riyu

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Member Since: 9/23/2006
Band Website: www18.ocn.ne.jp/~riyuhi/
Band Members: Riyu Konaka Fan Club THE WORLD IS A BIG CLASSROOM http://riyukonakafansite.weebly.com/index.htmlriyu’s Classroom: riyu (vocals, compose, lyrics, produce, head arrange, pre-production, keyboard+samplers, computer manipulate, mix, design, poems, poetry reading, translations), Bun Onoe (producer / poet / pre-production / design / photography), Shinobu Imai (producer / composer / arranger / pre-production), Hiroshi Asada (coordinator), Akihiro Soma (art work & design), Masaru Ishizaki (engineer), George Kinoshita (engineer), Osamu Matsumoto (arranger), Eiten Taga (ex-executive producer), Nobuo Uesaka (executive producer), and many other unique classmates.---------------------------------------------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.-------------- "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 rainThere is no particular reasonThis 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 SundayI 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 pineappleSimon 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 standsSimon 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 bearSimon Smith and the dancing bear are singing Old RagtimeMusic form New OrleansThat dancing bear! You know, he’s so good at using his falsetto !
Influences: http://ccmixter.org/media/files/yamamiya/7449 http://ccmixter.org/media/files/bun_onoe/9107 (Poem: Bun Onoe / Acapella + Translation: Riyu)
Sounds Like: A Honey Bee. "SPACE IS A BIG O (CIRCLE) -------------Poem by Bun Onoe & Riyu / Music by Riyu ------------------------------- 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 neighbourhoodAWA AWA AWA AWA WA5 Giant Cats AWA AWA AWA AWA WAAre coming after meThen 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 foodThe 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 mouthAWA 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 itI 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 meI 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)-------------"AFTER GIRL" -------------"Like A Virgin" from "That Live"
Record Label: Good Humor
Type of Label: Indie