It's been a while since I flooded this place with Zigzo happenings. So here you are:
Zigzo's The Battle of Love is a great album. If you like, or love, Zigzo already this will just please you to no end like it has for me.
Furthermore, Ryo has been credited as co-songwriter with Tetsu for most of these tracks and I think it's been for the better. The songs feel stronger and more fleshed out, the second guitar adding more Oomph and also allowing Tetsu to focus on his lyrics and singing. Ryo has provided more backing vocals to this album as well.
Last year's By-Sex reunion album with Den, Ryo and Sakura was pretty much a Zigzo warmup since Tetsu was committed to JuneJulyAugust. By-Sex's ago was all written by Ryo and it's fantastic. I was never a fan of By-Sexual's slapstick qualities and Test-No. was hit or miss, mainly cause Den wrote some clunkers, and By-Sex's reunion album was quite a treat, but I treat it like a companion album to Zigzo's The Battle of Love. I got my copy off yesasia:
http://www.yesasia.com/global/ago-first ... /info.html
So yes, The Battle of Love is great. Support them, will ya!
New Song 4 from their 6/29 live is a new song that never made it to the album so if you're itching for some more Zigzo, there you go.
Recently announced was an audio recording of their 10/25 The Battle of Love one-man through the zigzo.net website.
A documentary DVD called ‘Beyond the Moment’ will be sold at the upcoming 2013 tour and will chronicle Zigzo’s surprise comeback live at Sakura’s 2011 birthday event and their 2012 tour and album recording. This DVD will most likely be sold at their webstore after the tour is over so don't stress about finding it yet.
I’m unsure if this 3 DVD boxset will include the album release live from 10/25 (being sold as audio-only off the official site) but I’m guessing it will since 3 DVDs of documentary footage will be just overkill and probably boring to watch.
Also, starting Christmas Day, Zigzo and the music news site natalie will exclusively offer the studio recorded version of ‘Decade’ as a free download until the end of the year. This was recorded around March or April and only heard via radio broadcasts which leaked onto youtube. There have been no plans to release this song on CD.
http://natalie.mu/music/pp/zigzo
Direct Download Links:
https://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com ... DECADE.zip
https://s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com ... DECADE.mp3
And there’s also a new opening page movie (in annoying Quicktime format) showing off some of Toshihiko Imai’s amazing camera work. The track being used is a live version ofThe Battle of Love’s closing track ‘madamada’ from their 10/25 gig most likely.
I usually find it cheap and easy to make something look arty by using black and white but his work seems to transcend the gimmickry.
And then, since I didn't post it here. Zigzo did an album release live on 2012-10-10 and broadcasted it simultaneously on niconico.
I ripped the stream and made it in a tidy mp4 file:
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?5dtoo1lsub5f1zf
Set 1:
Decade (SE)
Decade
Holiday
I am a slider!
Scabby!
Add9~3 days in a well
himawari
warau tsuki
Set 2:
Day by Day
Adrenaline Drive
I Cult you
Super Charger Star
Medicine Man
honoo wa aoku wo yureru
Beyond The Moment
Burasuku Tenshi
I’m in Love
toroi merai
Hello, I Love You