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GALILEO GALILEI AND ME

Galileo Galilei is your type of rock band with a dog and children’s laughter all together at a small garage in a not so cold and cloudy day but with clear extracts of every instrument from the bass, synth, to the drums, guitar, and vocals that could bring out a little hint of warmth --- a bit of summer. Each song tells a timeless story of bittersweet nostalgia and love. It gives a sense of relief that at the end of the day, things are going to be okay. 

Spring tour has ended.

early 2013: " 本当どうかしてるみたい ”

It was around early February that I *finally* convinced myself to watch the series AnoHana. The reason was that the anime title always ends up in front of my small laptop screen haha it was a bit shocking and weird. Before I knew it, I was naturally caught not only the story of the anime but also GG’s song that was resonating to me like an echo finding its way back. Gosh I hope I make sense ;_;

It was actually very hard to find a full version of Aoi Shiori . There were covers and squeaky full versions of the song but I just couldn’t find it on youtube. So I tried my hardest to find it in the deep corners of the internet and yesss I found it in super hd haha (●´ω｀●)

I searched crazy on the internet about GG and it seemed that this band wasn’t really that famous like other Japanese bands that pops up quickly when I search it on google. I remember when I finally found their music on youtube. I was so happy when I found their own official channel but turns out their channel wasn’t available in my country ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ  but but there was one English channel who had most of their songs and at the very least there was someone who love their music as much as I do. Back then, one song used to be only 800 to 1000 views and the most viewed had only 4000. But still, they had awesome sounds and few people outside Japan loved them.

So I downloaded every song I liked in my old pink phone which is still in use for listening music --- Freedom, Arigatou Gomen Ne, Wakkanai, and the likes (▰˘◡˘▰). Too bad we could only get it on youtube and feel guilty to not buy their albums huhu. 

After that, the movie trailer came out. AnoHana had another place of bittersweet nostalgia in my heart once again lol. 

mid 2013: “ 時に追いやられ”

The movie was released on summer, August 31 in Japan. Of course, people outside Japan had to wait for the online/english subtitle releases for another year. But their ending theme song came out earlier than expected.

Circle Game was part of their new album ALARMS back then. When I first heard the song, with the english translation aside, it felt all indescribable that it *kinda* resulted to this blog (◡‿◡✿) we’ll get to that hihi. 

There was this part of the song that caught me and it felt magical. Without realizing, I was writing, drawing, painting this phrase over and over again on my notebooks, journals, sketch pads, even at school... it was strange and interesting to me. I kept listening and listening until I drowned myself in uncertainty(??) aah I don’t know what I’m saying ;_;

2014: “ 曖昧なことも単純なことも”

That year, everyone was all in their own to fulfill what they had to do. Friends, family, people I look up to, everyone was fulfilling their dreams. “I could do that too”, seeing them in high spirits. To me, everything was yearning for action.

In October 2014, I finally had the guts to get things real with myself. To properly put my fragments of thoughts and little experiences of life in a tiny space on the internet, to have a small part of me in the vast interconnected system.  And I decided a URL right away, the one that I’ve been fascinated: Chased away by time. 

GG’s See More Glass (2014) album was uploaded and found my way back at the channel with most of GG’s songs for free. They still have that dream-rock vibe in them. More people were admiring GG, views went up to over a hundred thousand. It was insane haha.

Months later, they FINALLY got their official channel. “Finally, more music!!”, I thought that maybe they made the channel for more of their music to be witnessed by people outside Japan.

2016: “Sea and the Darkness”

Surprised. Shocked. What happened? Why?

I’m not going to see them live. Those thoughts of seeing these guys in a full sold-out live house will never come. Galileo Galilei has really made a great big bang in me. Three years? Not bad, I’m quite thankful (◡‿◡✿) hehe but I’m still going to print a GG shirt no matter what.

本当 に ありがとう ざいました。   - 花。