Riyu Konaka - a funny egg (live)

A Video of Riyu Konaka. A Japanese artist who spent most of her childhood in the U.S. She writes polygonal After Jazz-pop and performs poetry of various themes, which she writes with poet and producer, Bun Onoe, using a playful cat-like vocal-style. She recorded many session albums with musicians in N.Y., like Medeski, Martin and Wood, Marc Ribot, Peter Scherer, and the Jazz Passengers.

A Funny Egg
Lyrics by. Bun Onoe and Riyu Music by. Michiaki Koike and Riyu


It seems like I''ve landed on a Funny Egg
You know? I think the air is a little thin, on this star
Just for one day today, I'm gonna change my form into a human being,
in the Telephone Booth

A Funny Egg Let me tell you, everything that I see on this little star
A Funny Egg Can you hear me speaking? Here is my report from the
Funny Egg

In my head, they're dancing, voices from all over the city
They go, LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME, ME, No ME! Advertisements, they shout
at me
Shorthairs, longhairs, walk past through me, and they're all
in ahurry, hurrying
Tell me, where are you heading?

Hey! Transparent bottles, they're sparkling in the sunlight
You know, it's really odd to see, you're selling water
Hey look! A puppy! He's talking through the window glass
They are even putting on price tags to lives!

A Bunny Head With a round and fluffy tail
This hairy planet is going around
A Bunny Head Curling up its' long ears
It's saying, oh my, oh my, it's in trouble and lost

Naked girls are posing in newspapers, weekly magazines and comic books
The men come on the trains and sit on the seats and open the books and
watch them
The tight and crowded boxes are running up and down the rails
Back and forth, back and forth

A Funny Egg Did you hear my report on this Funny Egg just now?
Did you hear it? Can you hear me?
Now, Captain Answer Me! Is somebody interrupting our line?
All I hear now, are voices, voices, noises

Oh Funny Egg Well I'm wondering what will hatch from this funny egg
tomorrow?
Oh Captain Answer Me! Are the lines getting tangled up?
I can't hear anything anymore, anymore, not anymore ... I can't hear a
sound ...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Polygonal
• After
• Jazz
• Japanese
• Artist

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