Setsugekka (The End of Silence)/Zan Setsugekka (The End of Silence)/Zan With the single, Gackt collaborated with Koei on their new Wii game "Samurai Warriors 3". The title song was the game's theme song, while "Zan" the ending theme song. The songs were performed on March 6 and 7, in the festival at the Saitama Super Arena, organized by Koei to promote their new game. The songs are distinctive for their blend of modern Western musical instruments and the traditional Japanese instruments, a kind of music called by Gackt as "Zipangu" rock from which can be sensed the country (Japan) of origination. It was the last
This Dust Was Once the Man This Dust Was Once the Man "This Dust Was Once the Man" is an elegy poem by Walt Whitman in 1871. The poem is dedicated to Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States. The poem was written six years after Lincoln's assassination. Whitman had written three previous poems about Lincoln, all in 1865: "O Captain! My Captain!", "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd", and "Hush'd Be the Camps To-Day." "This Dust Was Once the Man" was included in of Whitman's Leaves of Grass. The poem served as the setting for two choral works of Jeffrey Hoover. This