Track Order

I have released two full albums in my life.
The first was Violet Ann's "LIFE FORCE".
The second was Okazaki's "Mezzofortissimo".

Both of them have received praise for a common aspect,
which is the "track order".
I try to make the flow between songs feel extremely natural,
but for the most part, I place them based on my own intuition that it would feel good to listen to this after that.
However, songs that don't fit together end up being left over and placed next to each other at the end.
It inevitably happens.
In those cases, I make sure to connect them through arrangement.

The most notable example is in Mezzofortissimo,
when transitioning from "Nasakenakute Naketekuru" to "Gobou".
If I placed them as they were, a ridiculous mismatch would occur.
However, as I noted in the liner notes, I succeeded in connecting them with one specific trick.

That method was "placing a single tom hit at the beginning".
I wasn't taught it by anyone; it just naturally popped into my head.
The only song I know that has a tom sound placed before the track starts
is "Houkou Onchi," the first track on Tama's 1st album "Sandaru".
I think that is probably the origin of the idea.

It wasn't a rip-off or an homage, but rather I placed it there as a function, so I'll just conveniently call it an output of my input.