LYRICAL SYMPATHY

information

Versailles 1st EP: Lyrical Sympathy
Release date:
2007.10.31, 2008.09.30 (reissue)
Label:
Sherow Artist Society, CLJ Records (Europe)
Catalog number:
SASCD-027, SASCD-044, CLJ 8826-2.2
Price: 2,625 yen, 16.99 €
Length: 33 minutes
Ranking: #4 (indies chart), #76 (normal chart)
 
This is the first work by Versailles to be released in stores. The European edition was manufactured and released by the German label  CLJ Records and features a different version of
The Love from a Dead Orchestra.
 
Four songs (
Shout & Bites, Beast of Desire, Forbidden gate, The Red Carpet Day) had been played live since Summer 2007, while a working version of Sympathia was introduced at The Red Carpet Day event (August 31st 2007).
 
The band shot a PV for
Shout & Bites which has been released in the European edition of the album and in the History of the Other Side DVD. A different version of the PV can be seen in the Aesthetic Violence perfume + DVD set.

tracklist

01.

INTRO

(1:10)

[lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO)

 

02.

The Love from a Dead Orchestra

(8:29)

[lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO/lyrics: KAMIJO)

 

 

03.

Shout & Bites

(3:59)

[lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO/lyrics: KAMIJO)

 

 

04.

Beast of Desire

(4:26)

[lyrics]

 

(music: HIZAKI/lyrics: KAMIJO)

 

 

05.

Forbidden gate

(4:39)

[lyrics]

 

(music: HIZAKI/lyrics: KAMIJO)

 

 

06.

The Red Carpet Day

(4:24)

[lyrics]

 

(music: TERU/lyrics: KAMIJO)

 

 

07.

Sympathia

(6:09)

[lyrics]

 

(music: HIZAKI/lyrics: KAMIJO)

 

 


Bonus DVD

   

01.

Shout & Bites (PV)   [lyrics]

 

(music: KAMIJO/lyrics: KAMIJO)    

CREDITS

Vocals: KAMIJO
Guitar: HIZAKI
Guitar: TERU
Bass: Jasmine You
Drums: YUKI
 
Piano: Kazami (DaizyStripper)
English Narration: Leah Riegle
  
Total Produced by: Versailles
 
Guitar Tech: Takuya Kumagai
Translator: Raika
English Editors: Wayne J. Moskwa, Leah Riegle
 
Recording Engineer: Tsukasa Okamoto (innig recording hostelry), Tetsuya Tochigi (bazooka studio)
Mix Engineer: Tsukasa Okamoto (innig recording hostelry)
Recording & Mix Studios: APPLAUSE RECORDS STUDIO, bazooka studio
Mastering Engineer: Yukio Kobashi (Heart Beat Recording Studio)
Mastering Studio: Heart Beat Recording Studio Mastering Room B
 
Promotion: Mayumi Kojima (Delacroix), Susumu Ikouga
Management: Mayuki Kojima (Delacroix), Ayako Oda (Delacroix)
Management Desk: Kubota (Sherow Artist Society)
 
Photographer: Takaaki Henmi
Art Director: wait A minutes (Sherow Artist Society)
Image Model: NATALIA
Hair & Make-up: Nakamura, Matsumoto (Apt)
Costume Design: Sawako Sato (ID-JAPAN)
Costume Supervisor: Hidefumi Sato (ID-JAPAN)
Costume Production: ID-JAPAN C.C.P
 
Stage Crews: Shintarou, Enya, Reita, Aya
Stage Supervisor: Kondou
 
Executive Producer: KAMIJO (Sherow Artist Society)
 
Special Thanks: Descendant of the rose

 

 

© Sherow Artist Society All rights reserved.

Contents by Loire. Layout by Lucifer.

  

editions

 


 

First Press*
2007.10.31
SASCD-020

 

The first copies came with a random postcard.
 


 

European Edition
2007.10.31
CLJ886-2.2
 

Comes with a bonus DVD with the Shout & Bites PV and an additonal booklet with lyric translations.


 

Halloween Edition*
2007.10.31
SASCD-020
 
Alternate cover press limited to 500 copies. Sold at the Node of Scherzo Halloween Special live.



*Sold-out

Second Press
2008.09.30
SASCD-044
 

Edition with alternate cover released after the first press went out of print in 2008.

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