hide: Release NEW SONG (Video Co GAL)

Yes, you read right!
hide, guitarist of X japan, after 16 years after his death, will be released a new song.

The title of the song is "Co Gal," and hide wrote both the lyrics and music.
As the name indicates, the song satirizes the "kogal" fashion boom of high school girls and others who dressed with mini-skirts and loose socks around 1998.

This will be the first never-before-released track from hide since "Junk Story," which was on the best-of album hide Singles in 2007. The musician had planned to include "Co Gal" on Ja, Zoo, his first solo album (after X Japan's breakup) that debuted posthumously in November 1998. However, since he passed away right before recording the song, all that remained were the lyrics and the audio demo. Part of the lyrics were displayed in the hide Museum in Kanagawa Prefecture's Yokosuka City from 2000 to 2005.

It took about two years to complete this song to commemorate what would have been hide's 50th birthday on December 13.
The song uses YAMAHA's Vocaloid voice synthesis technology to recreate his singing voice, based on lyrics he wrote and a demo he recorded just before he passed away.

The song will come out with an album that Universal Music will release on December 10.
Album will include "Tell Me," "Pink Spider" and other hit songs in addition to "Co Gal."

Hiroshi Matsumoto, hide's younger brother and manager, said that he would not have imagined that they can finally complete hide's solo album Ja, Zoo as planned. He added that to do so, on what would have been hide's 50th birthday, is like a dream.



TRACKLIST

Regular Edition
[CD]
01. Co GAL (子 ギャル)
Bonus Tracks
02. Junk Story
03. In Motion
04. TELL ME （hide with Spread Beaver）
05. HURRY GO ROUND
06. ever free
07. pink spider (ピンク スパイダー)
08. ROCKET DIVE
09. GOOD BYE
10. Hi - Ho
11. Beauty & Stupid
12. MISERY
13. TELL ME
14. DICE
15. 50% & 50%
16. EYES LOVE YOU

Limited Edition 
[CD]
01. Co GAL (子 ギャル)
Bonus Tracks
02. Junk Story
03. In Motion
04. TELL ME （hide with Spread Beaver）
05. HURRY GO ROUND
06. ever free
07. pink spider (ピンク スパイダー)
08. ROCKET DIVE
09. GOOD BYE
10. Hi - Ho
11. Beauty & Stupid
12. MISERY
13. TELL ME
14. DICE
15. 50% & 50%
Extra Track
16. Co GAL (子 ギャル) demo version
[DVD]
01. Co GAL production video
02. performance footage
03. production video of the first 14 bonus tracks


PV Co GAL
link video: http://www.56.com/u69/v_MTMyMTA3Njgy.html

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