Code Geass Boukoku no Akito Theme Song
UPDATE (July 25, 2012): Bump for release week!
UPDATE (July 2, 2012): Listen to the preview of Dekoboko March at JVC.
UPDATE (June 26, 2012): CD jackets, details added.
UPDATE (June 2, 2012): Preview from VitaminM added by latraviata in the comments below.
UPDATE (May 8, 2012): Preorder links added.
UPDATE (May 7, 2012): Track list, details added.
UPDATE (April 27, 2012): Start of air date added.
The main theme of the new Code Geass OVA “Boukoku no Akito”, entitled “More than Words”, will be composed by Kanno, sang by Maaya, lyrics by Yuuho Iwasato. The OVA will air starting August 4, 2012.
Details:
Release Title: Code Geass Boukoku no Akito Main Theme More Than Words
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Price: Y1100 (Y1155 Tax incl.) [approx. US$ 13.58]
Description: Release of Maaya Sakamoto new song from the anime series “Code Geass Boukoku no Akito”! Includes music video on DVD.
First Press (CDJapan): CDJapan exclusive postcard featuring Maaya Sakamoto’s autograph and comment (copy)
Purchase from CDJapan.
Release Title: Code Geass Boukoku no Akito Main Theme More Than Words [First Press Release]
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Price: Y1600 (Y1680 Tax incl.) [approx. US$ 19.75]
Description : Release of Maaya Sakamoto new song from the anime series “Code Geass Boukoku no Akito”!
First Press: CDJapan exclusive postcard featuring Maaya Sakamoto’s autograph and comment (copy)
Purchase from CDJapan.
Track List:
1. More Than Words
2. Dekoboko March (Tairetsu wa Kimi ni Tsuzuku) [trans: Rugged March (The Troops Follow You)]
* secret track included
Source: @miyaishiho, tower.jp, Boukoku no Akito Official Site, Flying Dog, VGMDB
January 12th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMP8czTf3Wo
The trailer makes me wonder if Kanno could actually be involved with the soundtrack…
January 12th, 2012 at 11:45 pm
>Kanno
>Iwasato
>Maaya
uhh yeah thats the classic theme song team if there ever was one
G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S
January 12th, 2012 at 11:58 pm
OK, on asucky they say Ichiko Hashimoto is doing the score. Sounds right.
January 13th, 2012 at 1:58 am
[...] dell’unità Waivan, sarà doppiata da Maaya Sakamoto, che inoltre canterà la theme song, composta/strong> dalla Maestra Yoko Kanno. Il titolo della theme song è “More than Words”. Testi di [...]
January 13th, 2012 at 3:52 am
Greeeeeeeat!
January 13th, 2012 at 7:12 am
Oh, she’s the one who did Rahxephon. De ja vu…
January 14th, 2012 at 3:36 am
AMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!
I hope the new song will sound awesome, with that composer-lyricist-performer trio it can’t be wrong at all.
AND SAY WHAT!!! Ichiko Hashimoto!? That’s great news!
January 14th, 2012 at 3:28 pm
This is really, quite surprising.
Never thought she would do something for such a high profile anime like Code Geass but then again kanno has done some work for Sunrise.
January 14th, 2012 at 11:25 pm
The golden trio makes a return!
April 29th, 2012 at 12:48 pm
What?! How long has it been since those three have done a song together?
It is going to be awesome!!
May 7th, 2012 at 8:30 am
Regular Addition
Catalog: VTCL-35133
Release Date: 7/25
Price: 1155 yen
Limited Edition
Catalog: VTZL-44
Release Date: 7/25
Price: 1680 yen
Tracklist
01 モアザンワーズ
02 デコボコマーチ（隊列は君に続く）
May 7th, 2012 at 8:32 am
>addition
I don’t even know how that happened.
May 8th, 2012 at 3:50 am
It happens, let it go
Anyway thanks for the details! I really wonder what will be those secret track(s) ? And especially if these are songs, and who wrote them
May 8th, 2012 at 3:53 am
According to the announcement on the Flying Dog website, there will be only one secret track.
May 8th, 2012 at 5:56 am
Also, some music news websites have posted that track 1 and track 2 are both composed/arranged by Kanno, with lyrics by Iwasato.
May 8th, 2012 at 9:37 am
Oh really? I thought the song title actually sounds like something Kanno and team would do :p
Could you please show us these sites? I’ll look for them but I don’t have time just now…
May 8th, 2012 at 10:34 am
OH-News, for example. http://oh-news.net/live/?p=135342
Looks like Coma updated their post with this info too.
May 8th, 2012 at 11:21 am
Alright, thanks for that!
May 8th, 2012 at 2:58 pm
I must have skimmed over the info too quickly though because I just noticed that the second song has lyrics by Maaya, not Yuho Iwasato.
May 13th, 2012 at 9:59 am
Yes, the second song is lyrics by Maaya Sakamoto but still composed by Yoko Kanno. “DEKOBOKO March”. I think DEKOBOKO is slang for rough or bumpy…please don’t quote me though ^^;;
May 23rd, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Yessss a new Maaya+YK combo <3
June 2nd, 2012 at 12:49 pm
Preview from vitaminM:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/t8amgha6ddmq382/モアザンワーズ(VM20120601).mp3
(recorded by bamboo@ykfan.cn)
June 2nd, 2012 at 1:11 pm
Wow, thanks for that
June 2nd, 2012 at 3:52 pm
Thanks a lot!
The instrumentation is… wow! At the beginning it sounded like it was going to be a acoustic/orchestral song, and then it kept transforming and transforming into a hybrid electronic ballad song! It sounds a little like those old Napple Tale songs. Can’t wait for the release (as always… :p) to hear the song in its true quality!
June 2nd, 2012 at 5:24 pm
I think it sounds like a mixture of “Light of Love”,”Field of Love” and “Ongaku” lol
June 2nd, 2012 at 5:50 pm
I don’t know how to describe the song, but I like it anyways and the instumentation is indeed interesting. Yoko Kanno always surprises me, that’s why I like her so much.
June 2nd, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Loving it to death right now. Wonderfully nostalgic, God I wish they teamed up more often these days.
June 2nd, 2012 at 10:41 pm
I think it’s their best song since their separation after Shonen Alice. It’s like a reunion with Kanno’s style 10 years ago with an all grown-up Maaya!
June 3rd, 2012 at 12:27 pm
Out of the three songs they’ve done post-Shonen Alice I think only Triangler was a bit of a curve ball. Utsukushii Hito and this new song are both excellent. It will be interesting to hear the c/w track too
June 3rd, 2012 at 4:00 pm
How could I have forgotten Utsukushii Hito… You’re absolutely right Pippa.
However for me Triangler and Aoi Ether were below the expected level
June 3rd, 2012 at 7:27 pm
Hey, I liked Ao no Ether, it was subtle but very pretty : )
June 3rd, 2012 at 7:31 pm
Concerning Ao no Ether, the melody was good, the piano arrangement was gorgeous, but Maaya’s voice was not as pure as it used to be, like in most of her songs after Shonen Alice (however she seems to have retrieved her voice purity recently, especially from her live concerts like the Tanabata concert or her 30th anniversary’s).
June 3rd, 2012 at 8:25 pm
Yeah, me too. Sacriledge! Haha. Especially Megumi’s version. Very nice work from Maaya and Yoko on composition and lyrics.
June 5th, 2012 at 4:28 am
Yuho Iwasato’s lyrics are what make this song. She writes such beautiful and emotional lyrics.
“Triangler”, “Utsukushii Hito”, and “Ao no Ether” were all with lyrics that were not by her. This is first by all three since Shonen Alice. Yuho Iwasato has written songs for both since then (Aquarion, Sheryl’s songs in MacrossF, LOOP album, Kazeyomi album) but not all three together.
June 5th, 2012 at 3:57 pm
This ‘pure voice’ thing do you mean clarity of tone? Or singing style? Technique? People bring this up at Maayas.net too and I can’t understand what this ‘pure’ voice lament is relating to. It seems a very vague description.
I will say that her style of singing has changed in the past four years: You Can’t Catch Me, Kazeyomi and the Budokan live gave me the impression she was curling her notes at the end but overall had more strength behind it than We Are Kazeyomi in 2009 or her early concert recordings. But the curling was a little hard on the ears, which is a shame.
But you are right in that ‘Driving in the Silence’ and the ‘In the Silence 2011′ DVD have totally reversed the trend. To me the latter half of 2011 and this new song have bought back the clear, crisp style of singing she does best. I don’t know whether this was down to the direction of those around her or a natural progression back to what felt comfortable to her though. Perhaps the people she worked with knew what would work best.
However, the fact of the matter is that ‘Shonen Alice’ will be ten years old next year and women’s voices change naturally over time. I think that we have to make allowances for the natural progressions that will take place in her voice. I’m not sure I would like it if ‘pure’ was going to be linked to the ‘young’ voice Maaya had in her early twenties and not linked technique or style.
Maaaah this ended up being a long thing. Apologies!
June 6th, 2012 at 5:38 am
I’ll try to explain
It’s both technique and singing style. I’m not refering to the purity of a young voice, all the contrary. I’m refering to notes she used to sing in a low head voice or in a mix voice, and that she sings now more often in her chest voice, and also to notes she used to sing in a more lyrical way. The best examples are Shonen Alice’s songs, Gravity, Garden of Everything, Tune the Rainbow, …
For me Shonen Alice is one of Maaya’s best songs because she sang with a very mature voice, and the sounds her voice makes are full of harmonics especially of high harmonics.
It’s subtle but let’s take In the Silence PV at 1’33. All the notes are a little blocked and are almost all sung in her chest voice without a lot of air expect the ‘ko’ at 1’48, the ‘ta’ at 1’50 and the end from 1’59. She sings more this way with Yoko Kanno, as we could see in Utsukushii Hito and I guess More than Words (the record quality makes me not sure). However, she didn’t sing that way in the piano version of Ao no Ether…
I also think she sang like that in Himitsu, I guess that depends greatly from the composer with who she works.
I hope you’ll have understood some parts of my point
June 14th, 2012 at 5:58 am
The beginning is Incredible. It kind of reminds me of some School Food Punishment song but alot better than the theme they produced for her “Buddy”. I think this will be one of Maaya’s better opening theme songs in recent years.
June 27th, 2012 at 8:32 am
Just heard the song. It’s the More Than Words one right? Luckily it’s nowhere near the one by Extreme. Would have been terrifying. As it is, this is a classic Kanno piece and I am loving it! If the anime decides to use this as an opening, I would be very, very impressed. If ending song, utterly expected lol. Still, I love this. Quite the hark back to old Kanno, and I really dig the intensity of the drums near the end!
June 28th, 2012 at 7:23 pm
I’ve been replaying the song and it’s pretty much perfect. Gah, I love it when YK + Maaya team up together. Love, love, love.
July 2nd, 2012 at 2:39 am
Dekoboko March’s sample is out!
http://www.jvcmusic.co.jp/flyingdog/-/Discography/A008957/VTZL-44.html
July 23rd, 2012 at 8:32 am
The secret track is a LIVE
木登りと赤いスカート (kinobori to akai skirt) from Lucy
July 25th, 2012 at 1:48 pm
Lyric translations to both More Than Words and Dekoboko March are up on my blog (^^VV
July 26th, 2012 at 7:21 am
Thanks! I’ll post about it later : )
August 9th, 2012 at 11:32 pm
[...] Ad adattare per l’animazione il character design delle CLAMP e occuparsi del design dei knightmare, come nelle due serie precedenti, saranno rispettivamente Takahiro Kimura e Akira Yasuda. Invece Kenji Teraoka, Takumi Sakura, e Takashi Miyamoto ritorneranno ad al mecha design, come in Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion; Eiji Inomoto (Sousei no Aquarion, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex) è il responsabile della CG. Ichiko Hashimoto (RahXephon) comporrà le musiche. La brava Maya Sakamoto, che interpreta uno dei piloti, canterà la sigla della serie, composta dalla maestra Yoko Kanno, su testi di Yuho Iwasato ( per informazioni su quest’opera riferimento il sito di Gabriela Robin) [...]