Kisaki

Kisaki is from Kainan, Wakayama. As a child, he actively played soccer and went fishing. He first touched an instrument at the end of middle school, when a friend who started to play the drums invited him to play bass. "It wasn't about playing in a band; it was just playing for fun.", "I simply wanted to make loud noise (laughs)." The band then played at the venue about once a month, and, after being covered on the local news, ended up opening for Pink Sapphire in front of 1,000 people. Kisaki said that this early success caused him to be content and disregard the idea of going to college. However, his bandmates were, and the group disbanded on the day of their high school graduation as Kisaki wanted to expand into Osaka. ==Career==

1995–2002: La:Sadie's, Mirage and Syndrome Promising his parents that he would find a normal job if he did not have success by the age of 25, Kisaki moved to Osaka alone and joined and left various bands. Syndrome released the mini-album Core in April 2002. However, the band suddenly announced their disbandment, and had their last live on November 18, 2002. Vocalist Asagi and guitarists Sin and Ruiza formed D together, while drummer Shion formed Tinc. The group's lineup often changes, with the bassist himself being the only permanent member. Kisaki writes and composes all of the band's songs, which consist primarily of soft rock and pop ballads. When fronted by Jui, it is credited as . In 2004, they traveled to Europe and released an album there. Also in 2003, Kisaki formed the side project with Vidoll bassist Rame on vocals. Around this same time, guitarist Jun approached Kisaki to start a band together, Phantasmagoria. Kisaki explained that the group came from having noticed that no new bands were emerging, "Bands that should have been able to reach greater heights weren't getting the expected response, and the scene was changing. I felt that I couldn't guide bands unless I immersed myself back in the scene." In 2013, the "first chapter" of Lin ended. Every member changed, except for Kisaki, and the second chapter of the band started as an independent act. Feeling no need to stay in Osaka anymore, Kisaki moved to Tokyo, but struggled. In 2020, Kisaki organized and produced the omnibus album to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Rock-May-Kan, a Meguro, Tokyo live house that was important to the 1990s visual kei scene. Featuring 50 different bands from the era, all proceeds from the 4-disc album went to the music venue at a time when concerts were prohibited during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan. While working with Akira on a separate project, Kisaki and the vocalist realized that Mirage's 25th anniversary was coming up in 2022, and decided to create the band's first full-length album for the occasion. On October 8, Kisaki Project had their first performance with Jui in 16 years at Umeda Trad as part of The Grand Paradox event. The mini-album Eternally and the single "Hakai" ended Kisaki's anniversary celebrations in December. The mini-album is composed of five songs that he could not fit on the trilogy and features Matenrou Opera vocalist Sono and Deathgaze vocalist Ai, while the single was excluded from Eternally because it has a completely different style. ==Record labels==

Matina Matina was an independent record label that managed visual kei artists. It was formed in January 1997 by Kisaki as Matina Soleil, the Osaka branch of the larger visual kei label Soleil, which was founded the previous year by former Rouage bassist Kaiki. Kisaki was inspired to start his own label like Yoshiki had done with Extasy Records. He personally answered phone calls, told customers the live schedules, and handled the mail-order sales of demo tapes. Under Code Production Under Code Production was Kisaki's second independent visual kei label, and a sub-label of Free-Will. It was formed in 2003 in the Kansai region. While hospitalized shortly after Matina's demise, Kisaki said the members of Vidoll would visit him weekly to express a strong desire to work with him, which led to Kisaki forming Under Code Production. Kisaki cited the frequency of members leaving and bands disbanding as the reason, "Three years of building something, and then with two members leaving, it's back to the start. Watching these bands, I began to feel a conflict 'perhaps I was just rehashing the same approach'. Continuing like those things would not be good for me or the bands, so I decided to end Under Code Production. It was its 10th year, and I wanted to end on a high note rather than let it decline." As a result, many bands signed to the label split up, such as Nega, Megaromania, Dali, Vior Gloire. A handful of other acts remained active, such as Futurism Boyz, Lin, and Realies. Several musicians related to Under Code formed their own labels, such as Goeman Records formed by Realies' frontman Rayka, and King Zebra formed by Suzaku's vocalist Itsuki. ==Discography==

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