Kalafina

Kalafina promoting Lacrimosa (2009)

Kalafina is a Japanese pop group founded by Kajiura Yuki to perform theme songs for the movie series Kara no Kyoukai -the Garden of sinners-. They are currently signed to Sony Music Entertainment.

Members

• Vocalists: Keiko, Wakana, Maya, Hikaru
• Composer, arranger, keyboards, producer, backing vocals: Kajiura Yuki (梶浦由記)

Support Members

• Chorus: Kaida Yuriko (貝田由里子), Tomoru Hanae (戸丸華江)

Information

In 2007, Kajiura Yuki started working on the soundtrack of the movies adaption of Kara no Kyoukai novels (空の境界; Boundary of Emptiness). She founded Kalafina to perform seven theme songs for seven movies. Their first single, oblivious was released on January 23rd, 2008 with vocals done by Keiko and Wakana from FictionJunction project. The single features theme songs for the first three movies and reached #8 on the Oricon weekly charts. But at this time, there names are unrevealed and it was announced that Kalafina will have two more vocalists chosen by Kajiura and Sony from a 30,000 participants audition. The singers' name was finally announced in Kajiura's Dream Port concert when Kalafina performed its opening act.

The new vocalists were introduced in their second single, sprinter / ARIA and it is the their only single up to now performed by all four vocalists. It was rumored that Maya is a high-school student and she had to focus on her study. After that, Maya is replaced by Kaida Yuriko in their live performances of sprinter and ARIA but there is no announcement that she will leave the band. Their next releases are only feature vocals by Keiko, Wakana and Hikaru. Kalafina released their debut album and fourth single on March 4th, 2009. Seventh Heaven brought an end to their tie-ins with Kara no Kyoukai and the fourth single, Lacrimosa - Kuroshitsuji second ending theme, is a start of their new chapter because Kalafina will not be disbanded.

Discography

Kalafina (February 2008)

Albums

• [2008.04.23] Re/oblivious (Remix mini-album)
• [2009.03.04] Seventh Heaven

Singles

• [2008.01.23] oblivious
• [2008.07.30] sprinter / ARIA
• [2008.12.24] fairytale
• [2009.03.04] Lacrimosa ([Lat]; Weeping)

External Links

• Official website
• Kalafina Note