true blue that a mermaid saw
. "zan" is a name of a mermaid in an old folk tale in Okinawa -hometown of Cocco
. Cocco loves her hometown Okinawa a lot. This title shows her prayer for love and hope.
Reportedly, she wanted to become a dancer first, but she decided that music would express herself better, and became a singer. In a video clip of "Swinging night She made a debut inMar. 1997, but once she stopped working on music fromApr. 2001. This is her fifth album -and the first album after resumption in2004. Overall, songs seem to be more pop and gentler compared to former four albums that sounded desperate. Even so, her songs sometimes sound harsh -like "Nobi" (Field Fire)
sometimes gentle -like "Natsuiro" (Color of Summer)
sometimes innocently -like " Utaibito
(Singer)
and sometimes painful -like " Anmoku jijou
" (Tacit love affair)
Such purity wouldn't change.
When " Hino terinagara ameno furu
" (Raining in the sun shine)
This hill is called "Jugon no mieru oka" (the hill of dugongs)
In Okinawa, the numbers of dugongs are declining due to excessive hunting after the World War II and development including military lands. On June 21, 2007, two dugongs appeared in Ooura Bay. When Cocco saw this news on TV, she was so moved into tears. A few hours later, she wrote up a song dedicated to the two dugongs: " Jugon no mieru oka
" (The Hill of Dugongs)
At first, this song was released only in Okinawa, but released as a single in all over Japan later inOct. 2007. This song is not included in any albums so far. -I couldn't help wondering how she felt about the political chaos surrounding base relocation problems, as I was grappling with this composition... The website I referred for composition: http://www.cocco.co.jp/english/index.html