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Sato: There’s a Different Level of Soul We Put into the Songs We Create as Trio”
– Mori said he was reminded the past when you guys actually started playing together. How about you, Sato?
Sato: Going into the studio to write songs was totally normal, but working with Mokkun, at first, I felt like I was trying to “get along” with him. When we used to work together, I knew only a few other drummers, but after having played with many drummers since then, I was playing while remembering Mokkun’s greatness and what I liked most about him.
Sato: Also, when I play with Mokkun, I have to be strong in playing my instrument or it doesn’t make much sense. Maybe it’s the songs that the three of us make together that makes it so, but I was thinking that I don’t play my instrument so strongly these days in live performances or recordings.
– That’s not simply because you play so loudly?
Sato: It’s not like that either. The three of us put our hearts and souls into the songs we make together. I guess that’s what I was thinking.
Mori: My sense is that this time, rather than “Sayonara Stranger” or “Zukan”, I had the feeling of the “TEAM ROCK” days or even earlier. I don’t know how to explain it.
– How do you feel about it?
Kishida: There are some references to what we did before, or “this person did this, so let’s do this” in some places, but it’s nothing more than “Oh, by the way, this person likes Curry”.
What we’re creating is new music, so there are fewer elements of self-cosplay, and as for pinpointing any specific work… Well, I don’t think about it that much from the piece’s perspective. However, I recall the times it went well, and I think, “Let’s make it work as smoothly as it did back then.”
Sato: At the time of “TEAM ROCK,” there were an awful lot of rejected songs, and since CD singles were at their peak, we released an awful lot of songs for couplings and so on, and some of them were just plain silly.
But after we made our major label debut, it was hard to make songs like that, and we didn’t have the sense that the songs we would play at live shows as a small soundtrack would become songs, so I don’t think we played those rootsy songs as an army. I think we were able to create a song that is a little bit different from the antics of the old couplings, that is more like our original selves, and yet is still a song in its own right.
