My favourite songstresses are September's special feature on Kawaii girl Japan (the same lovely people who brought us that Magia comment). Which is awesome, particularly because it means we'll be getting (subbed!!) videos of Kalafina interviews promoting their upcoming album After Eden every Monday of the month. This is the first of them:



Their description of After Eden as having a "very real and humanly" sound (as opposed to the "fantastic, surreal and otherwordly" sound they had for the past two albums) is...interesting. Considering that Magia and Kagayaku Sora no Shijima ni wa are part of After Eden's tracklist I'm not expecting their new sound to be that much of a departure from their usual style. But they still have nine other songs to surprise us with...

I've also just realized that KgJ's store has a small but appealing selection of Kalafina merchandise...Oooh...

I told myself I wouldn't do another Kalafina entry till Magia came out (if I didn't control myself this blog would be overflowing with entries of every little thing they did, and Canta-per-me.net does a far better job anyway). But when one of the lovely denizens on the aforementioned site's forums linked to this video, well...I couldn't help myself.


Courtesy of Kawaii Girl Japan, a site I wish I'd heard of earlier

One of the few subtitled video interviews/comments available of Kalafina! While I appreciate the translated transcripts of other videos that fellow fans have kindly provided, it's nice to know what they're saying as they say it.

Suffice to say this is not helping my obsession in the least. Wakana is charmingly talkative as usual, Keiko surprisingly comes across as a little subdued -- an impression broken by that silly healing spell moment at about 7:06 -- and Hikaru can be pretty eloquent when talking about their songs.

Overall, they are adorable.

They also seem pretty serious about taking care of their singing voices (then again, this isn't something I know much about).

It's clear that the subs are kind of paraphrased, but that's fine. I did catch what I thought was a rather glaring mistake though. Where Keiko says "Peter no nii-chan" (as in, Nathan Petrelli, and yes, they're talking about Heroes) the subs just say "Peter". But I can forgive the subber(s) for that, certainly.