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Music (Oto) byKurage Honda (Yasuyuki Honda) :
Yasuyuki Honda (a.k.a. Kurage Honda) writes music for coo:ya. Honda is a former keyboardist of “GRASS VALLEY” - a revolutionary band that debuted on the New Wave scene in the 1980s. After disbanding, Honda continued to write music and work as a sound producer for other artists and OVAs. Honda formed "face to ace" in 2001 with Ace Shimizu, who is the former guitarist of Seikima-II.
A musician who loves nothing better than to warp a sound, Honda is renowned for the way he uses his synthesizer to manipulate the track's winding path to the listeners ear.
Scenic beauty, technology and rock 'n' roll may seem at first glance mutually exclusive, but elements of each are deeply connected in the realm of sense.
And it is this world which provides the inspiration for the music coo:ya create.
To go or remain, to love or hate, it is to the beauty of such dilemmas to which the band strive to be faithful through their music. It is coo:ya's belief that from deep within these paradoxical entities a harmony will be born which in turn will give birth to a new world of music.
Afterall, the evolution of music is a path that never ends....
Words (Kotodama) bymiyo :
Miyo thoughtfully crafts coo:ya's words and bring them to life. miyo stays true to the culture of her native Japan where there was once a belief that a spiritual force known as “kotodama” reside in words. Miyo has worked on writing and a variety of other creative projects mainly in her former prefecture of Aichi. Since 2008, miyo has been the vocalist of the band "Tokyo Anastasia." She also works as a model and an MC.
More than a mere vocalist, Miyos voice is a fundamental instrument in the sound which Honda creates.
True to herself, every word, every lyric, every line she composes is born from deep within, as if seeping by osmosis onto the page.
The resulting marriage of her words with Honda's music forges a vivid world of aural space within which the listener cannot help but inhabit.
A style of music that transcends definition other than being "coo:ya-esque",
Honda and Miyo invite you to experience their new genre of music.
Miyo and Honda, both skeptical of the mainstream "royal road" of the Japanese music scene, met in 1998 via a music producer. They immediately hit it off and formed the band coo:ya.
coo:ya's lyrics are all in Japanese (except for their early works), due to miyo's love for the intrinsic beauty of the language. Their songs weave yin and yang of emotions that are universal to all human beings. coo:ya continues to depict an agonizing, visional, and yet realistic world through their personal mind filters, without being confined to any genre of music.
As coo:ya only releases songs that both miyo and Honda are truly satisfied with, the unveiling of new work is highly irregular. coo:ya does not perform live shows, which makes them a solitary band that is far away from "commercial music."
coo:ya's first mini album "Jougen no Tsuki (Half Moon Waxing)" and the second album "Jou en" are available for downloading at the viBirth store.
Many fans have asked for reprints of the sold-out "Jougen no tsuki" limited edition album. It is finally available in electronic format for downloading.
At viBirth, our songs are available at a special price! coo:ya's work will also be available for downloading at more stores, including iTunes store JP/US/EU/UK/CA/AU and Napstar.
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"Jougen no Tsuki"
~ Half Moon Waxing
From 11/30/2002 Release Al"Jougen no Tsuki"
Lyric (English translation):
Author - miyo / Translator - Nobuko Kenmotsu
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I was gazing at the other side of the iron bars
Sitting on a white bed with my legs stretched out
The full moon split up in half
And her flowing watery light colored my ankle
Those yellow halves are the waxing half moon and I
who were born on the 8th day from the new moon
"Don't kill me," my fading consciousness still begs
I look up to the fallen angel whom my voice and wishes never reach
"I love you," Daddy uttered in the moon light
I am too young to understand this
Tell me, is love sad?
I was looking up to the other side of the iron bars
As the white sheet took my color of red
Slain by black shadows the moon of mirror awaited prayers
Her fair-colored pieces cut my left wrist
That broken mirror is the waxing half moon and I
Who brace a bow and sink at full tide in the midnight
The deceitful justice held this dripping piece of my body
and confined it in a cage of darkness
Mommy dropped her head and cried in the moonlight
Why did I giggle on that day?
Tell me
"Don't kill me," my consciousness, melted by the moon, still begs
I look up to the fallen angel whom my voice and wishes never reach
The gravity that gulps down everything
Breaks me under the name of deceitful justice
Prayers....
"Sabaku"
~ The Desart
From 12/08/2005 Release
Al"Jou en"
Lyric (English translation):
Author - miyo / Translator - Yuiko Hiramatsu(rush!)
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She counted grains of desert sand
In the darkness of insomnia.
Meaningless words prick her like a thorn
Overcome by heat and thirsty.
If you abandon, renounce it all
If you accept, embrace it all.
The cool-eyed girl is crying
Because her tongue is cut off.
Only a teardrop could indulge the sins of a beautiful flower,
The ravenous flesh,
And the future.
She wakes up in the middle of the night and notices.
She is alone.
Searching for the lost child within her.
The slither of light that breaks through
Is just a mirage, not near or far.
Will the curse never end?
When she stretched out her arms,
She felt the treasure that she has been looking for
On her finger tips.
And she could believe in the existence
Of the ideals she had only dreamt of.
You are standing in the scorching desert
Holding sorrow in your heart
Waiting for someone to come.
She just wanted to feel the warmth of man
But she made the same mistakes again and again.
And all she can do
Is ridicule her own stupidity.
It was chosen 50 pairs of being able appearance to INDIES JAM in KOZA or no to which Kafca was done in the Koza City music town in Okinawa. It is a vote form. It is possible to perform to LIVE to which ten high ranks are done in August. Please cooperate. The vote screen is here. http://ijam.me/artist/kafca.html A portable address and PC address either can be input. It doesn't announce. It can watch "air" "Sea of trees" of the version that puts the cello.
It was chosen 50 pairs of doing Kafca in the Koza City music town in Okinawa, being able appearance to INDIES JAM in KOZA or no. It is a vote form. It is possible to perform to LIVE to which ten high ranks are done in August. Please cooperate. The vote screen is here. http://ijam.me/artist/kafca.html A portable address and PC address either can be input. It doesn't announce. It can watch "air" "Sea of trees" of Ver that puts the cello.
Strange day. After watching a documentary about streakers suffering from over exposure, I took a nap. It was a short one. I woke up a midget. At first I was freaking out, jumping around, trying to reach the wall phone. It tired me out. So I sat on a foot stool and placed my face in my hands wondering why this had happened to me. In the middle of self-pitying I started noticing how much fun it was to kick and swing my feet. I was smiling again, and found myself running through the house at full speed... wrestling with my now giant puppy. Oh, the joy! I hadn't had so much fun in years! We laughed and played and laughed until we both fell asleep exhausted on the living room floor. Then I woke up and ruined the whole damned thing.
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