Kachoufusetsu

華蝶風雪

Song Information

Artist: 白虎 (Byakko)
Composition/Arrangement: Tatsuya Shimizu
BPM: 199
Length: 2:04
Genre: ASIAN MIXTURE
VJ: MAYA
First Music Game Appearance: beatmania IIDX 13 DistorteD
Other Music Game Appearances: None.

Lyrics

None.

Song Connections/Remixes

• 華蝶風雪 is one of the 4 Cardinal Gate songs.
• A long version of 華蝶風雪 appears on the CARDINAL GATE conclusion album (on CS DistorteD's Special edition) along with CONTRACT, waxing and wanding, Ganymede, and 嘆きの樹. 華蝶風雪's long version was arranged by Arata Iiyoshi.

Trivia

• 華蝶風雪 is the fastest of the 4 Cardinal Gate songs.
• "Kachoufusetsu" means "The flower and butterfly snowstorm."
• 華蝶風雪 features a purple colored skin.
• The video features two embodiments of Byakko, one being a white tiger, and the other a long-haired fighter-like character (bearing resemblance to other characters drawn by MAYA).
• Byakko is a Chinese god that is a white tiger.

Song Production Info

Since I'm Byakko, the White Tiger, tried to produce something
that evokes images of a snowy Japanese panorama.

Actually, I've recently noticed the "enka" genre.
I love how enka evokes particularly Japanese aesthetics and feelings.

Video Production Info

Flashy and brilliant and brimming over with power, truly this is Byakko.
The Japanese-style melody that gets stuck in your head easily is really nice.
It's beautiful and charming, but it's very valiant.

Byakko and the man riding him build up a nightmarish mountain of corpses on the battlefield;
This is the sort of bellicose dance I tried to draw.