♥Melt Your Heart♥~ The Official Kaya Thread.

[Sakura_Genki]

I know there's a few Kaya fans lurking around here, so I decided to make this thread.



INFO
Kaya's career began in 1999 as vocalist, under the name Hime. After his first band disbanded Hime joined ISOLA as vocalist and lyricist. They released a demo tape called Over... and a two track single called Egoiste Butterfly.

In 2001, he met keyboardist Hora at a concert of his band Velvet Eden, and together they formed Rudolf Steiner. Unlike most Visual Kei bands their music was completely electronic. The band released two demo tapes, in which their unique style attracted the attention of Mana, who signed them to his independent label, Midi:Nette, and changed their name to Schwarz Stein. Around the same time, Hime changed his name to Kaya. They then released two singles, Queen of Decadence and Current, as well as two albums, New Vogue Children and Artificial Halluciation, but in 2004 split up due to artistic differences.

Kaya and Hora remained on friendly terms. In April 2006, they once again collaborated on a one-off project called ANOTHER CELL and released a self-titled album, for which Hora wrote the music and Kaya most of the lyrics. Apart from brand new compositions, it also featured re-arranged versions of songs by Rudolf Steiner. In June 2006, ANOTHER CELL was performed live as part of Kaya's first concert as a solo artist. The concert was limited to 400 tickets, which sold out on the first day.

The following month saw the release of his first solo single, Kaleidoscope, followed in September by a second single, Masquerade. In December, he released his debut album, Glitter, and appeared at Kamijo's (Versailles) and Kanoma's (ex Fatima) three day Winter Romantic festival, together with bands such as Wizard, UnsraW, HIZAKI grace project and Sugar.

In February 2007 he had his first one man concert at Shibuya O-West and in April, he released his single Ouka Ryouran. In July he released the mini album Hyakkiyakou and a fourth single, Carmilla, followed on Halloween. He also starred as one of the protagonists alongside Sherow Artist Society musicians Kamijo, HIZAKI (Versailles, HIZAKI grace project), and Juka (ex-Moi dix Mois) in the rock musical Node of Scherzo.

LATEST RELEASE
「Chocolat」

1. Chocolat
2. POURRITURE NOBLE
3. Chocolat ~Sweet Version~
4. Chocolat ~Kayaless Version~

UPCOMING RELEASES
JULY
Re-release of the album Glitter with newly recorded vocals and Song arangements.

AUGUST
DVD release, Salon de Chocolat, his one man major debut with Sizna of Sugar which was on April 23rd.

DOWNLOADS
Discography
Chocolat

OTHER
rose addict ~Official Site~
addict~Official Fanclub~
Official Myspace
Hannya ~Unofficial Fanpage~


Isn't Chocolat an amazing single~ Chocolat is such a wonderful song and the beat is terrific, and then coupled with POURRITURE NOBLE just makes it wonderful.