Release Date: 2026/08/09
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"1973 ambivalence" is a reissue of my original song from 52 years ago.
This song was written by Kou-Neo in 1973 during my student days. It was my third original song I performed in public, and it was a song I performed with just my guitar and vocals. At the age of 60, I decided to start a second life as a musician, a career I had only had a short time in while working for a company, and in 2013 I resumed my activities for the first time in 36 years under the stage name "Kou (Kou-chan)-Neo(New)." A rock singer-songwriter from Hitachiota, Ibaraki Prefecture, currently living in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. I takes advantage of the freedom of programming and high-pitched vocals. Kou-Neo has been able to hit the higher notes (reverse voice change) since I started working for a company, so now, since this song has been reissued for the first time in 45 years, I now sings the song with the capo set four frets lower *and* eight frets higher than the original, creating a one-octave gap between the two ranges. I assigns melodies to that one-octave gap as well. I include the year it was composed at the beginning of my old songs. Is "1973 ambivalence" proof that this song was composed in 1973?! It's from when I submitted it to a magazine songwriting contest in 1974.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2535093773400479&set=p.2535093773400479&type=3&theater Live video with the original arrangement: https://youtu.be/KEo4aAcctJ0 Live video of the unit performance after reissue: https://youtu.be/5TgR20xs7I0 Live recording from the time of composition: https://youtu.be/KALp4nxcIOQ Video list: https://www.youtube.com/@kouneo3746/videos Homepage: https://ameblo.jp/kou-neo/
At the age of 60, I decided to start a second life as a musician, a career I had only had a short time in while working for a company, and in 2013 I resumed my activities for the first time in 36 years under the stage name "Kou (Kou-chan)-Neo (New)."A rock singer-songwriter from Hitachiota, Ibaraki Prefecture, currently living in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. I takes advantage of the freedom of programming and high-pitched vocals.Kou-Neo has been able to sing in a high-pitched voice(reverse voice change) After employment in Hamamatsu, so I has reissued songs I wrote in my student days and now sings in a key 6 or 8 capo higher than I did back then!Most of my songs are originals from 1972, but I has also recently started writing songs using programming. I puts the year of composition at the beginning of my older songs.