From an`an magazine №2081 | December 13th, 2017 (1st revision)

Perfume

Shin-Sorette-wakaran!

(How come it’s going to be like that? Rebooted)

Title of the week

NOCCHi’s “A part of NOCCHi”

Am enjoying recording these days!

NOCCHi I AM enjoyING recording sessions these days, because ALTHOUGH we’ve been working together with Nakata Yasutaka san FOR more than 10 years ; MORE RECENTLY DUE TO THE RAPID DEVELOPMENT OF recording mics, THEY can pick up not only a LOUD voice but also a faint voice or a subtle voice like a breath. The feeling of the recording mic is completely different from ones we’re using on the stage, so, it has made recording sessionS really tough. Say, I have a tendency to ONLY SING loud, but I FOUND THAT I don’t need TO sing loud anymore. I’VE THEREFORE STARTED TO find recording sessions charming again. Maybe since “Everyday”…

Anan That’s good for you!

NOCCHi While our recording mic has improved, on the other hand, I went through Nakata’s Spartan ways of direction for the first time in a long time. I have to give an account of it. When we were recording “If you wanna”, I got stuck on the part of “me” of “If wanna love me”. He said my pronunciation of “me” was like “mi, i, i~” and he directed me to lengthen the note “me”, but I could not get into the groove, so, I was ordered to retake this part as many as 20 times.

Aachan Nakata san would have had something like an established idea about those partS, maybe. Yukachan and I passed through it without stopping, but NOCCHi entered the minefield.

KASHIYUKA Nakata san no sooner orders me to redo than HE ASKED FOR A RETAKE, just saying, “All right!”, so I hardly have time to catch my breath. NOCCHi was really awesome cos she accepted his Spartan ways in THIS situation.

NOCCHi If I had been a junior high student, I would have been singing with tears in my eyes (lol). But THIS time, I was singing with thanks cOS he never gave UP ON me. I really enjoyed that. And recently we recorded the new song, “FUSION”. This one is truly IN THE Nakata world of get-up-and-go. Our voices were just “fusion” and then, just shouting “ya!”. This time, we haD no lyrics sheet, and just before recording he told me, “Shout. That’s all.” (lol). Whenever we record a song, we’VE always sUNG in the order Aachan, KASHIYUKA and me FOR many years. Aachan and KASHIYUKA sang, “fusion” in high tone as usual, and then SAID, like, “Say it with MORE OF A bad-tempeR, right?” To say “ya!” is difficult because it is not used usually among Japanese though, “ya!” by both of them has reached the tones and atmosphere THAT’S never been heard before. So you can find something new. It has become a sort of song I like.

Anan NOCCHi san, did you sing ill-humoredly also?

NOCCHi At the beginning, I’m more low-voiced than Aachan and KASHIYUKA, so in my turn, I sang “fusion” in a low voice as the both did, and then, I was called for a retake, like, “Sing more freely!”. He has already detected I was singing routinely (lol). What I recorded was, rather than singing the song, but just whispering a phrase. A voice, by nature, is not an audible sound, but you can catch it. It’s like a horror film. Nakata san’s directions are also like this and very fantastic. Many new tunes are following this, so don’t go away!

Picture 1

Unveiling the new tune, “FUSION” on the live broad casting of docomo × Perfume “FUTURE-EXPERIMENT”!

Picture 2

The three of Perfume in separate places, and the three performing at the same time. I was in charge of NYC. The venue was behind the vault OF a bank!

Picture 3

In the Brooklyn Park, I took a selfie with a background of Manhattan at my free moments during shooting for the opening movie.

A~chan “At the final sequence of “FUSION”, NOCCHi was dancing with swinging around, but it has no significance (lol).”

KASHIYUKA “ Nakata san’s first Spartan ways in a long time. Well done, NOCCHi!”

Translator: KW (Japan. A member of Perfume SCHOARE)

“I think what she really felt slipped out this time. So I could finish my part within few hours. Actually, what NOCCHi says is deep, always…

AB san’s some edits, in CAPITAL.”

Final Proofreading: AB (England. Maybe, a member of Perfume SCHOARE)

“I am not sure if I have followed the right procedure, K sensei, but I made some small edits and used CAPITALS just to emphasise what I changed (difficult to show a few words I deleted though).

This is interesting… it’s important not to change her words too much since it has to still sound like Nocchi’s energy I think!”

Pinch hitter and clutch proofread debut! Thanks AB!!!