19. Akatsuki no Kuruma (AMV by Brokedown, vocals by DodongStephen, piano by me)

Today is Kajiura Yuki's birthday! And to honour this I have started a very special project called FanFiction. FanFiction is a Kajiura Yuki tribute album. It features 6 musicians, 11 vocalists and 16 AMV editors from 15 countries. The album has 20 tracks and is over 70 minutes in length. It took me roughly 400 hundred hours and I've worked on it for the past one-and-a-half years!

In my opinion, trying to recreate the original of a song exactly is utterly pointless. I took a slow pop ballad and gave it a jazzy feel. I changed the vocals from female to male with a J-Pop feel. Stephen really performed admirably on this track, making the song his own. Because the arrangement didn't work at the original speed I had to slow it down and the song became over 7 minutes in length, but I hope you will love every second of it!

Piano & arrangements: duVillage ( http://www.youtube.com/user/duVillage )
Vocals & mixing: DodongStephen ( http://www.youtube.com/user/DodongStephen )
AMV: Brokedown ( http://www.youtube.com/user/Brokedown )
Anime: Mobile Suit Gundam SEED

Category:

Music

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• duVillage
• DodongStephen
• Brokedown
• FanFiction
• Kajiura
• Yuki
• tribute
• album
• cover
• piano
• playing
• anime
• AMV
• vocalist
• vocals
• singing
• Mobile
• Suit
• Gundam
• SEED

[silverywhite]

Ah, very jazzy. Nice!

[duVillage]

@silverywhite Thank you silvery! Jups, some Jazz mixed in is nice ^_^

[Asatit0]

O.o

this song is excellent.....

the jazz rhythm is simply excellent... is a refresh for the kajiura's music ((I'm not saying her music needs to refresh, I try to say that this different rhythm fits perfect with the song, and it's different to what we're used to listen....

besides, the male voice is very good in this case.... his voice fits perfect, and gives us a calm sensation...

the track duration is ot a problem... in fact, listen to very good songs as this for more time is great... THANKZ

[duVillage]

@Asatit0 Kajiura has done some Jazz as well, although it is not really her strong suit. Most notably I would say "Ruthless" from Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, that is an awesome Jazz song.

"I try to say that this different rhythm fits perfect with the song, and it's different to what we're used to listen...."

There are many, MANY covers with a really simple and plain arrangement. It is boring. I wanted this to be really different, so I am happy you liked it!

[KayaXNinashi]

Jeez, its beatiful I love it *___* Great AMV, great voice ad and great piano arrengement!

[duVillage]

@KayaXNinashi Thank you so much!

[Asatit0]

@Asatit0

I don't have to forget the gundam AMV.......

I don't know what to say..... thankz...... and thankz... only that...

[duVillage]

@Hanhaaa Yes, he truly is one of the best out there. Strange enough there are only a few good male singers out there that do anime covers, against MANY good female ones. Stephen is definitely somewhere on the absolute top.

" wish someday I'll be good enough to enjoy working with such great people like you are!!!"

You are already great and also already working with amazing people like Chyree, so you shouldn't be complaining ^_^

[duVillage]

@WingsOfLightLegend I am glad you liked it, I was afraid people were not so happy with the length and speed.

[duVillage]

@maki11able1 I am happy to hear that! Brings joy to my work!