Songbird (Kokia album)
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| Studio album by Kokia | ||||
| Released | July 16, 1999 | |||
| Recorded | 1998–1999 | |||
| Genre | J-pop | |||
| Length |
48:18 1:03:01 (re-release) |
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| Label | Pony Canyon | |||
| Producer | Toshifumi Hinata | |||
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| Kokia Complete Collection 1998–1999 | ||||
Re-release cover.
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| Singles from Songbird | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| CDJournal | (favourable) |
| Shunta Tanizaki | (favourable) |
Songbird (stylised as songbird) is Kokia's debut album, released on July 16, 1999. It is her only album released under Pony Canyon, the rest being released with Victor Entertainment or Wasabi Records.
The album was re-released in 2008, as Kokia Complete Collection 1998–1999, featuring the album as well bonus tracks from her Pony Canyon singles, "Aishiteiru Kara," "Tears in Love" and "Arigatō..."
Kokia considers the lead single from the album, "Arigatō...," to be one of her favourite songs. She wrote the song in the mid 1990s, about the death of her family's pet dog. She has re-recorded it three times: on her 2006 greatest album, Pearl: The Best Collection, on the 2007 Japanese release of Aigakikoeru: Listen for the Love and on the limited edition of her 2009 second greatest hits album, Coquillage: The Best Collection II.
In 2003, the songs "I Catch a Cold" and "Shiroi Yuki" were used in the soundtrack for the popular Chinese drama At the Dolphin Bay.
Kokia released three singles before her album: "Ai no Field" (愛の輪郭(フィールド) Field of Love), "Tears in Love" and "Arigatō...". "Ai no Field" was the anime Brain Powerd's ending theme song, and was produced by Yoko Kanno (however, it was released through Victor Entertainment and not Pony Canyon). "Tears in Love" was released in November. The B-side from this single, "Blue Night," was played as a theme song for a radio show Kokia had on FM Hokkaido, Kokia Innocent Time. This is the first release Kokia worked on personally, as she wrote the lyrics on both tracks. Seven months later in June 1999, the final single, "Arigatō...," was released.
The album did not chart on the Japanese Oricon albums charts.
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