Paper Drive

[Machine Translation] Singer-songwriter KURAUCHI Futoshi is a combination of strength and instability, passion and lyricism, youth and neurosis. He wrote the lyrics, sang, performed, recorded, and mixed everything on his new album! With acoustic guitar at the center, various chorus works and collages of various sounds, Kurauchi Futoshi's third full-length album "Paper Drive" is completed. Words (poems) are prescriptions beyond meaning. Melodies are a phantom hope, and sounds are a small lifeline. A delusional literature that goes back and forth between this side and that side, a pop and unstable soundtrack of the brain created by a lone beatnik. The album begins with the words, "I'm going to make a new song, just like the first time I made a song. Kurauchi's music expresses memories, smells, textures, pain, laughter, and loneliness as if for the first time. Laughing at the seriousness, loving the despair. M-02, a beautiful chorus work like a hymn with multiple recordings, which can be described as a one-man Beach Boys; M-3, a soliloquy with acoustic guitar like a real gun "Bonnie & Clyde"; M-06, a strange reggae song with a working-class outsider feel; and M-07, a song about "Don't heal your disease, it's broken, a failure to live. The album includes M-3, a soliloquy like "Bonnie & Clyde," M-06, a working-class outsider's strange reggae song, and M-9, a fantastic song with a vague declaration of determination, sung as "Don't fix the disease, it's broken, it's a failure to live. Tai Otsuka Kurauchi wrote the lyrics, sang and performed the music, and recorded and mixed the entire album. 43 minutes and 55 seconds of innocent, sentimental, strange world. My third album "Paper Drive" is ready! It was recorded over 3 months, and I recorded something every day from February to April 2014. Lots of choruses, drumming, maracas waving, singing, singing, switching guitars, and working hard on the piano. I was in a good mood or a bad mood, but I just kept going to the microphone. It was a great discovery for me that once I started recording and getting into the music, it was always the most interesting part of the day. In addition to recording in the studio, I also recorded at home, in the city, and at my part-time job. It may sound as if I created the whole thing by myself, but it was a hell of a lot more than that. I had musicians, photographers, friends, and my brother listen to the tracks and give me feedback and encouragement as I worked on them. Each track was like a treasure, and I was very careful with my equipment. The mixing of each track was just as painstaking as the performance itself, until I was satisfied with the final product.

力強さと不安定、激情と叙情、青春とノイローゼが同居するシンガーソングライター倉内太。 作詞作曲、歌と演奏、録音&MIXのすべてを倉内太独りで手がけた新作!アコースティック・ギターを中心に、多彩なコーラスワークと様々な音のコラージュが散りばめられた、倉内太 通算3枚目のフルアルバム「ペーパードライブ」完成。言葉(ポエム)は意味を超えた処方箋。メロディは幻の希望、サウンドがささやかな生命線。コッチ側とアッチ側を行き来する妄想文学、ひとりぼっちのビートニクが作り出す、ポップで不安定な脳内サウンド・トラック。「あたらしく歌を作る 初めてみたいに」という歌いだしで、このアルバムは始まる。倉内太の音楽は、過去の記憶、におい、感触、痛み、笑い、孤独を、まるで「初めてみたいに」表現している。シリアスを笑い、絶望を愛しむように。ひとりビーチボーイズとも言える、多重録音を駆使した讃美歌のようなコーラスワークが美しいM-02、アコースティック・ギターは本物の鉄砲「ボニー&クライド」のような独り言M-3、ワーキング・クラス・アウトサイダーな、奇天烈レゲエ・ソングM-06、「病気を治しちゃいけない 壊れてる生きる故障」と歌われる、ぼんやりした決意表明が幻想的なM-9などを含む、自分内宇宙への旅が出来る全12曲。作詞作曲、歌と演奏、録音&MIXのすべてを倉内太独りが手がけた、43分55秒のイノセントなセンチメンタル・ストレンジ・ワールド。僕の3枚目のアルバム「ペーパードライブ」が出来ました!録音期間は3か月間。2014年2月～4月は毎日なにかしらを録っていました。コーラスを沢山、ドラムを叩いて、マラカス振って、歌って歌って、ギターはとっかえひっかえ、ピアノも一所懸命に。すごく調子のいい日も、気分が乗らない日も、とにかくマイクに向かう。録音がはじまり音楽の中に入ると、どんなときでも最高に面白いということは大きな発見でした。スタジオでの録音に加え、家や街やアルバイト先でも録音しました。まるで一人で全部を作ったように聞こえるかもしれませんが、とんでもなくて。周りの音楽家や写真家や友人や兄に途中段階を聴いてもらい意見をもらいながら、励ましてもらいながら作りました。一つ一つのトラックが宝物のようで、機材の扱いも慎重になりました。その一つ一つをミックスする作業も演奏と同じように納得いくまでしつこく作り込み