New Full-Length Live Album comig up!
My deepest appreciation to Fumio, Suijon, and Mr.Yokota for making this recording possible fotr me.
Contemporary Classics vol.2 :
"The Declaration Of The Meerkat"
Live Recording: Riyu Konaka Special Guest: Fumio Yasuda (P)
Date: May 23rd, '09
Place: Zimagine
Address: Kitaaoyama 2-7-17-B1F, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Access: Gaienmae St. (Ginza Line) 1 min.
Open 7.30 p.m. ./ Start 8 p.m.
Charge 2500yen Advanced 2200yen
Ticket Reservations: goodhumor@samba.ocn.ne.jp
* Live Recording
Riyu Konaka Live - May 23, 09 Spe. Guest: Fumio Yasuda (p) Riyu Konaka w/Funio Yasuda at Aoyama St., Tokyo
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-----Bun Onoe-----Artist, Poet-------
Bun Onoe is a poet & artist living in Tokyo, Japan. His greatest concern is in "Poetry Reading", and has created new styles of "Poetry Reading" ever since his debut in 1988. He has published 2 books, and recorded 2 solo albums of Poetry Reading.
Bun is also member of talk-rap group "Boy Meets Girl"(composer&guitarist, Shinobu imai + Bun with his poems & vocal). The group was discovered from Ryuichi Sakamoto's Radio show, where their song won First Prize. Bun also performs in "Poetry Reading Live Events" around Tokyo with poets such as Masato Tomobe, Shuntaro Tanikawa, and many other Japanese poets.
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Discography--------------------------------------------
Talk Rap Group
Boy Meets Girl
Bun Onoe (poetry), Shinobu Imai (compose)
Mini Albums
"Boy Meets Girl 1" (Midi Records)
"Boy Meets Girl 2"(Midi Records)
"Boy Meets Girl 3" (Midi Records)
Best Selection Album (Twin CD)
"Boy Meets Girl : All Story Music" (Midi Records)
"Boy Meets Girl : Home Grown" (Midi Records)
4th Original Album "Sure, So Which Language Do You Prefer?" (Midi Records)
5th Original Album "Children-Scissors" (Midi Records)
Bun Onoe Solo Work
Poetry Reading CD
Debut Mini Album"They're All Coming Back" (Kitty Records)
Bun Onoe Solo Album "Cubissts Of A Family Restaurant" (Midi Records)
Bun Onoe Poetry Book
"Zebra Man Life Sketch" (Kadokawa Publishing Co.)
"We Go Searching For A Rest" (Shichosha Publishing Co.)
Short Stories
The Gift From The Iguana (Kadokawa magazine)
Answering Machine (Kadokawa magazine)
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Zebraman Life Sketch (Kadokawa) / Bun Onoe 1st Poetry Book
We Go Search For A Rest (Shichosha) / Bun Onoe 2nd Poetry Book
Bun Onoe "The Summer Far Away" with Kensaku Tanikawa
Bun Onoe Poetry Reading / Live Event "Contemporary Poetry & Piano" / Piano: Kensaku Tanikawa
"Simon Smith And The Dancing Bear"
Poem by Bun Onoe
(Translation: Riyuhip)
Bony fingers that look like a large beech tree comes sneaking up on me and pokes my forehead, BUMP!
Hey! Ouch!
As I shouted so and bent down, a hand like a hemp palm stroke BAM!
Ugh!
I couldn't even shout !
As they sandwiched me, they spinned 'round in the air
Several times, spinnin' 'round
Then, since they threw me into a washing machine with shirts and underpants drowning inside, today, I feel as miserable as a drenched one dollar bill, stuck onto a sidewalk in the pouring rain
There is no particular reason
This absurd miserable feeling with no particular reason starts bubbling up spontaneously like a sobbing,
and within time, becomes violent for no reason
And now the violently miserable feeling is flipping pachinko pinballs continuously
On a morning a tabby cat peeks quietly from the apartment window
I am a small rat, curled up in the corner of the room, waitiing to be tortured to death
Though my physical strength and sexual desire are blown-up like a balloon, I stay silent, a rat, that's waiting to be killed
I ran, and ran, and ran, and ran, and ran, and while I was running,
my baseball cap flew off, my stadium jacket loosened apart, my uniform came off, my pants and underpants dropped down, and not even noticing my wrinnkled penis hanging with sorrow towards the ground, I looked up to the sky, like a defeated pitcher on a deserted playground on Sunday
I took a deep breath, sigh
When I take a breath, I feel as if everything in the world is moving away from me, equally into the distance
Then, I slip out of myself, too,
and watch myself standing on a verranda like a giant mercury thermometer on Sunday
A mammal with a temperature of 36.5 degrees
is holding laundry in the sunshine, not knowing what to do
Feeling as though he has lost his habitat on Planet Earth
On a morning my clumsy finger failed to peel the bark of a pineapple
Simon Smith and the dancing bear
Simon Smith and the dancing bear are in the forest,
at the far end of Planet Earth
Holding their hands together, they're dancing
In the middle of a forest,
where not even one tree stands
Simon Smith and the dancing bear
Simon Smith and the dancing are playing
Right under the sky, where a duralumin egg hangs down
They're playing catch with fragments of an airplane that had crashed
Simon Smith and the dancing bear
Simon Smith and the dancing bear are singing
Old RagtimeMusic form New Orleans
That dancing bear!
You know, he's so good at using his falsetto
Bun Onoe Poetry Reading Solo CD (Midi Records) 2003
Sounds Like
A Honey Bee.
"SPACE IS A BIG O (CIRCLE) (Lyrics by Riyu Konaka & Bun Onoe / Music by Riyu Konaka)---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Chased, so I ran, and I fled to the alley of 2nd Street, I caught my breath and said "Phew!"
Then, I leaned back, took a breath, and I licked the scar on my lap, then I opened my compact, and I looked around all the way and took a glance around the whole neighbourhood
AWA AWA AWA AWA WA5 Giant Cats
AWA AWA AWA AWA WAAre coming after me
Then all of a sudden, I'm in a different place, I am running with a pair off cut-off shorts on
Climbing the stone wall around my front yard,
I stretched my arm and ate the chestnut from the tree next door!
Hooo---
Living Creatures are also eatible food
The bird that ate the bug that ate the flower that ate the poo is soaring through the sky
And even the Okonomiyaki that I just put in my mouth
AWA AWA AWA AWA WAThe grass that the cow ate
AWA
And it also has a scallop
AWA
Even eggplants are inside it
AWA
And there's also ginger inside it
I think that Space is a big O (circle),
though it has a question mark stuck onto it
On this planet one life eats another life, then someday another new life will come to life
Hooo---
By the way, it must be Wednesday today
Oops, gotta hurry, I'm going to be late for my 'tai chi chuan'(lessons)
Running on a taxi-cab, I tip-toe through the door of my judo training hall, and there I found ....
AWA AWA AWA AWA WA5 Giant Cats
AWA AWA AWA AWA WAAre coming after me
I ate the pig that ate the bird that ate the worm that ate the apple that ate the poo...
Aristotle said Space was a rhino
Pharaohs said that it was a hippo
My grandma says Space is an eyeball
The Science teacher says, I don't know
Professor Hawlking says Space is a big curve
Melissa says it's a giant mac
My boyfriend says Space is a bunkbed
I think that Space is a big O (circle)
Riyu Konaka UNIVERSE
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Fashion Show Elite Model Dakar Oct. 2008 : Collaboration with Jul De Grenelle (Buddha Bar, Paris) Elite Special Mix / Poetry Reading: Riyu Konaka 'Mommy Is President' (mixed & mastered by Vincent Brunello) ---------------------------------------
Mommy Is President (Lyrics by Riyu Konaka & Bun Onoe / Music by Riyu Konaka)
Good Morning!
Hi. My name is Unniverse
I'm growing up with the world
Oh, hurry up daddy, mommy's appearing on T.V. again
"Hi, mommy!"
See, mommy is the first president on Planet Earth
Ha!
Here come Inuits, Aboriginis, Crabs,Giraffes, conference on the beach
The breeze on the Palm Trees, they seem cool
Mommy's fashion, a cross on her neck, beads on her wrist, veil on her mouth
"Let's release God from religion" she shouts
6 said yes, 6 said no
Well, once more, let's do it again
3 said yes, 9 said no
All right, all right
"Let's release God from religion"
Du-du, du-du, du-dududu, du-du
Mama is the bravest girl in the world
Du-du, du-du, du-dududu, du-du
She is always thinking about 'people'
Hey Dad, Mommy's saying something on T.V. again,
"Just a moment, I'm busy doing the dishes"
In Congress, the percentage of men and women are fifty-fifty
The same ratio as Planet Earth
"Balance is important"
Then, war and fickleness decreased, and the number of son-in-law taken into brides' families increased
10 said yes, 10 said no, Well, once more, let's do it again
6 said yes, 8 said no
All right, all right
"Let's protect love from bad sex"
Du-du, du-du, du-dududu, du-du
Mommy is the wisest girl in the world
Du-du, du-du, du-dududu, du-du
She is always thinking about 'people'
We babies are Challengers
we make the new world
Every night before I go to sleep, mommy always sings to me
"Uni, until now, more than 100 million babies were born on Earth, but still, nobody knows,
'What kind of society is the fairest society?"
Mommy is the first president on Earth
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"Danai Lounge" CD release (Greece, Germany)
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Compilation Album "DANAI LOUNGE" (Danai Beach Resort),in which Riyu participated in with "The Fish In The Deep Sea Water Probably Gives Out A Deep Sigh" (poetry by Bun Onoe, poetry reading & translation by Riyu Konaka) - release from Greece, introduced in "VOGUE (Germany)" Magazine, July.
Velvet Dezember 2009 (Germany)
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I spent my childhood in Chicago and New York City, and started music after I returned to Japan. I came back to Japan in Junior High, and the differences between the two cultures built the basis of my thoughts. In my American classroom, were African, Phillipino, Israeli, Dutch, Korean, Chinese … children with different cultural backgrounds. It was a unique and powerful environment, and I felt I sort of saw an ideal society. I like to place myself in an atmosphere with conflicting personalities and senses of values hopefully forming a much greater harmony. Because it’s much more of a challenge, and besides, it’s too boring if we’re all the same.
I hope to take away the many borders, like gender, age, and nationalities.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Artist. Musician. Riyu started learning piano from three, and went to Elementary School & Junior High School in Chicago, Illinois and New York City. Later, she graduated Osaka University, studied at Heidelberg University (Germany), holds licenses in United Nations English Examination (A rank), top rank in Practical English. Her hobby is figure skating.
1996. Debut album "Hiccups" released from poet, artist and producer, Bun Onoe's independent label "Good Humor". The CD was produced by his spoken word music team "Boy Mets Girl" (Bun Onoe + Shinobu Imai), and collaborated with organ trio Medeski, Martin and Wood, and guitarist Marc Ribot, with Hiroyasu Yaguchi's Brass Group.
1997-98. N.Y. Recording Series - "A Funny Egg"(1997) "oops!"(1997) "Hokey-Dokey"(1998) released by Polystar Records - Good Humor. Musicians: Marc Ribot, Sebastian Steinberg, Yuval Gabay, Charlie Giordano, Peter Scherer, the Jazz Passengers.
1999. Maxi Single "Bullshit", Image Song for N.Y.I.F.F.M. (N.Y. Independent Feature Film Market) in Japan, released from Polystar Records. Riyu also participated in Carrie Ansell's movie "flushed" with the Opening & Ending Theme for the "flushed" video (Japanese version) .
2000. 1st Full-Length Album "Riyu's Album", released from Polystar Records - Good Humor. Best selection of sessions recorded from 1995 - 1999 with great musicians that Riyu respects. New Re^Mastering + 1 Bonus Track, 14 Tracks in all. 1.37 Year Old Baby 2.Hiccups 3.Miniature Barbie 4.A Funny Egg 5. A Dog's Feelings 6.SPACE IS A BIG O (circle) 7.Oops, oops 8.Shimi Jimi 9.At The Seashore 10.Grandma Is A Girl 11.Life Is A Movie Theater With Lots Of Laughter 12.Engawa 13.The Summers In Evanston 14.A Walk (instrumental)
2003. 1st Live DVD&CD "That Live" (Good Humor).
2004. 1st Multi Language Poetry Book "Messing Up Japanese" (Shichosha). Book Store Tour at Parco Book Center, Tokyo Marunouchi Yaesu Book Center, etc. Reviewed in 'The Contemporary Poetry Pocketbook' (Shichosha) 11.'04 Ed. /12.'04 Ed.
2005. Bilingual Short Story"Tooth Fairies" appeared in 'Gunzo' magazine (Kodansha).
2006 After Jazz SF Stories "AFTER GIRL" (produced, composed, mixed by Riyu / lyrics by Riyu, Bun Onoe), live album "flushed" Tour, mini album "Are Baby Squirrels Shy, Too?" released from Good Humor. Participated in compilation cover album "aloha chill" (Pony Canyon). 2007. Guest Vocals on Turkish Anadolu-Pop founder, Murat Ses's album "umami"(released in U.S.A, Europe, Turkey). Jan. 2008. Contemporary Poetry & Piano - duo live sessions with Jazz Pianist, Takeshi Shibuya. Five-Star alliance Resort Hotel in Greece 'Danai Beach Resort' released compilation album "DANAI LOUNGE (release in Greece, Germany) containing "The Fish In The Deep Sea Water Probably Gives Out A Deep Sigh" (poetry by Bun Onoe, translation & poetry reading by Riyu Konaka). Sep.2008. Riyu Konaka Live w. Special Guest: Fumio Yasuda, classical pianist/composer (winter&winter/Germany). Collaboration w. Jul De Grenelle (Buddha Bar Paris DJ) for Fashion Show 'Elite Model' Dakar 2008' in Senegal (Oct.11). --------------------------------------------------------------------
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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW...SHOVEL...CAUSE BRAND NEW COLD BrrrrrBLOODED BULLSHHHHUKAS IS SOON TO BE UPON US.....BELIEVE WISDOM THAT 1! As my peoples taught me "IT AIN'T NOTHING BUT CHEWED UP GRASS CUZIN..." A little Black girl (UNCLASSIFIED) A stranger was seated next to a little black girl on the airplane when the stranger turned to her and said, "Let's talk. I've heard that flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger." The little girl, who had just opened her coloring book, closed it slowly and said to the stranger, "What would you like to talk about?" "Oh, I don't know," said the stranger. "Since you are a black, do you think that So-called President Elect Barak Obama is qualified for the job?" and he smiles. "OK", she said. 'That could be an interesting topic. But let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff -grass -. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, and a horse produces clumps of dried grass. Why do you suppose that is?" The stranger, visibly surprised by the little girl's intelligence, thinks about it and says, "Hmmm, I have no idea." To which the little girl replies, "Do you really feel qualified to discuss President Barak Obama... when you don't know shit?"
Happy new year 2009 - Bonne année - Cчастливого нового года - Szczesliwego nowego roku - Felice anno nuovo - Frohes neues Jahr - Gelukkig nieuw jaar - Feliz año nuevo - Feliz ano novo - あけましておめでとう
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dear riyu, How are you? i done a track for you, using your a capella....! difficult for me to use internet but i send it this week!!! big kiss from Paris!! jul
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