バルバラ矮星子黙示録
-アルセノテリュス絶対復活光とオルフェウス絶対冥府闇-
Barbara Waiseiko Mokushiroku
-Arsenothelus Zettai Fukkatsu Hikari to Orpheus Zettai Meifu Yami-
Barbara Dwarf Star Child Apocalypse
-Arsenothelus' Absolute Revival Light and Orpheus' Absolute Hades Dark-
  ORIGINAL
バルバラ矮星子黙示録
-アルセノテリュス絶対復活光とオルフェウス絶対冥府闇-
Release Date: 6-21-17 (June 21st, 2017)
Catalog Number(s): FJ-133
Price: ¥3,024
Released by: FUJI

Released in 2017, this album is a 20th anniversary nod to the influence J.A. Seazer had on Revolutionary Girl Utena. The content is all entirely new, except for a version of Absolute Destiny Apocalypse, billed as the "Complete" version with extended lyrics that may or may not have originally been there, but indeed are now. The cover is a piece by the creator of Madoka, Gekidan Inu Curry, depicting a very stylized Utena-horse and Anthy in the iconic pose of Jacques-Louis David's Napoleon Crossing the Alps.

This is essentially a sequel to OST 7, Revival Record of the Rose Egg SOFIA, in that it has long, otherwise unrelated songs by Seazer, and so is basically candy for Seazer fans and weird noise for everyone else. The song titles and lyrics are in typical obtuse Seazer style, with experimental swings in carnival music and a medley track, Skyscraper 8823 Living in Vimal Palace, that ended up one of my favorites.Index Librorum Prohibitorum -Angelic Hallucination «Lewd Demonic Theory» Compilation-also starts with a very obvious nod to Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, a song otherwise popularized in One Winged Angel, Sephiroth's battle music in Final Fantasy VII. Other personal stand-outs are The Stranger’s Lullabye, and My real me is scattered, but there really aren't any tracks Seazer trash like me can dislike.

People who purchased the album through Japan's large Diskunion website were treated to a bonus disc with three extra tracks as listed below. Two are familiar to Utena fans, with Missing Link being the climactic music in episode 39, and The Inversion of Me and My Room being from the game, Someday My Revolution Will Come. These are live recordings by Seazer using his theater troope: 'Theater Laboratory - Universal Gravitation' [Engeki jikken-shitsu - ban'yū inryoku].


A note: The given names are predominantly based on the Utena Translation Project's original translations of the songs. Where a song title has become widely accepted as different, ie. The Sunlit Garden instead of The Sunny Garden, I have used the more popular name. Punctuation has been altered to better match the Japanese tracklists.

The "Comparison" options when available are side by side multiple translations, romantization, and Japanese, depending on availability. They're an awesome and surprising resource, and I hope you check them out.

[Japanese Tracklist]   [Tracklist Comparisons]
バルバラ矮星子黙示録
-アルセノテリュス
絶対復活光とオルフェウス絶対冥府闇-
Japanese Tracklist

01. ヴィマル宮殿に生く摩天楼8823
02. 禁書目録―天使幻覚《婬鬼論》篇―
03. 人間系外想像矮星リュウゴ
04. テアトロメダ・テアトロサウルス
    ―光の子と闇の子の存在による可能性―

05. . テアトロメダ・テアトロサウルス
    ―アルセノテリュス復活の力―

06. 異邦人の揺籠歌
07. わたし日時計グノモーン
08. バロック・ロック―ねんねんおころりよ
rock-a-bye,rock.a.by

09. 絶対運命黙示録・完全版
10. 修道生殖・なり・肉体黙示録

11. 変幻自在秘法螺旋
12. My real me is scattered
13. 中世仮面《ヴィザー》
14. 地球刑務所パノプティコン



diskunion Exclusive Bonus Disc

01. さかさまボクとボクの部屋
02. ミッシング・リンク
03. 飛翔の舞=我は鳥々無限萬人


01. Skyscraper 8823 Living in Vimal Palace (instrumental)  [6:26]
02. Index Librorum Prohibitorum
        -Angelic Hallucination «Lewd Demonic Theory» Compilation- [5:00]
[allegoriest]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Forbidden Book Catalogue
―Angelic Hallucination
《Lewd Demonic Discourse》Compilation―
Translation by allegoriest

The everlasting memory fallen to oblivion
This rebirth of the future region
The girl lost in Psyche’s eye is here
Is she nature?
Succubus?
Incubus?

Fear shrinks in the palpitation
In this natural magic resonance
The girl who mimics the clock of blood is here
Is she history?
Succubus?
Incubus?

Your relative existence and
My true absolutely ideal existence
Hermaphroditos
That is in the book of celestial bodies
We become the 17th century emperor
Rudolf of roses
The stern peaceful emperor

The chemical element of existence [Juvenile history]
In that album of longing and purity
The girl masqueraded in flame is here
Is she the sun?
Succubus?
Incubus?

Juvenile spirit of silence
In this mysterious lake of all creation
Complete Emptiness・The girl who imitates fantasy is here
Is she temptation?
Succubus?
Incubus?

Absolute Purity
Destiny’s Eternal Revolution
Apocalypse becomes Anthropocentrism

The two of us
Hermaphrodite
Twins
Uncertainty

The two of us
Hermaphrodite
Mystery
Sealed

[Katie]
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
―Angelic Hallucination
《Lewd Demonic Discourse》Compilation―
Translation by Katie

Everlasting memory, forgotten:
In the land of that future rebirth,
There is a girl with the spellbinding eyes of Psyche.
Is she nature?
Succubus?
Incubus?

A rhythm receding in fear:
In that symphony of nature magic,
There is a girl who imitates the blood-clock.
Is she nature?
Succubus?
Incubus?

Your relative existence and
The truth of my absolute ideal existence,
Hermaphroditus:
That is from a book of the heavenly bodies.
I will become the seventeenth-century emperor,
Rudolf of Roses.
I will become a stern, peaceful emperor.

The original elements (boyhood records) of creation:
In that longed-for album of sincere untruths,
There is a girl masked in flame.
Is she the sun?
Succubus?
Incubus?

The reticent boy-ghost:
In that unfathomable lake of the universe,
Complete emptiness—there is a girl who simulates fantasy.
Is she temptation?
Succubus?
Incubus?

Absolute purity,
The eternal revolution of fate,
The apocalypse, becoming Homo movens theory

Two people,
Androgynous,
Twin
Uncertainties.

Two people,
An androgynous,
Miraculous
Seal.

[EJ Translations]
Index Librorum Prohibitorum
-Angelic Hallucination
{Lewd Demonic Theory} Compilation-
Translation by EJ

In the territory of the future revival
Of completely forgotten, undying memories,
There is the girl with the obsessed eyes of Psyche
Is she natural?
A succubus?
An incubus?

In the spontaneous magical resonance
Of the beat that shrinks in uncertainty,
There is the girl who mimics a blood clock
Is she history?
A succubus?
An incubus?

Your relative existence
And my existence, which in truth should be absolute
Hermaphroditus
That is a natural book
I am a seventeenth-century emperor
Rudolf of the roses
A stern and serene emperor

In the longed-for pure/false album
Of the original music of creation {Chronicle of Youth},
There is the girl disguised by firelight
Is she the sun?
A succubus?
An incubus?

In the mysterious lake of all creation
Of the silent boy-ghost,
There is the girl who mimics emptiness and daydreams
Is she temptation?
A succubus?
An incubus?

Absolute purity
A fated eternal revolution
A theory of human movement that is apocalypse

Two people
Hermaphroditism
Twins
Uncertainty

Two people
Hermaphroditism
Mystery
Seal


03. Extra-human Imaginary Dwarf Star Hourglass [4:17]
[EJ Translation]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Extra-human Imaginary Dwarf Star Hourglass
EJ Translation

The shadows move
Their power:
Transformation

The darkness returns
Its power:
Revolution

The one who is correct is the one who solves the riddle of people
The soul of the being that exists in this gap
Answer:
What is The possibility That only
I
Survive?

O, human! O, earth! O, eternity!
O, human! O, earth! Endlessly
O, human! O, earth! Ah, death and rebirth
O, human! O, earth! Are simply things that repeat

Virtual birth
Virtual me
Virtual connection
Virtual life
Virtual earth
Virtual planet

Even if you ask a question, there is silence
Because of
All that is
Those who do not know
Those who are not known
A dark-colored dwarf star
Dwarf star
A dark-colored dwarf star
Dwarf star Dwarf star
Dwarf star Dwarf star
Dwarf star
It’s me

[Katie]
Extrahuman Imagination Dwarf Star Hourglass
Translation by Katie

Shadows are moving.
That power:
Transformation.

Darkness is returning.
That power:
Revolution.

The right way is solving humanity’s mysteries,
That rift ahead in the soul of existence,
Replying,
The Possibility I Alone
Can
attain.

The human realm, the earthly realm, the eternal realm.
The human realm, the earthly realm, never-ending.
The human realm, the earthly realm, oh, death and rebirth!
The human realm, the earthly realm, only repetition.

Virtual birth,
Virtual me,
Virtual relationships,
Virtual life,
Virtual earth:
Virtual planet.

Silence in spite of questioning:
Therefore,
Each and every
Thing unknowing,
Thing unknown.
Shadow-black dwarf star,
Dwarf star,
Shadow-black dwarf star,
Dwarf star, Dwarf star,
Dwarf star, Dwarf star,
Dwarf star:
It’s me!

[allegoriest]
Mankind’s Pedigree Imaginary Dwarf Star Ryuugo
Translation by allegoriest

The shadow stirs
This power
Reformation

The darkness revolves
This power
Revolution

Righteousness is humanity’s riddle
That crevice where the spirit of existence is
Answer,
Me, Only, Go
And achieve
Potential

Mankind, Earth, Eternity
Mankind, Earth, without an end
Mankind, Earth, ahh, death and rebirth
Mankind, Earth, simply repetitious things

Virtual birth
Virtual me
Virtual relationship
Virtual life
Virtual earth
Virtual planets

Inquiry and again silence
therefore
Every possible excuse
Those who don’t know
Those who cannot know
Dark dwarf star
Dwarf star
Dark dwarf star
Dwarf star Dwarf star
Dwarf star Dwarf star
Dwarf star
It’s me



04. Teatromeda・Teatrosaurus
        -Possibilities Surrounding the Existence of the Child of Light
         and the Child of Darkness- [4:34]
[Hiraku]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Theatromeda・Theatrosaurus
- Child of Light and Child of Darkness’
Probability Based Existence 
Translation by Hiraku

Andromeda
Tyranosaurus Theatromeda
Theatrosaurus Theatrical nebula
Theatrical dinosaur

Light of the Cosmos
Beginning of Me
Cosmic dance stage
Earthly stage actors

Cassiopera
Triceratops Theatropera Theatrotops
Theatrical nebula
Theatrical dinosaur

Light shining from two
Beginning of one
Andro dance stage
Gynous stage actors

We have
Made our appearance in the Mesozoic Triassic
Adapting and diverging
Extinct in the realm of Cretaceous,
Cenozoic Alamosaurus
Ah This figure
Namely, the dinosaur actor non-avian dinosaur

Speciation is, too, the fate
Of Dinosaur Renaissance
Linked with the Majungasaurus (Non-avian Theropods)
As you know
You shall journey together to the Cosmic theater

Child of light, Child of darkness,
Theatromeda-Theatrosaurus
Child of light, Child of darkness,
Theatromeda-Theatrosaurus

Theatromeda-Theatrosaurus
Theatromeda-Theatrosaurus
Theatromeda-Theatrosaurus
Theatromeda-Theatrosaurus

[EJ Translation]
Teatromeda Teatrosaurus
-Possibilities Surrounding the Existence of the
Child of Light and the Child of Darkness-
EJ Translation

Andromeda
Tyrannosaurus Teatromeda
Teatrosaurus Theatrical nebula
Theatrical dinosaur

The light of the cosmos
My origin
Cosmic stage
Earthly actor

Cassiopeia
Triceratops Teatropeia
Teatrotops Theatrical nebula
Theatrical dinosaur

Two lights
One origin
Andro stage
Gynous actor

We
Made our debut in the Triassic period of the Mesozoic era
Adapted and dispersed
On the border of the Cretaceous period and the Cenozoic era,
the Alamosaurus was completely wiped out
Ah Along with all that had that shape
That is, the non-avian-type dinosaur actors

Is it classification or fate?
The dinosaur renaissance
Connecting to Majungasaurus (non-avian-type theropod)
Did you know?
Can the cosmic theater come to you?

Child of light, child of darkness,
teatromeda teatrosaurus
Child of light, child of darkness,
teatromeda teatrosaurus

Teatromeda teatrosaurus
Teatromeda teatrosaurus
Teatromeda teatrosaurus
Teatromeda teatrosaurus

[Katie]
Teatromeda, Teatrosaurus
―The Existence of a Child of Light and a
Child of Darkness through Possibility―
Translation by Katie

Andromeda,
Tyrannosaurus, Teatromeda,
Teatrosaurus. Theatre nebula,
Theatre dinosaur.

Cosmic light,
My source,
The cosmos-stage.
The earth-actor.

Cassiopeia,
Triceratops, Teatropeia,
Teatrotops, Theatre nebula,
Theatre dinosaur.

Dual light,
Single source,
Androstage,
Actogynous.

Ourselves,
The Mesozoic Era arriving with the Triassic,
Adaptive scatteration,
Dying out at the Cretacious-Paleogene boundary,
Alamosaurus
.
Ah, Wearing that form,
Namely, non-avian dinosaur actors.

Systematics or fate?
The Dinosaur Renaissance
Connected by Majungasaurus (non-avian theropods)
You know!
It can go to you! The cosmos-theater.

The child of light, the child of darkness:
Teatromeda, Teatrosaurus.
The child of light, the child of darkness:
Teatromeda, Teatrosaurus

Teatromeda, Teatrosaurus.
Teatromeda, Teatrosaurus.
Teatromeda, Teatrosaurus.
Teatromeda, Teatrosaurus


05. Teatromeda・Teatrosaurus
        -Alcenoterius' Power of Revival- (instrumental)  [4:59]

06. The Stranger’s Lullabye [6:24]
[EJ Translation]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Stranger’s Lullaby
EJ Translation

Heard at the end of a dream
The stranger’s lullaby
“Goodbye to me, myself
And an empty hello to this morning”
My beloved shed skin
Everything comes to an end eventually
I am leaving on an eternal journey
Leaving behind my still-warm shed skin

“Goodbye, myself
Goodbye to me, myself
And an empty hello to this morning
Goodbye, myself”

Remembered at the end of a dream
The stranger’s lullaby
“Goodbye to me, myself
And an empty hello to this morning”
It drifts down slowly
So light, like the downy hair of your cheek
I am leaving on an eternal journey
Leaving behind the shed skin that I can still remember

“Goodbye, myself
Goodbye to me, myself
And an empty hello to this morning
Goodbye, myself”

Sung at the end of a dream
The stranger’s lullaby
“Goodbye to me, myself
And an empty hello to this morning”
Looking to the east, I say “goodbye”
Looking to the south, I hum
The stranger’s lullaby
Leaving behind the shed skin I’ll never return to

“Goodbye, myself
Goodbye to me, myself
And an empty hello to this morning
Goodbye, myself”

[allegoriest]
Étranger Lullaby
Translation by allegoriest

I heard the end of the dream
The Étranger Lullaby
“Goodbye to myself
Hello to the morning’s emptiness”
I will shed my beloved self 
Soon, everything will come to an end
I will have completed my eternal journey
It will still be warm, My body that’ I’ve shed

”Au revoir moi même
Goodbye to myself
Hello to the morning’s emptiness
Au revoir moi même"

I remembered the end of the dream
The Étranger Lullaby
“Goodbye to myself
Hello to the morning’s emptiness”
Very slowly, the nothingness rises
So softly, like downy hair
I will have completed my eternal journey
I still remember, My body I’ve shed

”Au revoir moi même
Goodbye to myself
Hello to the morning’s emptiness
Au revoir moi même"

I sang to the end of the dream
The Étranger Lullaby
“Goodbye to myself
Hello to the morning’s emptiness”
I head to the east “Farewell”
I head to the south as I hum
The Étranger Lullaby
And I shall not return to the body I’ve shed

”Au revoir moi même
Goodbye to myself
Hello to the morning’s emptiness
Au revoir moi même"

[Katie]
L’Etranger’s Lullabye
Translation by Katie

At the end of the dream, I heard
L’Etranger’s lullabye.
“To my personal self, I say goodbye,
And to this morning’s emptiness, hello.”
To the empty shell of my beloved self,
Given time, everything will end, will die.
I embark upon an eternal1 journey,
Leaving my still-warm body behind.

-
Goodbye, myself.
And to this morning’s emptiness, hello.
Goodbye, myself.”

At the end of a dream, I remembered
L’Etranger’s lullabye
“To my personal self, I say goodbye,
And to this morning’s emptiness, hello.”
Ever so gently. I soared
Ever so gently, like feathers on a breeze.
I embark upon an endless journey
Leaving my still-remembered shell behind.

-
Goodbye, myself.
And to this morning’s emptiness, hello.
Goodbye, myself.”

At the end of a dream, I sang
L’Etranger’s lullabye
“To my personal self, I say goodbye,
And to this morning’s emptiness, hello.”
As I head south, “goodbye.”
As I head south, I sing to myself.
L’Etranger’s lullabye.
I leave my still-unchanged shell behind.

-
Goodbye, myself.
And to this morning’s emptiness, hello.
Goodbye, myself.”


07. I Am the Gnomon of the Sundial [4:57]
[Hiraku]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
I am the gnomon of the sundial
Translation by Hiraku

Meaning behind the esoteric knowledge and the arcane secrets
Knowledge Gnosis, Etymological origin of the
underground spirit gnome
I – am – the Gnomon of the sundial

Babylon, Berossus, Hemisphere
Samos, Aristarchus, Saucer
Knidos, Eudoxus, Arachnid
Syracuse, Scopus, Pedestal
Amisus, Dionysodorus, Cone
Patroclus

I am the gnomon of the sundial
Shadow configuration of the icodecahedron
Sundial, measurement of wisdom
I am the gnomon of the sundial
With the imaginative power of the light
Illusory praise Shadow of time

Celestial north pole, shadow pole of the sun
Celestial south pole, shadow indicator
View – Solar hour
View – Solar date
View – Solar month
View – Solar year

Spinning-top shaped sundial (Gnomon)
Equatorial sundial (Hijra)
Vertical sundial (Gnomon)
Tablet sundial (Diptych)

I—Am—The—Sun—Dial—Gno—Mon—
Wisdom of the celestial movement
Knowledge of the moving, changing season
Nature’s rhythm, Alchemist
The flow of time, Fountain of wisdom

[Katie]
I, Sundial Gnomon
Translation by Katie

Secret knowledge and hidden meaning,
Derived from the same root as gnosis,
underground knowledge, and gnome, underground spirit
I, the sundial gnomon.

Babylon, Berossus, hemispheres
Samos, Aristarchus, discs,
Cnidus, Eudoxus, spiders,
Syrakousai, Scopas, columns
Amisos, Dionysodoros, cones
Patroclus

I, the sundial gnomon
Shadow-using icosahedron,
The visual solar system of timekeeping wisdom,
I, the sundial gnomon,
The imaginative power of light, made into
Illusion-worship, shadow, time

The north celestial pole, the solar shadow-stick
The north celestial pole, the shadow-pointing needle
Visual solar time
Visual solar day
Visual solar month
Visual solar year

Coma-shaped sundial (gnomon)
Equatorial sundial (hijra)
Vertical sundial (gnomon)
Portable sundial (diptych)

I, the sundial gnomon
The wisdom of the celestial flow,
The knowledge of the changing seasons,
The rhythm of nature, the alchemist,
The flow of time, the source of wisdom!

[EJ Translation]
I Am the Gnomon of the Sundial
EJ Translation

It means hidden knowledge and the transmission of secrets
From the same root as “gnosis,”
knowledge, and “gnome,” a subterranean spirit
I am the gnomon of the sundial

Babylon, Berossus, hemisphere
Samos, Aristarchus, disc
Cnidus, Eudoxus, spider
Syracuse, Scopus, pillar base
Amisos, Dionysodorus, cone
Patroclus

I am the gnomon of the sundial
An icosahedron making use of the shadows
With the wisdom to measure apparent solar time
I am the gnomon of the sundial
Making the imagination of light my strength
An illusory worship of shadows and time

At the north pole of the heavens, a bar of shadow from the sun
At the south pole of the heavens, a clock hand pointing to shadow
Apparent solar hour
Apparent solar day
Apparent solar month
Apparent solar year

Equatorial sundial (gnomon)
Equatorial bow sundial (Hijri)
Vertical sundial (gnomon)
Portable sundial (diptych)
I am the gnomon of the sundial

Understanding of the movement of heavenly bodies
Knowledge of the changing of the seasons
An alchemist of the rhythms of nature
The flow of time; the fountain of wisdom


08. Baroque Rock -Annual Revolution, rock-a-bye, rock.a.by(e)- [4:54]
[Hiraku]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Baroque Rock: Sleep and Sweet Dreams -
Rock-a-bye, Rock-a-by(e)’
Translation by Hiraku

Baroque ( rock )
Spiraling Baroque
Baroque ( rock )
Eros’ beloved
Ahh-Ah-Ah—Ah-Ah-Ah— Angels of Bernini
Satyr of Puget

Baroque ( rock )
Loosening spiral of the torsion spring
Baroque ( rock )
Motion for the endless motion
Ahh-Ah-Ah—Ah-Ah-Ah— Seashell, Gazelle
Bacteria, Semicircular canal

Freeform curvature
Meandering curvature
Swirling curvature
Logarithmic spiral
To be devoted is to be Baroque ( rock )!

In other words, Baroque is
To be moving
To be self-sustaining
To be ever-changing

In other words, Baroque is
To be inwardly centripetal
To be outwardly expanding, infinitely
To be eternal, To be endless, To be in the resonating motion!

O Time! Its compulsion! To be swayed and swerved!
Everything stands on the vertiginous knife-edge of imbalance
Going round and round! Dancing the flowing and decadent Le Rondo!
Liberate! Opening! For all!
Surround the center! The circle of nine commencing the dance of Le Rondo!
Liberate! Opening! For all!

Back and forth going
Baroque
Death then rebirth
Baroque-Baroque-Baroque-Baroque---

[Katie]
Baroque Rock
–Changing Completely Year-by-Year rock-a-bye,rock.a.by(e)–
Translation by Katie

Baroque (rock)
The spiral is baroque.
Baroque (rock)
Erotic favor
Ahhhhhh Bernini's angels,
Puget's Pan

Baroque (rock)
The spiral is loosening.
Baroque (rock)
Motion as the consequence of perpetual motion
Ahhhhhh Seashells, the antelope
Bacteria, semicircular canals

Freeform curve
Serpentine curve
Spiral curve
Logarithmic spiral
Favoritism is Baroque (rock)

In other words, Baroque is
Moving things
Lasting things
Varying things

In other words, Baroque is
Things shrinking inward towards the center
Things expanding outwards into infinity
Things resonating in perpetual motion, which is eternity

Exploiting the necessity of time
Standing on every margin of inequality
In the decadent, flowing ring of the dance
Make total liberation your aspiration
From the nine circumambulating rings of the dance,
Make total liberation your aspiration

Withdrawing, returning, return: Baroque
Death and rebirth, return: Baroque
Withdrawing, returning, return: Baroque
Death and rebirth, return: Baroque

[EJ Translation]
Baroque Rock
-Rockabye Baby, rock-a-bye, rock.a.by(e)-
EJ Translation

Baroque (rock)
The spiral is of the baroque
Baroque (rock)
An Eros-esque favorite
Aaaaaah Bernini’s angel
Puget’s shepherd god

Baroque (rock)
The spiral is a loosening spring
Baroque (rock)
Endless movement for the sake of movement
Aaaaaah A shell–that of an antelope
Bacteria, semicircular canals

Freedom curve
Meandering curve
Spiral curve
Logarithmic spiral
Baroque (rock) plays favorites

In other words, Baroque is
That which moves
That which endures
That which transforms

In other words, Baroque is
That which shrinks towards the center
That which expands limitlessly outwards
Resonating with an eternal, endless movement

Brandished at the compulsion of time
Standing on the horizon of every inequality
In the circle of the flowing dance of decadence
It aims for every liberation, every opening-up
In the circle of the nine dances that rotate around the center
It aims for every liberation, every opening-up

Brandished at the compulsion of time
Standing on the horizon of every inequality
In the circle of the flowing dance of decadence
It aims for every liberation, every opening-up
In the circle of the nine dances that rotate around the center
It aims for every liberation, every opening-up


09. Absolute Destiny Apocalypse・Complete [3:36]
[EJ Translation]  [Complete Information]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
The Revelation of Absolute Destiny
EJ Translation

Absolute destiny: apocalypse
Absolute destiny: apocalypse
Birth records, baptism registers, death records

Absolute destiny: apocalypse
Absolute destiny: apocalypse
My birth, absolute birth,
apocalypse

A midwife and a wet-nurse in the desert of night
A gold-plated Eden
Day and night spin backwards
A time-plated Paradise Lost

Darkness of Sodom
Darkness of light
Darkness beyond
Darkness unending
Absolute destiny: apocalypse
Absolute destiny: apocalypse, darkness
Apocalypse

Absolute destiny: apocalypse
Absolute destiny: apocalypse
Death and rebirth,
Prometheus’s star,
eternal life (satellite) records

Absolute destiny: apocalypse
Absolute destiny: apocalypse
Protogonos, me,
cosmos, life, apocalypse

I am infinite within the origin
In the two moons and suns
The creation of the cosmos, my birth
My me is my Prakriti

The occurrence of the origin, conception,
monalisation and birth
Perfection, foolish child, sphere,
me, cosmos, principle

The occurrence of the origin, conception,
monalisation and birth
Perfection, foolish child, sphere,
me, cosmos, principle

[allegoriest]
Absolute Destiny Apocalypse・Complete
Translation by allegoriest

The absolute destiny apocalypse
The absolute destiny apocalypse
birth records, baptismal registry, death records

The absolute destiny apocalypse
The absolute destiny apocalypse
My birth, absolute birth,
apocalypse

A brilliant place in a dark desert, made of leaves
A gold gilded Eden
Day and night turning upon eachother
Time gilded paradise lost

Darkness of Sodom
Darkness of light
Distant darkness
Endless darkness
The absolute destiny apocalypse
The absolute destiny apocalyptic darkness,
apocalypse

The Absolute Destiny Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny Apocalypse
Death then revival
Celestial body of Prometheus
Records of eternal life (satellite)

The Absolute Destiny Apocalypse
The Absolute Destiny Apocalypse
The Protogonos Me
Universe, Life, Apocalypse

In the origin is the infinite me,
in the two moon and sun,
I am born in the creation of the universe,
my myself is the Prakrti me

Conception of the original source
Mona Lisa’s Zion and birth
Sphere of the perfect foolish son
Myself, the universe, philosophy

Heaven and earth,
Day and Night,
Darkness and light Twin moons, hermaphrodite,
Androgynous




10. Monastic Life・Is・A Flesh Apocalypse [3:49]
[Hiraku]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Monastic Reproduction – Becoming – Flesh Apocalypse
Translation by Hiraku

Mucous, Sanguine, Moisture, Bilious
Namely –
Flesh Apocalypse

The corrupted air in the nasal fossa
The corrupted sea in the depth of esophageal
The corrupted darkness in the abdominal
Fecal excrement’s erotic reproduction!

Carnal desire, sexual desire, passionate desire, selfish desire
Namely –
Formation Apocalypse

Beast of the shadow’s wind dwelling in the heart
Demon’s sea in the deep recess of the soul
Hideous darkness at the end of Libido
Abstinence sorcery’s erotic reproduction!

Blood-painted dialectic
Bile-painted dialectic
Fluid-painted dialectic
Perversion-painted dialectic

Eros –
Agape – Gnosis!
Carpocrates – Holy semen!

Hedonistic happiness is to be the destiny
We are the objects that can never reach escape velocity
Forgetting and abandoning that which is I
We lose ourselves in the oblivion of our fetishes, Stagnating!

Yes!
Ringing! Forming! Living! Becoming!
Yes!
Toiling! Withdrawing! Nulling! Becoming!

[Katie]
Scholastic Reproduction or Flesh Apocalypse
Translation by Katie

Phlegm, blood, moisture, bile
In other words,
flesh apocalypse

The filthy breeze inside my nose
The filthy sea in my inner throat
The filthy darkness inside my belly
Excrement, erotes, reproduction

Carnal desire, sexual desire, passionate desire, selfish desire
In other words,
form apocalypse

The breeze of the beast in the shadows in my mind
The demonic sea inside my soul.
The ugly darkness at the end of my libido
Self-restraint, sorcery, erotes, reproduction

Blood-stained dialectics
Sap-stained dialectics
Fluid-stained dialectics
Debauchery-stained dialectics

Eros,
agape, gnosis
Carpocrates

Pleasure becoming fate,
We transcend, becoming the impossible object.
Forgetting and casting away our selves,
We forget, becoming caught in vague inclinations

Yes,
resounding, ascending, bearing fruit, being
Yes,
exchanging, filling, emptying, becoming

[EJ Translation]
Monastic Life * Is* A Flesh Apocalypse
Translation by EJ

Phlegm, blood, moisture, bile
In other words,
a flesh apocalypse

A filthy wind in the nose
A filthy sea in the throat
A filthy darkness in the stomach
The erotic reproduction of excretion

Lust, passion, desire, selfishness
In other words,
a form apocalypse

A shadow-beast wind in the heart
A devil sea in the soul
A repulsive darkness at the end of libido
The erotic reproduction of the witchcraft of abstinence

A dialectic smeared with blood
A dialectic smeared with juice
A dialectic smeared with fluid
A dialectic smeared with dissipation

Eros, agape, gnosis
The holy semen of
Carpocrates

Pleasure is destiny
We are subjects who are unable to transcend
Forgetting all about me
We are stagnating in an inclination towards vague oblivion

Yes
* we ring * we become * we give birth * we are
Yes
* we are * we internalize * we are not * we are



11. Phantasmagorical Secret Spiral [6:43]
[Hiraku]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Phantasmagoria (Freely-Transforming)
Arcana Spiralis
Translation by Hiraku

Metamorphosis, Transforming (Perverted) aesthetic
Transformation, Dance to you
Alchemy Domain Mystery

Modification, Lamp changing by the wind
Sexual, David The expression of sin
Alchemy Domain Mystery

From here to there, Freeform transfiguration
Arcane art and ritual, Melding into darkness
Born in the walls, Freeform transfiguration
Transomniogynous, Melding into time

Metamorphosis, Course deviation
Transformation, Spiral movement
Alchemy Domain Mystery

Modification, Symbolic existence
Sexual, David Running without stopping point
Alchemy Domain Mystery

Freeform transfiguration, Freeform transfiguration
Freeform transfiguration
Freeform transfiguration
Arcane spiralis, Arcane spiralis
Freeform transfiguration
Freeform transfiguration
Arcane spiralis, Arcane spiralis

[EJ Translation]
Shape-Shifting Secret Formula Spiral
Translation by EJ

Metamorphosis, transformation aesthetic
Transformation, dancing to you
Alchemy domain mystery

Modification, a wind-changing lamp
Sexual David, a sinful expression
Alchemy domain mystery

Shape-shifting from here to there
Secret formula, secret ritual technique melting into darkness
Birth within walls, transformation eternity
Super-dream, gynous, melting into time

Metamorphosis, road of deviation
Transformation, spiral motion
Alchemy domain mystery

Modification, a symbolic being
Sexual David, without a stopping point
Alchemy domain mystery

Shape-shifting and, shape-shifting and
Shape-shifting and
Shape-shifting and
The secret formula spiral, the secret formula spiral
Shape-shifting and
Shape-shifting and
The secret formula spiral, the secret formula spiral

[Katie]
Phantasmagorical Secret Spiral
Translation by Katie

Metamorphosis, transmogrified aesthetic
Transformation, your dance
Alchemy, domain, mystery

Modification, lamp changing with the wind
Sexuality, David, expressing a sin
Alchemy, domain, mystery

From here to there, transcendent transmutation
The secret formula, the secret ritual art
Birth in the walls, transposing infinity
Super andreamgynous melts time

Metamorphosis, a deviating course
Transformation, spiral motion
Alchemy, domain, mystery

Modification, a symbolic existence
Sexuality, David, without a stopping point
Alchemy, domain, mystery

Transcendent transmutation, transcendent transmutation
Transcendent transmutation
The secret formula, the spiral, the secret formula, the spiral
Transcendent transmutation
Transcendent transmutation
Transcendent transmutation
The secret formula, the spiral, the secret formula, the spiral


12. My Real Me is Scattered [3:59]
[allegoriest]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
My Real Me is Scattered
Translation by allegoriest

My real me is scattered (scatter scatter scatter scatter)
My real me is scattered (scatter scatter scatter scatter)
Like constellations, galaxies and planets (scatter scatter scatter scatter)
Here and there, I am scattered (scatter scatter scatter scatter)
Like infinite cells (scatter scatter scatter scatter)
Here and there, I am scattered (scatter scatter scatter scatter)
Just like a sketched drawing (scatter scatter scatter scatter)
Like paint spattering (scatter scatter scatter scatter)

My real me is scattered
(scatter scatter scatter scatter)
My real me is scattered
(scatter scatter scatter scatter)

Or maybe, think of it as
I am fantastical books, therefore I exist
I am illusory publications, therefore I live
I am the cryptid dictionary, therefore I continue to change
I am that which your dreams become

Or maybe…
I exist in your gaze
I am who your words speak of
I am the movement of your strength
I am that which your dreams become

Ahh, my self of the illusory vision
Is that which my gaze becomes
My own self is my library of the human body

My own me is my (My real me is scattered)
My own me is my (My real me is scattered)
My own me is my (My real me is scattered)
Here and there scattered scattered I am I am scattered scattered
My own me is my (My real me is scattered)
Here and there scattered scattered I am I am scattered scattered
My own me is my…

[EJ Translation]
My real me is scattered
Translation by EJ

My real me is scattered 
(scattered, scattered)
My real me is scattered 
(scattered, scattered)
Like constellations, nebulae, planets
Scattered here and there, diffuse, sprinkled
Like eternal cells
Scattered here and there, diffuse, sprinkled
Just like a pointillist painting
Like the painting technique of spattering

My real me is scattered 
(scattered, scattered)
My real me is scattered 
(scattered, scattered)

Or possibly you could think of it like this:
I am that which exists in accordance with an imaginary book
I am the one who exists in accordance with an illusory publication
I continue to change in accordance with the Book of Imaginary Beings
I am the one who transforms in your dreams

Or…
I am the one who exists in your gaze
And speaks with your words
I am the one who moves under your power
And transforms in your dreams

Ah, my illusory, fantastical me
Is the one who transforms in my gaze
My me is my human body library

My me is my
My me is my
My me is my
Here and there, scattered, of course, scattered
My me is my
Here and there, scattered, of course, scattered
My me is my…


13. Mask of the Middle Ages «Visor» [5:45]
[Hiraku]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Medieval Masked Man
Translation by Hiraku

Visor!!!
When the time has come for the sacrificial spiritual war
Dawn arrives as the fortress has been smashed to rubbles
Diving deep beneath the underground of that ancient castle
Enveloped in the iron of flames, is the man of darkness
Visor--
Visor--
Medieval Masked Man!!

Searing into the skin is the art of alchemy
Transmutation of metals in this world of illusory mankind
Chanting incantation into this pale, dark evening
Crystal ball subjected to countless endurance experimentation
Visor--
Visor--
Medieval Masked Man!! Visor!!

Million candles Apothecary workbench
Destiny of the heart of the full moon
Time can also tell the tinkling echos of the gold
All it takes is to seek within your conviction
Visor--
Visor--
Medieval Masked Man!!

Launch! Send a Darkness Arrow!
I shall release an arrow of darkness!
That enigma - Lightning
That enigma - Cruelty
That enigma - Absence
That enigma - Nothing there is to know

Vi-- Vi-- Vi-- Visor--
Vi-- Vi-- Vi-- Visor--
Vi-- Vi-- Vi-- Visor--

[Katie]
Mask of the Middle Ages: “Visor”
Translation by Katie

Wiser
Time is a war of spiritual sacrifice.
The ramparts of dawn are being smashed apart.
Diving underground that old castle,
Wrapped in iron and flames, a person of darkness
Wiser
Wiser
Medieval mask

Emblazoned on the skin of the alchemist,
The phantom-figure’s world, (to) alchemize
A spell chanted in the dark blue night
An experiment of unmeasurable patience, the glass bulb
Wiser
Wiser
Medieval mask

A million candles, a medicinal brick
Destiny and spirit and the full moon
Not even knowing time, the metal brings resoundancy
That gaze stays fixed on its own beliefs.
Wiser
Wiser
Medieval mask

Launch! Send a darkness arrow!
Come, fire an arrow of darkness!
That mystery, lightning
That mystery, insensate
That mystery, brutal
That mystery, unknown

Wi, Wi, Wiser
Wi, Wi, Wiser
Wi, Wi, Wiser


14. Earth Prison Panopticon [4:33]
Earth Prison Panopticon
Translation by Katie

Monitored by the Panopticon (full-view surveillance prison),
We become solitary prisoners of the world-prison
That is already the same as a machine
Connecting like screws and hinges
Transmitting: pipe, tube, hose

Monitored by the Panopticon (full-view surveillance prison),
We become solitary prisoners of the world-prison
There we contemplate:
Let’s know even further isolation.
Let’s enter even further isolaton.
Let’s anticipate even further isolation.

Isolation-lation, isolation-lation
Isolation-lation, isolation-lation
Isolation-lation, isolation-lation
Isolation-lation, isolation-lation
Aaah
Aaah

Monitored by the Panopticon (full-view surveillance prison),
We become solitary prisoners of the world-prison
At the end, I wish to
Fly through the air,
go ten thousand miles in the deep sea,
Invent all forbidden machines
Become lost from public memory

-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-

[EJ Translation]
Earth Prison Panopticon
Translation by EJ

Observed within the all-seeing prison Panopticon
We in the prison of Earth are lonely inmates
It has already become like a machine
Held together by screws and joints
With pipes, tubes, and hoses running through it

Observed within the all-seeing prison Panopticon
We in the prison of Earth are lonely inmates
What we think of there:
Let’s get to know loneliness more deeply
Let’s become lonelier
Let’s contemplate loneliness further

Lonelinessness Lonelinessness
Lonelinessness Lonelinessness
Lonelinessness Lonelinessness
Lonelinessness Lonelinessness
Ahhh
Ahhh

Observed within the all-seeing prison Panopticon
We in the prison of Earth are lonely inmates
What we soon wish for:
To fly through the sky,
to be ten thousand leagues under the sea
To invent all the useless machines
To become people without memories

Attacked by a super time attack
Attacked by a super hypocrisy attack
Attacked by a super greed attack
Attacked by a super cruelty attack
Attacked by a super uncertainty attack
Attacked by a super plague attack
Attacked by a super nature attack
Attacked by a super bacteria attack
Attacked by a (super) presence/absence attack




Diskunion Bonus CD:

01. The Inversion of Me and My Room [2:49]
[Information]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
The Inversion of Me and My Room
original duel chorus

"Someday My Revolution Will Comes"
Sega Saturn Video Game
Duel name: ????
One of two duel choruses used for the Sega Saturn video
game. This is considered a bonus track.

OST 3: Internal Clock, Municipal Orrery, track 31
OST 11: I, Revolution Pharsalia <transformation>, track 17


The Inversion of Me and My Room
diskunion bonus [original performance]

This is a live recording by Seazer. It was
unused, but intended for C. Island Fantasy
Barbecue Sauce -At the End of The
Long Absence-.


The disc this appears on was only available if you
bought the Barbara CD from Diskunion.

OST 12: Barbara Dwarf Star Child Apocalypse
Diskunion Bonus CD, Track 1

[Verthandi]
The Inversion of Me and My Room
Translation by Verthandi

The umbilical cord, the rope that symbolizes life,
is the cosmic swing at the end of the cosmos
That cord, furiously swinging,
By the recoil, dances through space
The body revolves once in a somersault
I am of the great darkness that passes over rooftops,
The reverse of me in a single leap

The inverted, cheap apartment and
Two worlds; beyond written record
What is awakening? Only the cord
A grand rotation in the city skies!

Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, good-bye to whom?
Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye, good-bye-bye to me!
-



02. Missing Link [4:04]
[Information]  [Lyric Comparisons/Raws]
Missing Link
original duel chorus

Episode 39: Someday, Shine With Me
Duel name: ???
Technically not a duel, or perhaps the only 'duel'
that matters. Utena and Anthy against the things
that limit them.

OST 4: Angelic Creation, Namely, Light , track 4
OST 10: I, Revolution Pharsalia <origination>, track 3


Missing Link
diskunion bonus [original performance]

The original live performance version of
Missing Link, from Darwin -Time is a
Theatre Set of Hypothesis and Illusion-
.

OST 12: Barbara Dwarf Star Child Apocalypse,
Diskunion Bonus CD, track 2

[Verthandi]
Missing Link
Translation by Verthandi

Missing link, ooooh
Missing link, oooh
This is the link that was lost

Though I cut ties with this world,
I continue to transform
O heavenly bodies!
Why do I remain
In this world?

Missing link, ooooh
Missing link, oooh
This is the link that was lost

Though I cut ties with this world,
A power is connected still
O illusion!
Why do I remain
In this time, this place?

Though once unborn,
I yet came to be born;
Most resourceful,
My heart

He who is born will die
He who is born will disappear
Yet, we perservere;
It is quite absurd.
Though I cut ties with this world,
A connection remains

Lo, I have vanished, yet now I am singing
Lo, I have vanished, yet now I am laughing
Lo, I have vanished, yet now I am petrified
Lo, I have vanished, yet now I am living
Missing link, missing link...

[Nozomi (Official)]
Missing Link
Official Translation
          Nozomi DVD Release (2011)

Missing link...
Missing link...
The lost link on the chain.

Though I am disconnected...
Even so, I continue to evolve.
Stars up above...
Why do I
exist in this world?

Missing link...
Missing link...
The lost link on the chain.

Though I am disconnected...
Even so, I have the
power to join.
Mirage before me
Why am I here now?

I did not want to be born...
and yet I was born all the same.
The most resourceful thing.
Would be my heart.

Though I am born, I will die...
Though I am born, I will disappear...
It happens over and over again...
It's so absurd...
Though I am disconnected...
Even so, a connection remains...

See, I have vanished yet I still sing.
See, I have vanished yet I still laugh.
See, I have vanished yet I am petrified.
See, I have vanished yet I still live.
I exist. I am here.
I exist. I am here.
I exist!


03. Dance of Flight=I Am Various, Infinite, Myriad People [2:50]



These liner notes are translated by EJ, whose site can be found here. (The translation here is from this page.) Thank you so much!

J.A. Seazer
music

The Meteor Night Linked by a Halo of Thought

When I was writing the choral songs for my first new project in a while, The Mechanics of Fools, I innocently thought, “I wonder if Utena music is still forming within me even now,” and those words were what started me on creating this project…. It was when I was writing the songs “Earth Prison Panopticon” and “The Invisible Theater of Impressionists” for The Mechanics of Fools that I thought this. The light of a single thought streamed from my right temple, aiming for a single point in the night sky. And soon it returned to my right temple, linking in a great big halo of light. What resulted from following that halo of thought was wild imaginations of songs: “Baroque Rock” and “My real me is scattered” and “Teatromeda Teatrosaurus” and “Extra-Human Imaginary Dwarf Star” and the rest. Since I was writing the libretto for a new show, I thought, “I don’t have time for this,” and restrained myself. “It’s all right, I’ll manage.” I shut up the libretto and, strongly aware of the giant elliptical halo linking my two temples to that point in the night sky, gave myself over entirely to songwriting. I turned on the TV as I usually do while writing songs, but that night was different. The TV, which I always watch with the volume set to 24, became inaudible to me, and instead I heard someone’s voice speaking to me. “They say that the spirits of the dead become stars, and I’ve also heard that if you call out to wake up those dead people, there is a play…” it said. And then, soon, another voice said, temptingly, “If you create a ‘dwarf star music’ that will cause that theatrical universe to be reborn….” I ignored those voices, scattered fantasies and strange thoughts and mad thoughts and allegorical thoughts here and there around the temporary theater, and, while playing a guitar in lute tuning, built up a “songbow” (as in rainbow) of different types of music. But still, “If you plot the things that were realized by ‘the neverending situation of that girl’s lust and a maturing older girl’s lust’ on an axis from the light of revival to the darkness of the underworld, with a picturesque technique, without hesitation, there is evidence that lyrics have been created,” came an analysis that seemed like it was from a stranger. (It was probably someone inside myself.) Just when I thought “Is someone talking to me?” another someone who seemed like a visiting stranger inquired, “If you buy up old books and old maps, old tricks and old star charts that can’t possibly be in your bookless library that imitates the Library of Babel that possesses all books that exist and you think you can’t read them, would you change the sea from which the earth was born into aged sake, while replacing all the nebulae and constellations that have been created since history began and the whole sky full of planets and stars with naked lightbulbs, and write songs while praying an anatomical oratio that’s no Kaitai Shinsho?[1] … Well, how about it? Do you have the self-confidence?” (It was probably someone inside myself.) “How long is this going to go on?” I said, taking a break, and at once the noise of the TV came back. “This year I watched one of the big three meteor showers, the Perseids, in favorable conditions, and next year it seems like I’ll be able to see another of the big three, the Quadrantids….” An eye that seemed to have existed since the ancient past, which is to say my third eye, looked up at the celestial bodies spread throughout my room.

- May 2017, J.A. Seazer

Translator's Notes: “解体オラ書”, “kaitai orasho,” is a pun on the title of the Kaitai Shinsho (解体新書), or New Book of Anatomy, and “オラショ” (orasho), an archaic Japanese Christian word for “prayer” from the Latin “oratio.” The katakana at the end of “オラショ” have been replaced by “書”, also read “sho” and meaning “book”, and obviously the first two characters are the same as in “解体新書”, leaving us with… a book of anatomical prayer, I suppose?


<- Diskunion Bonus CD

OST 1: The Eve of the Absolute Evolution Revolution
student council arc BGM and duels
OST 2: Virtual Star Embryology
black rose saga BGM and duels

OST 3: Internal Clock, Municipal Orrery
akio and apocalypse arc BGM and duels

OST 4: Angelic Creation, Namely, Light
seazer duel chorus image album

OST 5: Now, Engage Yourself to Me...
unreleased BGM, drama tracks, 1997 musical soundtrack

OST 6: Advent of Nirvanic Beauty ~Androgynous Me~
ikuhara selection best of

OST 7: Revival Record of the Rose Egg SOFIA
seazer being seazer album

OST 8: Adolescence Rush
adolescence apocalypse movie soundtrack

OST 9: COMPLETE CD-BOX
previous 8 albums, plus club remixes

OST 10: I, Revolution Pharsalia <origination>
seazer's universal gravitation recordings

OST 11: I, Revolution Pharsalia <transformation>
seazer's mitsumune rearranged songs
OST 12: Barbara Dwarf Star Child Apocalypse
an utena image album by seazer

OST 13: Alchemistic Girl ~ The Tale of the Rose & The Egg
more seazer gonna seazer

Singles, Miscellanous Audio/Drama Recordings, Compilations
So On and So Forth
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