V.W.P & KAF Talk ‘Kamitsubaki Yoyogi Wars 2024’ Event in Tokyo – Billboard

On Jan. 13 and 14, 2024, <KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO>, the inventive label that’s pioneering Web tradition, might be holding Kamitsubaki Yoyogi Wars 2024. This occasion, the label’s greatest ever, might be held in Tokyo’s Japan Nationwide Stadium, Yoyogi 1st Gymnasium, which has a capability of roughly 12,000. V.W.P, the digital artist group made up of KAF, RIM, Harusaruhi, Isekaijoucho and KOKO, might be enjoying on the primary day. On the second day, digital singer KAF, simply 20 years previous, might be placing on a solo present titled Kaika.

The occasion might be a particular function within the ongoing SINKA LIVE sequence of stay exhibits placed on by digital artists on the Kamitsubaki label. With the primary day of the occasion approaching, Billboard Japan talked to the performers about their ambitions for the present.

KAF, how have you ever been making ready for the occasion? 

KAF: I can’t go into a variety of element but, however I can current myself in several methods in my performances, so I’ve been speaking lots to my workforce about what strategy to take to make the present probably the most enjoyable for the viewers. I’m additionally training singing lots!

KOKO, what are you trying ahead to probably the most about enjoying on the Yoyogi 1st Gymnasium?

KOKO: For sure, I’m enthusiastic about enjoying in a venue as massive because the Yoyogi 1st Gymnasium, and I’m trying ahead to seeing what it appears to be like like from the stage. Within the digital world, I’ve a variety of alternatives to hook up with followers via the display and the web. This time, although, folks might be taking outing of their schedules to return to see V.W.P in particular person, gathering collectively in a single place, so I’m trying ahead to seeing everybody face-to-face on the venue.

Might you discuss slightly in regards to the “Versus” artist collaboration stage efficiency?

KOKO: My opponent within the “Versus” stage might be CIEL. Usually, we stream collectively within the Kamitsubaki Diplomacy Division. So normally, she seems like a colleague, not an opponent. We’re each former brass band members, and in relation to music, we each have our personal sturdy preferences and musical experience. I’ve bought no thought what sort of constructive chemistry it’s going to provide after we carry out collectively. Perhaps it’ll flip right into a tense musical battle? I suppose folks will simply have to return and see.

RIM, how are you feeling because the present approaches? 

RIM: For now, what I have to do is to get Haru (Harusaruhi) to unwind. Not too long ago, I’ve been training the choreography for “Resonance” so I received’t make any errors (laughs). All people’s all hyped for the occasion, and we’re already giving it our all, beginning with the rehearsals!! I’m additionally trying ahead to my half as a visitor performer.

Isekaijoucho, what do you consider the SINKA LIVE present sequence?

Isekaijoucho: Every thing about SINKA LIVE is progressive. It’s an entire new sort of stay present. Every thing, from the digital area to the related tales, is majestic and exquisite, however on the coronary heart of all of it’s our personal music. To share our songs, we have to have a spot to serves as our start line, together with a sure spirit. SINKA LIVE exhibits permit us to dive deep inside ourselves. We’re getting down to uncover our true selves, that are the identical in each the digital and actual worlds. What’s going to we discover via this exploration? How deep will we go? I feel every of us has discovered our personal solutions to those questions. At V.W.P 2nd ONE-MAN LIVE “Phenomena II – Witch Enlargement”, we’re going to be giving it our all, singing true-to-life songs with all our coronary heart, as solely the 5 of us can.

Harusaruhi, might you share slightly in regards to the distinctive qualities of the members that make up V.W.P?

Harusaruhi: KAF’s voice is fantastic, clearly delivering her message straight to listeners. It stands out for its nearly spoken really feel, a very pure mode of expression. RIM has a trendy, relaxed, mushy singing voice. I discover it actually catchy, and it makes mid-tempo songs really shine. Isekaijoucho isn’t only a singer, but in addition a creator, and I discover her originality to be enthralling. I additionally love her distinctive voice. KOKO has a large singing vary. She will be able to sing songs from any style. She additionally places on fantastic stay exhibits, making an enduring impression on anybody who watches her carry out.

How has V.W.P developed because it was initially shaped?

RIM: All of us members have grown even nearer, and the best way we mix our voices has developed!!!  In some unspecified time in the future we misplaced our preliminary awkwardness. We nonetheless have our 5 distinctive voices, however now they mesh easily in our songs. Every of us brings our personal distinctive strengths and we mix them right into a unified complete. The method was so regular I didn’t even discover it on the time, however trying again, we’ve developed lots.

KAF, your earlier principal composer, Iori Kanzaki, was a part of your means of deepening your sound. When he parted methods with the label, you additionally ended your Fukakai sequence of stay exhibits, which you started in 2019. Your solo present, Kaika, on the second day of Kamitsubaki Yoyogi Wars 2024, might nearly be seen as chapter two of Fukakai. What do you assume the highlights might be?

KAF: On this new present sequence, I’m after all making ready performances that may go above and past what everyone seems to be imagining. I feel I’ll be capable of placed on a present that highlights each the modifications I’ve made and the components I’m conserving the identical. Eventually yr’s Nippon Budokan efficiency, I known as on varied friends to sing along with me on stage. This time, as effectively, there might be an unique, one-time collaboration that individuals will solely be capable of see at Kamitsubaki Yoyogi Wars 2024. I hope lots of people come to see it.

Is there something you attempt to do when collaborating with visitor performers?

KAF: After I sing a tune by an artist I like, the very first thing that involves thoughts is their singing type. After I take into consideration how I need to sing the tune, I discover myself setting the unique artist’s personal type as the usual. But it surely’s essential that I sing in my very own approach. The query is how finest to mix the 2. I’m actually trying ahead to attempting out completely different approaches within the present.

KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO has modified immensely whereas continually progressing. It now has fairly just a few creators.

KAF: After I first began my inventive work, I didn’t know a lot in regards to the digital world. Nevertheless, over time, I’ve gone past simply songs. Now, there are a variety of completely different parts that make up the artist often known as KAF. Lots of people’s efforts mix to make me what I’m, however I’m the one who speaks. Since realizing that, I’ve began to assume deeply about simply what I’m.

I really feel like that query ties into the title Fukakai, which is Japanese for “inexplicable.”

KAF: The title Fukakai additionally accommodates a way of “unknown.” There are a variety of occasions in my inventive actions the place I discover myself confronting the unknown. For instance, with the upcoming present at Yoyogi 1st Gymnasium, simply how massive will it’s? How many individuals will come? I do know the numbers, however they don’t actually give me a visceral sense of what it’s going to truly be like. Typically, on stage, I don’t know precisely how the efficiency goes. However the truth that I don’t know signifies that I merely need to have religion. I can transfer ahead, trusting my very own predictions and hopes. I feel that is one thing I’ve found via this sequence of exhibits. It’s actually strengthened my perception in myself.

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—This interview by Mio Komachi first appeared on Billboard Japan