SUGIZO about Charity and Music interview - 06.11.2011 00:01 author: Kay SUGIZO 关於慈善和音乐 To change the topic to music: you will be releasing two new albums in December: Flower of Life and Tree of Life. Why did you choose to release two instead of just one? 改变话题到音乐：你将在12月发行两张新专辑：Flower of Life和Tree of Life。 为什麽你会选择发行两张专辑，而不是一张？ SUGIZO: Just because I had too many songs. These two years I released so many digital singles, at first I thought I needed to choose songs for one album. However, many people, many fans wanted all the tracks I’ve released on CD. So that was too many songs. That’s why I decided that it was better to do two albums, not a double CD but just two albums. One album is my pure, original music, the other includes remixes and collaborations. 只是因为我有太多首曲子了。这两年来，我发行了太多数位单曲。一开始我想说我需要 选歌来做成一张专辑。然而，很多人、很多歌迷希望我发行的那些歌都能全部收到CD里。 但那样有太多首曲子了。所以我决定做成两张专辑比较好，不是一张双CD专辑，而就 是两张专辑。一张专辑是我纯粹、原创性的音乐，另一张则是包含了混音和合作的音乐。 How many new songs are on the albums? 两张专辑里有多少新曲呢？ SUGIZO: Forty percent is new songs, but all of them have been mixed newly and all the songs have been arranged anew. Some songs are re-recorded. 有40%是新曲，但是所有的歌曲都有重新混音，而且也全部重新安排过。有些歌是 重新录制的。 Are you already finished with the recordings? 你已经完成录制工作了吗？ SUGIZO: I just need to master them. I’m about 95 percent done; I hope to do it tomorrow. But tomorrow I also need to go to Seoul for X JAPAN’s concert. I’m really busy. 我只剩最後的mastering阶段了。我大概已经完成了95%。我希望明天就能做完。 但是我明天还需要去(韩国)首尔的X JAPAN演唱会。我真的很忙。 Can you tell us a little bit more about the concept of each album? 你可以跟我们说一点关於两张专辑的概念吗？ SUGIZO: Flower of Life is my fourth original album. At first the image is very psychedelic, spiritual, cosmic and electronic. My guitar sound is very important too. Not all of them, but a few songs have very important messages. This album is totally instrumental, there are no lyrics, but they have very important messages and meanings. Flower of Life是我的第四张原创专辑。一开始的影像是非常迷幻的、精神上的、 宇宙的、以及电子的。我们吉他声也很重要。不是全部的歌曲，但是有一些曲子有 很重要的讯息。这张专辑完全是演奏的，没有任何歌词，但是他们有很重要的讯息 和意义。 But if you want to convey a message with a song, don’t you think it would be easier to do this with lyrics? 但是如果你想用歌曲传递讯息，你不觉得透过歌词会比较简单吗？ SUGIZO: I think so, but usually I write my messages. I just wanted free space for music. So if the listener is touched by my music I hope they can imagine a vision. I want them to feel one strong image. Any free inspiration from music has a very important meaning for me. Please listen to it. I wanted to write an instrumental album, but for vocals, maybe I would need a good male vocalist, but not me. 我觉得是，但是通常我写下我的讯息，而我只想要让音乐有自由空间。所以如果听者 被我的歌曲所感动，我希望他们能想像一个幻想。我要他们能感受一个强烈的影像。 音乐所带来的任何自由灵感对我来说都有很重要的意义。请听它。我想要写一张演奏版 的专辑，而至於歌声，也许我会需要一个好的男歌手，但不是我。 You don’t like to sing yourself? 你自己不喜欢唱吗？ SUGIZO: Sometimes I do. From the point of view of producer SUGIZO, if he wants SUGIZO’s voice, okay, I can do it. But usually producer SUGIZO thinks he’s not a very good vocalist. But if I want a good vocalist, I’ll find one producer SUGIZO wants to use. I’m just too busy to find time to train for being a vocalist. I think my guitar and my violin work is very important and I think I should train with these more. Usually just for my fan club members I can sing, with my acoustic guitar. It’s very comfortable for me, in a very private setting, but it shouldn’t be too big. So it’s a very compact and private, but also a very deep, show. I like that feeling a lot. 我有时候喜欢。从制作人SUGIZO的角度来看，如果他要SUGIZO的歌声，那ok，我就去作。 但是通常制作人SUGIZO觉得他不是一个很好的歌手。所以如果我要一个好歌手，我会找 一个制作人SUGIZO想要用的歌手。我自己就是太忙而没时间训练成为一个歌手。我认为 我的吉他和小提琴是很重要的工作，而我觉得我需要多训练这方面。通常只对着我的 FC(歌迷俱乐部)的会员，我能弹着我的民谣吉他唱歌。这样在一个很私人的场景下， 对我来说很自在，但是这场景部能太大。所以要很紧密和私人、而且很深入的表演。 我很喜欢那样的感觉。 How about the second album, Tree of Life? 那关於第二张专辑 Tree of Life呢？ SUGIZO: This album contains a lot of collaborations and remixes. Each artist that I worked with was very great. For example, SYSTEM 7 is my favorite techno artist. As you know I’m part of JUNO REACTOR, and this song is very psychedelic trance music. YOUTH is also doing psychedelic techno music. He is part of Killing Joke, which is a very legendary new wave punk band from the 1980’s. Toshinori Kondo is a very big trumpet-player. He is over sixty years old, but his skills, his musicianship is very beautiful. I respect him a lot. And MaZDA is one of my partners. For this album I really needed his skills. His arranging and programming work joined my work, and it’s very great. 这张专辑包含了很多合作和混音的歌曲。每一个合作的艺人都非常棒。例如，SYSTEM 7 是我最喜欢的techno乐手。而你们也知道我是JUNO REACTOR的一部份，而这歌曲是很 迷幻恍惚的音乐。YOUTH也是做迷幻techno的音乐。他是Killing Joke的一份子，是1980年 代一个非常传奇性new punk wave乐团。Toshinori Kondo 是一个很重要的小喇叭乐手。 他已经超过六十岁了，但是他的技术和他的音乐修养非常漂亮。我非常敬佩他。而MaZDA 是我的伙伴之一。在制作这张专辑中，我很需要他的技术。他的编排和编制加入了我的 作品，而且非常棒。 When did you compose the songs? 你什麽时候创作了这些曲子？ SUGIZO: Some songs are really old, others are very new. For example, CONSCIENTIA I wrote almost two years ago. The first step of this album was about three years ago. But ARC MOON is very new, and so is LEMURIA. I wrote LEMURIA only two weeks ago (laughs). 有些歌曲很旧了，而其他的很新。例如，CONSCIENTIA是我在大约两年前写的。 这张单曲的第一步大概是在三年前踏出的。但是ARC MOON是非常新的，而LEMURIA也是。 我才在两周前写了LEMURIA (笑)。 What were your sources of inspiration? 你的灵感来源为何？ SUGIZO: For each song it’s different. For example CONSCIENTIA has a very big meaning. I was inspired a lot by crusaders, like the Christian crusaders in the middle ages. And Islamic war and disaster. Even now they are still fighting. I really want to say we should awaken, we should do something together. And ENOLA GAY, this is an expression from genbaku, the atomic bomb. The song is very hard and sad, but ultimately it leads to concepts of 'prayer' and 'wish'. FOLLY is about Burma, Myanmar’s problems, there is so much war. Each song has a very strong meaning to me. But no lyrics, just images, feelings, just inspiration I wanted to create. Usually I like my words and I speak so much, but I didn’t want it in the music. 每一首歌的都不一样。例如CONSCIENTIA有很重要的意义。我被十字军启发了许多， 像是中古时期的基督教十字军，以及伊斯兰战争和灾难。到现在他们都还在打战。 我很想说我们需要清醒，我们需要一起做些什麽。而ENOLA GAY，这是来自原爆的表达， 原子弹。这首歌很强硬也很悲伤，但最终通往”祈祷”和”希望”的概念。FOLLY是 关於缅甸的问题，有太多战争了。每一首歌对我来说都有很强烈的意义。没有歌词， 只有画面、感情，只有我想创造的灵感。通常我喜欢我的书写，而且我也讲很多话， 但是我不想要它们在音乐里。 原文： http://www.jame-world.com/uk/articles-80491-sugizo-about-charity-and-music.html --

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