Bagt wrote:
It just said "Kozi's solo project, started from when Malice Mizer announced their hiatus", basically.
There's that goddamn weasel word again though; 'hiatus'. KAISAN, you wusses, just write it out: KA-I-SA-N.
I have Közi dvd =)
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It just said "Kozi's solo project, started from when Malice Mizer announced their hiatus", basically.
There's that goddamn weasel word again though; 'hiatus'. KAISAN, you wusses, just write it out: KA-I-SA-N.
Elec wrote:
The inside looks nice =)
Thanks for the pics j-aesthete~
well actelly i like both versions equally but i think the remix is cool!my dvd arrived today while i was at work!
i absolutely love it!
i absolutely love it!
My impressions:
Intro
The intro plays Cabinet and there is this weird doll with half her head open and then something comes out of her head and hides inside the desk and then she goes there and opens it, and it gets away. After, there is a zoom on the doll's red eye. Needless to say, at this point, you are already with WTFtastic thoughts in your head, and it makes no sense really, except for the odd factor. At least, it made no sense to me.
LOKI N' ROLL
So, Loki n' roll begins you are supposed to be happy and high, because this song is about rockin' out, so he choses these red and yellow lights to demonstrate the heat of live. Multiple screens, split screens, and some random effects appear here. He just abuses on effects on this song, since he is not using effects on his voice here, he decided it was cool to put them on video instead? And i still don't get what's the point of these hands smashing eyeballs and then there comes from it a flat stuff.....eh... You can also see kozi using his brand new guitar model here, in some clips.
As one of my all time favorites kozi songs, i am very pleased to see it on the DVD. I think he tried to recreate the upbeat of the song through the videos with so many effects and colors. A good idea, but i would rather not have those hands and eyes on it, and it can get way too busy at times.
INCOHERENTS
So here, you get to see kozi dancing a little. I specially like the footage of the NYD+WHO's MIND live, he seems to be more expressive and free there, at least comparing the other footages available. And here comes an interesting way of singing, kozi uses some vibrato-like way of singing. I thought this is a pretty good cool addition to the song.
HONEY VANITY
He adds some random footage PV-like to the live scenes. Think Gardenia from Cardinal. I think the images are related to the lyrics. I dunno, i think this one is not very exciting, but the bass lines are cool and he sings in a different approach, which is nice to hear.
CRIMSON STAR
Lots of footage from the 1st live here. And lots of moments "we like to not have cohesion between the singing and video, but we don't care, because we are having fun". I don't know why, but he reminded me of david bowie with that visual. anyway, he makes a lot of gestures with his hands, but doesn't dance much. Dancing is definately present in Incoherents.
I think this one and Honey Vanity's are the worst videos, not that they are crap, but i did not enjoy them as much as the others -- they are kinda 'meh', i don't know.
CRUEL ARCADIA
Black and White clip here. Reminded me of a Bauhaus live. It has the video speed-up, slow down and normal speed parts mixed together. i think this video is the best clip so far, it as a whole fits well together , even with many different lives. it does feel almost like a live-pv thing. It has a more homogeneous feel than the others, and has none of those hands-eyes non-sense. It has also some close ups of kozi singing, and some intense moments. At the end he says thank you and it finishes.
Definately i would rank this one, loki n' roll, and Incoherents as the best videos from this dvd.
FINAL COMMENTS
if this dvd was meant to represent the live experience of a kozi solo live, i think it lacks a lot, because i got the feeling it is like a lot of recollections of good moments from many lives put together. You can't experience a full performance of a song from a certain live, you've got to go through many moments put together, so it feels like an incomplete experience. I don't feel that i experienced a full experience from loki n' roll, for example. I saw many pieces put together with the live sound from some live. This makes even more difficult to criticise kozi as a frontman, i was starting to analyse his performance at one point, then it totally shifts to another clip, then i have to break the flow of thoughts about that one part. From what i can gather, he does have some style going on, but he is still far from being an excellent frontman, imo, but as i said before, due to the nature of this dvd it may be unfair to analyse kozi's performance as a frontman.
And then, there is also the problem of overflood of information. Too many clips at the same time, too many split screens, too many red colors flashing before my eyes, specially at Loki n' roll clip.
Judging it from another perspective, as a big digest of lives put together, it can be quite pleasant, specially for someone who never went to one of his lives, and get to see a bit of each, and for someone who went to some lives, and wants to remember. Too bad it has so few songs.
I wouldn't say it is an excellent dvd, but not crap either. I like to think about it as a good live digest. At this point, i think almost all the fans would want something, even if it is not a full dvd, so many people will be pleased with it.I wouldn't say it would be too interesting for someone who is not a big fan , though.
Intro
The intro plays Cabinet and there is this weird doll with half her head open and then something comes out of her head and hides inside the desk and then she goes there and opens it, and it gets away. After, there is a zoom on the doll's red eye. Needless to say, at this point, you are already with WTFtastic thoughts in your head, and it makes no sense really, except for the odd factor. At least, it made no sense to me.
LOKI N' ROLL
So, Loki n' roll begins you are supposed to be happy and high, because this song is about rockin' out, so he choses these red and yellow lights to demonstrate the heat of live. Multiple screens, split screens, and some random effects appear here. He just abuses on effects on this song, since he is not using effects on his voice here, he decided it was cool to put them on video instead? And i still don't get what's the point of these hands smashing eyeballs and then there comes from it a flat stuff.....eh... You can also see kozi using his brand new guitar model here, in some clips.
As one of my all time favorites kozi songs, i am very pleased to see it on the DVD. I think he tried to recreate the upbeat of the song through the videos with so many effects and colors. A good idea, but i would rather not have those hands and eyes on it, and it can get way too busy at times.
INCOHERENTS
So here, you get to see kozi dancing a little. I specially like the footage of the NYD+WHO's MIND live, he seems to be more expressive and free there, at least comparing the other footages available. And here comes an interesting way of singing, kozi uses some vibrato-like way of singing. I thought this is a pretty good cool addition to the song.
HONEY VANITY
He adds some random footage PV-like to the live scenes. Think Gardenia from Cardinal. I think the images are related to the lyrics. I dunno, i think this one is not very exciting, but the bass lines are cool and he sings in a different approach, which is nice to hear.
CRIMSON STAR
Lots of footage from the 1st live here. And lots of moments "we like to not have cohesion between the singing and video, but we don't care, because we are having fun". I don't know why, but he reminded me of david bowie with that visual. anyway, he makes a lot of gestures with his hands, but doesn't dance much. Dancing is definately present in Incoherents.
I think this one and Honey Vanity's are the worst videos, not that they are crap, but i did not enjoy them as much as the others -- they are kinda 'meh', i don't know.
CRUEL ARCADIA
Black and White clip here. Reminded me of a Bauhaus live. It has the video speed-up, slow down and normal speed parts mixed together. i think this video is the best clip so far, it as a whole fits well together , even with many different lives. it does feel almost like a live-pv thing. It has a more homogeneous feel than the others, and has none of those hands-eyes non-sense. It has also some close ups of kozi singing, and some intense moments. At the end he says thank you and it finishes.
Definately i would rank this one, loki n' roll, and Incoherents as the best videos from this dvd.
FINAL COMMENTS
if this dvd was meant to represent the live experience of a kozi solo live, i think it lacks a lot, because i got the feeling it is like a lot of recollections of good moments from many lives put together. You can't experience a full performance of a song from a certain live, you've got to go through many moments put together, so it feels like an incomplete experience. I don't feel that i experienced a full experience from loki n' roll, for example. I saw many pieces put together with the live sound from some live. This makes even more difficult to criticise kozi as a frontman, i was starting to analyse his performance at one point, then it totally shifts to another clip, then i have to break the flow of thoughts about that one part. From what i can gather, he does have some style going on, but he is still far from being an excellent frontman, imo, but as i said before, due to the nature of this dvd it may be unfair to analyse kozi's performance as a frontman.
And then, there is also the problem of overflood of information. Too many clips at the same time, too many split screens, too many red colors flashing before my eyes, specially at Loki n' roll clip.
Judging it from another perspective, as a big digest of lives put together, it can be quite pleasant, specially for someone who never went to one of his lives, and get to see a bit of each, and for someone who went to some lives, and wants to remember. Too bad it has so few songs.
I wouldn't say it is an excellent dvd, but not crap either. I like to think about it as a good live digest. At this point, i think almost all the fans would want something, even if it is not a full dvd, so many people will be pleased with it.I wouldn't say it would be too interesting for someone who is not a big fan , though.
Well I'm releived by this, i was aobut ot be real fuckin' mad at some peeps.
Great DVD... A bit short and sometimes can get overactive, but purely Közi and really gets you singing and dancing along.. Well me anyways!
I've only watched it once so far since I got it, but the dvd made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Although, thanks to deciding to watch it whilst horribly sleep-deprived, all the effects nearly gave me a goddamn seizure. XD
Also- I forget which song it was during... but at one point Kozi did a random voice that sounded EXACTLY like the weird dude during a part of the song Love Shack.
Now that freaked me right the hell out. I never want him to ever do that ever again. Thanks to him, I had Love Shack stuck in my head for a full 9 hours.
Aside from that, <333333333
Also- I forget which song it was during... but at one point Kozi did a random voice that sounded EXACTLY like the weird dude during a part of the song Love Shack.
Now that freaked me right the hell out. I never want him to ever do that ever again. Thanks to him, I had Love Shack stuck in my head for a full 9 hours.
Aside from that, <333333333
Lilly wrote:Callisto_Almasy wrote:
What kind of voice? I am curious now xD I know the song but can`t remember one special voice
But yeah cool, Közi`s a member of B 52`s xD
I had to look up the lyrics to find it XD I hate the song, but I am forced to hear it at work every night because management refuses to change the station.
I can't describe the voice apart from 'odd', but it's from the part I bolded XDDD
I forgot to add something to my review. Not that it is so much important, but at some point in incoherents video i thought that for a brief moment he danced like Pete Burns. 
I watched it last night, and I must say that I loved it!!!
Short, but so so sweet... It hurt when the DVD finished.
Short, but so so sweet... It hurt when the DVD finished.
I scanned it, if anyone is interested:
front&back
inside
Haven't watched it yet since my dvd-player has got issues... but I will as soon as my dad gets home o.
front&back
inside
Haven't watched it yet since my dvd-player has got issues... but I will as soon as my dad gets home o.
Thank you, Miruku~. That outfit on bottom right highly ressembles the late MM days!
^You're welcome .p It's the Loki 'n' Roll outfit, only with different hairdo ^^