Cocomi’s New Song “Take Five” Music Video to Premiere on YouTube

The music video for Cocomi’s new song “Take Five,” a jazz standard, will premiere on YouTube from 8:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 18, 2024. The song, which was released for pre-release, will be included in Cocomi’s third album “Neos,” to be released on October 18th.

Cocomi said about the “Take Five” music video: “This song is a jazz standard, so I was nervous about performing it, but Hideaki Hagimori arranged it with the concept of ‘what if a classical composer arranged it for piano and flute?’ and it was a lot of fun. The music video has a completely different feel to my previous videos. It includes footage of my hobbies, so I hope you enjoy the slightly more relaxed atmosphere of this music video. For the costume, I chose a concept that I didn’t wear in my first and second albums, in keeping with the album title ‘Neos’ (which means new in Greek).”

The second pre-release single, “Martinu: Sonata for flute, violin and piano H.254 – 1st movement” is also available for download starting today. The second pre-release single is a piece composed by Bohuslav Martinu, who was influenced by French impressionism and jazz, with a unique freshness and rhythmic interplay between three instruments.

The album “Neos” contains five songs in total, including Martinu’s “Trio for Flute, Cello and Piano, Op. 86” and “Take Five” by Nikolai Kapustin, a Ukrainian composer who incorporated new jazz idioms into classical music.

Participating artists include young, up-and-coming artists in the classical music world, such as Atsushi Yamanaka, a talented pianist who also works as a composer and arranger, Harumasa Sato, the first Japanese to win the cello category at the Munich International Music Competition, and Ryota Azuma, a violinist who is expanding his field of work to include dubbing performances for television and anime.

Cocomi has just announced that she will hold a recital in Tokyo and Osaka in December of this year. The recital will feature many songs from her third album, “Neos,” and she will be joined by pianist Atsushi Yamanaka, violinist Ryota Higashi, and cellist Masanori Yabe.

Release Information

Cocomi – Neos

Release Date: Friday, October 18, 2024

Available on: CD, Apple Music, Spotify, Amazon Music

Performance Information

Cocomi Recital “Neos”

[Osaka Performance]

Date: December 9, 2024

Time: 18:30 (Opening), 19:00 (Starting)

Venue: Sumitomo Life Izumi Hall

Performers: Ryota Higashi (violin), Atsushi Yamanaka (piano) and others

Admission Fee: All seats reserved 5,500 yen

[Tokyo Performance]

Date: December 10, 2024

Time: 18:30 (Opening), 19:00 (Starting)

Venue: Kioi Hall

Performers: Ryota Higashi (violin), Atsushi Yamanaka (piano) and others

Admission Fee: All seats reserved 6,000 yen