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nikki ♫ ([personal profile] fascinates) wrote in [community profile] ofurotaimu2009-09-22 03:15 pm

[utattemita spotlight] Tolie/トゥライ

Since we've been missing him a lot (and Clear's been taking too much of our time), let's go back to getting to know Tolie/Tourai. :3

トゥライ (Tolie)
| NND mylist | blog | NND comm | mixi comm |

I think I have flailed about him too much in my LJ, but for the newbies, here goes nothing~:

Tolie or Tourai is a Nico singer who is also a producer/composer of Vocaloid songs. You might have known him before as minato or RyuuseiP. Some of his compositions include Kagamine Len's SPICE!, Megurine Luka's RIP=RELEASE and the infamous magnet by Megurine Luka and Hatsune Miku. As a singer, he has a wonderfully rich and deep voice but he isn't afraid to go falsetto or reach high notes. Some people say he sings like Miyano Mamoru, but I don't think so. He sings by the book and rarely does adlibs or restyling unlike Jack or Clear. As a result, his songs aren't as amusing or interesting as other covers, but his voice makes up enough for it. :) Still, he's a pretty popular singer and while I love his compositions (FAITH ♥) I wish he'd sing some more.

The song list is arranged by date of uploading. Since he doesn't have interesting tags in his uploads, I have refrained from quoting tags XD.



SONG LIST
- As of September 2009

* LEGEND: (♪) - non-Vocaloid song; (♬) - Vocaloid song; (♥) - Nikki's fave

♬ 卑怯戦隊うろたんだー (Hikyou Sentai Urotander)
- 02-15-08
- composed by ShinP, originally sung by Kaito
- Minato actually sang this song before his "Tolie" appearance. He sang this for some sort of "matsuri" for ShinP. He changed his voice here too much, you almost couldn't tell it's him :3.
| nicovideo | nicosound |

♬ ブラック★ロックシューター (Black ★ Rock Shooter ) ♥
- 06-18-08
- composed by ryo, originally sung by Hatsune Miku
- This is where Tolie got his name. As he sang the second third chorus of this song, he mispronounced "tsurai" as "tourai". Needless to say, there was extreme reaction. Eventually, Tourai/Tolie got stuck as his name. He used a lot of versions of his name: Tourai, Tulay...but eventually, he decided to romanize his name as Tolie (as in his blog URL).
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ celluloid ♥
- 07-28-08
- composed by baker, sung by Hatsune Miku
- This is a very good ballad by Tolie, which made use of his sticky-sweet voice. It's my favorite ballad by him so far (wait, he doesn't have THAT many ballads :( ).
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ サンドリヨン (Cendrillon)
- with うさ (Usa)
- 08-30-08
- composed by シグナルP (SignalP), sung by Kaito and Hatsune Miku
- I personally prefer the cover by Jack and Chouchou but Tolie's voice here is awesome.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ 人柱アリス (Hitobashira Alice)
- with ヤマイ, Re:A, 歌和サクラ, うさ (Yamai, Re:A, Utawa Sakura, Usa)
- 09-02-08
- composed by 歪P (IpitsuP), sung by Meiko, Kaito, Hatsune Miku, Kagamine Rin and Len
- You can hear Tolie's speaking voice at the beginning of this song :3.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ crystal mic
- 10-07-08
- composed by クリスタルP (CrystalP), sung by Kagamine Len
- This is another ballad by Tolie. celluloid is just a tad better than this~.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ 極楽鳥 -bird of paradise- (Gokurakuchou) ♥ ♥
- 10-17-08
- composed by ゆうゆP (YuuyuP), sung by Kagamine Rin
- I love his shout at the start, honestly ♥. This is one of my favorite Tolie songs.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ 番凩 (Tsugai Kogarashi)
- with うさ (Usa)
- 11-14-08
- composed by 仕事してP (ShigotoshiteP), sung by Meiko and Kaito
- I personally liked the cover by Vivienne and Clear, since their voices match so well, but this one isn't shabby either.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ マリオネット (Marionette)
- 11-18-08
- composed by クリーム市長 (Cream-shichou), sung by Hatsune Miku
- I love his sigh at the start. LOL. I'm sold to his songs by the most trivial things.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ erase or zero
- with てん (Ten)
- 12-05-08
- composed by クリスタルP (CrystalP), sung by Kaito and Kagamine Len
- This is one of my favorite Kaito x Len songs and I'm happy that Tolie and Ten covered it so amazingly.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ 炉心融解 (Roshin Yuukai Meltdown) ♥ ♥
- 12-26-08
- composed by iroha(sasaki), sung by Kagamine Rin
- This is what introduced me to Tolie. I first heard this song of his and was immediately sold. I still think this is the best male rendition of Roshin Yuukai.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ ピアノ×フォルテ×スキャンダル (Piano x Forte x Scandal) ♥ ♥
- 01-12-09
- composed by OSTER Project, sung by Meiko
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ フルチン☆ブギ (Fullchin ☆ Boogie) ♥ ♥
- with じゃっく (Jack) and ジギル (Jigiru)
- 01-12-09
- composed by Aliced_Twilightz [リンコ (lyrics) ガラージュ (music)], sung by Kagamine Len
- Ahhh this song. So cracked xDD;. I heard Jack was very much embarrassed about singing this song (Fullchin means no pants), but I think they pulled it off well. I love this song so much and I am awed that Tolie can actually pair off and sing well with Jack's insanely high voice. This song was mixed by Asamaru. The last line (by a girl) was actually spoken by Chouchou. She's credited in the info box as "Abuse by Chouchou" and this song is tagged as The Fullchin Brothers with Chouchou XD.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ ジュブナイル (Juvenile)
- with うさ (Usa)
- 02-17-09
- composed by Dixie Flatline, sung by Kagamine Len and Rin
- I don't know why I don't like Tolie's duets with Usa much (I like amu's and miy's version more this time). But ANYWAY. Tolie rapping is incentive enough to listen to this song. <3
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |

♬ From Y to Y ♥ ♥
- 03-29-09
- composed by ジミーサムP (OneRoom-P), sung by Hatsune Miku
- This is such a sad song and Tolie managed to cover it well. I like clear's version, too and both had grown on me.
| nicovideo | nicosound | youtube |


note: Aside from his Nico-released songs, he also sings for Usa Colony (like Acute and Cantarella). He also seems to have recorded covers of his own compositions but have never released them publicly. They are sometimes played during Asamakku's (Asamaru and Jack) nicolive :).

[personal profile] ureshiitoki 2010-09-26 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
UsaTolie (ow o)

For some reason I don't think their voices mash all that well (maybe because I like clewota more?/biasbiasbias)

And I like Tolie's From Y to Y cover more than clear's ^^;; It has this special something IMO xD
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[personal profile] nanamka 2011-07-22 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Toraaaai, where had you goneeeee. I really miss his covers. Sniffff. And I wish he would play with Asamakku more *reminds Lost Planet 2*

And I love his collabs with Jack. Their voices matches amazingly well!