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Utakata (Chara EP)
''Utakata'' is the 2nd mini album by Chara (or 15th studio album), which was released on November 2, 2011. ''Utakata'' was released as a regular CD Only version (DDCZ-1781). This album was Chara's third studio album that wasn't preceded by any singles or promotional tracks, the first being her 2005 effort "something blue" and the second her 2011 "Dark Candy". The style of "Utakata" consists mainly of mellow ballads with influences from trip hop, rock and ambient. Track listing Charts References {{Authority control Chara (singer) EPs 2011 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara (singer)
, better known by her stage name Chara, is a Japanese singer, actress and video jockey. She debuted in 1991 with the single ''Heaven''. She is known for her song " Swallowtail Butterfly (Ai no Uta)", the theme song for the 1996 Shunji Iwai film '' Swallowtail Butterfly'' in which she starred, her 1997 hit single "Yasashii Kimochi", and her collaboration with Judy and Mary vocalist Yuki, "Ai no Hi Mittsu Orange". Chara later formed a band with Yuki, called Mean Machine. Early life Chara grew up in Kawaguchi, Saitama. She started learning the piano from age four, and starting composing songs in elementary school. In her first year of elementary school, she performed a song she had written, , at a school piano recital., accessed through She originally received her nickname ''Chara'' in junior high school, after a teacher called her this. She was so well known by this name that even some of her friends did not know her real name. She continues to use this name as she believes i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom. The terms ''popular music'' and ''pop music'' are often used interchangeably, although the former describes all music that is popular and includes many disparate styles. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music. Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse-chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much pop music also borrows elements from other styles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trip Hop
Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as a psychedelic music, psychedelic fusion of hip hop music, hip hop and electronica with slow tempos and an atmospheric sound, often incorporating elements of jazz, soul music, soul, funk, reggae, dub music, dub, Contemporary R&B, R&B, and other forms of electronic dance music, electronic music, as well as sample (music), sampling from movie soundtracks and other eclectic sources. The style emerged as a more experimental music, experimental variant of breakbeat from the Bristol sound scene of the late 1980s and early 1990s, incorporating influences from jazz, soul, funk, dub, and hip hop music, rap music. It was pioneered by acts like Massive Attack, Tricky (musician), Tricky, and Portishead (band), Portishead. The term was first coined in a 1994 ''Mixmag'' piece about American producer DJ Shadow. Trip ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Avantgarde
The avant-garde (; In 'advance guard' or 'vanguard', literally 'fore-guard') is a person or work that is experimental, radical, or unorthodox with respect to art, culture, or society.John Picchione, The New Avant-garde in Italy: Theoretical Debate and Poetic Practices' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004), p. 64 . It is frequently characterized by aesthetic innovation and initial unacceptability.Kostelanetz, Richard, ''A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes'', Routledge, May 13, 2013 The avant-garde pushes the boundaries of what is accepted as the or the '' |
Dark Candy (album)
''Dark Candy'' is the 14th studio album by Chara, which was released on April 13, 2011. ''Dark Candy'' was released in two versions: a limited edition CD+DVD version (UMCK-9417) as well as a regular CD Only version (UMCK-1382). This album was Chara's second studio album that wasn't preceded by any singles or promotional tracks, the first being her 2005 effort "something blue". The style of "Dark Candy" is mainly urban with influences from many genres such as electronica, rock, reggae, jazz and ambient. Track listing Japan sales rankings References http://www.universal-music.co.jp/chara/products/umck-9417/ {{Authority control Chara (singer) albums 2011 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cocoon (Chara Album)
is the 15th (16th overall) studio album by Chara, which was released on October 31, 2012. ''Cocoon'' was released in two versions: a limited edition CD+DVD version as well as a regular CD Only version. The album was preceded by three singles: " Alterna Girlfriend", "Planet A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a you ..." and." Chouchou Musubi". "Planet" was used as the Sony "BRAVIA" commercial song and "Chouchou MusubI" was used as the theme song for the animated movie Fuse: Teppo Musume no Torimonocho. Track listing Singles Japan sales rankings References http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/artist/chara/discography/KSCL-2142 {{Authority control Chara (singer) albums 2012 albums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chara (singer) EPs
Chara may refer to: Places * Chara (rural locality), a rural locality (a ''selo'') in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia * Chara Airport, an airport in Russia near the rural locality * Chara (river), a river in Russia *Chara Sands, a sanded area in Siberia, Russia Science * ''Chara'' (alga), a genus of algae in the family Characeae * ''Chara'' (moth), a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae * CHARA array, a telescope *Beta Canum Venaticorum or Chara, a star *Chara or Southern dogs, a constellation including Beta Canum Venaticorum and Cor Caroli Other uses *Chara (surname) * Chara, a character in the video game '' Undertale'' * Chara (singer), Japanese singer *Chara people, ethnic group in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia *Chara language, the language of the Chara people * USS ''Chara'' (AKA-58), a 1944 Achernar class attack cargo ship * ''Chara'' (magazine), a Japanese Yaoi/Shōjo magazine See also *''Shugo Chara!'', a 2008 manga series * Novaya Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
