Mariama Yamada, “I love the sound of your voice. Please send me a CD with it. I’ll listen to your voice whenever I go on vacation.”

What is your favorite memory of listening to your own music? What do you think of the world of electronic music you hear so much of today?

BEN GOLSON: My main impression was the sound. It was an immediate, musical impression. It was not a big, deep sound, you know, like a guitar or a pipe organ. It was cool and mysterious and different from anything I could imagine.

The first album I bought when I was in high school was “Kaiju (Bunko Gokuraku)” by Matsuo Matsuo. That was really cool.

Did you feel like the music would be able to carry you through life?

BEN GOLSON: I think my family would have loved to have me on the radio. At that time, I loved the feeling of listening to music on the radio. Now, when there are no programs on the radio that contain the sounds of the world around, I’m thankful to everything I heard as a child. I think I would be a little nervous when I listen to it on the car stereo.

How was the song “Fate/Zero” made? A lot of people were nervous about the ending; I thought you wanted the fans to enjoy it too.

BEN GOLSON: I was able to make it for the fans by cutting the lines out of it. I wrote the ending in one take because I had just been working on the main track. I took it with me from the airport, but I didn’t write the entire thing in three sessions: I had written about two minutes of music in my head, and then I had to erase them. I’m actually doing it again right now to complete the ending, which is quite rough.

I don’t think it was for the fans but for yourself, too. There are people who wanted “Fate/Zero” to be made without having the ending.

BEN GOLSON: Well, now you know why it makes me nervous when I hear that sort of thing. I feel the same way.

It is difficult to put a song like “Lose!” onto the radio, but the fact that you are able to do so while keeping