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Now (Girugamesh album)

album by Girugämesh

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2024
Entity authorityQ7065252 ↗
Source-derived summary

NOW is the fourth studio album from the band Girugamesh, released on December 16, 2009 in Japan, January 4, 2010 in the United States and on February 12 in Europe. Three editions of the album were released: a Regular Version CD, a Limited Version CD+DVD, and a Super Limited Version CD+DVD which includes the music videos for "Alive [PV]" and "Border [PV]", G-TRAVEL Footage, a documentary, and an interview about the album.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Now (Girugamesh album)” as album by Girugämesh. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2009, 2010—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2009. The account is most persuasive where Girugamesh, album and Girugämesh can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as album by Girugämesh. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7065252. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2009 and 2010.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for
  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Now (Girugamesh album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Now (Girugamesh album) primary sources, Now (Girugamesh album) archive and Girugamesh research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Now (Girugamesh album)”?
  2. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
  3. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Now (Girugamesh album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.