yes, it has been held on march 22th ;)

Tracklist KOKIA "VIP" (march 23th)
-> http://www.mimu-net.net/news.php?newsid=1634

Next concert march 25th !
That's mine :luv2

Tracklist KOKIA "intime" (march 25th)
-> http://www.mimu-net.net/news.php?newsid=1643

thank you Gally
I wanted to go to it! T_T

i have written a very personal review on two of the concerts inmy web. please, feel free to comment about it or in the guestbook of the web!

Kokia will release a DVD on July 16th with her concert in ... Japan :irked

Credits : http://www.jame-world.com/fr/news.ph...=05/2008#31054

yes, it ******** but well, i think i will be able to give you a surprise soon! a little one, but better than nothing...
currently, i'm going through a crisis in my KOKIA fan stage... as you may have noticed...

I understand you.
I was a little disapointed with her concert in Belgium : she was so distant ...
and now I can't listen to her songs anymore :(

you were dissapointed!!!!????

you had to be at her VIP concert, that was "KOKIA being distant" - she was miles away.
believe me, Brussels concert was far better than the VIP concert and I really could senseher! i cried with ave maria, a lot, and the story iof "mou ai senai"... it was touching.

nevertheless, you have the right to be dissapointed as well. could you explain it more?

i think the best concert was the first one. no news about the relesea of dvd...?

and, you can't listen to her songs anymore?!? really? well, i must admit i do not listen her music as much as before... there are days that i do not even listen any song by her. but for example, the other day pleyed some songs from The VOICE, i felt like...

I met her before the concert. She didn't look so friendly, approachable ... (but maybe she was just busy, I don't know)

The setlist was weird : only depressing songs. I was pleased to listen to Mou Aisenai, Whisper, Ave Maria, ... but I was wondering some happy songs like Pink no Zou, Dandelion, ... !
And why did she sing Remember Me's Prologue at the end ? :dead2

During the concert, she used tapes with the music and it sucks ! Especially "Itsuka dareka o aishita toki" : a piano version exists, but she sang the Ai ga Kikoeru version ... and the way she was listening to her own chorus was so sickening !!

The concert in 2006 in Paris was much more better than the one in Brussel.

It seems nobady remember her anymore... >< new dvd and new album (uknown release date)!

irish style album, right ?

I don't want a new album or a new single right now :(

Do you have the video "The voice Live digest" ?

c'mon!
cheer up!

yes!, i have the video! http://www.mediafire.com/?uwwbwbm1xg0

Is THE VOICE good?

I just downloaded it but didn't hear it....

The VOICE is a good album, but too sad, in my opinion. i hope we can hear fairy dance soon...

^^Then what's her best album, in your opinion? Because I thought The Voice was very good. I'd like to hear more from her!!!

Oh yeah, 'The Voice' was amazing. :yes I really really loved her cover of Ave Maria, it was amazing! It was so beautiful!

yes, of course Ave Maria is just A-M-A-Z-I-N-G... but on the whole, you feel the album needs a bit more of cheering up...
The VOICE is a must have albumm, it's a very good album, the only thing is that its centered in strong or serious songs.

So, as a counterpoint, I would recommend trip trip and Remember me.

yes! i recommend remember me... it has her most commercial songs... but if you like her unique western eastern songs then go with trip trip.

kokiafan, welcome to the forum!

thanks! ^_^ im like, obsess with kokia's voice! it's just gorgeous! now... im sure we all can't wait for the new dvd release, one week away! isn't that crazy? i wonder what the contents are.... considering three hours is a long time for a live. im soo excited!! i want to download it first though before i buy it :) it's okey to try a product for 24 hours, lol, right?

about the album, i hope she'll add some cheerful songs, we didn't get that balance from her two previous albums... so hopefully "fairy dance" would be varied.

I heard Remember Me had some of her best selling singles in it.. Hmm... I gotta try it out.

Oh, but I personally thought the best song on THE VOICE was Follow the Nightingale. I could listen to it for days.... (but endng is a little abrupt)

yes, that song is TREMENDOUS!

thanks ayesha! love kokia, i've been a fa for years now. remember me is my all time favorite album. really can't wait for the dvd! i might download it first before i buy it. im sure you all have heard about trying a product for 24 hours? lol. but anyways, i have a question, does anybody know any info on her single grandfather's ship? i want it!! where can i buy it? or get it?

Heh! You guys were right!! Remember Me was awesome...!!! But it's weird how long KOKIA takes to release something....

i suppose you already know happii KOKIA ^^
you cannot buy grandfather's ship... it was given as a home made album in a intime gathering with family and friends....

aqua_crystal... it's not weird that KOKIA takes so long to release smth new --- she's independent (although she releases under victor, but believe me, she puts the money... it's smth strange i do not understand yet)

yes! happii kokia is great! is it your site?
does anybody have it? where can we download this single?
we definitely need an official kokia forum where kokia fans can gather and update her. so, is there any info on this new dvd and new irish album? when do you think this album is going to be released?

^^Huh? She puts her own money....??? Soo... weird..... Nevertheless, she is amazing!!! And (even though I know it's not gonna happen now) I hope she releases another single soon!!

happii KOKIA is my site ^^
well, i do not have more info that i have in happii KOKIA. in fact, there are alot of info about the dvd... but there is no info about the irish album.

and again, we cannot download the single... it is not available to the public!

thats soo sad, its such a beautiful song. i think if she added this single and Eve single on pearl, it would have been a much better album, don't you agree?
yeah, i heard it's three hours worth of footage, does that mean the paris concert is included? if so, that would be soo cool! and it's a week away, how exciting! can you fill us in with more info?

^^ You have a KOKIA site?? What's the link??

http://happii_kokia.bravejournal.com/ enjoy!

^ Oh thank you! :) What a lovely site you have there :yatta

thank you ^^ it took me a while to make it like that but the result has been good...

i agree, its a great site with lots of info and goodies!
about the dvd, i heard it's three hours worth of footage, does that mean the paris concert is included? if so, that would be soo cool! and it's a week away, how exciting! can you fill us in with more info ayesha?

all the info i have is in happii KOKIA, I promise! hehe... the concert included is from japan... and it will include footage from europe tour, but i do not know what songs or dates (paris1,paris2 or brussels)....

i think i read in pasha's blog that it will include footages from her paris concert... the only titles that i remember was usaghi, sigh, and humanitarian... i forgot what else though.... still, it's only a few days away! YAY!!

Wow!!! Nice site Ayesha!! You rarely find KOKIA sites like yours!!

thank you ^^

Hey.... a concert in Paris??? Wow. It must be really easy for me to get a ticket there!! :)

but the concerts wer in march... ^^uuu

stay tuned for the next tour!

Yeah... I know that. I meant that she has loads of concerts in Paris and the next time there is one, it must be really easy for me to get tickets!!

I would love to attend one of her amazing tours. :)

yes.... but iw as a bit dissapointing this ear, in the VIP concert.... fans expected much more... of course there were special moments such as usahgi or DESPERADO... or arigatou and time to say goodye in the piano, but we really expected more, at least, me, the girl who was with mee and some reviews i have read. besides, it was short.

however, the intime, in brussles, was amazing!

and of course, te best of, in paris, was also really good, but i did not attend this one... i hoep to see smth of this inthe dvd...

Oh? Any idea when the DVD is coming out?

it just came out today! i hope i can download it somewhere just to see if it's worth picking up... although, i know im going to end up buying it anyway...

Today?? Yaay!! I gotta check the stores!!!

i don't think it will be ripped... but who knows?
the storse... you mean te online stores or the real stores? are u in JPN? ^^

i know... i just want to make sure it's worth my thirty bucks.... it is around that much, right?

I need to download it when it comes out :bchuck

No... I'm in Paris. Surely it'll be in stores here.

i don't think it will be sold in paris, considering it was made in japan. although its possible. im wondering what are the bonus extras in the dvd? i have her bataclan one and was soo disappointed they cut off hope of an ugly ducklin! the only thing i wish is that she should have released her best of concert from paris instead. but i won't complain :)

^^Well, it doesn't really matter. I can always ship it to Paris. Surely the shipping prices wouldn't be that high... i hope...

wow, i think it cost around sixty dollars! isn't that a little too much? maybe it is the shipping?

^^*faints*

Umm... Ayesha, are you SURE it won't be available for download??? :laugh

hehhe, well, the dvd is expensive indeed, but it's 180 minutes long!
it's not available in jpop suki yet!

^^Well, I'm just gonna have to wait!! (60 BUCKS!!?? WTF!)

well, if you are plannig to buy it, i would recommend you cdjapan, because the price is more or less the same

with yesasia: US$64.25 [~€41.07] free shipping (but it's not registered mail)
and with cdjapan US$71 [~€45.28] (includes registered mail)

it depends with wich you feel more confortable.

I will definetly order it via cdjapan because my mail box is broken and i live in the countryside, so i cannot rely... in fact i am waitng for a dvd by darren hayes that comes from australia and i am going up the walls.. well, not that exactly, but i'm impatient...

i'd still buy it, but only if it is worth it, i'd have to download it first. i'd probably search the net for the cheapest deal, lol. cuz it's almost freaking a hundred dollars!! im sure someone will upload it though, hopefully T_T *on her knees praying*

a hundred dollars? haven't you read my previous post? i wouls consider $90, an "almost hundred" hehehe

anyway, it's expensive. i was quite shocked to see the price. well, i suppose kokia needs money. she does not have many sales. but i think the dvd will be worthy of that amount.

^^Yes... but it won't attract any new fans. So I don't think it's the smartest of ideas.

i think that the core fans will buy it, no matter what. i will buy it, but i will wait some time. and i don¡t think i will download if there's a leack... i want to keep the surprise ^^

oh, sorry :P
im sure after downloading it im going to have to buy it anyways. i feel so bad, kokia deserves it anyways. but i agree, it's kind of a bad decision. it shouldn't cost that expensive! by the way, is someone from jpopsuki going to upload this?

^^Hope so... maybe we should request it....

i think someone already did :/ do you have an account there?

^^Nope. :D

wahh! someone pls upload it already! lol i want to see it already!

^^Second that request!!

KOKIA's new album is going to be released on 9/24/2008!! more info on her website!

translation:
http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl...ib55BFKqJIDReg

oh, and it's her birthday today, HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOKIA!! <3

^^OMG!!!! *shrieks*

:spazzed Happy Bday Kokia!!!! :spazzed

And a new album??? How awesome!!! :D

omg!! *takes off her bra and runs around screaming HAPPY BIRTHDAY KOKIA!!*

isn't it soo cool? in two months we get a new album!!! YAY!!!

Happy birthday Kokia! :D

haha, new album huh? nice :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...y_birthday.gif

many things will happen until 23/09/2008... so i will live every day intensely

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!






...but OMG, I haven't been in this thread for a while, what were you saying????? New album?????? So soon??????? *dies*
oh, my, god. did I read that wrong? o___________o

*clicks link*

OMG NEW ALBUM
*dies again*

And Fairy Dance is such a great title! *looks at tracklist* it's going to have a new version of song of pocchong?

Is Fairy Dance gunna be a mini-album or something?? Only 8 tracks???

^ 8 tracks....most likely.

^^Well... that's less... way to less to be a full album....

^ Yeah so expect a mini-album :yatta We'll probably have more beautiful songs.

i guess it is considered to be a mini album, but im not suprise it's not a full album, i mean, she just released The Voice didn't she? i just hope this would be better than her two recent albums.. which is quite disappointing. i was wondering... i think i know why ai ga kikoeru was a little off for me. i think it's the microphone that she uses, you can hear her breathing, and her voice comes out different... like it's a cheap microphone. i don't know, just that her voice sounds different compared to her older albums. am i the only one noticing this? i think her being independent kinda made her music low quality.. kinda sad. she used to make really good music. hopefully Fairy Dance will be good though, it's arranged by the local irish musicians, so that's good!

^ The VOICE was a beautiful album :( but i agree with you on the breathing, i thought the same. but i don't really think the music became low quality.

i never realised about the "breathing" in ai ga kikoeru. but it's not my fav album, either. (in spite of the fact it has beautiful songs such as a universe, so sad, so bad or aigakikoeru)
as regards The VOICE, the problem is, imo, that is tooooo sad. except for pocchong and follow the nightigale (too "high", i mean, too serious) there is not light song. so it's a hard and a little boring to listen too, even if it has great songs, such as ave maria or il mare dei souni.

as regards Fairy Dance, I think there should not be discussion whether it will be a full album or mini-album... the tracks are there, and they are confirmed. (I would call it a "concept" album, though).

I am going through a strong KOKIA crisis... yesterday i saw chouwa, from the new DVD, and it was all the same...

btw, if you are wondering which clip is that, here you have the link.

not just the breathing but also her vocal skills are not as top notch as before... the way she moved her voice in remember me and in trip trip and how high she hit those notes kinda felt natural and they grab you more... now, it seems like her voice keeps getting deeper and deeper and while it's still beautiful i just wish she can higher her notes a little bit more. i don't know, maybe im just over analyzing it, but can't help but notice these things. also, her arrangements have been low quality, like someone of them are waaay too long! and too slow. she needs to find the balance!

ayesha: what do you mean about "it's all the same..."? and thank you for the clip! she sings it wonderfully <3

i did not feel anything special

I really liked her vocals here in this performance. :yes

the new wave of fans will have to perpetaute this feeling! ganbatte!

ayesha, does that mean your not a fan anymore? i didn't quite understand your live review. was it because kokia wasn't nice on her vip concert? can explain pls?

^^What I understood from her review is that, Ayesha has high expectations from KOKIA and Fairydance. But judging by the name, it's got to be a very lively album.

Oh, yeah, about the breathing in ai ga kikoeru, I realized that too. That's why i never listen to it. I wouldn't blame the mic. for it, but rather, the song editor. Didn't he catch it???

i think it's either the mic or shes too close to the mic. if you compare some songs to ai ga kikoeru to "time to say goodbye" where she also uses a deep voice it sounds a little different. maybe she sounds better in her older songs because they use a different recording equipments? i don't know... i meant her review on her website. she says that they didn't play good songs in the vip concert and that japan gets better and newer songs? am i correct? and also she didn't connect well with the audience?

I do not experience KOKIA as before. This change started back in te european tour. I felt dissapointed (as you can read in my review), very dissapointed.
In fact, I wanted to cancel the second part of the trip 8Brussels) and I'm glad I didn't because if it weren't be for the Brussels concert the trip would have been quite bad). Besides, I was not going through a good period in my personal life.

And because people change, evolve, now i do not feel her music as before, and ,other music which fills me much more influence as well. it depends on how you feel. and at this moment, KOKIA music does not help me.

does it mean i am not a fan anymore? i like her music, but not like before. and well, i'm still running the web, but from another perspective. it's like a "duty" because i like to finish what i start. the problem with a website of an artist is that you cannot finish it unless you "close" it.

i do not know if i will stop updating happii KOKIA

^^Nooooo!!!!! Please don't stop updating happii KOKIA!!! I go there all the time now.... Please....?? :weep

yes i agree! thats the only kokia site that i visit, theres not a lot of kokia sites out there that people who are curious and fans to check for kokia news! pls don't quit the site!

kokia's music, while it is evolving, still holds a message, a message that you will only see if you look inside of it... it's not like before where it's more in your face... it's hard to find but it's still there. don't give up on kokia just yet... trust me, it's hard to find an artist like kokia who wants to spread happiness and love with her music, and actually has a personality and charm, unlike other artist who cares more about fame and money. don't forget shes independent and that at this moment, she needs all the support that she needs... she's doing everything just to spread this message in her music, so you can understand why it's soo hard for her to be equally be giving to fans in japan to fans in other country's as she would be spending more money for it to sell overseas. you just need to let go of that memory and move on with your life... thats what life is, let go of the negativity and look forward! what ever problems you have in life you need to list down these problems and solve them one by one... basically you have to do something about it... anyways, just hope the best for you ayesha and hope you stay a kokia fan, we loooove happii kokia!! <3 a lot of my friends visit it almost everyday!

^^Sooo true. I actaully think she's very similar to my all-time fav. artist: RURUTIA. That's why I love her music so much. But, anyways, Ayesha your site ROX!!!! Please don't stop now!!

from jpopmusic.com, i started to answer this, and ended by answering kokiafan and aqua...

sorry, but it's a little long.


it's like we , overseas fans, are martians, or smth. it s.... i mean, we always have to be happy with what they deliver to us... and if we do not know japanese, that's quuiiiiiite little. i have the feeling that we have to make a big search to find the thing, the concept

of course you can always order the cd's, and that's the first step, but after that you will probably want more.

i have spent many hours with happii KOKIA, and i have found sooooo hard to have certain info or material... it's always been a kind of strugle, not literally... but almost.

you make a thing such as a EUROPEAN tour, and it's reflected in 30 minutes of documentary, without subs (i suppose they think "who cares about the "other"!? they know japanese for sure!" )

BUT
THE FACT IS THAT
WE ARE ALSO PART OF IT.

the previous dvd, les couleurs de paris, has english subs (if i remember well) and it took months to release it overseas (and not in the usual conditions...)

i spent a pretty good amount of money to see KOKIA live twice in the tour, and i had the bad luck to chose the VIP which was a total dissapointed... and then, .. i know for sure the best one was the BEST OF.. which i have missed forever...

and the dvd of the 10th anniversary is so expensive!!! (let's not talk about the merchadnising in the tour...)

you know, when you see things closer, you usually prefer not to have seem them?

that's what has happened to me.

when i started happii KOKIA i just wanted to share the marvelous music. but at the same time i know , KOKIA has benefitted from that, i do not know in which level.


i sense a great barrier between japan and europe, and i don't think it's fair, because there are certain people here who really loved KOKIA music and tried to spread it.

and yes, i admit it, KOKIA and her manager alike, they were grateful for the web... but come on! i'm sure they could have done more than just an autograph. (ok, i said it, i like to lay my cards on the table, not even a poster or smth, i flew there from SPAIN - and yes, you have the japanese troupe who went to the three shows, but they from another world, i cannot compare myself with them)

and no, i don't think i will stop updating happii KOKIA, anyway, these past months i have not worked on it very much because there has not been very much to do. but it's normal to have such periods when you stop and think about what you have been doing... because no one did it... and i wanted to do it. and i'm proud of it.

but the problem is that NOW i do not feel connected to KOKIA's music as i was two months ago. (i have changed alot these past months, for the better, and that's for sure!) perhaps this will change, because people change, musical tastes too. [and now that position is run by Darren Hayes, which has been my inspiration for the last year and a half, and for some time, it complemented with KOKIA's]but i do not know when it will occur.

heres her performance on il mare de suoni in her 10th anniversary concert:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ojimTU2L6SQ

ayesha: i completely agree, we really can't do anything about it. it is depressing... but its not really kokia's fault. and heck, your soo lucky to even see her in live, you know what i would do just to see her in live? i'd probably give one of my limbs, lol. and im sure im not the only one out there who would kill just to see her perform chowa, or ave maria, or even anything. i'll have to fly across the world just to see that. when the first dvd was released it had subtitles because kokia probably wanted overseas to understand as well and it took forever because it takes money to distribute and shes independent. but this dvd, it wasn't released just by herself, so maybe that explains why there wasn't subs. kokia lives in japan, which is why she has more stuff to offer them then us. im sure if she was to live in europe, japanese fans would feel jealous too.

"and yes, i admit it, KOKIA and her manager alike, they were grateful for the web... but come on! i'm sure they could have done more than just an autograph. (ok, i said it, i like to lay my cards on the table, not even a poster or smth, i flew there from SPAIN - and yes, you have the japanese troupe who went to the three shows, but they from another world, i cannot compare myself with them)"

i do feel for you, considering how much work you put on happii kokia, they could have done more that sign you an autograph. but what else can they offer? maybe there wasn't enough communication? maybe you can email her and make an agreement that you will provide news for around the world fans but she needs to provide you news herself... i don't know. if you want i can help you with happii kokia, but you need to teach me to find info on her, like how you find news for happii kokia, maybe we can befriend someone who speaks and reads japanese, just an offer ^^

yes, you should feel very proud of happii kokia, the site grew a lot! i go there everyday for the past two years and i've noticed how much it grew! now, everyone depends on it for kokia news! and not just that, like you said, you gave her new fans... that's quite a big accomplishments. while everyone changes, theres always a little part of them that keeps something... and doesn't change.

Ayesha well, It's sad that you have to leave happi kokia just like is sad that you may not be a kokia fan anymore, maybe now you relate that weird or uncomfortable moment in your life and kinda mixed it kokia and the result is hits u_u.

Also, mmh about the whole japan/europe well yes, it will be different maybe is a matter of money but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying her music.

You have a great site and you are/were a great fan n_n, and reading your entry kinda made me disappointed at kokia >_<, you are not saying we should stop liking her right?, I actually want to buy the best concert... is it worht it? I dunno, and yes it's super expensive! better be worth it >_<.

i have not said i will leave happii KOKIA, just that i consider it, and i feel like, but i have not said word by word "i will leave happii KOKIA"

the same with the fandom...

WHAT!!!??? of course you can do as you like, i am not inviting anyone to leave her enthusiasm for KOKIA, not at all!!!

kokiafan, in fact, i have been thingking about asking for help. ii woukld like to improve some sections...