I've been lax with all sorts of posting. But in a flurry of Gackt catch up, here's the news...
Gackt's video for Ghost - a theme song for the Japanese release of Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles - has a darkly dancey acid pop sound, like a mirror world version of Cher's Believe. Dig the Papa lapped a pap lopped style of group animatronics.
Justified, Gackt's song for Bounty Killer on PS3 has been out for awhile too, sounding basically like indeterminate old Gackt songs - eerie falsetto, crunchy metal and minor major melody - relabeled as one headbanging new meal.
Finally, there's the new track, Journey through the Decade, created for the 10th Kamen Rider series, a typical chocolate era production of growling guitar angst and driving redemption. The video features a dizzying 360 degree rotomatic shot of Gackt on a high platform behaving Gackt-like, with a lycra transmogrified youngster dueling a hollow-eyed samurai suit below in classic live action tradition, but with razor sharp Magic cards flying. I have no idea what Kamen Rider is about, but Gack't giving the lackadaisickal f-you to our psuedo Power Ranger protagonist at the ending seems proof positive our winged auteur has become a man entrenched in his own iconicism, glaring down the paltry effects of his once stunning fireball, and turning with a bugger-it-all and back to our faces.
Or not.
In any case, I suppose it's impossible for an artist to recapture fully the flavors of their own inception. An audience's impetuous demand to Return is something like a death knell, one that needs to be re-recorded in some grander discovery, some bigger persona, or set adrift in some paradigm shift. For now, Gackt's new songs, his ripe voice, aren't overwriting the tape for me. I still have Cains Feel on my memory.
Gackt's video for Ghost - a theme song for the Japanese release of Terminator: The Sarah Conner Chronicles - has a darkly dancey acid pop sound, like a mirror world version of Cher's Believe. Dig the Papa lapped a pap lopped style of group animatronics.
Justified, Gackt's song for Bounty Killer on PS3 has been out for awhile too, sounding basically like indeterminate old Gackt songs - eerie falsetto, crunchy metal and minor major melody - relabeled as one headbanging new meal.
Finally, there's the new track, Journey through the Decade, created for the 10th Kamen Rider series, a typical chocolate era production of growling guitar angst and driving redemption. The video features a dizzying 360 degree rotomatic shot of Gackt on a high platform behaving Gackt-like, with a lycra transmogrified youngster dueling a hollow-eyed samurai suit below in classic live action tradition, but with razor sharp Magic cards flying. I have no idea what Kamen Rider is about, but Gack't giving the lackadaisickal f-you to our psuedo Power Ranger protagonist at the ending seems proof positive our winged auteur has become a man entrenched in his own iconicism, glaring down the paltry effects of his once stunning fireball, and turning with a bugger-it-all and back to our faces.
Or not.
In any case, I suppose it's impossible for an artist to recapture fully the flavors of their own inception. An audience's impetuous demand to Return is something like a death knell, one that needs to be re-recorded in some grander discovery, some bigger persona, or set adrift in some paradigm shift. For now, Gackt's new songs, his ripe voice, aren't overwriting the tape for me. I still have Cains Feel on my memory.
Jesus! It's Gackt's new single, with video set in a grungy murksome bunker where wacky military repentance occurs and Gackt screams the Lord's name in vain for salvation or perhaps disgust.For Gackt's inappropriate use of divine cognomen, I quote a sardonic wit who remarked rather dryly whilst I wrote the above description...
"he burrows into the names and delineates the divergent properties of its meaning."
Word.
This late posting is what comes of not following Dears and Jrock Revolution as a daily sacrament... Gackt stars in Bunraku, a Hollywood film directed by Guy Moshe.
Info is scant on the samurai spaghetti western, but IMDB says the film is in post production and is set to release in 2009. The cast includes Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore and Ron Perlman. Below is Josh Hartnett and Gackt on set.
Gackt's last screen project was a historical Jdorama where he plays 16th century warlord, Uesugi Kenshin, with perfectly manicured and knit brows to seethingly stoic effect.
And before that... he starred with Hyde, of L'Arc en Ciel, in a film only a fan could love - a friendship story entitled Moon Child featuring bored vampires and silly slow mo yakuza gunfights. Outrageous.
Honestly, I can't wait.
Gackt's bishi bodhisattva warrior Vocaloid avatar.
Gackpoid - limited edition Dear's Version
