Lilium
Kayo Konishi & Yukio Kondo
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Browse piano sheets by Kayo Konishi & Yukio Kondo on Zen Virtual Piano. The unit MOKA☆, formed by the sound creators Yukio Kondo and Kayo Konishi, who come from different musical backgrounds, is an artist group that handles lyrics, composition, arrangement, performance and vocals as multi-skilled sound producers. They have a reputation for varied music production, from catchy commercial music and band sound to Latin and classical pieces. Two creators from different backgrounds who share lyrics, writing, playing and singing suggest a duo that covers an unusually wide stretch of the production process, from the words to the performance. Director Mamoru Kanbe's only request of MOKA was a religious opening theme, which is why they turned to biblical texts for the words. Words from the Latin Vulgate, Psalm 37:30 and the Epistle of James 1:12, form the lyrics together with the Renaissance hymn Ave Mundi Spes Maria in Latin; Kumiko Noma sings the opening. A member who had studied at a mission school sang hymns in Latin there and liked the sound of the language, so wanted Lilium to feel like a contemporary Gregorian hymn. A request for religious music and a memory of Latin hymns suggest that Lilium joined a director's brief with the duo's own history, and that the religious theme was a creative starting point. Konishi wrote on Twitter on 2 August 2017 that Lilium, both the opening theme and the soundtrack versions, was recorded in the early summer of 2004. Konishi covered the opening theme herself as the MOKA version, one of the songs on a CD she put out in November 2006. A Lilium CD from PAKCHYS in December 2015 gathered five versions sung by a mixed chorus that Konishi and Kondo put together. A song recorded in 2004 that was later covered by its own composer and gathered into a chorus album suggests a piece they kept coming back to, long after the anime that first carried it. Anime credits include Elfen Lied, Wizard Barristers, pupa, Sarai-ya Goyō, Junjo Romantica and Comet-san, among others. Their original vocal albums, among them Ryugu Genka in 2006, Shinra Soloist in 2009 and Felix Culpa in 2012, are praised for a uniquely floating musical universe. A wealth of film-viewing experience, including small independent theaters and classic monochrome cinema, lies behind soundtrack work and sound design. A run of anime scores beside original vocal albums suggests two creative sides: commissioned work for stories and independent albums of their own, each shaping the other.
Browse piano sheets by Kayo Konishi & Yukio Kondo on Zen Virtual Piano.
The unit MOKA☆, formed by the sound creators Yukio Kondo and Kayo Konishi, who come from different musical backgrounds, is an artist group that handles lyrics, composition, arrangement, performance and vocals as multi-skilled sound producers. They have a reputation for varied music production, from catchy commercial music and band sound to Latin and classical pieces. Two creators from different backgrounds who share lyrics, writing, playing and singing suggest a duo that covers an unusually wide stretch of the production process, from the words to the performance.
Director Mamoru Kanbe's only request of MOKA was a religious opening theme, which is why they turned to biblical texts for the words. Words from the Latin Vulgate, Psalm 37:30 and the Epistle of James 1:12, form the lyrics together with the Renaissance hymn Ave Mundi Spes Maria in Latin; Kumiko Noma sings the opening. A member who had studied at a mission school sang hymns in Latin there and liked the sound of the language, so wanted Lilium to feel like a contemporary Gregorian hymn. A request for religious music and a memory of Latin hymns suggest that Lilium joined a director's brief with the duo's own history, and that the religious theme was a creative starting point.
Konishi wrote on Twitter on 2 August 2017 that Lilium, both the opening theme and the soundtrack versions, was recorded in the early summer of 2004. Konishi covered the opening theme herself as the MOKA version, one of the songs on a CD she put out in November 2006. A Lilium CD from PAKCHYS in December 2015 gathered five versions sung by a mixed chorus that Konishi and Kondo put together. A song recorded in 2004 that was later covered by its own composer and gathered into a chorus album suggests a piece they kept coming back to, long after the anime that first carried it.
Anime credits include Elfen Lied, Wizard Barristers, pupa, Sarai-ya Goyō, Junjo Romantica and Comet-san, among others. Their original vocal albums, among them Ryugu Genka in 2006, Shinra Soloist in 2009 and Felix Culpa in 2012, are praised for a uniquely floating musical universe. A wealth of film-viewing experience, including small independent theaters and classic monochrome cinema, lies behind soundtrack work and sound design. A run of anime scores beside original vocal albums suggests two creative sides: commissioned work for stories and independent albums of their own, each shaping the other.
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Kayo Konishi & Yukio Kondo
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They are the sound creators who form the unit MOKA☆, which works on lyrics, composition, arrangement, performance and vocals.
Lilium is the opening theme of the anime Elfen Lied, composed by MOKA☆ and sung in the anime by Kumiko Noma.
They combine Latin biblical verses, Psalm 37:30 and James 1:12, with the Renaissance hymn Ave Mundi Spes Maria.
Yes. PAKCHYS released one in December 2015, with five versions of Lilium sung by a mixed chorus that Konishi and Kondo assembled.