A three-part interview carried out buy 333music.net.
Presented in translation in 3 parts as well.
Original here: 333music.net

In mastering beauty, you must cross borders" says Kaya. As you can see from the photo, surely Kaya has a beauty that has crossed the boundary line of gender. And what he tries to express in his music, visuals, and live performances is the basic principle of supreme beauty, a decadent, aesthetic world in music~~
After Schwarz Stein dissolved in March of 2004 and about two years had passed, in April of this year he participated in the limited unit "another cell" to release an album, also "another cell", and will begin his real activity from his 6.23 oneman live at Takadanobaba. We received answers from Kaya regarding his first single, Kaleidoscope, set for first release at the live, his musical activities, and what he considers "beauty," and will be writing up the responses in the parts.
"What I want to express is a decadent, aesthetic world"

At this time you seem to be at the turning point in your career as a solo artist, and so I wanted to inquire as to your previous unit, Schwarz Stein, and your previous musical activities as well.

Kaya: In the beginning, I was in Rudolf Steiner before Schwarz Stein. We were unexpectedly visited by Mana during one of our lives, and he contacted us afterwards. With Mana as our producer, we changed the band name to Schwarz Stein, and carried out activities under that name for about 2 years starting from 2002.
After that, unfortunately Schwarz Stein dissolved too in March of 2004...

And after that?

Kaya: I was contacted by a number of bands asking me to sing for them, and I received some invitations, but I had a strong desire to think about what I wanted to focus on. And after that I made a proposal to one of Hora's aquaintances, who is also a composer, and started making plans for my own solo activity.

Even though Schwarz Stein disbanded, you still keep in contact with Hora?

Kaya: Yeah. After the dissolution Hora took the stance that he didn't want to return to the stage, and he's been carrying out work as a composer, but when I asked him if he wouldn't mind sponsoring me with some songs, he readily concented. Then, with his proposal that we try releasing them as a collaborational project first, we formed a one-time limited unit, "another cell". Our 1000 copy limited single "another cell" went on sale this April.

And why was Hora's picture on the inner jacket of the CD something like TV static?

Kaya: That was his choice. It seemed that his thought "I'm invisible." I did my first work with him, but now I'm going to be commissioning songs from various composers.

And how are you commissioning songs? For example, do you already have the lyrics, and then you tell the person you want a song you can use them for, or.....?


Kaya: I convey the image through words. That comprises the musicianship, ideology, and the like.

Ideology?

Kaya: Yes, it's not that deep though (laughs) So that people will see me and be able to understand me, I want to have a borderless feeling. I want to express myself without being confined to a certain genre or music, or sex.
Was that your plan from before you went solo?

Kaya: It was consistently from the time of Schwarz Stein, the desire to make decadence and aesthetics the main focus of my activities. As for the school of aesthetics, in the literary world it's the kind of feeling people like Tanizaki Junichirou and Mishima Yukio give off.

Please Continue!

Kaya: And as for aesthetics in the current music scene? I have a feeling it's bordering on visual kei. But I also think there's a falsely similar part to me, and I want to clearly establish that.

Can you explain your decadent, aesthetic world view a little more clearly?

Kaya: The decadent, aesthetic world I'm thinking of rises above personal darkness, it's....flashy and focused on extremes of beauty, shall we say?

And it includes an element of decadence?

Kaya: That's right.

So we can assume it's not an ordinary world then?

Kaya: Ahahaha! I suppose you can say that (laughs)

But simply because it's something unfamiliar that they don't know, that means that there must be people who will naturally want to secretly peep in on it I imagine.

Kaya: I think so. And no matter how you look at it, there's an element of minority ideology as well. Rather than portraying it as completely positive and spreading it to the world, I want tell people through my songs and performance, "Look at this world. There's also this one, one that you don't know!"

End part 1