24-2-2008: The album featured in the main page of CDJAPAN.
「The VOICE」 CD Japan charts: http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/jpop/cd/top.html 6-3-2008: charts #13 in CDJAPAN weekly rank 28-2-2008: charts #7 in CDJAPAN weekly rank 21-2-2008: charts #7 in CDJAPAN weekly rank 14-2-2008: in the top 20 pre-order rank
「The VOICE」New KOKIA album out on the 20th February (Japanese edition) or 26th February (French edition)
1.穏やかな静けさ (Odayaka na Shizukesa - Calm Silence) 2.Follow the nightingale 3.Ave Maria 4.届きますように (Todoke kimasuyou ni - I want to reach) 5.song of poccyong ~ 雫の唄 (Shizuku no uta - song of drops) 6.ごめんね。(Gomen ne. Sorry.) 7.Lacrima 8.何もかもが星になって (Nani mo Kamo ga Hoshi ni Natte - Everything can become a star ) 9.Il mare dei suoni 10.Everlasting 11.小さなうた ( Chiisana uta - little song) 12.私にできること (Watashi ni dekiru koto – I can do it) – exclusive track of Japanese edition The French edition will have another track instead. -> say goodbye and good day
“poccyong” is the word used to describe the sound that drops make while falling ...
I feel a little stupid, I didn't know you could watch this via internet... Now we just have a short comment, but at least, we can see how KOKIA is today! hehehe
11th February - BACK FROM IRELAND
KOKIA arrived two days ago. The recording is finished. She has sung in English and in Gaelic.
She has written the recording diary, and when she has time, she will put it in the blog.
The singer wants everyone to listen the result. I really want to listen to it, actually ^^
1st February - EUROPEAN TOUR BOOK 2008
You can leave a message for the KOKIA TOUR 2008 BOOK
1st February - KOKIA goes to Ireland
In the past months there has been al lot of news realted with KOKIA and Ireland. KOKIA has been mentioning recordings in Ireland, in fact,she has gone there several times, in short trips, to record.
It seems she's recording a whole new album there.
She has mentioned in her blog as well that she's learning Gaelic. (I discovered this in the new years' day big update, but i had so many new things to tell you...)
In her latest entry, KOKIA anounces she sets off Ireland to make the final recording. It seems she's going to spend more than a weekend there.
She has written this sentence in the entry:
Not decorated music. Not decorates song. Not decorated mind. The truth. I want to play that kind of sound ~ I want to make that kind of music.
And she ends with "I'm leaving"
The KOKIkyoku will be a recorded one.
As soon as I have more info, I will tell you.
14th January - KOKIA trance - fan made
It won't let you cold Myself, I enjoyed it a lot!
KOKIA GUNSLINGER OPENING - IL TEATRINO SESSION -
DOWNLOAD THE MP3 OPENING SIZE HERE e-hime NEW YEAR EVE'S MESSAGE
Hello, this is e-hime!
Ohisashiburi da ne!!!
It’s been such a long time since I haven’t updated in depth, but, really, I havenot been able to do it.
I have so many things to do. But it’s OK, I mean, I’m happii with that! The only thing is that I have not so many time to spend for happii KOKIA.
But now I felt it was really necessary to make an update.
So, please, forgive me if this has come too late, and enjoy the new information!
happii 2008!!!!!!!!
I hope it brings you a lot of KOKIA * !!!
*: Everything which is good
Latest KOKIA entries - until 31st December 2007:
I've used Excite online translator & Rikaichan (mozilla plug-in)
Latest entries in KOKIA’s blog – I have selected some piece of information for you
2007年12月07日
泣いても笑っても＾＾／♪あと2 – crying & laughing
She was singing all night long – It was the first time she did such a thing.
She says she has to make the mixing on the 9th, 10th and 11th, so she has to finish the singing part. She says something about crying or laughing- I think she means that she does not know whether she wants to cry or laugh. She’s exhausted!
I think she says she sang the same twice instead of repeating the vocal track.
2007年12月08日
いよいよ・・・♪最後の1曲 – At least... the first song completed!
She ends the recording of the first new tune for this album: Il mare dei souni.
2007年12月09日
完全燃焼 ♪ - Perfect combustion
Title album decided: The VOICE
There has been sorrow, difficulties and bad health in the past weeks, but the completeness of the album means like a trial that has been succeeded.
The songs of the album are like waves from the sea, that come one after another.
She wrote this at 3 am! There was a starry blue sky, after some clouds disappeared.
アルバムMIX 初日 代官山より – mix recording at Daikanyama FIRST SESSION
I’m sleepy and tired, but I smile
MIX 3日目突入 ♪ - rushing into the third mixing day
The VOICE album is taking shape. Now order of the songs has to be arranged. It is like ingredients: which plate should I choose for a starter? I don’t know, but she talks about food and tastes… I don’t know if she is means it or is a metaphor for the music.
007年12月12日
マスタリング ♪ - masterinG at victor
That night they did not sleep. they ended at 6 am, and they went directly from the mix studio to the mastering studio. VICTOR.
2007年12月13日
アルバム「The VOICE」完成！- Album The VOICE complete!
I will be able to listen it many times until it is officially released – I want that the time comes soon!
2007年12月15日
クリスマスツリー Christmas tree
The bulldog you see behind the tree (difficult to see) is a present given to KOKIA in the World Cup, in France. She says it’s really nice to have a plush of that kind – She has never seen a plush of a bulldog in Japan.
2007年12月16日
久しぶりのヴァイオリン・・・＾＾；Violin alter a long time
Her violin dates from 1879. It’s french.
It needed a reparation.
She needs to pratice.
She plans to go to Ireland in 2008 again.
2007年12月17日
2007年最後の「KOKI薬曲」というわけで、総決算！-> Last KOKIkyouku of the year!
2007年12月18日
サンポーニャ♪ -> Symphonia
I don’t get this quite well, but I think she says this is a coupling song to a single released in January. The thing is that the name is not the same as the one we know from Gunslingergirl…
2007年12月27日
仕事納め -> the last work
·She has been making a clearing at the house, I think
·Currently, she’s watching Heroes, Prison Break and 24.
And….. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW ENTRIES TO REVISE– LET’S MAKE IT TOMORROW!!!!
Nov 22 2007 - Follow the Nightingale single IN STORES NOW ☆CHARTS☆
KOKIA's single entered on the #23 on the day of its release, and now it's currently in the #22!
hope it gets to the TOP 20 soon!!!
I will update this info as soon as any change occurs...
Nov 21 2007 - New layout - Really beautiful
The news section has been compressed into three sections.
The blog structure has also changed. Now it has two sections, one for music related entries and another one for the rest of subjects.
There's a new BBS, only for ancoro members.
I think the web has improved a lot. Now it has a more serious style, but very beautiful at the same time. Nov 18 2007 - KOKIA & fashion
Strange, isn’t it?
We all know KOKIA for her precious voice and good music rather than for image stuff, but in her latest VIVIANA blog entry, she writes about her two favourite cloth designers! She says that she chooses their costumes for their performances.
Their names are tsumori chisato and sunao kuwahara.
I have selected some links so you can see designs by them. Some are really beautiful, some of them are strongly Japanese inspired… and you will find some resemblances with KOKIA costumes in many of them ^^
Nov 15 2007 - KOKIA official web site to be renewed
On the occasion of the release of 「Follow the nightingale」on the next 21st of November, KOKIA is working in a new desing for her website. She asks us to keep an eye on it.
Edit: I leave here the first layout, just in case you want to save it.
[...]
10/06/2007
[...]
KOKIA will start her Listen for the love Tour very soon. She will offer three shows in Tokyo (12th), Osaka (21th) and Nagoya (22th)
[...]
Review in Spanish, by me, of the LIVE Les Couleurs de Paris, to be published in El Blog del Ny soon.
07/06/2007
I've
been lucky enough to have watched the live of KOKIA in Paris, and uhhh,
it'sssss sooooooo nice! i really hope it's released in France... who knows?.. perhaps... ; )
I would like you to listen to this "tiny" example, please enjoy!
yes!! according to the messages in her official web...
I
first saw the short indication under the envelope, then I saw the
indication in "mail to anco"... and finally, I have seen in the marquee
the information about te English web! I'm sure they would make the mix
really nice, and with that pretty and simple font ^^
isn't wonderful?
edit....
only some parts will be translated - there are already some parts that are not inclluded in the project
btw,
don't miss the latest KOKIA wp's I made from the latest KOKIA pic,
promo of the EUROPEAN TOUR (don't you had a heart attack when you saw
that!!)! and.... thank you to LOZÉ, with her wonderful scans, i have been able to make different wp's...
wanna a preview?
those are my favourites, you have different variations in the gallery!
LATEST ENTRIES IN KOKIA'S BLOG (30/04/2007)
She has been attending many events these past weeks, including, lives in Nara, an acoustic concert in NHK hall and she has been at the Britain
embassy to an event of premier of a book. Watch out her latest blog
entry and use excite translator, you would get a glimpse of what
happened there!
In
the NHK hall, she was attending a concert of the man who made the
acoustic arrangement for the Yume ga CHIKARA song! And also, he
collaborated in the REDGARDEN ost.
She
expresses her wish to make an acoustic concert, with a full orchestra,
above all, with Strings arrangements. She would put many effort in it…
She tries to separate the instruments as she listened to a song. And
she says she’s fond of electronic music lately! I’m sure she would make
a really good thing in this area…
She ends up saying that many people attended the concert and that she is looking forward to work with him again.
She has been also in a TV recording… it was just an interview. The date of broadcasting is in may, more info here http://www.kokia.com/news/page/163
She was nervous, because she’s not used to this kind of things yet (and I’m not surprised! She SHOULD GO MORE TO TV!!!)
She
had the feeling that she was speaking about herself a lot! It was a
strange feeling, because usually the leader of the program does not
know nothing about the music of the artist (do I have to remind you the
FNAC interview… >< ) , but this time, she enjoyed a lot.
[...]
Unfortunately,
the cover for aigakikoeru seems to be the same of the european version.
Well, I like it, but I expected something more....
[...]
links added to the links section
[...]
PREVIEWS
FOR ALL THE SONGS IN AIGAKIKOERU, including inoshi no hikari, that
sound even better, and the new verion of ariatou, which, I must see, it
has dissapointed me, i hope the full version is good and has something
new... well, it's obviously new recording, but the song has almost the
same arrangement... let's wait for the full song, then...
doko doko doko dokodomade no uta!!!!!!!!!!!ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!
BY CHANCE, I FOUND THIS OLD ENTRY IN THIS BLOG It's about a KOKIA collaboration with a kawaii soundtrack for a mobile company commercial!!!!
as you can see in the following links, the characters are LOVABLE!
you
can watch the cm in te official web, and hear previews for all the
songs in the other links. please enjoy, and... if you by any chance,
find this cd, please, share it! watch preview + preview
EDIT: I managed to get the wmv version! Thank you to the owner of that blog and zpalladium! [...]
SHE'S SUCH A BEAUTY!!! - I SUPPOSE THIS IS... THE DVD COVER!!!!
More info, in japanese, in her blog!translation here
[...]
In KOKIA's blog is announced the end of editing te DVD live - and in latest KOKIkyouku, 16th april, she said the DVD will have 2 discs!! Including the concert and interview. Credits to info about discs: pasha no blog.
[...]
You can already see the tracklist for the album, release date 23rd / may! JVC As you can see, Inochi no Hikari will be a track of this edition, along with a NEW version of arigatou...
KOKIA delihted us with an "a capella" of one of her latest songs, inspired by CHOUWA feeling, Hana uta ge, in her radio broadcasting, on 2nd april. You can download it here. [...]
KOKIA presented a new song in KOKIkyouku's show, on the 19th of March. The name is "Inochi no Hiikari", "Light of life". You can download it in the mp3's section.
[...]
In the new pop-up from www.kokia.com, they announce the release date of the Japanese edition of 「aigakikoeru」.
cdjapan
only some parts will be translated - there are already some parts that are not inclluded in the project 
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