In 2020, a remastering of "Don't get close", which was announced while the world was in chaos due to the corona disaster. The melody and guitar inspired by Donna Summer's "Hot Stuff" expresses the grief of the world by putting the opposite "frustration with closed mind and body". It contains the feeling that there is no place to go to the prejudice born from the distance. The remastering focuses more on Saeko's voice and makes the outline of the guitar clearer. In addition, the sound of the track is expanded to create a more immersive finish. Myopic Saeko's electronic rock song.
This work, "Kanzoku Kantute," was released in May 2020, when people around the world were under house arrest due to the corona crisis. Why are you remastering and releasing it again after 3 years? Let me say a few words here.
It was 2019, four years ago, when the demo of this song was made. At that time, I packed the "difficulty of living" as an expressive person into the lyrics and aimed for an "emotional" singing that was not like Saeko. After many twists and turns, it was a coincidence that the timing to release it to the world was May 2020. At that time, the world was in the “heyday of social distancing”. Unintentionally, it has become a society of the title "Keep away" itself.
I don't want to change the title because I have feelings for it. Nonetheless, as society tends to self-restraint due to the corona crisis, I often feel depressed, and I wondered if I should release this song. Ironically, I was caught up in the concept of "unscrupulous", which is the "difficulty of living as an artist" that I was angry about in this song.
In the end, as of 2020, we didn't promote it and just released it quietly. And I have regretted it for a long time. Because Mr. Keishi Kawauchi's attacking bass, Mr. Takuro Kinoshita's beastly guitar, Mr. Cricket's muddy underground arrangement, Mr. Hiroyuki Hara's engineering...everything is the best.
This time, Hiroyuki Hara, an engineer who was in charge of recording and mastering in 2020 at the time of its release, accepted my feelings and remastered it with an even wider range than at the time. In the 2023 version, the vocals are even more prominent, and the guitar, which is the key to the "emotional expression" of this song, has been added to the breadth and depth. For those who listened to it at the time of its release, and for those who are listening for the first time this time, please give it a try.