Today marks one year to the day that CORE OF SOUL broke up.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m still working on that discography. The trip to Quebec last summer delayed my acquisition plans a bit, and then there was that whole surgery thing. Of their albums, I\u2019m still missing Natural Beauty<\/i> and RAINBOW<\/i>; as far as their singles go, I still need “Make Me a Woman”, “Purple Sky”, and “AGEHA”. Then there\u2019s the DVD, of course.<\/p>\n
And when I get there<\/i><\/p>\n
How did I manage to stumble across this group which enjoyed only a moderate success in their home country? An mp3 rotation, of course. \u201cFULL MOON PRAYER\u201d and another song\u2014likely \u201cAngel\u201d or \u201cNatural Beauty\u201d\u2014 had been offered up for download. For whatever reason, I resisted listening to them for a while\u2014possibly, I\u2019d had other things to do, but when I finally did, I couldn\u2019t help but think, Why did I wait so long?<\/i> <\/p>\n
Volume \u4e0a\u3052\u3066\u6b4c\u3046\u3088<\/i><\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard, even for me, to understand why COS affected me the way they did. Their music would not have been extraordinary by any music critic\u2019s standards. It was a safe, mainstream alternative pop-rock style. I happen to be a fan of that style of music, but there were a ton of other bands that had a similar kind of thing going: Do As Infinity, F.I.R., maybe even Garnet Crow.<\/p>\n
\u591c\u306e\u6708\u5149\u3068\u5171\u306b\u3042\u306a\u305f\u306e\u7a93\u306b\u5c4a\u3051<\/i><\/p>\n
None of those groups, though, had Fukiko Nakamura on lead vocals. Her voice encapsulates youth, energy, and joie de vivre<\/i> more perfectly than any other singer I can think of. From what I\u2019ve read, the girl has a real stage presence (and I believe it!) Even though I don\u2019t understand the songs the first time through (or the second, or the third, for that matter), she sings with such intensity that I\u2019m compelled to translate them.<\/p>\n
\u904e\u53bb\u306e\u7f6a\u3092\u304a\u8a31\u3057\u4e0b\u3055\u3044<\/i><\/p>\n
Those lyrics have nearly always drawn me in. I\u2019ve often found that the lyrics of the song I\u2019m translating echo sentiments of my life at the time, so that in effect COS songs could make up the soundtrack of my life. Yes, I probably need to listen to more music, but there you go. <\/p>\n
\u79c1\u304b\u3089\u58f0\u3092\u53d6\u3089\u306a\u3044\u3067\u547d\u3092\u6301\u3063\u3066\u884c\u304b\u306a\u3044\u3067<\/i><\/p>\n
There\u2019s hope for me yet, though. Fukiko is starting a solo career under the name \u201cLOVE\u201d, and she\u2019s due to release a digital single soon (or has already released it; there seems to be disagreement on a forum about this, probably since none of us are fluent in Japanese)\u2014there\u2019s even a preview of it up on her official site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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