COLOR part 2

Yuichiro Maeda (YUICHIRO), Keisei Amou (KEISEI) and Ryouta Maeda (RYO) were chosen to become TAKA’s new companions to continue with the group activities. TAKA became the new leader and their music kept the R&B/Soul sound, which was strongly influenced by groups like Boyz II Men and US R&B legends that ATSUSHI had already collaborated with on October 2006 and later on would trace a nice friendship with.

From this new chapter (2006 to 2009) the group stayed active as part of LDH’s company but also as part of the EXILE family, doing more than just one feature with them and even having their own versions of EXILE’s songs.

Load video

This era’s singles:

Namida ga Ochinai you Ni (While teardrops fall) – April 25^th 2007

Blue Sky – May 26^th 2007

Aoi Tori (Blue bird) – November 28^th 2007

Kimi no Inai Michi (A road without you) – January 23^rd 2008

Midnight Call – June 18^th 2008

Miss You – November 12^th 2008

With You ~Luv merry X’mas – December 3^rd 2008

Long Distance – January 28^th 2009

The song With You ~Luv merry X’mas~ is a cover from LUVandSOUL’s original song, the group KIKURI, original member of COLOR, would join in 2011. Thanks to this cover, the group LUVandSOUL started to draw some interest from the audiences. That single also had a cover of the song Tada… Aitakute, written by SHUN and Hitoshi Harukawa for EXILE. The group called LUVandSOUL was produced by Daisuke DAIS Miyachi, one of the most recurrent producers for EXILE as well as the composer of the song COLOR covered, as well as Yuichi Ohno, another of LDH’s regular. The song Namida ga Ochinai you Ni is also a cover from a LUVandSOUL song, written by  Daisuke Miyachi.

The albums of this period:

BLUE ~Tears from the sky~ - January 23^rd 2008

BLACK ~A night for you~ -July 30^th 2008

WHITE ~Lovers on canvas~ - February 4^th 2009

Their second album included the track 24karats –type C- featuring DOBERMAN INC, as their own version of EXILE’s clothing brand’s theme.

Load video

During this chapter, in May 2007, they collaborated with Miliyah Kato for the song My Girl. They also had two tours around the country: the COLOR LIVE TOUR 2007 BLUE and the  COLOR LIVE TOUR 2008 BLACK, being their first solo tours ever.

---

Sources:

http://www.generasia.com/wiki/DEEP

http://www.jpopasia.com/group/colorjpop1/discography/

http://sp.mu-mo.net/aoyamarecord/interview/49color.html

http://www.luvandsoul.jp/

COLOR part 1

Let’s start with one of the groups that are directly related to EXILE and LDH, the company that was founded in 2003 with the pretext that EXILE members could become their own bosses as well as to fulfill their other dreams and aspirations, such as producing other acts. One of these first acts they produced was the group COLOR.

In 2004 in order to give ATSUSHI more field to develop his creativity, he decided to recruit an old friend called KIKURI, an old classmate from when he studied music at school; another boy named YORK and TAKA, whom was selected through an audition process, to create the vocal quartet COLOR. This group of R&B/Soul music remained active until 2006 when ATSUSHI, KIKURI and YORK decided it was time to leave. But far from it being the end of the group, the remaining and last member TAKA would continue with COLOR (as we’ll see soon).

Singles:

Special Love – December 1^st 2004

Move So Fast – March 9^th 2005

Summer time cruisin’ – August 24^th 2005

Neiro – December 7^th 2005

Album:

RED ~Love isa ll around~ - September 21^st 2005

ATSUSHI was the producer of this group, collaborating with other lyricists and musicians in several occasions, basing all the songs in the four voice harmonies, with an R&B/Soul smooth style that differed from EXILE.

http://www.jpopsuki.tv/video/COLOR---Neiro/17694c49f37805286d7cc212a3c0fcb6

---

Sources:

http://www.generasia.com/wiki/DEEP

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEEP_(%E6%AD%8C%E6%89%8B%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BC%E3%83%97)

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATSUSHI_(%E6%AD%8C%E6%89%8B)