neue welt

[Machine Translation] dip, one of Japan's leading alternative guitar rock bands and a favorite of Johnny Marr (ex.THE SMITHS), has released their new album "HOWL" and "OWL" in 2013, 9 months after 4 years in the making... The new album was completed in a short period of time for the first time in the band's history. - Here is dip's new challenge to build a "neue welt (new world)". Includes 13 songs including " HASTY ", " melmo ", " It's late " (newly recorded), which were inserted in the latest movie "CROWS EXPLODE" directed by Toshiaki Toyoda. The album contains 13 songs including "HASTY", "melmo", and "It's late" (newly recorded). The title of this new album, which means "new world" in German, is certainly a new horizon for dip. This experience seems to be reflected in the new album. When "HOWL" and "OWL" were released simultaneously last July, he already had the idea of "expressing something darker and colder next," and he says of the completed new album, "I feel the brightness of the album 'HOWL' was necessary to separate the darkness of the past from that of the present. Perhaps it is not because he was in Europe in late autumn, when the days are short and the land is hard and cold, but "neue welt" has a chilling coolness to it. The album has a dark side with distorted guitars, psychedelia with a bottomless beat and a sense of tension, pop numbers with thrilling bouncing guitars, fantastically sounding guitars, sad ballads with dry lyrics, and heavy tunes with a gentle touch. With Hosokaiyo's keys coloring the sound, "neue welt" was enveloped in a darkness that increased in scale while maintaining dip's signature flavor. It is the color of a gaze that looks deeper into one's inner self. Looking back, "HOWL" and "OWL" were the return point of the path that the three original members - Yamaji Kazuhide (Vo,G), Yasushi Nagata (B), and Noriyuki Nakanishi (Ds) - had been walking since their reunion in 2007 after a seven-year interval. Perhaps they were able to see the next path after having exhausted themselves there. The person who gave him the push to continue on his new path was film director Toshiaki Toyoda, a close friend of Yamaji's. Toyoda has also worked with Yamaji on "Nine Souls," a film that was released in 1985. He has worked on the soundtracks for films such as "Nine Souls," and has also been involved in dip's music videos and live performances.

あのジョニー・マー(ex.THE SMITHS)も大好きな日本を代表するオルタナティブ・ギター・ロック・バンドdip(ディップ)。4年の制作期間をかけ 2013年発表したalbum「HOWL」「OWL」から9ヶ月...バンド史上初の短期間での制作でnew Albumが完成。～neue welt(新しい世界)～を構築しようとするdipの新たなる挑戦がここに。豊田利晃監督最新作「クローズEXPLODE」劇中挿入曲”HASTY”,”melmo”,”It's late”(新録音)を含む13曲を収録。新世界を意味するドイツ語をタイトルにしたこの新作は、dipにとって確かに新しい地平なのだ。dipを率いるヤマジカズヒデ(Vo,G)は、昨年11月に以前から関心のあったベルリンを訪れ、東西に分断されていた街の歴史を実感してきた。この経験は少なからず新作に反映しているようだ。昨年7月に『HOWL』『OWL』を同時発売した時、すでに「次はもっと暗く冷たいものを表現したい」との構想を抱いており、完成した新作について「以前の暗さと今回の暗さを分断するためにアルバム『HOWL』の明るさが必要だった気がしている」と言う。日中が短く硬い大地から底冷えする晩秋の欧州にいたからというわけでもないだろうが、『neue welt』はゾクリとするようなクールネスを漂わせている。歪んだギターが引き込むダークサイド、ボトムの座ったビートに緊張感溢れるサイケデリア、スリリングなギターが跳ねるポップ・ナンバー、爪弾くギターが幻想的に響き、ドライな歌詞が切ないバラード、どこか優しいヘヴィ・チューン。細海魚の鍵盤が妖しく彩るサウンドで、『neue welt』はdipの持ち味はそのままにスケール感を増したダークネスに包まれた。それは、より深く自分の内面を見つめる眼差しの色だ。振り返ってみれば、『HOWL』『OWL』は、07年7年ぶりにオリジナル・メンバーである3人ーーヤマジカズヒデ(Vo,G)、ナガタヤスシ(B)、ナカニシノリユキ(Ds)ーーが再会してから歩み続けて来た道の、ひとつの帰着点だった。そこで吐き出し切ったことで、次の道が見えていたのかもしれない。新しい道を進むべく背中を押したのが、ヤマジと親交の深い映画監督の豊田利晃だ。これまでにも『ナイン・ソウルズ』などのサントラをdipは手掛けており、dipのPVやライヴで