Riyu Konaka - engawa (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.

On The Porch
Lyrics by. Bun Onoe and Riyu Music by. Riyu


Wind is blowing from the old electric fan
I take a sip of a Calpis drink
Resting my elbow on top of a texbook
A long Vacation in the country-side

My little sister is in the next room
She's shouting something, clapping her hands
Maybe somebody has hit a homerun,
Or maybe it could be a second-base run

On the porch of my house
As I lay on the tatami
Suddenly, a dragonfly failed to hunt a bug,
and flew away

And then the ground of the garden sparkled in the sunlight
All the cells are holding one another
They are all happy to be
All the cells are holding one another
They are all happy to be

Today, I am alive

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Polygonal
• After
• Jazz
• Japanese
• Artist