Hey, just because my current predicament is hindering me to do longform Christmas projects like in the past years, that doesn't mean we can't spread some of that jolly atmosphere in sme form...
On that note, thanks for the indirect assist, mr. Kawagen and consort!
Chrimbo!
くりんぼ！／Kawagen Kollagen(BNSI) feat. yuzuki
| Game | Genre |  |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AC Nijiiro (Y5) |  | ★3 137 | ★5 216 | ★5 334 | ★8 536 | - |
60-153
???Yes indeed, this ending week might have seen a brand-new, winter-holidays-themed medley for the Classic genre, but let's not forget how the Taiko no Tatsujin scenery can nover its own Christmas-themed original track among its ranks! This one is brought us by the husband-and-wife couple of Yoshinori "Kawagen Kollagen" Kawamoto (川元義徳) and his wife by the nickname of yuzuki, the two of which already performing togeter for one of the 20th-anniversary Taiko de Time Travel songs (Koi wa Don't Doubt) and the NS2 subscription debut Beat Again!.
Lyrics body aside, not much can be said about Chrimbo's origins other than its name getting chosen by the eponymous informal slang used to call the Christmas holiday in a less rigorously-religious way, a connection that was confirmed by Kawamoto himself via X... but whose post got deleted sometime after, so we can't really link you to an archived version for this one bit. What we can talk more about, however, is how Kawagen and yuzuki have also banded together for an independent musical duet project in 2022, by the name of April Moonwake (X profile). Given how the act's YouTube channel seems to be well and dead, this time at least we can post its one single release Farewell as the AM duo via another user' online upload (link)!
Back on Taiko, by this point it's no secret that Kawamoto has been charting a lot of Taiko songs under the 'Kawagen Kollagen' alias, most prominently the songs of his own making. In both instances, portions for tricky tempo-signature-changing charts can be found by the composer/charter himself no problem, but in more recent times it happens Kawagen's own are built around odd tempo changes that could serve well for a natural transition to tricky notecharting, with Chrimbo being his most recent candidate to date. This is translated into the song's BPM peak portionm where the 1/16 spacing is narrower to address via Taiko hit drums and at its irregular ending, starting out as a 130BPM-led, 1/12 mainstay charting for an ending where the BPM lowers at the same time of the scrolling speed's increasing pace (up to x2), for a final Kat-lead closure that may cost some accuracy points for the careless. Mind those 1/24 4-hit clusters scattered throughout the play, though!
