with Present Letos – Single

LAREINE is a Japanese visual-kei rock band that existed from November 1994 to February 17, 2007.
On this website, you can find a full release database of LAREINE and the bands related to them.
On these specific pages, you’ll find a discography listing the main audio releases. 

General Information:

Single containing one “real” song followed by an instrumental SE.

The song is a rerecording of an older song, “SOLITUDE”, from their first album from 1997, “BLUE ROMANCE～優しい花達の狂奏～“.

Since the release of this album in 1997, the song SOLITUDE has been a staple of LAREINE’s live concerts; They never stopped performing it live. It even appears on three live DVDs, “Chantons l’amour～リリーからの手紙～”, “Scarlet Majesty” and “LEGEND OF FANTASY”.

As a result of performing it so often, plenty of new ideas grew into the song over the years, even after its initial 1997 recording. The most noticable difference that they added in later is the very thrash-metal-like guitar riff in the intro.

This is why this rerecording of SOLITUDE is called “SOLITUDE(LIVE ARRANGE)”, not because it’s a live recording, but because the arrangement is the same as in the lives that came after the initial release of SOLITUDE in 1997, with for example that heavy riff added.

There’s two versions of this single; One sold a live venue only, and the other one sold using mail-order on the Fleur website. While both are very rare and expensive, the venue one, with a photo of KAMIJO on the cover is even rarer, it’s extremely difficult to find. Both have the same release date on the back, so I guess both versions released on the exact same day.

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