Serene state of mind

Some music fans would recognize her with Deep Forest's song "Will You Be Ready" in 2002 before she made a debut.
　

Then, it might not be so surprising that "Nijiga umareru kuni" (the country where rainbow is coming from) was performed with popular local band in Ireland, and used as a theme song of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Japan.

Needless to explain, Cassini is an astronomer who made achievements in Saturn observation.
　This title is named after this astronomer
　　-So is Cassini spacecraft which ended mission at Saturn on Sep. 15, 2017.
It might be only me who listened to the title tune "Cassini -dosei ni waga aru riyuu-"(Cassini -the reason Saturn has rings-) and thought of Cassini orbiter first of all
-Because of the line saying that she is so deeply in love and finds herself going around someone she loves.
Actually, Gen Ueda, the songwriter, was inspired to write this song when he met Chitose after she got married.
In this album as a whole, Chitose expresses circle of people like Saturn's rings that is connected by music.
Nine songwriters and producers took part in this recording.
Chitose says that the atmosphere of songs written by male songwriters and female songwriters are different, and songs produced by female tend to be more passionate.



Back to "Will You Be Ready":
The sampled traditional folk song performed by Chitose was "Itokuribushi", a spinning song in Amami.
Reportedly, this song expresses concerns that thread might break, followed by lines saying if thread breaks, we can tie, but if relationship between people breaks, it's difficult to tie again.
With the lapse of time...
Chitose's latest album as of October 2017 is "Heiwa gannen", a collection of antiwar songs.
　
She made a release of this album in summer 2015, 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.
"Shinda onnanoko", a song about a girl who perished in atomic bombing in Hiroshima, is a song she recorded with Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2005, 60th anniversary of the end of World War II.
Chitose performed together with Sakamoto again in album "Cassini".
"Will You Be Ready" was a song warning whether human race is ready for the results of what they've done.　
What if this is presented to self-centered, imbecline, exhibitionistic, dictatorial rulers who don't know that destroying the world and Earth to flaunt themselves means death of THEIR OWN?
On the interview about "Heiwa gannen", Chitose says that as a singer and mother, she wants to sing and pass down prayer for peace and resolution never to repeat the tragedy of war.
The album "Cassini" is "circle" of people that Chitose has drawn with music.
As I line up her earliest work, latest work and one of the works between the earliest and latest works,
A concept is coming up that Chitose is connecting people and people with music.

"Cassini": July 16, 2008, ESCL-3090, Ariora Japan
"Heiwa gannen": July 22, 2015 AUCL-184, Ariora Japan

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