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The pandemic has tested our perseverance and strength all around the world, and this song was created with a bright hope that seasons change, and the spring will arrive after the harsh winter. That first day of spring, when you feel that the air has changed, when everything turns from grey to green, and life starts to bloom all around.
Joined by a 17 year-old guest vocalist YUYU and the eclectic duo QPLO for arrangement, the song also features refreshing young talents represented by the key phrase in the lyric, "young and free".

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First Day of Spring

iTunes Store • Alternative TOP SONGS • Japan • TOP 141 • 1 May 2021

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First Day of Spring

Spotify • 春のうた • 31 Mar 2022 Apple Music • 春の情景と • 27 Mar 2023 Apple Music • 78 musi-curate TuneCore Japan zone • 11 May 2021 Spotify • New Music Everyday - tuneTracks (curated by TuneCore Japan) • 8 May 2021

Artist Profile

  • Rié

    Rié (pronounced ree-ay) Funakoshi - known simply as Rié - is a singer-songwriter of rare melodic grace whose music resonates with the lush splendour of Karen Carpenter and the acoustic intimacy of Suzanne Vega. But there are signs in her sound of an artist teetering on the edge between MOR and the avant-garde. Listening to her reminds you that, from Kate Bush and Björk to Bat For Lash-es, some of the most interesting, experimental pop has one ear attuned to the mainstream. She came to music via painting, having studied Fine Art at London's Central Saint Martin's. When speaking about her art-based background: "I never thought I'd be a singer because I was shy and wanted to create and paint rather than have people look at me onstage," admits Rié, who was born in Japan and grew up in Tokyo in a family of medics ("I didn't get any of their doctor DNA," she laughs). A Rié song might be about anything - she even has one about eyelash extensions - but these are merely the launchpad for a series of thrillingly inventive meditations on the human condition. "There's nothing I wouldn't write about," she says. "I'd welcome the challenge of writing about the most unexpected thing. " "Japanese poetry and writing are all about saying something through something else, implying obliquely," she muses. "In a Japanese poem, if something is beautiful, you never use the word 'beautiful'; you refer to it without spelling it out." Paul Lester, September 2016 Artist logo by Airside Studios Japan

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