[...] only thing missing is the singer Kyo, hidden in the band bus. It has been described several times as mysterious, dark, incommunicative, a poet and a genius by those who met him or heard his music. Offstage writes poetry under the name Tooru Nishimura and claims not to have friends of any kind. Can simply stand on stage in front of the public and refuse to sing. It can also cut and bleed on the floor. Or, you can simply open his mouth and pour out the words that he says come from the darkest place I know - his heart.
rarely speaks to the press. But today he made an exception and is called by the band bus to the dressing room to sit beside her bandmate Kaoru. For the most part let the guitar speak, preferring to sit quietly in a corner, looking so deadly in front of himself a blank wall. It is only later, when is alone, that begins to speak of the forces that drive it - early in monosyllables, but then more fluidly.
Both speak with a translator, their English is fast enough for a conversation but can not go further. So, gradually, the band's history is apparent in this quiet dressing room backstage - the first in Japanese then in English
.[...] It was shortly after the publication of the second album, Macabre, which is something that happened would change the life of the singer Kyo forever. Standing too close to a flash box, used for pyrotechnics on stage, has become deaf left ear. Hospitalized and terrified that he would never have heard fell into depression.
"I was scared, the only thing I had was the music and suddenly it seemed that I could no longer write" he says. "This has me terrified. I did not know what would happen. I am a singer and if I can not hear, I can not even sing. "
When Kyo was released from the hospital - not deaf, as feared, but the left ear with the hearing permanently damaged - it was very changed. Finished ornaments were gorgeous, the shimmering makeup and costumes of the visual kei movement that once the band followed. In their place was a singer with renewed vigor, with a poor view of its physical sensations on the stage. It cut the skin before the public, clawing his face and chest, relying solely on his instincts. It is something that still does.
"I never thought that people would give all this importance to the appearance - that's why I started to hurt me on stage," he says. "This marks the point where I really wanted to push myself to try to convey more of myself through my words. Now everything happens exactly as you see on stage. Do not scare me, but I lose a lot of control. "
is a complex figure, as he sits quietly alongside guitarist Kaoru, it is only when it remains just beginning to talk. In any case, most say, unless you think you can figure it out. Abruptly each approach to the meaning of his lyrics, or about what inspires him - only answered "I write about what I'm trying the exact memento of this writing." Some of his songs include themes such as rape, abortion, abuse, sexual obsessions and religion - issues that have attracted the attention of the band on the Japanese censors.
experiences that are tested on their skin?
"I do not want to talk about."
These are experiences that have touched his close friends?
"I do not want to talk about."
are stories that you read it?
"I will not talk about it. I prefer that people give their own interpretation. I want people to listen to music and words as a whole - this is not to pull out a special meaning. For me it's the same when I listen to a CD in English. I do not understand the words but listen to the sounds that the singer produces and join all the music. It's so I want to be listened to our music. "
What is clear, I think, is that Kyo's lyrics do not come from a happy place. Translating, most scenarios show that at best they are sad.
"I'm very pessimistic, so even if every time something good happens, I always think it will not be forever - will disappear," he says. "I feel like if there was anything good in my life."
So for him to write is a form of therapy?
"I wish I had something in my life, which is capable of clearing, but I do not think they do write and sing, "he says. "I do not think that things will never be good for me. I would like to stop being a pessimistic person, but I think if I became a happy, carefree, I would not be myself. "
is solitary by choice, one that has few friends and that allows a few to get closer. While living in close contact with his bandmates, who knows from childhood, it remains alone on the sidelines.
"I've never known anyone to be that friend really," he says. "Many people believe they are my friends, but I've never met anyone whose personality align with mine. There are many people with whom I can stay on a superficial level, but I can never go more in depth with anyone. On your phone, if someone has not been felt for six months, the gate so I do not remember who he is. "
" It's not that I do not want people who are close to me or know me - I'm just living my life, "he adds. "I like that. I live as I suggest in my emotions, my feelings. They are the opposite of Kaoru - never wants to get carried away by his emotions, but I always do. My emotions are all over. I do everything I feel I have to do. "
京 - interview for Kerrang!
not I translated it, I do not even remember where I got it, I had simply saved in the PC.
Sorry.
优 西村 .
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