Je Chante Pour Passer le Temps

Okay... this is not an entry with a prompt. If anything, this is going to be a very big, long fangirl moment where I share my love of music with the rest of the universe because none of my friends are responding to my emails and I just have to talk to somebody. Okay, so I'm using it as a journal sort of, which I'm not supposed to, but I'll write a real entry later.

So yesterday my sister bought the first Bleach manga, and when I read to the back I discovered that there are character profiles in the back. As unimportant as that might sound, I then found that they included character theme music. This picqued my curiosity. Subsequently, I went on the Bleach Wiki to find out what Byakuya Kuchiki's theme music sounds like, because I'm too curious for my own good.

I was quite pleased to find that he was not given some strange modernized soft rock or anything. That would have been sacreligious! In fact, I discovered that his theme song was none other than a song called Je Chante pour Passer le Temps, which means "Sing to Pass the Time" by Giovanni Mirabassi. And it is amazing. And by amazing I really mean amazing! It's an absolutely gorgeous piano solo that just makes my heart sing! I don't come across solo piano songs that often make me this ecstatic.

I've been listening to it all afternoon. My sister was less than enthused, but she has no real taste in music anyway. I just can't help myself... the mixture of the dancing melody with all those deep chords in the bass... my vocalist will be having attacks over it by the end of the day; there's no way he won't like this, especially since he loved Musique pour le Tristesse de Xion so much.

It makes me think of rain... The opening is like the first little droplets falling down on your nose, cold against your skin, pattering down around you with gentle little whispers while you look off into the distance and smell the sweet rain-scent on the air. It makes me wish that it weren't so sunny outside...

But my favorite part is definitely the climax. I can just imagine standing out on my deck with rain pouring down around me, soaking all the way down to the skin, wind whipping across my face and sending my hair spiraling back from my shoulders with its cold touch. Did I tell you how much I love the bass part, too? The first time I heard it--click--thunder, and the beautiful upper keys like the flashing of lightning across the closed lids of my eyes, blue and violet against the deep gray, weeping clouds. It's like they're dancing together, shaking the whole world. It's just... breathtaking...

Sorry for interrupting my "Academic Writing" in order to say this, but I just couldnt help myself. This was quite the rare treat, because it wasn't at all what I expected to find when I looked up this random song. Now, if I could just get my hands on some sheet music, that would really make my day!

Once more, I'm going to emphasize this: listen to it! Je Chante pour Passer le Temps is absolutely gorgeous! There... I'm finished fangirl-ing. I'll write a real entry later.