志方あきこ
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志方あきこ – うたかたの花
Biography
Her musical style, though largely in defiance of standard categorisation, can generally be defined as neoclassical with a deep tendency towards experimentation. Many of her songs are progressive and feature elements common to medieval or celtic music.
Her voice tends to takes on the role of an instrument, rather than a driving force, and her compositions typically consist of multi-layered and atypical musical passages, often featuring idiosyncrasies and quirks in the vein of dissociated choirs. She is also known to employ very different vocal styles, sometimes within the same song: a deeper, low-pitched voice; a high-pitched, child-like voice; and her regular, unique soprano voice, of which a more operatic variant can also be heard.
Shikata is known for her knowledge of several different languages and for her use of these in her songs. While she most frequently sings in Japanese and Italian (she has been writing and singing in Italian since her debut), these also include: French, English and German; a host of unusual languages, including Uyghur, Turkish, Greek, Ainu, Tibetan; and Hymmnos, the made-up language created for the Ar-Tonelico game series.
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LavenderYuki
looking at her concert photos with the dramatic hand gestures made me want to cry over the fact that there is never a video of her singing while doing just that. but new album? about time.
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celloria
Yay, for new album! Can't wait for it~
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AfezeriaMiku
sorriso, ressikouki, le lacrime.. my most favorite..and can't wait for the new album too!
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Ustareth
I hope it comes out sooner than later. I have such an impatient soul.
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MarukoKun
Seems like next studio album will be titled "Turaida" and will have turkish lyrics in it. Looking forward to this new amazing work <3
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hue2403
I'm so delighted because Akiko will sing in Turkish on next album.
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celloria
It seems that Akiko really fit with black and white, as Madrangue said. I really loved it!
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Ustareth
I don't want to go as far and automatically say it's a troll, but if it is, I'm going to report this to a moderator. It's funny how all of a sudden low-res pictures where Akiko doesn't even show up on the thumbnail are getting voted to the top now.
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Madrangue
@Ustareth: nice pic! Black and white suits her best, IMO.
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Madrangue
And it still goes on. I wonder how many fake accounts were created to push up these shitty pics. Trolls don't have a life, huh?
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Ustareth
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Ustareth
I hate this current main picture. I can't even see her.
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Ustareth
That's perfect.
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celloria
http://www.last.fm/music/%E5%BF%97%E6%96%B9%E3%81%82%E3%81%8D%E3%81%93/+images/88975099 What about this one? I have edited it though, but if you find it didn't fit you can ask me to remove it! c:
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Ustareth
The top of it needs to be cropped more.
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celloria
Actually this image http://www.last.fm/music/%E5%BF%97%E6%96%B9%E3%81%82%E3%81%8D%E3%81%93/+images/59829137 is good though, but it's not really fitted because half of her body cannot show full. And the colour too dull for me.
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Ustareth
What's going on with these pictures on the front page? They're not even cropped properly. If you're going to vote for pictures or upload pictures, do everyone a favor and make sure they are properly edited. Sheesh.
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Madrangue
Whoever spammed up all these shitpics must be shot.
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aquagon
Additionally, I might make up my own images for some songs, but in the case of songs that are already tied to an specific story, and furthermore, if they were specifically made for it (again, as it's the case for the Ciel Nosurge and Ar tonelico songs), I won't go around imagining up anything (except for images of how the legends told in the songs of Harvestasha, Rhaplanca and Ar=Ciel Ar=Dor would play out due to not being featured in any other form of media), as these songs have already a context and specific feelings to which they're associated, and that is not going to change.
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aquagon
And in which way the events in the game don't do justice to Arphage? There's a reason for why the song is explicitly divided in two parts to begin with. And that the context in which Au GuMu, QoGa, Ec Tisia ~Tarifa~ and Ec Tisia were used didn't do any justice to the songs, all of which were all exclusively made by Shikata? That's just plain bullshit. Au GuMu takes a definite tragic tone alongside the background and sound effects for the battle in which it's featured, while Ec Tisia ~Tarifa~ in both its normal and corrupted versions also fit perfectly the development and aftermath of that battle. And Ec Tisia, showing the restoration of a freaking Planet that has been pretty much on the brink of death for 700 years and which would perish the following year to the game's plot if nothing was done about it, it actually made it feel that everything that was done both throughout that game and its two predecessors was worth it.
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