#gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o

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As previously posted here, KOKIA updated her official webshop KOKIA Jirushi with pre-order pages for her upcoming releases: the 25th anniversary concert Blu-ray release (including a limited edition including a special booklet and signature), and her 25th Anniversary Best The Lighthouse. All are currently scheduled to ship around September 21.

In preparation for today's stream of the concert, I have posted the track lists below under a Read more link, so you can either choose to read up on which songs to expect, or to fully ignore this and go into the stream unspoiled. I will be listing the albums on which the songs first appeared, so you can use this list as a way to track down the album if you discover a new song you love!

I will update the discography page later today.

KOKIA 25th anniversary concert 'you and me' tracklist

Masquerade (prologue)

Maigo no watashi wa gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’I would have golden tea with a silver fox during being lost’) (from Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o)

Fukurou ~Fukurou ga shiraseru kyaku ga kita to~ ('The Owl ~The owl tells that we have uninvited guests~') (from Animal CD vol.1)

Hontou no oto ('real sound') (from moment)

Kotou ('isolated island') (from Hoshi no uta kaze no naka)

Tora ~ hiru to yoru ga ai shita kemono~ ('The Tiger ~The beast who was loved by day and night~') (from Animal CD vol.4)

Cells (new song; will appear on her new album The Lighthouse)

Life ~seimei no hibiki~ ('Echo of life') (from EVOLVE to LOVE)

Hoshi no keiji ('Star revelation') (from PIECES 2)

Dragon (from Animal CD vol.4)

The Lighthouse (new song; will appear on her new album The Lighthouse)

Utau hito ('singing people') (from Uta ga chikara)

Anshin no naka ('in peace') (from Remember me)

Hoshi no uta (’Song of stars’) (from Hoshi no uta kaze no naka)

Moment ~ima o ikiru~ ('Live in the now') (from moment)

Wataridori ('Migratory bird') (from Animal CD vol.4)

Kaze wa yuu (’Wind whispers’) (from Hoshi no uta kaze no naka)

Yume no tochuu ('on my way to my dream') (from Where to go my love?)

Kisetsu hazure no sakura ('Late blooming cherry blossoms') (from Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o)

Jinsei wa uta no you ne (’life is like a song, isn’t it’) (from ALIVE the live history)

From the day 1 performance (not in the stream, Blu-ray only):

Chiisa na uta ('little song') (from the VOICE)

Chouwa ('Harmony') (from trip trip)

EXEC_COSMOFLIPS/. (from PIECES)

Backstage, interview

KOKIA 25th anniversary best album 'The Lighthouse' tracklist

NOTE: The web shop mentions that the track list is possibly subject to change before release.

Disc 1

The cell / ＊new song

Hoshi no keiji ('Star revelation') / From the album PIECES 2, theme song for the game Shan Hai Jing Hua ('Flowers in the mirror of mountains and seas')

Shoudou ('Impulse') / From the album PIECES 2 theme song for the game 'Echocalypse'

Otentou-sama wa waratteru (’the Sun is laughing’) / From the album Kono sekai no katasumi de ('In this corner of the world')

Yagi ~ninja yagi ya~ (’Goat ~I'm the ninja goat~’) / From the album Animal CD vol.3

Maigo no watashi wa gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’I would have golden tea with a silver fox during being lost’) / From the album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o ('Golden tea with a silver fox')

Dragon / from the album Animcal CD vol.4

Hollow / ＊new song

The Lighthouse / ＊new song

Ochite yuku... ('Falling down...') / ＊new song

Hoshi no uta (’Song of stars’) / From the album Hoshi no uta kaze no naka ('Song of stars in the wind')

Hoshi ni natta inu (’the dog that became a star’) / From the album Kono sekai no katasumi de ('In this corner of the world')

Kisetsu hazure no sakura ('Late blooming cherry blossoms') / from the album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o ('Golden tea with a silver fox')

Wataridori ('Migratory bird') / from the album Animal CD vol.4

Kaze wa yuu... (’Wind whispers’) / from the album Hoshi no uta kaze no naka ('Song of stars in the wind') Disc 2

Fukurou ~Fukurou ga shiraseru kyaku ga kita to~ ('The Owl ~The owl tells that we have uninvited guests~') / from the album Animal CD vol.1

Kurage ~uchuuyuuei Floating soul~ (’Jellyfish ~space walk~’) / from the album Animal CD vol.3

Kotou (’isolated island’) / from the album Hoshi no uta kaze no naka ('Song of stars in the wind')

Makenai you ni (’Don’t give up’) / from the album Kono sekai no katasumi de ('In this corner of the world')

I'll be there / theme song for the game Marfusha

Tora ~ hiru to yoru ga ai shita kemono~ ('The Tiger ~The beast who was loved by day and night~') / from the album Animal CD vol.4

Rakuda ~kiri e ni natteku~ (’Camel ~would make for a cut-out picture~’) / from the album Animal CD vol. 3

Buta ~mondai nai buu~ (’Pig ~no problem, oink~’) / from the album Animal CD vol.3

Kuma ~kuma ono hatsukoi kuma tta na~ ('Bear ~the bear’s first love, he’s stumped~') / from the album Animal CD vol.1

Tanuki ~matsuri no yoru~ ('Raccoon dog ~festival night~') / from the album Animal CD vol.1

Hebi ~hanihohebi tanchou fujin~ ('Snake ~hanihoheto Madam minor~') / from the album Animal CD vol.2

Tokei jikake no TikTok ('The TikTok of clockworks') / from the album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o ('Golden tea with a silver fox')

Sagashimono wa uta no naka ('The things I'm looking for are inside songs') / from the album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o ('Golden tea with a silver fox')

Kakurenbo ('Hide-and-seek') / ＊new song

I LOVE YOU 2020 / from the album Hoshi no uta kaze no naka ('Song of stars in the wind')

Uma ~kaze no uma~ (’Horse ~horse of the wind~’) / from the album Animal CD vol.3

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♪ Yatsugatake Kogen Music Hall concert announcement

Source: KOKIA.com/blog, November 16, 2022

In the spring of 2023, I’ll have my 25th anniversary, and it’s also when I’ll hold my by now customary concert at the Yatsugatake Kogen Music Hall: ‘The place where music falls’ vol. 6. I think that if you haven’t been there before, you’ll quickly understand why holding a concert at that venue is something special once you check out their website.

You can find more information about the concert here.

Even before performing in this place, I named the concert ‘the place where music falls’ as that’s how I imagined myself in this place, but thinking about it now, I feel I could have given it just the right title.

Once it became difficult to hold concerts due to the corona pandemic, I could count the stages that I could perform on on one hand, but Yatsugatake was one of those. I performed that concert facing my audience with feelings I can’t describe. I remember that treasured time very well. The picture here is from last year.

I’ll hold my 25th anniversary concert at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall in the same month of April, but this Yatsugatake Kogen Music Hall concert will be going up first and be a contrast in every sense of the word. I feel like in some way, that symbolizes the diversity and range of my music.

Some people enjoy listening to music with a simple organization, and some people would like to surrender themselves to the feeling of being swallowed up by a sea of sounds. And of course, there are some people who enjoy both.

Please come over to meet me on April 1, just ahead of my 25th anniversary concert.

I undoubtedly have songs in mind that I’ll perform there that I won’t perform at the big hall concert.

★ Pre-sale for members of fan club ancoro start November 20.

All members will receive more information by mail. Once all mails are sent, I’ll update the MEMBERS page with the same information, so if you can’t find it in your mail, please check out the information over there.

General ticket sales start a little later, December 11.

I’ll give you another update with more information at a later time.

On that note... similar to the title, the stars seem to fall across the night sky over Yatsugatake in the evening; and the cover photos for the album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’Golden tea with a silver fox’) which released this year as well as my digitally released single Mago no watashi wa gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’I would have golden tea with a silver fox during being lost’) were taken by me last year after my Yatsugatake concert.

It would be nice if it were a clear night this time, too. Watching the starry sky together... that’s nice, isn’t it.

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Information about the goods for sale at the concert venue

(Source: KOKIA.com/blog, April 25, 2023)

2 days to go until my concert.

It’ll be my first big hall concert in a while in front of a live audience.

I’m not only excited, but my heart is racing.

I’m facing this day with a lot of preparations and full of emotions.

I’d like to convey those emotions to every person in my audience.

I’d like to talk about the items that are for sale at the concert hall.

I’ve been selling them online beforehand, so there is not really all that much.

I’ve also received many inquiries from people wondering if they could use their credit card, but here is your notice that it would be helpful if you would prepare cash money in advance if possible.

While we’re preparing to be able to accept credit cards, the matter is that I’m worried the terminal might not work properly if the internet connection isn’t good, and since there’s only one machine, it will take time... So, it’s very much appreciated if you’re prepared for cash exchange.

Thank you as always.

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An overview of the goods for sale at KOKIA’s 25th anniversary concert on April 27 and 28 at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall. Categories top to bottom, left to right:

25th anniversary goods:

Multi-functional back-pack - ¥ 6,200

Blouson black camouflage design, M/L/XL/XXL - ¥ 6,500

T-shirt with hoodie (black) elephant design, M/L - ¥ 4,200

Glass - ¥ 6,500

Stickers (set of 3) - ¥ 1,600

CDs:

Pieces 2 - ¥ 3,200

Animal CD vol. 2 - ¥ 3,200

Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o ('Golden tea with a silver fox') (star album vol. 2) - ¥ 3,200

Watching from Above vol. 2 - ¥ 3,200

AKIKO∞KOKIA ~Balance~ - ¥ 3,000

DVD/Blu-ray:

KOKIA×Orchestra DVD special package - ¥ 6,000

Journey to Me 2 disc DVD (with booklet) - ¥ 5,000

2018 20th anniversary concert Blu-ray ‘Beyond Imagination’ - ¥ 6,000

20th anniversary KOKIA video compilation ‘Bird Watching’ DVD - ¥ 7,000

2016 spring concert Oishii oto o tabeta nara ('If you ate delicious sounds’) DVD - ¥ 3,000

2013 15th anniversary concert DVD ‘COLOR OF LIFE’ - ¥ 3,000

2011 church concert DVD ‘music like a prayer’ - ¥ 3,000

Other:

Picture book Mama no daijisan (My life with my precious), including musical read-along - ¥ 2,000

Necklace Arigatou (’thank you’), glossy and sparkly (38 cm + 5 cm) - ¥ 4,000

Clear file from (animal) album vol. 4, set of 5, music included - ¥ 2,750

otonami score book vol.2 Ai wa kodama suru (’love echoes’) - ¥ 3,200

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Source: KOKIA.com/blog, May 23, 2022

Start of shipping

I’ve kept you waiting quite a bit.

The seasons have changed ever since I opened pre-orders, but the first batch of my new album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (‘Golden tea with a silver fox’) has now started shipping. I just received message from Japan saying so.

If they’re early, you might receive your copy by tomorrow.

I write all kinds of wondrous songs, but sometimes one of those songs feels like a part of me; this time, it’s surely the fox song which is the main track of the album.

The more I sing it, the more of myself I put into it.

The ‘masquerade I dream of’ that I sing about in the chorus is the ‘Masquerade’ performance that I had to cancel at the last minute in 2020 due to the corona crisis.

Rather than being informed of it being cancelled, I had to make that decision; I feel like the energy in my heart, that came to a sudden halt halfway through those preparations, burns again when I sing this song.

In the spring of 2023 next year, my 25th anniversary concert will coincidentally also be held in the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, the same venue the cancelled 2020 ‘Masquerade’ performance would have been held in. This song was born after this 3 year long spell, and it’s marvelous to get to sing it.

I’m grateful to all of you for spending this journey in that time together with me.

↓ The album is for sale via the official web shop KOKIA Jirushi.

http://ancocoro.shop-pro.jp/?pid=167079284

↓ The song Maigo no watashi wa gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’I would have golden tea with a silver fox during being lost’) from the album is available for digital streaming as a taste of the album; you can listen to it via the links on the following page.

https://linkco.re/dQ8SaSZY?lang=ja

The light in my heart is once again peacefully burning. Having that kind of moment together.

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Source: KOKIA.com/blog, May 7, 2022

The fox: digital single ahead of album release

As of now, the song Maigo no watashi wa gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’I would have golden tea with a silver fox during being lost’) is available as a digital release. The song is the main song from my new album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’Golden tea with a silver fox’), currently up for pre-order from the KOKIA Jirushi web shop.*

I’d be happy if you were to give it a listen if you’re not yet sure if you want to buy the album, and if you were to consider buying the album after that.

You’ll be able to enjoy the digital release via all kinds of platforms, so please use the service you prefer and are accustomed to using. All links are gathered in one place via the link below, so please check it out.

The digital release can be found here. 

Yesterday, I got in touch by mail with everyone who joined the tier for my crowdfunding for a ‘song of gratitude’, but I forgot about the time difference from London, so I realized belatedly I had sent it at a late hour in Japan.

Please excuse my rudeness! I’m so sorry!

And the trouble is that there was an error in the mail address for two people, so those mails wouldn’t send no matter how often I tried.

Since I only have their mail address and no other information like home address or phone number, I hope you’ll contact me if you know who these fans are.

If you applied for the ‘video thank you message’, please be patient just a little longer.

I’m currently preparing a video in which I’m singing, as I figured, how about sending out a thank you message in which I’m singing, even if I’m not singing the song of gratitude...

I think I’ll be able to send it out in the middle of May, so I would appreciate it if you’d give me some time until then.

* Translator’s note: I had previously translated the titles as ‘I’m a lost child with a silver fox and golden tea’ and ‘With a silver fox and golden tea’ respectively. With the new context, I would have opted for ‘If I were lost, I’d drink golden tea with a silver fox’ for the song title. However, since KOKIA has shared the translations in this entry as the official English translations, I will change them in the sidebar, discography page and future entries to reflect this.

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KOKIA news flashes: April 29, 2022

Below are three short news updates dated to April 29, 2022 posted on KOKIA’s official website, translated into English.

Website renewal

April 30, 2022. The website has been renewed! A celebration!

Paid stream concert on June 25

On June 25, 2022 (Saturday), at 20:00 JST, I’ll have my paid stream concert ‘History of my Pieces’.

＊ Once all ticket information is available, I will update the website.

New album  Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o now on sale

My new album  Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’with a silver fox and golden tea’) is now available for pre-order via the official web shop KOKIA Jirushi.

I’ll soon have the main track available for digital streaming ahead of the release.

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KOKIA blog: April 25, 2022

Source: KOKIA.com/blog, April 25, 2022

Thank you, Billboard YOKOHAMA

The Billboard Yokohama performances wrapped up without a hitch.

It might sound like an exaggeration to say each performance so far has been more treasured than ever, but now that it’s no longer a given to attend in good health and have guests coming over, I’m really nervous until the day has come to an end.

Thankfully, the two performances at Billboard Yokohama have safely concluded, and to me, it was appropriate as a fresh start of spring, and it was a time that made me determined to face my 25th anniversary invigorated ahead of time.

Thanks to everyone’s support (the crowdfunding), I’ve been taking the time to make some good progress on the renewal of my homepage, but it’ll be a close call to finish it in the month of April. That’s what I have to report on that.

Also, the new album I’ve been working on at the same time, Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’with a silver fox and golden tea’), is already for sale on the official webshop KOKIA Jirushi, but it’s going to be completed tomorrow! Bravo~!

There was a song I announced at Yokohama a step ahead (Sakura (’cherry blossom’), for which eventually settled for the title Kisetsu hazure no SAKURA ('Cherry blossoms out of season'). Of course, I’m hoping it’ll gradually and eventually make its way to many people.

You might have realized that this is the third entry in my series of mini albums I declared the ‘star album series’.

Every time, one or two songs are the message songs that become the main axis, and then there are supporting songs that give me relief as they keep up the others; the album is constructed with 6 songs, which feels like a good balance and is easy for me to make and deliver frequently.

With April spent just waiting for the start of my website, I’ve already started a countdown; for me, there’s another, big mission left.

That’s the recording of the concert at Opera City Concert Hall.

These last few days, I’ve gotten to the good part of preparing and rehearsing for this stream concert, and every night, I collapse onto my futon like my battery has drained. The days continue like that, but the physical fatigue is a minor category to me compared to the mental display. I might fall asleep wrapped in a feeling of exhaustion, but I feel good, and I’m truly happy.

Once the website is renewed, I’ll immediately share information how to purchase tickets for this stream concert.

Last time, I widened my circle with my first paid stream concert ‘MISSING PIECE’, and I hope many people will tune in to watch! 

Look forward to it!

On the day of recording at the Tokyo Opera City Concert Hall, general public won’t be allowed inside so that the recording can be arranged, and there won’t be a concert. Please, if you intend to send your thoughts and feelings, do so by sending them from your own place. I will sing while imagining all of you there listening to my songs!

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KOKIA blog: March 18, 2022

Source: KOKIA.com/blog, March 18, 2022

Start of album pre-order

My new album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’with a silver fox and golden tea’) is now up for pre-order via the official webshop KOKIA Jirushi. 

↓ You can find it in the webshop here.

http://ancocoro.shop-pro.jp/?pid=167079284

It’s the third part in my mini album series that I started producing since 2020.

They’re also three albums I’m calling the star album series. After I became limited in the things I was able to do due to corona, I continued making these albums with my wish to find places to go.

One of the songs I’m singing on what became the third volume, Maigo no watashi wa gin no kitsune to kin no koucha (’I’m a lost child with a silver fox and golden tea’), I first sang during my end-of-year home live as well as at Yatsugatake at the beginning of the year. After making this third album, it finally became a song that I feel like hits just the right notes to convey my feelings over these past two years.

This song holds my wishes in which I dream of lighting a candle and returning once more to a concert hall without an audience, a little lonely and as if time has stopped. 

Soon, it will be spring of 2022.

It’ll be two years since my concert ‘Masquerade’ was cancelled in the spring of 2020.

All kinds of things have happened.

Things with me. Things around me. And things in the world.

Sometimes there’s not an answer to those things no matter how hard you think about them, and in those cases, I usually feel a bit comforted when I sing about my feelings. Even if I can’t find an answer. 

That’s why I’m constantly brimming with the desire to sing, and I’d like many people to hear it.

Tomorrow, taking a couple of hours more than usual, I’ll return to Japan where the season of cherry blossoms has started.

It’s under the same sky; it makes me happy to think it’s a bit close.

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KOKIA blog: March 10, 2022

Source: KOKIA.com/blog, March 10, 2022

Back to Japan soon

Hello, this is KOKIA.

The weather is nice in London today; it feels like spring.

Since I’ll be returning to Japan next week, I’ve started fluttering about to pack my things.

I will write down my missions to fulfill during my stay in Japan below.

I’ll be happy if I get to meet as many people as possible.

April 3: Makuhari hall event attendance April 16: Billboard Live Yokohama performance KOKIA, title: ‘sounds are dancing on a fine spring day’ (haru urara oto ga mau)

≪Venue≫ Billboard Live Yokohama

≪Date≫ April 16, 2022 (Saturday)

≪Performance times≫

1st stage open 15:30 / start 16:30 2nd state open 18:30 / start 19:30

※ full substitution system

(Yokohama shop)

http://www.billboard-live.com/membersarea/20200625_notice_yokohama.html

And a talk about the KOKIA flowers that are blooming in spring:

🌱 I will be renewing my website! I’m excited.

Thanks to you, I reached the goal amount through the crowd funding campaign I’d started for the website remodeling in the blink of an eye! I bowed my head in front of the computer and told you all ‘thank you’.

I’m currently in the middle of preparing the data to prepare for the reopening of the website after the remodeling.

Please look forward to it, because I think it’ll be a wonderful website tying us all together now that I’m making almost unbelievable progress with it!

🌱 My new album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o (’with a silver fox and golden tea’) will go on sale.

I’m planning on the actual shipping to start in May, but preorders will be available very soon this month on the official web shop KOKIA Jirushi.

New songs are born from time to time, and they just become works with the ‘KOKIA seal’ (Jirushi).

I have the feeling one of these songs will be one that I’ll sing a lot on stage from now on. Please look forward to it, since I’m also planning on singing it in Yokohama.

I digress, but... the other day, on my way home after watching a musical, I came across a wild fox in the middle of the city.

Even more, one of the songs that was sung in that musical had the same lyrics as a part of the chorus of the main song I’m singing on the album.

It’s just making me excited, wondering if it’s a sign it might be a smash hit like the owl song from my other album.

🌱 I think I’ll be able to tell you about it at the end of April, along with the launch of my renewed website, but...

I’ll be recording an unprecedented performance during my stay in Japan this spring. (Please root for me in your hearts!) 

If I talk a little bit about it in outlines...

In 2021, around summer that year, I held my first paid livestream concert ‘THE MISISNG PIECE’; that allowed me my first attempt at a recording without an audience, but I feel the end result was a lovely concert.

After streaming finished, I received happy encouragement from my audience;  planning it was very tough, but I wanted to try yet another similar large-scale livestream concert.

However, as a result of my pondering if I couldn’t come up with a plan in which a new approach of recording comes to life, I thought of something!

As fans who have supported me throughout the years may know, when you ut it simply, there are two kinds of tracks in my singing and song writing.

The first is freely creating something I like, and freely singing it. That’s what I call my own album and product, so ‘my works’, so to speak.

And there’s the second kind which is the collaboration or tie-up; I sing a song that I got commissioned to write for a project. As I thought about a way to easily understand it on top of explaining it in words, I called those ‘outworks’ as contrast to ‘my works’. 

For music, I use my right brain for imagining a lot, and it gets developed. If the ‘my work’ songs are created by my right brain, then it’s easy for me to see how I create the ‘outwork’ songs with my left brain and produce them like that.

In short, in contrast to my works for which I turn my mental image into sounds as I wish without having to think about it, my outwork is for a product that already exists, like a movie or a game, so I can’t go against the existing concept, and I work the demands of the client into the sounds... because in that way, it’s like I’m making a construction.

That introduction got long, but despite being involved in many of my left brain projects (outworks), I haven’t really had the chance to introduce those left brain songs on stage before, but finally, this time I decided to record a concert composed only of tie-up songs that are left brain works.

Of course, it will be distributed after.

Now, once I’d decided on it, I made a listing of songs I’ve done as a tie-up in the past, and I surprised myself going ‘I wrote that song too?’. At the same time, most of those songs were included in the works they were intended for, but I haven’t sung them on stage before.

So even though they’re songs I’ve written myself, creating songs and performing them on a stage are two very different stories...

After deciding on this, I now realize myself just how tough these preparations are, though it’s a little late for that. ^^;

Anyway, aren’t you curious about what songs I’ll be singing?

This time, just like the previous time, I’m arranging preparations for digital tickets that get sent out with an URL to watch the performance, both with a ticket and pamphlet included and without a pamphlet.

It might be a spoiler, but I was planning on writing down the musical program in the pamphlet this time around, so I’d certainly recommend a digital ticket that includes a pamphlet.

Feeling like this, as much as it was a momentary sigh of relief that my stage performances, my main axis of motion, had decreased due to corona, I am of course also looking forward to it and zealous in my preparations while I imagine my audience looking forward to doing as much as possible, so please wait just a little longer.

First, I’ll return to Japan via the opposite side of the planet adding four extra hours to my usual travel, so please pray for my safe arrival in Japan.

I’m looking forward to be able to see you all at Billboard Yokohama.

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On June 22, KOKIA quietly released a new digital single: Kisetsu hazure no sakura, ‘Late blooming Cherry blossoms’, which is featured on the album Gin no kitsune to kin no koucha o ('Golden tea with a silver fox'). It is available for purchasing and streaming via various sources via this link.

The discography page on this fan blog has been updated with the single release and the official English title.