[News] Winter diary ~A7 Classical~ - release 23rd December 2015

[JackieRos]

Originally Posted by jiarongisme

Photoshopped the hair away just for the fun of it.

This looks 100% better! Do you have a bigger picture?

[Pieces_of_SEVEN]

Originally Posted by JackieRos

This looks 100% better! Do you have a bigger picture?

Yes, if 100% means almost EXACTLY the same, then yes it, surely does. lol

[jiarongisme]

Originally Posted by JackieRos

This looks 100% better! Do you have a bigger picture?

Sure, I'm not sure why I didn't work with the 1654x1654 from Amazon one in the first place

[aliceshields]

Any purchase count thread yet?

[Bigtop]

One of my favorite Ayu release cover in years...? (So understated!)

[orbitalaspect]

After a few days of this release mulling around my mind, I've realized that about half of this record are poor choices for remixes. I really wished she would have chosen Story, Shape of love, Zutto..., and Walk, instead of choosing Sky high, NO FUTURE, and The GIFT.

I don't think it's going to ruin the experience, but I do think Story, Shape of love, Zutto..., and Walk would have been better received with classical arrangements--especially in the case of Sky high and The GIFT.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

Originally Posted by orbitalaspect

After a few days of this release mulling around my mind, I've realized that about half of this record are poor choices for remixes. I really wished she would have chosen Story, Shape of love, Zutto..., and Walk, instead of choosing Sky high, NO FUTURE, and The GIFT.

I don't think it's going to ruin the experience, but I do think Story, Shape of love, Zutto..., and Walk would have been better received with classical arrangements--especially in the case of Sky high and The GIFT.

I am so with you, except the songs you listed needing to be replaced were the ONLY ones I felt made sense to even put on this album...

[Gustavopc]

As much as I am not fond of the release, I think that avoiding the strings-driven ballads is a great choice cause they are somewhat classical-ish already, these other songs have more potential to sound even better in classical, feeling like new songs (You & Me from A CLASSICAL eg) than a ballad that got more layers of instruments bit other than that was slightly changed

[TheRainbow]

Originally Posted by Gustavopc

I think that avoiding the strings-driven ballads is a great choice cause they are somewhat classical-ish already, these other songs have more potential to sound even better in classical, feeling like new songs (You & Me from A CLASSICAL eg) than a ballad that got more layers of instruments bit other than that was slightly changed

I agree with this; that's the appeal of this release to me. I honestly have no idea how most of these songs will be adapted and I find that exciting. Even if they don't end up working 100%, at least I can appreciate taking a bit of a risk to breathe new life into these songs and present a less obvious remix album. Something like Zutto..., Walk or Anything for You would've been on par with Voyage, M or Days from A Classical--nice, but not surprising. Almost too predictable.

However, I would've been okay with Story (since I don't like it much and might like a classical version better) and Shape of love (since it's great and deserves another bonus treatment).

[attractive nausea]

^ THIS, this is why i'm so looking forward to this release, only three weeks left already

[Refix]

Wouldn't hurt if the picture had something like this

[jbrat2219]

Originally Posted by Refix

Wouldn't hurt if the picture had something like this

That would be really awful actually. I still don't forgive Mika for that.

[Aderianu]

Originally Posted by Refix

Wouldn't hurt if the picture had something like this

only if it looks more real, not like paper snowflake laying on the photo
maybe painting on a face, or frost from Zutto PV

[Machiko]

Originally Posted by Refix

Wouldn't hurt if the picture had something like this

I wouldn't like this either, sorry, the snowflake is really distracting, hiding so much of her beautiful face

[pimenta]

^^ eww, no, that thing on top of her face looks terrible.

[heymrdj]

The cover looks so lazy and tacky, like one of those alan singles no one cares about.

[DonkeyKongRemix]

the cover just makes it seem like this release really means something, her expression is inspired. I know some people don't like the hair but I love it. The colors used on this are perfection, especially those lips!

[ayu_ready?]

the cover is amazing, too bad it's not for original album

[Gustavopc]

I like the snowflake idea but this execution wasn't very good, it looks like a wordart effect I'd rather have ayu's cover plain and simple the way it is tbh

[melissalove]

that "snowflake" picture has fail written all over it. At the beginning I thought it was a giant spider webbing down her face.