Yuki’s Vocalists » Kalafina
Vocalists: Wakana Ootaki, Keiko Kubota, Hikaru, Maya (former)
Composer/Arranger: Yuki Kajiura
Lyrics: Yuki Kajiura
Producer: Yuki Kajiura
Publisher: Sony Music Entertainment Japan
Basics
A new project created and produced by Yuki Kajiura in 2007, to perform the theme songs for Kinoko Nasus film series: Kara no Kyoukai. Only two vocalists appear to have been involved in the first single: Wakana and Keiko, though they were not identified by name. It had been suspected that those two were the vocalists of Kalafina, but it was not confirmed until the first Dream Port 2008 (former site) concert held on April 29, 2008.
Two more vocalists were introduced after the release of oblivious, in the photo shown above. The third and fourth members were revealed to be Maya and Hikaru, on May 23, 2008. All four members participated in sprinter/ARIA, and Maya was absent from the two subsequent singles: fairytale and lacrimosa. Their first album, Seventh Heaven was released in March 2009. In May 2009, Sony officially announced that Maya will no longer be participating in Kalafina, which will continue as a group of three vocalists: Keiko, Wakana, and Hikaru.
In May 7, 2009 a new Kalafina single titled storia was announced for release in July 1, 2009. The song was used as ending theme in episode 9 of NHK’s live action documentary series Rekishi Hiwa Historia for which Yuki Kajiura scored the music, instead of the ending background music that was used in the rest of the episodes. As Yuki Kajiura had methion, storia, is the “japanese language version” of the Rekishi Hiwa Historia theme of which lyrics are in Yuki’s made up language.
In August 26, 2009, at the live event Kalafina LIVE 2009 “storia” , a brand new song named Progressive was performed. A single for this song was released in October 28, 2009. The Limited edition of the single was also containing a DVD with Progressive PV, live performance of love come down, Ongaku and Mata Kaze ga Tsuyoku natta from Kalafina Closed Premium Live on May 19, 2009 and video of the TV programme”utatane” broadcasted on July 18, 2009.
In November 9, 2009 there was announced by the Kalafina site that they will perform the Opening Theme song for the anime Sora no Woto , titled Hikari no Senritsu with single release on January 20, 2010. In the live event Kalafina LIVE 2009 “progressive” there was announced that they will be singing the theme song of the animated movie Eve no Jikan, titled I have a dream. In the same event was also announced that Kalafina’s 2nd album is in production and will be released in spring 2010 (later was confirmed as March 17, 2010). Later was announced that I have a dream will be included in the album, titled Red Moon, which will also include the main theme song of the online game 信長の野望 (Nobunaga no Yabou), titled Hoshi no Utai.
On May 13, 2010 they released their first sheet music book titled “Easy Piano Solo /Kalafina” which was containing sheet music of songs from their Seventh Heaven and Red Moon albums.
On June 9th, 2010 there was announced by Sony and the Kuroshitsuji II website, that Kalafina will sing an insert theme song for the anime Kuroshitsuji II, titled 輝く空の静寂には (Kagayaku sora no Shijima ni wa). On July 13, 2010, the Kalafina official site announced that the song will be released as single, on September 15, 2010.
Kalafina began their live performances opening for Yuki Kajiura LIVE concerts. In April and July 2008, they performed the opening act of the Yuki Kajiura live volumes #1 and #2, and on December 27, 2008, they performed the opening act of the Yuki Kajiura live vol #3. In 2009, they performed at several collaboration concerts with other artists, a fanclub event, and a closed live event for raffle winners who had purchased their album or lacrimosa single. They made their first international appearance at Anime Boston 2009 on May 22-24, 2009, and did their first open one-man live on August 2009. In 24 October was announced their first Live Tour between February 2 and 9, 2010 in the Japanese cities of Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. In the live event “Kalafina LIVE 2009 “progressive” ” there was announce that they would be doing a Asia Tour in the chinese cities of Taiwan, Shanghai and Hong Kong between Febraury 26 and March 7, 2010. Between May 15 and June 12, 2010 they did a tour in 4 japanese cities titled, 「Kajiura Produce 3rd Anniversary LIVE TOUR – Kalafina LIVE 2010 “Red Moon”」, while in 23 May they did Front Act for FictionJunction’s concert in Sendai. Their next Live will be on December 11, 2010 at Shibuya Hall CCLemon.
Interviews
- Animate TV Red Moon (2010) – Japanese
- Beijing Sohu (2010) – English
- Beijing Tencent (2010) – English
- Shanghai Cool (2010) – English
- Shanghai WHENEVER (2010) – English
- Anipara Ongakukan Interview (2009) – Japanese
- Oricon style Special Progressive Interview (2009) – Japanese
- Animate.TV Progressive Interview (2009) – Japanese
- Anime Boston – OSV (2009) – English
- Anime Boston – J!-ENT (2009) English
- Anime Boston – Damn Writers Block (2009) English
- Anime Boston – Anime Dream (2009) English
- Anime Boston – Japanator (2009) English
- Anime Boston – Rokkyuu Magazine (2009) English
- Anime Boston – activeAnime (2009) English
- Anime Boston – J-Pop World (2009) English
- Anime Boston – JaME (2009) English
- Newtype (2008) Japanese
LIVE Performances
April 29, 2008 Dream Port 2008 Kobe (Opening of YK side only)
May 6, 2008 Dream Port 2008 Yokohama (Opening of YK side only)
May 15, 2008 Dream Port 2008 Tokyo (Opening of YK side only)
July 31, 2008 Yuki Kajiura LIVE Vol#2 (Opening only)
December 27, 2008 Yuki Kajiura LIVE Vol#3 (Opening only)
March 8, 2009 Kalafina Kick Off Greeting Vol.0. (Mini-Live)
April 16, 2009 morph-tokyo Onnanoko no Uta (Collab.)
May 2, 2009 Shibuya DE Doomo 09 Pop Up Japan Special (Collab.)
May 7, 2009 morph-tokyo Musou no Rakuen (Collab.)
May 19, 2009 Kalafina Premium Live (Closed; Raffle prize)
May 22 24, 2009 Anime Boston 2009 (w/Kara no Kyoukai Premiere)
June 14, 2009 Kuroshitsuji Event (Collab.)
June 17, 2009 morph-tokyo Onnanoko no Uta (Collab.)
July 22, 2009 morph-tokyo: storia (Collab.)
August 26, 2009 Kalafina LIVE 2009 – storia
September 15, 2009 morph-tokyo: Heaven & Earth (Collab.)
October 11, 2009 Akiha Matsuri festival (Collab.)
October 15, 2009 morph-tokyo: fairytale (Collab.)
October 28, 2009 “progressive” RELEASE SPECIAL in-store event
October 29, 2009 “progressive” RELEASE SPECIAL in-store event
November 3, 2009 Anipara Ongakukan 2009 (Collab.)
November 12, 2009 NHK 「MUSIC JAPAN」Shinseiki Anisong SP 2 (Collab.)
November 18, 2009 Kalafina @ morph-tokyo 『progressive』 (Collab.)
December 23, 2009 Bright Christmas 2009 Kalafina Special Mini LIVE
December 27, 2009 Kalafina LIVE 2009 “progressive”
February 2, 2010 Kalafina LIVE TOUR 2010 ~progressive + ~
February 3, 2010 Kalafina LIVE TOUR 2010 ~progressive + ~
February 9, 2010 Kalafina LIVE TOUR 2010 ~progressive + ~
February 20, 2010 Kera presents Dance Festival~BUTOU-KAI~ COOL JAPAN STYLE
February 26, 2010 Kalafina Asia Tour
February 28, 2010 Kalafina Asia Tour
March 7, 2010 Kalafina Asia Tour
March 19, 2010 Red Moon Release Commemorative event at Tokyo
March 23, 2010 Kalafina at MLIVE
May 15, 2010 Kajiura Produce 3rd Anniversary LIVE TOUR Kalafina LIVE 2010 “Red Moon”
May 23, 2010 Kajiura Produce 3rd Anniversary LIVE TOUR FictionJunction/Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#6(Front Act)
May 29, 2010 Kajiura Produce 3rd Anniversary LIVE TOUR Kalafina LIVE 2010 “Red Moon”
June 5, 2010 Kajiura Produce 3rd Anniversary LIVE TOUR Kalafina LIVE 2010 “Red Moon”
June 12, 2010 Kajiura Produce 3rd Anniversary LIVE TOUR Kalafina LIVE 2010 “Red Moon”
July 4, 2010 Kalafina at Anime Songs Night in Harajuku ~ Jump to the world ~
Jul 30 – Aug 2, 2010 Kalafina at Heatbeat Band Sound Competition 2010
August 6, 2010 Kalafina LIVE 2010 “Red Moon” in Hong Kong
August 28, 2010 Kalafina at Odaiba Gasshuukoku 2010
Discography
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Kalafina – Kagayaku Sora no Shijima ni wa SECL-903 (lim: SECL-901, anime: SECL-904) | September 15, 2010 Single (Kuroshitsuji II Insert, ED 2) 3 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Red Moon SECL-854 (lim: SECL-852 ~ 3) | March 17, 2010 Album 13 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Hikari no Senritsu SECL-838 (lim: SECL-836~7) | January 20, 2010 Single (Sora no Woto OP) 3 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Progressive SECL-816 (lim: SECL-814~5) | October 28, 2009 Single 3 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Storia SECL-788 (Limited Edition SECL-786~7) | July 1, 2009 Single (Rekishi Hiwa Historia Theme) 3 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Seventh Heaven SECL-765 (Limited Edition SECL-763~4) | March 4, 2009 Album (Kara no Kyoukai 7 theme) 14 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Lacrimosa SECL-762 (Limited Edition SECL-760~1) | March 4, 2009 Single (Kuroshitsuji ED) 3 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Fairytale SECL-735 | December 24, 2008 Single (Kara no Kyoukai 6 theme) 3 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Sprinter/ARIA SECL-671 | July 30, 2008 Single (Kara no Kyoukai 4-5 theme) 3 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Re/oblivious SECL-639 | April 23, 2008 Mini-album (Remix) 6 Tracks |
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Kalafina – Oblivious SECL-585/586 | January 23, 2008 Single (Kara no Kyoukai 1-3 Theme) 3 Tracks |
Sheet Music Books
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Kalafina – Easy Piano Solo ISBN 978-4-401-02344-8 | May 13, 2010 Compilation Sheet Music 16 Tracks on 74 Pages |
Appearances
oblivious – Theme song of Kara no Kyoukai: Fukan Fukei
Kimi ga Hikari ni Kaete Iku – Theme song of Kara no Kyoukai: Satsujin Kosatsu
Kizuato – Theme song of Kara no Kyoukai: Tsukaku Zanryu
Sprinter – Theme song of Kara no Kyoukai: Mujun Rasen
ARIA – Theme song of Kara no Kyoukai: Garan no Dou
Fairytale – Theme song of Kara no Kyoukai: Boukyaku Rokuon
Lacrimosa – Ending Theme song of Kuroshitsuji
Seventh Heaven – Theme song of Kara no Kyoukai: Satsujin Kosatsu (part 2)
Storia – Insert Theme song of Rekishi Hiwa Historia (episode 9)
Hikari no Senritsu – Opening Theme song of Sora no Woto
I have a dream – Main Theme song of Eve no Jikan
Hoshi no Utai – Theme song of the game Nobunaga no Yabou Online ～Shinsen no Shou～
Kagayaku sora no Shijima ni wa – Insert Theme song of Kuroshitsuji II
