Music Video of CHTHONIC's new single "TAKAO" is online this Wednesday, and this single is digitally released with a bonus track that featured Ensiferum sing along in special English choruses.
" The original version of this chorus is totally Taiwanese folk style, but the version that Ensiferum's singing sounds so Finnish folk! So amazing, we definitely want to share this version with our fans!" said by Doris Yeh, leader and bassist of CHTHONIC.
Not only Ensiferum sining in the bonus version, Yu Tien, a popular Taiwanese Enka singer, has sung in the original version of TAKAO as well.
TAKAO is a song about the Taiwanese soldiers departured from the TAKAO Harbor for joining Pacific War as Japanese Imperial Army. "Yu Tien's voice perfectly provide the passionate vibe of the song."Doris said, "But not just passionate, there are many kinds of emotions of these soldiers, they might be struggling, passionate, or confused. You can find all these feeling in this song."
In order to show the different emotions of this song, Chuang Chih-wen, the director of TAKAO's Music Video, filmed this video in a very different way. There are many slow shots with many different objects such as eagle, cherry blossoms, and even Type Zero fighter aircraft, which is considered as one of the most classic fighter aircraft during World War II.
During the filming, the 80-year-old character who has kept working very hard with the crew. He even didn't want to get rest for hours. After the filiming, he said "My father was a soldier of TAKASAGO ARMY, now I'm playing his role, I have to make it perfect!" His comment touched everybody in the studio. "I know that we are doing the right thing for my fellows." said Freddy Lim, the vocalist.
this band is pretty awesome but i can't get over the ultra sterile production on their recordings, triggers and samples just eat up their mix...i'll give them another shot.
cthonic puts on a good live performance imo. really friendly too. drunken crazy dan asked the guy who played the air bow at least 6 times what the name of the instrument was and the guy patiently repeated himself until dan finally got it. it was pretty amusing to watch the scene unfold. i still can't say it right either, hence neglecting to try to spell it here.
