Violet UK around the net

First of all I warn you: I know for sure that 2 of these songs are from Violet UK, singer has quite a "noticeable" voice after all..., the others... let's say they are songs you can find here or there on the net under the name "Violet UK", but they sound like "improved midi files": you can hear nothing but... let's say "a keyboard", at least sound of a keyboard created by I-don't-know-what-software-allowing-to-create-music. This means there isn't a single "real" instrument in these mp3s, not even a voice: no way to know if this indeed comes from Yoshiki's studios. But anyway I like these songs: Weither Yoshiki composed them or not, I'm glad to make some publicity for the one who did these songs, and I hope we will soon know who this guy is, because he looks quite gifted: he should try to make "his own name"!
(I won't detail songs I could hear on the video of the Violet UK concert in december 2002, first because I already said a few words about them in my review of this video, second because it feels like most of them were cut in this video, and third because most of the songs played this night were "slow" + were rearranged for some "orchestral version", therefore I cannot know how much they may show the style of Violet UK)
(One last word: I don't propose any mp3 or link where you could find mp3s this time, because the album should be released "soon"... even though Yoshiki began saying it in 2001... anyway it should be released in the United States and Europe, not only Japan: we can hope finding it won't be much difficult! I mean WHEN this album will be released... (and it will be released soon, won't it dear Yoshiki!) Until then, you can find some mp3s on the net, just be curious and search here or there, even I found some songs, so you should at least be able to find pieces of some songs!)

Let's be logic, for once, and begin with songs I know (for sure) are from Violet UK:

Blue and Blind: Well it's a demo... so it sounds quite like a demo! but well, a good quality demo: quite enough to say Yoshiki-san is not really the worst composer on Earth. Very "cool" song, "ambiant" I would say, the kind of thing you listen to in order to distress or when you're driving when night is falling, admiring the sunset and so on, a nice quiet song. The singer really has a wonderful voice, but this isn't new if you watched the Last Live video or anything like that. Still, there is one thing I don't like with her voice: it's too "cold": she always hits her notes perfectly, technically it's really great, but a little more feeling and it would have been perfect. The music itself really is... it brings you to some other world, the voice could make you stay there, but it makes you stay somewhere between "here" and "this other world"... she takes too much distance with what she sings I guess, she concentrates a lot on her notes and the way to reach them correctly, not enough on the words she's singing. There are lots of "skons" in this song, but you get used to them quite quickly, because they... "fade when needed" facing other arrangements (piano, cords, and so on...); of course I consider this song would be 1000 better without all these "skons", but what can you do, you can't change me that easily! And finaly my favourite parts of this song: when singer goes in "high peached" notes with only the piano playing behind... this is pure magic, I' m ready to stand these few "skons" only for these parts, after all you don't have to stand them for all of the song! The end of the song is cut in the version I have, but well after 7mn57, so I guess I can say I may have a good idea about what this song is about to sound like (even though it's only a demo... but with so many "finition details" that I would say it's a nearly-definitive version!)
One last word about the "singer problem": In this song, I can clearly hear the voice of "the white" singer (don't know their names, sorry...), who can be seen at the end of The Last Live video. The "black" singer (Daughter?) who sang in December 2002, may not be technicaly as good (although her very few "couaks" were first of all because of shyness, up to me), but she still has an EXCELLENT voice and a feeling in her voice... as soon as she hits a note, I' m into the song, in its universe, it's really... I just love her voice! But here is the question: which one will be on the album? (maybe both, but then "the white" would have sang in December... anyway that's what I think... and Yoshiki recently said in some interview that there will be only one singer on the album, so... we' ll see... when the album will be released... when...)

Blind Dance: First of all: wonderful piano piece (but who would have doubted of that?). And the rest... this song quite simply is wonderful. Voice of the singer has a very "airy" voice [don't know if this is clear... I mean "like air", "like wind", like a flute or this kind of instrument), could be better if with "a little more" feeling and less technic, but well this really is a detail as it's already quite wonderful as it is. I believe I don't know the correct English word to describe this song, in French we say "planant", but English... Let's say it's the kind of song you listen to quietly lieing, headhones fermely fixed on your ears and eyes closed, in order to appreciate every second, every change (wave sounds; "moments of life" parts too [... "art of life"? ... sorry ...], when you hear Yoshiki talking to other people... at first you wonder what these parts are here for, but when music comes back your brain goes back there in one milisecond, twice deeper than before this "moment of life": it created some kind of expectation).

(Without You: Very special song: Yoshiki composed it very soon after hide died, in his memory. I cannot really say it' s a "Violet UK song", as Yoshiki cannot even imagine this song with any other singer than Toshi, while you cannot really say Toshi is a member of Violet UK... (for example, at the end of the second concert in December 2002 I believe, Yoshiki asked the public to ask for a song: they answered "play Without You": he first refused a little, saying it wouldn't be fair for the orchestra who would have nothing to play on this song, but as the public really wanted this song he finaly played it... but stopped after a few seconds, saying something like "let's wait Toshi to be back for the rest of the song"). So God only knows when we finaly will have an occasion to listen to this song "officialy"... and this is really sad, because it's a very beautiful song, though you shouldn't listen to it when you're depressed, especialy if there is a knife or something like that around you!
Anyway, the style of the song... well very sad, melancolic, but... so beautiful... whenever my winamp begins to play it, even if I was working or anything, I just stop everything, close my eyes and... appreciate... often tears come to my eyes but this is so beautiful that it doesn't matter; I found only... "cut" versions, and of course only piano versions, so I could say this is sad I would have liked to listen all of the song, but this is so beautiful that I' m already glad I have... "these pieces of a piece"... (...sorry-for-the-bad-humour...). I only hope one day Toshi will accept to sing it, so that we can, finaly, listen to all of the song!

And now, songs that go around the net as "Violet UK songs", but once again nothing allows to say they really are. Still I love them, so I highly suggest you to give them an ear if you find them, and if it really isn't Yoshiki who composed them, the real composer shouldn't be so shy and say who he is... because what he composes doesn't look too bad! Well there are the "double speeded drums" in these songs and some other details specific to Yoshiki's style, but it could simply be some fan who was inspired by these "trademarks"... but once again if this is so he shouldn't hide like that, because I do like what this guy composes! Oh and one last thing: this guy seems to like thunder...)

Thunder Cross: Sorcerian here I am! (what? you don't know this Falcom game? tsstsstss... all right it has never been released in any other language than Japanese, all right...)
It may be because of the synthe "supposed to play sang lines", which really sounds like the one I heard when playing at Sorcerian on my good old Genesis (or megadrive, depending on where you live) (... AAAAAAAHHHH!!! ...), but when I hear this song I see myself leading a group of four warriors, one "warrior", one dwarf, one wizard and one elf, going into caves or forests looking for zombies or "bird-men" to kill, going to town in order to get some info, "moment emotion" in the middle of the song: revelations time! and my little group goes back to fight, because they now have to take revenge for all these people! how noble from them! KILL BIG BOSS! And finaly everone goes back to the village, everyone thanking me because I saved them... nah nah, it's normal buddies, that was my job after all; yeah I know I'm the best, it's not always easy to live with it...
Woops maybe I should also talk about "music" of this song, maybe? Well simple actualy: speed metal Helloween-and-such-like (synthe version, still, for sang parts, guitars,...: computer and home made demo to sum up), with some "comic breaks" here or there... I love it!

Legend of the Eternal Thunder: Here either Yoyo (or the composer, whoever he may be) listened to A LOT of Rhapsody (the Italian band) before composing this song, or he took inspiration from the same kind of classical pieces Rhapsody often uses (especialy "baroc" (spelling?) pieces)! Actualy, the very first time I listened to this song I believed it was a cover of Rhapsody, of a song like Emerald Sword or this kind of song, but finaly no, it really is a "my own" song! It is quicker than many Rhapsody songs, more... how can I express it... to sum up: when I listen to it and imagine guitars, bass, drums, singer,... instead of these synthe sounds, I can clearly imagine/see pogos in the public, that follow "neck destructions", just before the "HEY - HEY - HEY" and such. No really I don't especialy hate this song. s quoi, pas synthé) je visualise très bien les pogos qui font suite aux destructions de cou, auxquelles succèdent les "HEY - HEY - HEY" et autres. Non vraiment il pète bien ce titre. (et celui qui a composé ça a le même genre d' inspiration que Staropoli/Turili, et utilise le même genre de "son" que Staropoli!)

Tears of Thunder: Aaaaaaaaaah murder Goblins in caves lost in the moutain!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Sorry... Y's effect this time... when I hear this song I think of Y's games, and imagine myself with a red suit, wearing a silver armor, running down plains... full of Goblins I have to murder! A POIL LES GOBLINS!! (hum sorry... no translation for this one, would be too long to explain...) (oh and for your personal information: games of Y's and Sorcerian, on any "platform" were developped by Falcom... in fact, the one who composed these songs missed his vocation: he should have been composer for Falcom video games!)
Hum let's be serious a few seconds, for once: once again this is a "speed-metal"-like song, with exactly the breaks you need to destroy in concerts, destroy your neck between two voice destructions, and so on and so on... Very kitsch because of the synthe-sound, but believe me, with real instruments, this song shouldn't be very bad!