Скачать или смотреть 鏡 (テルミン) The Mirror (on the Theremin)

谷山浩子さんの1994年のアルバム『銀の記憶』に収録されている「鏡」をテルミンで演奏しました。
発表からもう30年以上が経つなんて信じられません。この曲の、静かでありながら鬼気迫るような迫力は、時を経ても少しも色あせず、むしろ深く心に刻まれています。
テルミン以外のパートをDTMで作り始めた当初は、クラシックの器楽曲のようなアレンジにしようかとも思っていました。 けれど、原曲の印象があまりにも強く、そして大好きな曲でもあるので、最終的には大きく形を変えず、そのままの雰囲気でカヴァーしました。

I performed "Kagami" ("The Mirror") on the theremin — a song included in Hiroko Taniyama's 1994 album Gin no Kioku (The Memory of Silver).
It's hard to believe that more than 30 years have passed since its release. The song's quiet yet haunting intensity has not faded with time; if anything, it has become even more deeply engraved in my heart.
When I first started creating the other parts with DTM, I thought about arranging it more like an instrumental classical piece. However, since the original has such a strong impression — and I love it so much — I decided in the end not to change it drastically and to keep its original atmosphere in this cover.

Below is the English translation of the lyrics.

The Mirror (Kagami)

Within my sleep, forevermore, a twilight that never fades
A dark western sun searing through cracked glass windowpanes
From this dream of killing you, over and over, I never awake
This screaming knife, from my hand, I cannot shake off

Tell me, where is the mirror? Where is the mirror?
Why is there no mirror to be found anywhere?
Where is the mirror? Where is the mirror? My face, my voice...

Never tiring, repeating within the same dream's gloom
Only the corpses keep piling up, here inside my room
Long, long ago, that one time I gazed upon you
Now buries my dreams, like a cruel mistake I can't undo

Tell me, where is the mirror? Where is the mirror?
Why is there no mirror to be found anywhere?
Where am I? Where am I? A shadow flitting across the depths of memory...

Tell me, that you love me, that you love me
Whisper it to me, over and over
Like the waves, like a song

Whisper it to me, over and over
That you love me, that you love me
Whisper it to me, over and over
Like the waves, like a song
Whisper it to me, over and over


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