As always with Kamijo there is a story more or less present and more or less worked behind the words of the songs he writes for the groups of which he was part. His solo project is no exception and starts from the start on a bias of history and concept much more supported than in the songs of the group Versailles to compare. It is his project he decides alone and the narrative is much more present in his songs.
Here the common thread, the basis of the story is the tragic destiny of little Louis-Charles, second son of Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI, also known as Louis XVII.
To decipher this story, there are of course the lyrics of the songs, the different more or less narrative pamphlets that are sold over the albums and tours, some translated interviews and also the Liner by Koichiro Kokubun, a Japanese philosopher who s was amused to analyze the Heart album. The English translation is available on Lazy Cat Wings' Tumblr. It is through this text that I wanted more to immerse myself in all this :
INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE MUSICIAN VAMPIREAND THE PHILOSOPHER FOR REAL SOUND
Clic on the pic below to see the site, two pages...
The pamphlets scanned by me, they are more or less narrative, it goes from one sentence here and there
to more substantial texts. They are all in Japanese, except Epic Rock which is in English.
Vyper magazine is an interview in French.
In 2017 Kamijo had suggested in an interview that he wanted to deliver his story more clearly, which was done in January 2018. Several chapters with a full and detailed narrative were published for three days at the rate of a few chapters per day on his blog Ameba, medium that he used enough eg in recent years The publications have stopped at 18 chapters, plus the prologue, or 19 paragraphs to date. As often in the French fanbase it is Louise of Kamijo Versailles Theories who gives us the translations.
I had already started a narration attempt a few moments ago based on the lyrics, the texts of the pamphlets and the liner. So today we have an "Official" version of this story. This version does not make my version obsolete or useless, because in the end, our Vampire is true to himself, he does not deliver everything in his narrative narrative, the lyrics of his songs deliver things that are not inside and vice versa. The two are complementary. I thought about the best way to share this work and the only logic is to share it the way I discovered it over time. First with the lyrics of the songs available here by clicking on the image.
Lyrics :
To continue the thing or in parallel with the reading of the lyrics I deliver here the story as I understood it through the music, the Liner and the Pamphlets. Each book is a new chapter in this story, often linked to an album or a Pamphlet :
The story delivered by Kamijo on her blog Ameba is therefore almost entirely translated by Louise and the translated portions are already visible on the Facebook page of Kamijo France and here by clicking on the banner below.
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