I just came from the office over there in Kawasaki. Haruko Akamatsu said, "Everything went well today. ”

"Good work. Iwahashi said.

The studio was poorly furnished, with not even a decent sofa.

Masato Nakamura brought a chair over, and Haruko Akamatsu thanked her and sat down on one side of the square table. The three of them each occupy one side of the table, this configuration, if Miwa-chan didn't go to the hometown meeting today, it wouldn't be a problem to come to a table of sparrows.

There was still a sheet music scattered on the table, and Haruko Akamatsu confirmed to him, "Can I take a look?"

"Please. Iwahashi said.

Haruko Akamatsu picked up the one closest to her, read the sheet silently, and asked, "Are you sorting out Yoshida-san's songs?"

"The words of Miwa sauce, the song of Masato-san. Iwahashi said, "How do you feel?"

Haruko Akamatsu finished reading the one in her hand and picked up another one, ""BIG MOUTHの反襲"?" she couldn't help but laugh, "What an interesting theme." ”

"It's a lyric that only our Miwa-chan can come up with. Iwahashi said.

Haruko Akamatsu said, "You have a very proud tone for Yoshida-san. ”

"After all, it's her 'guardian'. "Iwahashi Shinichi took advantage of Miwa-chan's absence and worked hard to make a profit.

There was a "third party" who knew music, and Masato Nakamura couldn't wait to hear the opinions of outsiders, so he showed the finished sample to Haruko Akamatsu, "Let's hear the actual effect." ”

......

"The flavor of foreign music is very good. After listening to the sample, Haruko Akamatsu expressed her thoughts.

Miwa Yoshida and Masato Nakamura were deeply influenced by Western music, and the songs they wrote had a very strong Western flavor, which was different from traditional Japanese songs.

Haruko Akamatsu can hear the point with one ear, which is also quite powerful.

"It took a lot of effort to make sure that I matched Miwa-chan's style, but also to maintain my own style. Masato Nakamura explained.

"It took a lot of effort, that's true. The person who answered was Shinichi Iwahashi.

As the first person to handle the production of Yoshida Mikazu's lyrics, he can be said to have the deepest understanding of Yoshida Miwa, and the few songs produced by Nakamura Masato this time, Iwahashi Shinichi imagined the effect of being sung by Yoshida Mikazu, and there was no sense of disobedience.

It is tailor-made and can fit very well, which shows that a lot of effort has been made.

Haruko Akamatsu, who came suddenly, was entangled by two people and asked her thoughts after listening. After the topic ended, Haruko Akamatsu paused, and mentioned another thing, "Actually, this time I came here, and there was a musician who wanted to introduce him to Iwahashi-san. ”

"Oh?" Iwahashi Shinichi was intrigued.

"He's an all-rounder, he can play bass and keyboards, he can play a little drums, and in terms of composition, he is very influenced by the police band, and he is also very good at writing AOR (adult lyrical rock - replacing adults for harmony). ”

"Well, it's quite detailed. Iwahashi nodded cautiously, "Isn't it a treasure you dug up in the underground music scene?"

"If you dig up treasures, how can you dig so much in detail for a while. Haruko Akamatsu smiled.

Compared to when she first came to Shinichi Iwahashi, Haruko Akamatsu's personality has become a little more easy-going. This is probably due to the fact that after the attack, she worked hard to learn to be a spectator.

Being an audience not only taught her how to enjoy the performance, but also learned how to feel the emotions of others from the performance, which made her more humane.

For people who have been sick for a long time, their human affection will be weakened by the disease.

Watching a show doesn't cure this side effect, but for Haruko Akamatsu, it seems that she has found a new feeling in understanding others and feeling empathy.

"That's right. ”

"Actually, it's the son of my mother's friend. Although I was born in Tokyo, my family moved to Kobe because my father was transferred to work, and my family moved around a lot during that time. ”

"You've heard my brother say that when I was a child, I was not in good health, I hardly went to school, and I had little contact with my peers. My mother was worried that I didn't have friends of the same age, so she introduced him to me. ”

"He had been visiting my house with his mother, and about three years later, his father was sent to the country of Rot, and the family moved with him, and they never saw him again. ”

"When the cherry blossoms bloom in Kyoto, I go home to enjoy the cherry blossoms. ”

Kyoto people have a special affection for their hometown, and although they can be seen everywhere when the cherry blossoms are in bloom, the Akamatsu family, as a major family in Kyoto, still retains a wonderful idea that if the cherry blossoms cannot be enjoyed in Kyoto, then they will not be able to enjoy the cherry blossoms completely.

This year was the same, although she was in Tokyo, when the cherry blossoms were blooming in Kyoto, Haruko Akamatsu picked a Saturday to go back to enjoy the cherry blossoms, and then heard her mother mention that the friend's son dropped out of college halfway through college and decided to make a living from music, so he went to a music college instead, and just graduated this year, and had nowhere to go, so he had to mingle in the underground music circle.

"You were snickering when you heard that, right?" Iwahashi teased her.

Haruko Akamatsu is the lead singer of an underground band, and she also comes to his production company to work part-time, and she watches performances in the underground music circle when she has time, which is very different from the impression and expectation of her old family in Kyoto.

"A little. ”

Haruko Akamatsu remembered her mother's somewhat regretful tone when she mentioned him, and admitted it with a smile. She seems to have developed a strange bad taste in the fact that she is hiding from her family to do things that she is not allowed.

Then he continued, "A while ago, my mother told me to visit her friend Chengcheng's house for some things, and I happened to meet him when he came home to get something and had a little chat. ”

"I asked him what he was making music for, and he gave me a homemade album. After listening to it, I thought his music was very good. He is still free, and I thought maybe I could invite him to the company, so I made a good opinion, told him that he was also making music, and asked him if he wanted to come to the company too. ”

"I reported Iwahashi-san's name, and I heard that it was a production company that you opened after you became independent, and he was very interested. said that he was willing to meet with Iwahashi-san for a chat. Haruko Akamatsu said.

Shinichi Iwahashi's fame in the underground music scene can be seen, and not only that, but it is also a very positive fame.

"Of course, it wouldn't be appropriate to tell you that all of a sudden, and let you decide whether you want to see him or not. Haruko Akamatsu thought thoughtfully, took out a cassette tape from her bag, and handed it over, "This is his original song, please listen to it." ”

Shinichi Iwahashi took it.

Listening to the story with relish, Masato Nakamura is also very interested in this kid who dropped out of college to do music, which comes from the sympathy of the same kind, this big brother is a person who has been admitted to Aoyama College University, but he felt that the major he studied was boring halfway, so he simply dropped out of school to become a musician.

This courage to retreat is very powerful in a sense. It's not that dropping out of school is great, but it's the mentality that the confidence in music in my heart surpasses everything else.

After pressing the play button, Iwahashi Shinichi heard a somewhat slender and feminine male voice, and he was a little surprised to hear such a voice.

He continued to listen, and the more he listened, the more he was pleasantly surprised, this man's music was very well written, and the style of music was quite mature. I listened to a few songs in a row, quite with a personal style and characteristics.

It would be great if we could recruit such a composer.

"Very nice. "Iwahashi Shinichi said, "I would be honored to meet and convince him." ”

"He'll probably be happy just to hear you say that about him. ”

"So, Akamatsu-san, could you please help us explain how we met?...... By the way, I haven't asked for his name yet. ”

Haruko Akamatsu told him, "It's called Seiichiro Kuribayashi." ”

Seiichiro Kuribayashi.

Seiichiro Kuribayashi is actually a year older than Shinichi Iwahashi, but when they met, what appeared in front of him was a young man of medium height, long hair, slender like his singing voice, and a little girlish.

Just by looking like that the older man is Shinichi Iwahashi.

Haruko Akamatsu came to the studio with him.

After saying hello, Shinichi Iwahashi invited Seiichiro Kuripayashi to sit at a café near the recording studio, "There's nothing to entertain you here." ”

However, Seiichiro Kuribayashi was clearly more interested in everything in the studio than the coffee next door, "Iwahashi-san, are you making music right now?"

After the women's rock festival, Shinichi Iwahashi made a name for himself in the underground music industry, and Seiichiro Kuribayashi was about to graduate from a music college, and he was impressed when he heard the name of Shinichi Iwahashi.

After graduating, Seiichiro Kuribayashi has been active in the underground music industry, and during this time, there are companies that have expressed interest to him, but Kuribayashi is either dissatisfied with the company's policy or dissatisfied with their arrogant attitude.

Recently, a small production company called BEING threw an olive branch to him, and the representative had a very good attitude, saying that he would respect his choice and would not force him to do what he was unwilling to do.

Seiichiro Kuribayashi accepted the business card and said that he would think about it.

After dropping out of college, he moved out of his home in Chengcheng to rent a house outside, and he went home to pick up things that day, not wanting to meet Haruko Akamatsu, whom he had known since he was a teenager.

Haruko Akamatsu heard that he was making music and asked a few questions. Seiichiro Kuribayashi, who has a gentle personality, directly sent her a tape made by himself.

Unexpectedly, after that, Haruko Akamatsu contacted him again and said that he was also making music now.

The frail and sickly little girl in my teenage memories said that she is now the lead singer of an underground band and also works part-time in a music production company.

Seiichiro Kuribayashi was shocked by the derailed life trajectory of her life, but instead she thought that she was cowardly when she was a child, and she hadn't completed the first big rebellion in her life, so she dropped out of college and decided to make music.

Is music really that fascinating?

Thinking about his decision, Seiichiro Kuribayashi felt that it was indeed so.

However, in addition to Haruko Akamatsu's current part-time job, what caught more attention to Seiichiro Kuribayashi was the production company she worked part-time for, the production company opened by Shinichi Iwahashi.

The man he had never met, but he felt respected from the bottom of his heart.

Seiichiro Kuribayashi promised Haruko Akamatsu to talk to Shinichi Iwahashi face-to-face. The meeting place is Yoyogi's recording studio.

Seiichiro Kuribayashi was interested in the recording studio, so he didn't have to go to the café. However, it was still a little more solemn than when I entertained Watanabe Manyumi, and instead of making instant coffee, I went to the vending machine in the lobby and bought canned coffee.

Sipping canned coffee and chatting about music.

Seiichiro Kuribayashi was curious about the reason why Shinichi Iwahashi had set up a production company, and he was interested in his future production policy, and Shinichi Iwahashi answered them one by one.

Later, Shinichi Iwahashi came to question Seiichiro Kuribayashi, first praising the music on the tape he had heard from Haruko Akamatsu, and then pointing out the interesting and inadequate aspects of his music.

Seiichiro Kuribayashi has always been very confident in his music, and he was a little unconvinced by the shortcomings pointed out by Iwahashi Shinichi, but when he heard him, he couldn't help but sweat quietly, and then felt that this Iwahashi-san's ears were sharp and scary.

Shinichi Iwahashi may not be a good cook, but he is probably a good gourmet, and he has a very sensitive sense of music, and he listens to a song that is completely composed, and with the first ear, he can point out the advantages and shortcomings of it.

The balance in Seiichiro Kuribayashi's heart unconsciously fell to Iwahashi Shinichi's side.

"Please let me think about it. "He still remembers the business card of BEING in the drawer.

Moreover, compared to BEING, the shortcomings of Iwahashi Shinichi's GENZO are obvious, and now with Iwahashi Shinichi, he has nothing, but if he joins BEING, he can start his career as a professional musician immediately.

The fact that his music can be heard by more people tempts Seiichiro Kuribayashi. However, he thought of the shortcomings in his music that Iwahashi had pointed out, the shortcomings that he himself admitted.

After thinking about it, Seiichiro Kuribayashi decided to go to Shinichi Iwahashi's side. With these deficiencies, make up for them as you walk on the road.

This is of course out of trust in Shinichi Iwahashi. But other than that, Seiichiro Kuribayashi thought to himself, and now seems to be a bit like the time when he decided to drop out of college and go to a music college.

Abandon a path that seems right to everyone and go down an uncertain path.

Now he is zero, and when he joins BEING, he is from zero to hundred, and when he joins GENZO, he is from zero to ten.

However, Seiichiro Kuribayashi does not think that what seems to be the right path is necessarily the right one, because no one knows where a path leads.

After deciding to sign the contract, Seiichiro Kuribayashi contacted BEING's representative and said that he would not join BEING.

The other party was very surprised, the two sides talked very happily at that time, I thought that the addition of this newcomer was logical, but I didn't expect this to be the result.

"Does Kuribayashi-kun have any other ideas?"

"No, your company is excellent. It's just that I have another choice in mind. ”

"Excuse me, which company are you going to join?"

“GENZO。 Seiichiro Kuribayashi replied.

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