Random thoughts(about Aska 飛鳥涼)

      So

      You bring us all the songs from heaven

      While you were in hell....

Why I think Aska should stay in music industry

After the shocking news about Aska, I listen to his songs almost every day. From youtube I found many clips. From his 20s to his 50s, from his debut in 1979 to Rocket concert 2013. I didn't pay this much attention to his work before. I only knew "Say yes", "You are free"...songs that are quite popular even in Taiwan.

What surprised me is that during these years, his work has been changing and improving. I love his old songs as well, but I can feel that he keeps trying new things in his music.

In the show business, it is hard to be attractive when getting older. But Aska seems developed more and more charm as he ages. Of course he gets old, too. Than how did he do that? Apparently it is because his personality and character.

I can feel his strong will and love for the music. Everytime he sings, it is like his only chance to sing. His soul is in his songs. Completely....he gives himself to the music. It seems that music is the most important thing in his life, and this spirit touched me very deeply.

Aska is a real artist with talent, determination, and spirit. He is not some idol with pretty face. You can feel his passion, happiness, sadness, paradox, struggles in his songs. He sings them from his sensitive, sentimental yet wild and passionate heart.

According to the report about his life in the hospital, he still has his own pace. While following the schedule of the hospital, he didn't stop writing.

He is a tough guy. A singer with the strongest heart.

I don't know what will happen next. But I really want to say:

Aska, please sing for us again!

歌詞 by Aska

叫びは風になった by Aska

人々がゆれている
国が動こうとしている

僕は テレビに釘づけになって 心の何処かで応援してて
確かに 息づこうとしてる街 それは 卵の中の鼓動の響き

銃口の向こうで 幸せを願う人 銃口のこちらで 思想を背追わされた人
みんな 幸せを求めたはずなのに

答は とても早かった まるで ミキサーのように
かんたんに 積木のように倒れる 自由・自由・自由

とても大きな 悲しい日 叫びは風になってしまった

- アルバム『PRIDE』より

チャゲ&飛鳥 「ひとり咲き」ポプコンライブ音源

1987 Christmas special

あなたの、声をきかせて。

あなたの、声をきかせて。

About Aska San

I began to notice Aska when he came to Taiwan 1998. I saw a picture of him singing in the rain on the next day paper and I was attracted to him immediately. 

He was really charming and audience loved him so much. The rain was pretty heavy but nobody carried an umbrella. Even the hostess of the show said that:" Do you think Aska is really sexy in the rain like I do? "

Well...I think I am not the best fan of Aska. I have never owned any CD or DVD of CA or Aska until last month. The song I used to love the most is "You are free". I keep the clip of this song(1995 Taipei tour) in my play list. I love to watch the clip very much. Aska was almost perfect when singing this song. 

He looked so elegant ,but you can feel the passion actually burning in his heart . His voice melted the heart of the audience. My impression of Aska actually is from the clip and never changed until I saw the bad news of Aska. I was not going to believe it until all other things happened than......

So I started to read the Japanese News about Aska with google translation. That's the best I can do so far. I want to know what media in Japan say about this. I also want to know how his fans in Japan feel about this incident.

I do hope he will sing again. I do.

ASKA Kick street

Ｃｈａｇｅ、チャゲアスの曲をライブで全面解禁へ…ファンから大拍手

http://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/hl?a=20150927-00000121-dal-ent

About Aska, the artist I love so much

Just some random thoughts...

As Aska aging, there seems more heavy feelings in his eyes. When he was 20s or 30s, I can see purely passion and romantic feelings in his eyes. To be accurately, less burden or pressure and full of energy.

The beautiful, gentle flames in his eyes can just burn everyone's heart.

In his 40s and 50s, his eyes became heavier and more sorrowful, even when singing happy songs.

It seems there are so many complicated feelings that he is not able to tell the world. Maybe he doesn't think that people will understand, or maybe even himself doesn't know how to express it accurately.

All these feelings are hidden so deep in his eyes and formed essence of his songs. When you look into his eyes, even just through the camera, you know that he is not that young, passionate Aska, but the Aska with a deeper, more complicated soul.

This might be the reason why Aska's work touched people in so many ways in his different period of life. I don't think his work is following the TREND. His work is following his heart, which is full of sensitive, subtle feelings and thoughts about life, love and everything.

But will this be the things that make Aska painful and even became sick...?

Just wondering...

"歌の中には不自由がない" ......does this indicates that he has no freedom in the real life? What kind of freedom is he yearning? Is it painful feeling NOT FREE? What does Aska really want? Why he feels so hard to be free?

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These days I have been watching many clips of Aska's performance. Some are really old clips, some are just 2 years ago.

Well, maybe none of my thoughts are right , those are just some thoughts came to my mine after I watched performance of Aska in different periods.

My Japanese ability is ZERO so if I am wrong please correct me.

Sorry for the long comment...

Aska Ryo~Songs from the soul 穿透靈魂的歌聲 飛鳥涼 (中英文並列)

中文:

我聽飛鳥涼的歌時，我喜歡用音響。把音量開大，可以聽到他如何發每個音，以及他咬字的方式。我覺得他的聲音不但非常獨特，且歌唱技巧也少有人能及。

通常歌手會有歌路，但我並不覺得飛鳥涼有一定的歌路。三十幾年來，他各種風格的歌都唱過。熱情奔放的Say Yes， 個性十足的Tatoo, 溫柔似水的Man and Woman, 闡述內心掙扎的"月亮出來或許會感覺好一些"，情深如海的"抱き合いし恋人", 表達友情的"けれど空は青"， 節奏明快的"Hang up the phone".....無論何種情境, Aska擅長以歌聲傳達各種最細微的感覺和無法言喻的情感。

此刻我腦海裡還想不出有哪一個歌手(不管在哪裡)，的聲音彈性有這麼大。有些女性角色的歌曲如"Moon light blues"，其他女歌手似乎都無法表現得像飛鳥涼那樣淋漓盡致。

飛鳥涼的作品被翻唱不計其數，但缺少他自己的歌聲，總覺得那首歌就少了些味道。

因為他的聲音太過豐富，他可以自由的表現任何他想要的唱法，對他而言似乎並沒有任何限制。

Aska, 請繼續為我們歌唱吧!!

English:

I like to turn the volume up when I listen to Aska's song. I want to catch the details of his voice. How he pronounce every word, and how he manage the music...I am really interested in these details.  His voice is unique, and the his singing skill is also one of the best.

Usually an singer has his/her style. They tend to sing songs that are the same style because their voice are the best for certain style of songs. But I don't think Aska has a certain style. He can sing almost every kind of song. All his songs like "Say Yes", "Man and Woman", "When the moon comes out will feel better", "抱き合いし恋人", "けれど空は青", "Tatoo", "Hang up the phone".....these songs are all very different. Aska is very good at express the most subtle feelings with his voice. 

For now I can't think of any singer who has the same ability like Aska does. Even some songs that are for woman character like "Moon Light Blues", Aska version will always beat the others. 

There are many covers of Aska's song. But I always feel something is missing if the song is not performed by Aska. 

Aska's voice is  very rich and his skill is just incredible. He can sing in any way he wants. There's no limitation for him.

Aska, please sing for us one more time!!

ふたりなら CHAGE&ASKA

.I just found this amazing song... In this performance Aska is doing the chorus for Chage. It is wonderful.....:~~~Aska's voice is like fire(火). It express so much passion that no one can defend. When Aska sings, you can only surrender and be madly in love with him. Chage's voice is like cool, clear lake water(水). The power in Chage's voice can wrap you slowly but completely. It calms you and heals you, take you to a peaceful world full of tenderness. Maybe that's why CA are super together!!! Wow....I miss them so much.....:~~~

Changes in Aska's voice

I have noticed that Aska's voice have changed several times as he aging. The most familiar tone(音色) for me is "Say Yes" period.

I just watched the video in which he sings in 1979, and I think there is a really huge difference from the voice he had developed in his 30s.

Between 30 and 40, he sings with the unique nasal sound(鼻音)。The volume and the texture at that time was the most familiar to me.

His voice start to became a bit "rough"(just a bit) after he was 45 or so. The voice was very different from that he had in his 30s. Of course the volume is still peerless. There seems to be more sorrow and loneliness in his voice. Umm...more "life" in his voice.

To me it seems became less hot, steamy passion but more deeper feelings. Those feelings are so deep that can penetrate the hearts and hurt you.

Just something I found about Aska's voice :))

歌 飛鳥 生命

我喜歡飛鳥涼是因為他唱的每個字都重擊我的心。聽他的歌的時候，我好像進入另外一個世界。很久以來聽歌都沒有這種感覺。我喜歡他每個字發音的方式，唱歌的神情。看著他唱歌，感到他的歌聲進入我心裡一個最黑暗隱晦的角落。

他是個很棒的歌者，他能用歌聲讓我感覺被愛，被安慰。至少對我而言是如此。不只是被打動，而是能深深感受所有的愛、悲傷、痛苦、掙扎....各種感受。我迷戀那種深刻的感受，也讓我想要珍惜這樣的經驗，珍惜這樣的歌者。他唱歌，而我聽他唱歌，這是一個美麗的連結。我對於他的真實人生沒有任何評斷，只希望這樣的歌者可以繼續他的音樂生命，因為世界上美麗的事情太少...

出自於自己自私的心，我只想要保有這份美麗。