"Boy" in novels and music (Live Band Performance) Front Cover

Lyric

Sakura is hope

Sho Nakayama

この桜を貴方に見せてあげたいと願う

その気持ちだけで世界は美しい

ねぇ桜は希望さ

スーツを着た男性も腰の丸いおばあちゃんも

みんな、みんな見つめてる

どことなく微笑みながら

線路沿いに咲いてる薄紅色の空に

ゆっくり抱かれてゆっくり抱かれて

ふとあなたを思う

この桜をあなたに見せてあげたいと願う

その気持ちだけで世界は美しい

ねぇ桜は希望さ

あなたは春のようだ

温かくて然りげ無い

優しく有ることに何の迷いもない

南風が吹いたら花びらは空を舞う

年月の重さ季節の儚さ

仄かに、悲しみ残して

この桜をあなたに見せてあげたいと願う

その気持があればいつでも逢える

ねぇ、あなたを思っている

この桜を貴方に今

見せてあげたいと願った

その気持ちだけで世界は美しい

ねぇあなたを思っている

ねぇ桜は希望さ

  • Lyricist

    Sho Nakayama

  • Composer

    Sho Nakayama

  • Recording Engineer

    taturu ogasawara

  • Mixing Engineer

    taturu ogasawara

  • Vocals

    Sho Nakayama

  • Piano

    rina khomoto

  • Violin

    ai hashimoto

"Boy" in novels and music (Live Band Performance) Front Cover

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  • 1

    Stanway Breakfast

    Sho Nakayama

  • 2

    Love Letters from the Sea

    Sho Nakayama

  • 3

    Fireworks Maker's Love

    Sho Nakayama

  • 4

    The Country of Little Old Men

    Sho Nakayama

  • 5

    My grandpa lives in the park.

    Sho Nakayama

  • 6

    winter

    Sho Nakayama

  • 7

    Blue Back Dolly

    Sho Nakayama

  • 8

    Sylvia Cafe

    Sho Nakayama

  • 9

    Mary

    Sho Nakayama

  • 10

    I'm writing a poem for you

    Sho Nakayama

  • 11

    library

    Sho Nakayama

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    Sakura is hope

    Sho Nakayama

  • 13

    Boy

    Sho Nakayama

Among the various kinds of music, I have always written songs with the desire to express music that has elements such as "story", "color", "poetry" and "scenery". I started composing at the age of 16, and after nearly 10 years, the word "short story singing" came to mind. I thought, "What if I could make my songs into a "short story collection" like the great short story collections of Shusaku Endo, Haruki Murakami, and Yukio Mishima? No, I thought that this is music, so it should be a "short story singing". From that simple idea, I planned and created the one-man live "Short Story Singing 'Shounen'" recorded in this album.
Express the "story", "color", "poetry" and "scenery" that each song has through music. To do this, I gathered a group of reliable friends, including piano, violin, drums, bass and guitar.
When it came to creating the sound, I conveyed very abstract images to each musician, such as "a piano with a melancholy feel like a boy with morning blues" and "a drum with a dynamic feel like a little old man having fun at a carnival". However, my friends who helped me this time helped me find the "sound" behind my words. It was a really fun time creating sounds, scenery, and stories with such friends.
Also, the prologue poem that was read before each song. I was also very particular about the poetry reading. I wrote and spoke out loud, without embellishment, in honest words, about the world that welled up from within me.
2The curtain was raised on "Shounen" at a live house called SACT in Shinjuku. I hope that the world expressed there will remain in the corner of the hearts of those who listen, and become an opportunity to look at reality or a place to escape from reality. I expressed it with that thought in mind.
This album is a record of 13 stories that were particularly memorable from the many stories played at the live show. Or perhaps this album itself can be said to be one big story called "Shounen".
Please listen to it. Listen to each song as if you were turning the pages of an album. I think you will feel like you are traveling to various worlds.

Artist Profile

  • Sho Nakayama

    Born in Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture in 1988, he grew up with music, having a mother who was a piano instructor and a father who loves folk songs. From high school, he started playing and composing songs on acoustic guitar in earnest. At university, he studied Japanese literature and became familiar with "poetry." Currently living with his wife and two sons. We are carrying out performance activities carefully. Released 3 albums: 1st album "We saw Halley's Comet from the window of a local train", 2nd "Living Landscape" (produced by Tadashi Hirosawa), and 3rd "TINY RECORD". Soft singing voice, melody maker feat, cynical acoustic guitar tone, delicate poetry reading. Musical expression with a commitment to "poetry". The one and only Japanese singer-songwriter.

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