Alice Schach and the Magic Orchesta

"Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra" is a musical group in Japan, consisting of two members, Nene Akagawa and Yuni Minami. Our song features characters such as "Alice Schach" and we express various stories using our own language called "Alician". One of the main features of the group is that it is self-produced, with the members themselves taking charge of a wide range of aspects such as songwriting, arrangement, performance, video, and design, while inviting illustrators and animators for each song.
==History==
===Group History===
Before Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra was made, Minami and Akagawa were in a group called "Lost in the Fog" in 2012.https://www.youtube.com/@lostinthefogofficial/videos Then, Minami and Akagawa made "Tokyo Babel" in 2013.https://www.youtube.com/@tokyobabel7283/videos
A post written by Yuni Minami was written to address the design change from "Alice Schach and the Reminiscent Bibliotheca" to "SCHACH". He explained the reason for the change and her past.https://www.youtube.com/post/UgyI-oYAW7Of49I7MoZ4AaABCQ
After the disturbance in the group, Akagawa and Minami starts to invite collaborators to make illustrations, animations or sound mastering for the songs. This includes: 
*BURUKANIRO HAKASE (Teardrop del Rey, Wanderers)
*senobentoya (Kill My Fortune)
*LESLIE (Hyptonized)
*koneko mari (Children in the Ashes)
*GIVE ME! tomotaka (NEW GAME, Fushigi-Chan, KILLED BY ANGEL, Character designs for SCHACH)
*tomoboP (Sound Mastering for NEW GAME)
*minmin (Endorphin)
*Zemyata (QUEEN FLY)
*atlas (Life in a Plastic Bag)
*TNUP (Doppelgängers)
*Eefoj (O)
*YonedaRR (i am always wrong)
==Albums==
===Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra (2014)===
Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra
 was the first album made by Nene Akagawa, Yuni Minami, ARiKEM, and Chikuwamiel. The album consists of a total of three songs. 
In this album, they introduced the protagonist: Alice Schach. Her design was complex: blonde hair with a long navy dress. Red shoes and accents on the rim of her dress. She also has blue leg warmers and a light blue long, flowy bow on her dress. She wears a navy bomber hat on her head with floral designs.
This album can no longer be found as it has been archived due to misuse by hater groups. This means there are no sources available for these songs.
===Alice Schach and the Frozen World Tree (2017-2018)===
The album, Alice Schach and the Frozen World Tree, was released by the group of four on September 6, 2017. That same year, the official YouTube channel was created. The album consists of a total of twelve songs: 
#Alice Music
#Brisk! -interlude-
#wonder world sketch
# ALQ
#A Witch of Ice Cage
#Friend
#Lost My Savepoint
#a Solitude Wanderer -interlude-
#the white land
#Acquazzone
#Frozen Tree
#Sno (_ _) oze & Sn (o_o) ze
Alice Schach's design was changed consecutively to this album being released.
 A character in the album is introduced, Witch of Ice Cage.
 The tracklist of Alice Schach and the Frozen World Tree is describes the story of Alice Schach warping into fantasy with her magic, finding the Witch of Ice Cage, and restoring the Frozen World Tree.
 She is described as being a time traveler, being able to use her magic to warp though time and fantasy.
They produced CDs for this album and advertised it on shopping services.
===Alice Schach and the Reminiscent Bibliotheca (2019-2021)===
The group of four released their second album, Alice Schach and the Reminiscent Bibliotheca, on December 30, 2018. It has a total of thirteen songs: 
#Maharajah
#Maze No.9
#Thirty Million Persona
#Apocalypse
#under wonder nights
# A Little Servant
#HOLIC
#Elysion's Old Mans
#Chocolate Missile
#Zukan
#Flyburg and Endroll
#End of Mythology
#Toys
The most popular song on YouTube of the album is Chocolate Missile, with around 730K views in 2024. Alice was given a brief description about herself along with her cat. She is able to play the piano and is described as being a wizard.
 Her cat never leaves her side.
There has been a few releases of official art regarding Alice Schach and the Reminiscent Bibliotheca. Many show her doing daily activities, her interests
, and the detail that her cat is present everywhere she goes.
 These artworks allow us to better understand her as a character.
Consecutively, Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra released Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra: Piano Collection. It showcased piano covers of the group's past songs, yet only four were released, being Apocalypse (piano version), Chocolate Missile (piano version), ALQ (piano version), and Frozen Tree (piano version). These covers only exist unlisted on their Youtube account. The only way to access these covers is by going to the public playlist located on their account. These covers are made by Yuni Minami, playing at a slower, more soothing and soporific tempo and feel to the songs. Nene Akagawa sings a slower and more leisurely pace. 
===SCHACH (2021)===
The SCHACH album was released on October 1, 2021. The protagonist was redesigned due to disturbances in the group. The album has a total of eleven songs: 
#NEW GAME
#Fushigi-Chan
#Kill my Fortune
#QUEEN FLY
#Endorphin
#Children in the Ashes
#Hypontized
#Dogma
#Psukhe
#Urxbxrxs
#Popcorns Falling from Heaven
They introduced new characters in this album such as Alishka
, Heor
 and Salatoga
. The most popular song on YouTube of the album is QUEEN FLY, with over 2.2M views in 2024, it is also the most viewed video on the channel overall.
Nene Akagawa and Yuni Minami wrote their process on making this album on their blog. Akagawa's blog post was where she walked about her process of making the lyrics and vocals.https://medium.com/@alice.and.orchestra/about-schach-9f54b36e7326 On the other hand, Minami's blog post was where he talked about his process of making SCHACH with his roles as music production and lyrical assistance.https://medium.com/@alice.and.orchestra/about-schach-minami-cbbbcb982006
==Discography==
*Alice Schach and the Magic Orchestra (2014)
* Alice Schach and the Frozen World Tree (2017)
*Alice Schach and the Reminiscent Bibliotheca (2018)
*SCHACH (2021)
==Citation/References==
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