Volume 1: Japanese Storm Chapter 15 X (1)
USA, New York, Manhattan district.
"Honey, I found something very interesting?"
"Hmm? What is it?"
"You'll know once you hear it!"
Andre looked at his wife, who was putting a black cassette tape into the player, with a puzzled expression. The speakers began to emit a melodious music, very familiar, yes, it was his own work "Pie Jesu", and when the short prelude ended, a clear and ethereal child's voice appeared!
"Oh my god! Who is singing this? The voice is heavenly!"
Sarah Brightman's face lit up with pride, "See, I told you it was going to be something interesting!"
"Call the agent and get this little guy over here, I need him!"
"I'm terribly sorry, Andrei. Actually, I don't even know who he is. I just happened to hear this at the record company. Even Max doesn't know; all he knows is that the tape came from Japan!"
"Japan!"
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After nearly a month of fermentation, this inconspicuous single began to gain momentum, with vinyl record and cassette tape sales skyrocketing, and eventually climbed to the top of Japan's music charts (ORI), in an era dominated by JPOP, it was almost unbelievable that a religious song could achieve this!
"He is like an angel."
"That's simply a heavenly voice!"
"He made me cry bitterly"
"This is truly a gift from God!"
"Who is he after all?"
When this small voice finally evolved into a big wave, almost all Japanese media were chasing the mysterious figure hidden behind this single record!
The whole Japanese archipelago is asking: who are you?
At that time, Jerry was sitting in the Romanesque hall of Menya Musashi, a coffee shop located in Akihabara, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.
This is the famous Electric Town, a paradise for Japanese otaku, and the birthplace of maid cafes!
Caina Coffee House was immediately stormed by a large number of otaku upon its opening.
Jerry stretched out his body and pressed his fingers, lifted the piano cover, put his hands on the keyboard, and felt the wonderful touch on the keyboard!
The first single has been released for more than a month, although it broke through the "sound barrier" and opened its mouth to sing loudly again, Jerry still didn't have confidence, after all, this is his first single!
Is he worried about sales? Yes, he is! Although he told Maimai that it's just a temporary measure, if not, why would Shitsumon Choro agree to DreamMusic's request so easily?
But even Yorita Tohru can tell that's just an excuse, look at this little guy having so much fun in the recording studio!
Yes, that's right! He was born for music! That's what Tetsuya Komuro replied!
"This is my single, so just handle it my way!"
When Jerry insisted on carrying out this self-destructive sales plan despite Tadashi Ino's opposition, almost everyone was stunned.
Fortunately, good music will always enter the mainstream eventually.
However, the poor little guy still doesn't know how the sales of the single are going because he has given a gag order to everyone.
Oh no! How can you be so cruel?!
Jerry hung his head in despair, his fingers lightly pressed down, and with the first chord of C major sounding like a church bell inside Roman Hall, the beautiful "Canon" flowed from Jerry's hands. Okay, maybe it was because Jerry wasn't in a good mood now, so the "Canon" coming out of Jerry's hands could be said to have nothing to do with beauty.
Perhaps "bizarre" and "chaotic" would be more fitting descriptions of Jerry's rendition of "Canon".
"Canon" is not a song title, but a musical form. The literal meaning of the word is "round singing", and it also means "rule". It refers to a writing technique for polyphonic music. One part's melody follows another part from start to finish, multiple parts' identical melodies appear in turn, intersecting, imitating, chasing and entwining each other, while the parts are almost repeated in a monotonous sense. Until finally... the final small conclusion, the last chord, they will merge together, never to be separated. The music is as entwined as two people's life and death. A song written using the canon technique is called a "canon".
Imitation and round singing can be said to be the special features of canon.
However, Jerry's performance of Canon, imitation and round singing are interspersed with SOLO, excluding the left hand's right-hand SOLO.
Between solo, double canon and triple canon intersect with each other!
The Canon, which originally brought peace and beauty to people, suddenly became violent under Jerry's hands. The jumping notes seemed to have a young man jumping out of them, shouting in the wind, rebelling against everything, despising everything!
The left and right hands changed six times, overturning the original lazy tone of the Romanesque hall bit by bit, until finally, a low-pitched columnar bass and strings pulled all the madness together!
The music screeched to a halt!
Revolution!
What is he playing?
The Roman Hall suddenly fell silent, only to erupt into thunderous applause the next moment!
"Wow, so cool!"
"You're absolutely a genius!"
"Oh God! What is this overwhelming feeling?!"
"Give us another one!"
"Another one!"
……
Ryūsaki's mouth was wide open and his chin almost fell to the ground. What is this boiling hot feeling?
Jerry was stunned for half a day before he came to his senses. Because, even he himself didn't know what he had just said! Canon? Yes, that's right, it was canon, but not George Winston's "December" "Canon in Variation", nor the one with some changes from "My Savage Girlfriend". So, what was it?
Jerry stroked the piano, recalling the kind of exhausted madness he had just experienced.
Legato, phrase, octave, variation, faster, even faster!
It was an indescribable outburst.
Suddenly a name flashed through Jerry's mind, Jerry C. Was I just unconsciously reenacting something Jerry C had done? Okay, it was about to be reenacted!
Solo instrument of Rock?
This is simply too crazy!
"Hello, your performance just now was truly magnificent!"
A voice broke into Jerry's thoughts, and when he looked up, what met his eyes was a bright smile!
The guy who's talking is called Sakai Noriko!
