It doesn’t mention Kanno, but it was a nice read so I *tried* my best to translate what she’s saying. Read the original post here.

Title: Houkago Overflow
Finally,

Ranka Lee = Megumi Nakajima’s
“Houkago Overflow”

is released!

It’s been approximately two and a half years since the release of Seikan Hikou.

It is one of the featured songs in “Macross F: Sayonara no Tsubasa” to be shown on February 26.

I have already read your impressions, and they made me happy! Thank you!!

“Houkago Overflow”

How much happiness can be in what we have next to us?

And when these things pass, how special can they be to us?

It feels “commonplace”, but I am sure that time that passes by us unnoticed is a miracle.

Even though it appears to be “commonplace”, in it lives profound bonds and affections.

“Embrace me!”

“And I will embrace you.”

The heart embraces tightly, but the eye tries to live on strongly in earnest.

Ranka’s strength,
wrapped up in kindness,
is a message I would like to convey.

In order for it to reach you…

I sang with my heart.

This voice,
I hope it reaches you.

So I thought it would be nice to have this song as a ballad instead of a poppy pop song. Because the harmonies sounded nice! I went and tried to strip the backing track using an invert of the karaoke, and it’s definitely not perfect, but it should do. The truth is, I wanted keep the strings, but that’s going to take magic

Here. But listen to the original first before you try this on XD

Sometimes simple does it good IMO

UPDATE (December 4, 2010): All lyrics have been translated by Atashi.
UPDATE (November 30, 2010): More links added.

I just visited Words of Songs and found out that as usual, Atashi has translated and transcribed a few the songs. Do check them out:

Songbird
Silent de Nanka Irarenai
Seikan Eve
Ranka no Kutsushita no Uta
Liebe~Maboroshi no Hikari
Funanori
Merry Christmas Without You
Tablet

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UPDATE: Here’s our project website, thanks to Len! I, PerdeskiCloyn and Yyrkoon have volunteered to work on the transcriptions and translations. To check the existing translated articles, please check the left sidebar for pages tagged as “Translation Available”. As of now, we have almost done 30% of translating all articles that have available sources. If anyone can help, please volunteer by contacting me by any means. Thanks!!!

As some of you might know, Kanno used to have a monthly column in Newtype where she wrote random stuff about her daily life. It was entitled Pokkarishita, and it ran from 1999 to 2006, so you can tell that it has a lot of information about her, most of which has not been translated in English. A lot of it has been translated in Chinese though.

So in line with this, I thought of trying to find a group of fans to search for, and translate the Pokkarishita articles.

Who we need:
- Researchers of existing scans, transcripts, or English translations of the articles.
- Volunteer Japanese -> English OR Chinese -> English transcribers and/or translators.

Current status: We are still trying to find all the scans/transcripts/translations of the articles, the current list of which you can browse here. The actual assigning and translation will start on May 1, 2010.

For those who are interested in helping out in any way, just contact me in the usual way through this website, or you could also post in YKDB.

There is absolutely no pressure for anyone in this project to deliver, and it will just be ongoing as the resources permit

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UPDATE: Listen to his performances here. Lydia, Flying Teapot and Coracao are my favorites!

Josh, one of the familiar faces in YKDB, our fellow-fan, will be performing a set of Kanno songs as part of his recital in his graduate year. I was hoping some of you might be able to have a meet-up as Kanno fans if the time and location is of convenience to you.

Details:

Joshua Mullin / Senior Vocal Recital
Date/Time: April 23rd, 2010 – 7:30pm
Location: McNally Smith College of Music – Auditorium
(19 Exchange Street, Saint Paul, MN, USA 55101)

Setlist:
After All [Kanno/Mosdell]
After, in the dark [Kanno/Yamane]
Butterfly [Kanno/Mosdell]
Coração Selvagem [Kanno/Moreno]
Flying Teapot [Kanno/Tane]
Lydia [Kanno]
Time Doing Time [Kanno/Jensen]
Inner Universe [Kanno/Jakovleva/Snyder/Robin]

Musicians:
Kristin Sponcia (piano)
Charles Werber (drums)
Eric Lundgren (guitar)
Elle Rhodes (backing vocal)
Naomi Mann (backing vocal)
& Rachel Chalmers (backing vocal)
Jason Wildasin (bass)
Joel Cooper (cello)
Lori Dokken (piano for After All)

Josh’s Instructors:
Judi Donaghy
Jennifer Scovell-Parker

If he sends any practice videos, or any of his videos of the actual performance, I’ll be posting those here too

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This report is very late because I got caught up with things, but better late than never. The members of YKFan held a live fan concert last December 5, 2009 in China, and about 1000 people attended the event, that means it was quite successful! Here are some of the videos that they took of the event:

Intro Video:

Kiseki no Umi:

Wo Qui Non Coin:

Green Bird:

Ninjin Loves You:

And stay tuned guys, because one of us will also be performing a Kanno set as his recital in his graduating year, I’ll post more about it later

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