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For both Shibata as the Creator and the Audience, “Your Favorite Thing” embodies a sort of ‘festival’
-Your album “Your Favorite Things” also has a stronger dance music element, doesn’t it?
Shibata: Yes, it does. I feel that I am becoming more sensitive to the joy of music that I can feel with my body. I am still a little embarrassed to dance in clubs, but I think that dancing to music is one of the most powerful joys among all human activities. When shit happens in my personal life, I have the feeling of getting into the joy of rhythm even more, as if in inverse proportion.
Natsume: I thought this album was getting into a zone that could be called “hedonistic,” and seriously, Parliament’s live album “Live! P Funk Earth Tour” (1977). In other words, I thought that we were at the entrance to a dangerous zone, or that you finally got a ticket to Wonderland.
Shibata: (laughs). For the past six or seven years, I have managed to live my life as an adult in a spirit of harmony and symbiosis, not disappointing those around me or making my parents cry, but I have reconfirmed that there are still many contradictions, such as hurting each other. I realized that I have been suppressing my inner urge for pleasure, or more specifically, my urge for anti-morality, in an irrational way.
The first thing that comes to my mind is that it would be better if I did not have to hide them from the public. I’m suddenly enjoying playing music so much that I’m a little scared. Music is the best! I’m in a state of explosive excitement. I’m exploding with the feeling of “Music is the best!
Natsume: I love it. I think this album is really swirling with such feelings.
Shibata: However, when I have to love people at the same time as having such a joyful feeling, I am also calmly thinking to myself, “How can I live in this society in the future? I am afraid that I will be so absorbed in the joy of music that I will not be able to take responsibility for loving the people around me. That’s why I think that the only way for me to do that is to make music! That’s why I feel like I have no other choice but to make music!
Natsume: I feel that this album provides a space where anyone can come in and enter such a dangerous zone.
-I think “Your Favorite Things” may be a kind of festival for both you, the creator, and the listeners. Dancing is also essential to festivals, in the sense that it exists as an extraordinary event that is a safety valve for the everyday.
Shibata: Well, you are really right. I think they are appeasing something raging with music.
Natsume: It’s a really bad album when you think about it like that (laughs). Your Favorite Things” as a strange festival. It’s great.
Satoko Shibata “Your Favorite Things”
February 28, 2024 release
Price: 3,300 (tax included)
DDCB-12121
1. Movie Light
2. Synergy
3. Under the eyes
4. Upside Down
5. White Chair
6. Kizaki Lake
7. Side Step
8. Reebok
9. Honesty
10. Your Favorite Things
Summer Eye “Daikichi”
Tuesday, March 21, 2023 release
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- Courtship (new mix)
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- Sugoroku
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- Life (new mix)
- Shuikeng (new mix)
- White Whale
- Daikichi
