [I am simply playing around with making them right now. Like just into parts (bitter laugh). I really need to get this more structured, though.]

♫ Are you seeing these stubs of songs as what something from Gazette to be released in 2010? That would be certainly interesting.

Ruki ♥ [Hmmm………For example [DIM] is an album we wanted to make in the past, but we couldn’t accomplish that with what we were working on, so we didn’t have the intention to make anything completely new. Lately I am listening to the older songs of Gazette again and there are still the songs which I don’t like as much as there are songs, which I like. It seems that there is something more to those. Separating these parts from each other and adding new ones to them, I would somehow like to revive them…]

♫ Like reconfirming the inner most part of it?

Ruki ♥ [Yes, like that. Certainly, creating something completely new is difficult. More than inventing ourselves a new, it’s more like bringing out our strongest parts, which will still be like something new in to listen to. I think that is also a very important thing. Also, when it comes to myself, I am doing my best when being challenged.]

♫ Personally speaking. (laughs)

Ruki ♥ [There are certainly times, when I wish to be suddenly put up for a challenge. And I don’t mean in the sense that it comes to writing something that sells or not. It is about something within myself, that just needs to get out one way or the other!]

♫ Oh! If your work progresses like that, then I’d think it is rather depending of timing until you can make something out of it, isn’t it? But that’s not what it’s like either, is it?

Ruki ♥ [Yes. It must be like that. I think the fluctuations between [Guren] and [Before I Decay] have been pretty strong. And we have been doing this by being aware of these circumstances. Challenging that, we haven’t really done anything heavy of that sort. And while there have been songs, which we could certainly think of as good songs, there were also those where we would have liked to do it differently. Keeping this in mind, I listen to our older songs and realize what the things I like are.]

♫ So…you don’t just like songs in general?

Ruki ♥ [No. For example, among the songs we made ourselves I really hate [Cassis]…I hadn’t been planning on making a ballad like that, but in the end it was our own doing, which made the song turn out like that. There after we made [Filth in the Beauty], we made [Guren]…and with that, I / we came to see what it was really like.]

♫ Even if you say this, there are probably a lot of fans, who really like [Cassis].

Ruki ♥ [I understand that much (bitter laugh). Therefore, distancing ourselves from something we have done and performing something live are different things with different feelings to it.]

♫ That’s a lot of twisting and turning, isn’t it?

Ruki ♥ [I’m giving my best. (laughs) This is exactly the reason why I think that time to think about these things is so important. Moreover, for me there are still albums, which I just cannot surpass just yet.]

♫ Oh! Now that’s interesting!

Ruki ♥ [Its would be the music of zilch [a unite which was formed by hide with a couple of musicians from overseas.] Even as I listen to it now, I still think it’s awesome. Als SADS’ album [The Rose God Gave Me]. For me, this is something new inside myself. You can’t really put this under any kind of classification. I think there are very few people, who can make music like this. This is the reason, why I don’t want to think about genres…and make music like that, but that’s difficult.]

♫ So you are talking about music, which is not bound to genres. I think the difficult part is probably not the making itself but rather thinking of it like that.

Ruki ♥ [Yes, it is. Therefore, once I start to think, I really come to dislike my/our earlier self just a bit. (bitter laugh) That’s also the reason, why I look at the time of Gazette until now as sort of the “First Season” within myself. It’s ok to take a break therefore. (laughs)]

♫ Although it is a rather short break, isn’t it?

Ruki ♥ [Even if it is short, it is really important, this time.]

♫ So will 2010 be the start of the Gazette Season 2 then? After all you have been announcing your FC only live tour.

Ruki ♥ [We’ve always said, let’s make a fan club tour, but we weren’t really able o do it then. But we would like out fan club to be a good thing. And I really want to play at the smaller venues again. That’s like samurai training. It’s been about a year and a half since the last FC tour, and I would just like to start over again. To get out of the producing mode again.]

♫ After all a standing live tour is really a bare challenge you would have to face.

Ruki ♥ [Yes it is. Therefore, I will go back to the feeling of the old days again and would like to show, that we still have our fangs!]

[The End]credit >> kiniro-ageha @ LJ

Uruha

I want you to gaze at these gorgeous pictures.
Be sure your eyes look only at him, the prettiest J-rocker.
He is the lead guitarist of the GazettE, Uruha-sama.

=)

Rukism

Topic for Today: Rukism.
Sharing some recent pics of Ruki-san, more rukiness for rukiholics:


Before i decay...
Sexy.


A Hymn of Crucifixion.
Ruki in suit is.... deadly.
fangirls please don't look at him for more than 10secs or u are dead.

specs designed by Ruki-san.

Ruki in specs is CUTE.

I guess this should be the latest pic of Ruki-sama.

I prefer dark makeup than fancy ones.. :x

By the way~ the costume is cool!

-End-

Current mood: happie

Before i Decay

It took me some moments to decide which topic to be selected for this post.
Respond to my msn personal msg "Rotten world",
Before i Decay is chosen.
Sharing some magazine scans which edited by me:


Vocalist: Ruki / Matsumoto Takanori
Birthday: 01 Feb 1982
He is the prettiest man i've ever seen.
arr wait, im not saying about the appearance but the soul of him.
Thanks to Ruki-san, his voice awaken me and pulled me back when i was sunk into depression-the darkest days in my life..
He is the prettiest dark angel, isn't that wonderful?
Similarity wit Jul: emotional, genuine, crybaby, doesn't like sports.. etc etc.
I think he is a negative one.. that makes me feel even more closer to him.


Lead Guitarist: Uruha / Takashima Kouyou
Birthday: 09 June 1981
Similarity wit Jul: (discovering)
Uruha-sama is the only gaze member i find difficult to understand..
perhaps it's bcoz i never take initiative to find out more about him. Gomenasai~


Bassist: Reita / Suzuki Akira
Birthday: 27 May 1981
Similarity with Jul: self-centered n yet gentle..
Although not good at expressing it, Rei-chan definitely has a gentle heart.


Drummer: Kai / Uke Yutaka
Birthday: 28 Oct 1981
Leader of the GazettE, cutest boy!
Love his cute dimple and positive attitude towards anything and everything.
Forgetful Kai~
Similarity wit Jul: cute! LMAO
Kai is seriously CUTE! he loves to cook, he loves to smile.
cute cute cute cute cute


Rhythm Guitarist: Aoi / Shiroyama Yuu
Birthday: 20 Jan 1979
I adore Aoi-san's rhythm!
Similarity wit Jul: doin things at our own pace, very own..
(in this case Aoi-sama is FASTer, julien is SLOWer. hahaahaha)


the GazettE
Genre: Japanese Rock
Variety: Neo Visual Kei
Since: 2002


Similarity wit Jul: aggressive, dark, passionate, genuine, deviant!
Attractions:
In other words, "Julien, what makes you like the GazettE so darn much?"
GAZEROCK, strong personalities, uniqueness, and they go their own way without giving a damn what others think- for the sake of their dreams.
They're motivative aren't they? ^^

未成年

Back on lyrics translation. :D It is sad to see so many versions of Gaze lyrics with diff languages available but not Chinese. Reasons of doing this:
- i have nothing better to do
- interest
- to brush my languages!

Firstly, i would like to thank this lovely community gazettelyrics for providing us gazefans all gaze lyrics + translations.
Secondly i would like to thank kiyoshiyuu for providing the kanji, romanji & english version.
And yes, i translated this song based on both English and kanji version.
(mainly rely on english as my japanese foundation is VERY basic, near to zero. xD)

So here comes Chinese version of Miseinen:

未成年
我鲁莽地四处探索 当时绊倒并不算什么
我知道自己看起来很愚蠢 我只是毫无遗憾地奔跑
我只可以信赖自己 我 并不需要任何伙伴
我以刀刃指向所有东西 青春之翼是易碎和善变的

我想要变得坚强 我要拥有独自生存的力量
真相是因为我只害怕被背叛
单凭逃跑并无法改变任何事物
虽然我明白这一点 我仍然未改变

我骄傲地培育出一种叫做孤独的自豪感
它们是让我逃避到那没用的理想的翅膀
我骄傲地培育出一种叫做自作主张的RIOT
在这道光以外 什么都没有， 例如自由

Teenage Bluely Days
我每一天都淹没于那些风暴日
当我发现时我已背负着孤独
那时很辛苦。真的孤单那又可以怎样
当时我并无指望些什么

我骄傲地培育出一种叫做孤独的自豪感
它们是让我逃避到那没用的理想的翅膀
我骄傲地培育出一种叫做自作主张的RIOT
在这道光以外 什么都没有 例如自由

当时我只说谎是因为最终我忘却了自己真实的一面
有时候你需要展示自己的力量 但依赖他人也是很重要的
当你受伤了。。。 你想哭泣的时侯 就向着天空大声叫道
I don't want forget to myself I want to be as I am ...

我背受重负源于脆弱的自己
父亲 母亲 伙伴鼓励的声浪给予我光线

我骄傲地培育我的孤独和青春期间所受的伤
它们是让我逃避到那没用的理想的翅膀
如果我可以在这片晴空里找到自由
我不介意把这自豪的翅膀给撕破

我开始鲁莽地朝向天空奔跑
展开翅膀开始飞翔 降落的地点叫作“自由”
我曾拥有美妙的家庭 我也曾拥有很棒的伙伴
那些都是至高无上的日子。
如果可以重新开始，我们再次重逢。。



Original Lyrics by Ruki of the GazettE,
you can get it from http://community.livejournal.com/gazette_lyrics/
Chinese translation by Julien. :D

Distress and Coma Series

i am so obsessed with Distress and Coma!
Sharing more pics from Distress and Coma.
*nosebleeding until coma*



Jul's pick:


Cool~


Pretty


Smexy~

Yummy~

Ruki: "I pledge, i will be cute n yummy forever =3"

this is LOVE!

emo ruki

odoru odoru~

i love this

more love from jul