Kalafina ~ THE BEST "Red"/"Blue" - bigger cover art & other related stuff

It's a good thing that I am on leave from work this week. :)  Although, I am still pretty busy because I have a lot of stuff that I need to do, I'm still able to squeeze time out to write about the new releases. :)  I wasn't able to read the articles about the album release properly till now... finally a really quiet moment for me to try and work through all the information. :)

First up, I managed to find bigger versions of the cover art for these albums.  So here you go. :)

 

The above are the larger versions of the cover art for the Regular Editions.

 

The above are the larger versions of the cover art for the Limited Editions.

I've also read through some of the news articles etc.

The LE of both the Red and Blue albums will ship with a 60 page deluxe booklet as well as the BD.  I'm thinking that we're looking at probably a box-set here rather than a slip case.  Perhaps something along the lines of the Kalafina 5th Anniversary Live Selection release.  CLICK ME for my un-boxing post.  That came with a 60 page deluxe booklet as well.

The LEs of both the Red and Blue album will ship with footage from different lives.

The Red LE will ship with footage from the 5th Anniversay Live from Jan 2013.  They didn't say more than that so I'm not sure if it'll be the full Live, portions of the Live with only the songs that are featured in THE BEST albums or the WOWOW special.  I'm hoping it isn't the WOWOW Special since most fans would have viewed it by now and I also thought that that wasn't particularly well mixed.  It tended to highlight one of the vocalists voice more when they should have balanced it out to accentuate the harmony but that maybe just me.  I've a feeling this won't be the full live.  If I had to guess, then I think they will be the songs featured in both the Red and Blue album that matches with what was sung at that live.

The Blue LE will ship with footage from the Lisani! Live-4.  If they give us all the songs that were sung at that live, fingers crossed, we'll get the following:

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1.misterioso
2.Kimi no Gin no Niwa
3.seventh heaven
4.sprinter
5.Ongaku
6.Alleluia

I think Lisani! tv only broadcast two of the songs and someone kindly uploaded it onto youtube.  View it soon because who knows how long this video will remain on youtube.  The clip contains only two songs, "Kimi no Gin no Niwa" and "Ongaku".  Let's hope that the BD will give us more than just these two songs.



This is the first time I've heard them sing "Kimi no Gin no Niwa" live and I must say, they did a pretty good job with it.  Lovely!!! :)  And there's Ongaku too.  To be perfectly honest, I don't think that Kalafina has ever sung this song perfectly at any of the lives I've attended or watched on video but I still love listening and watching them sing this at their lives because they seem to really enjoy performing this song and it really gets the crowd going and I love it for those reasons. :)

I've also read through the axive.jp article and there are a few points of interests.

"2014年5月30日・31日には、香港での単独ライブ2days（チケットは10分で即完）、7月2日からフランス、パリ・ノールヴィルバントで行わる ヨーロッパ最大の日本文化とエンターテイメントの祭典“JAPAN EXPO 2014”への参加も決定している（総来場者数20万人超）。パッケージリリースに関しては、アルバム、シングル、映像商品が世界14カ国で販売されてお り、配信リリースは、iTunesを中心にヨーロッパ、北米、アジアなど、世界39カ国もの国々で展開。"


It seems that Kalafina's live in Hong Kong sold REALLY well.  They are scheduled to perform in HK for two nights on the 30th & 31st.  The tickets sold out in 10 mins.  WOW!!! Even if the concert hall isn't the biggest in HK but selling out in 10 mins is quite a feat. :)  Well done Kalafina!! Well done fans who are going to this live. :)

Also, it seems that Kalafina will be making an appearance at the Japan Expo 2014 in Paris France in July.  That's really cool because the Japan Expo is a pretty big event. :)  While the Japan Expo 2014 site hasn't made an official announce yet and neither has Kalafina or SMEJ, this news is in more than just the axive.jp article, it's in a few other online articles as well, so I think the chances of this being true is pretty high.  I'm sure French fans, European fans and all fans who attend this event will be happy to have this come true.  I'm still waiting and waiting for them to come back to Singapore.... sigh.....

It seems like the albums will be sold in 14 countries round the world, in Europe, N. America and Asia but there's no mention of which countries.  The album will also be available on iTunes in 39 countries.

Also, in case some of you haven't yet realised.... there will be two yet to be released songs on these albums.  One will be the theme song for the Urobuchi Gen scripted anime Aldnoah.Zero.  That song is called "Heavenly Blue" and is the last song listed in the Blue album's track list.  I was actually expecting a singles release with probably these versions RE, LE+DVD, LE+BD and Anime LE but so far... no news.

The other is a yet to be titled or announced new song in the Red album.  That's no.1 on the track list.  I like to think it'll be one of the theme songs for the ufotable version of Fate/Stay Night. :P  They have yet to announce who will do the music for  FSN and I'm still holding out hope that it will be Kajiura Yuki and that Kalafina will provide one of the songs for this anime.  I mean, Kajiura Yuki and ufotable... so far it's been a good collaboration, right? :)  Well..... that's just my hope.... I really have no idea what this song will be. :)

Well.... that should be it for now.... I'm off to order the Rekishi Hiwa Historia OST3 and two copies of the RED and BLUE LE albums for my friend an I. :)

THE BEST "Red" Limited Edition

THE BEST "Blue" Limited Edition

THE BEST "Red" Regular Edition

THE BEST "Blue" Regular Edition

If you can afford them too, please do buy them. :)

 Maybe I'll go watch that Kalafina Pocket Message now before I go do the stuff I'm suppose to do... I haven't had time to watch it properly yet. :P Good night!! :)