TERRA
TËЯRA
General Information
- Members: Naoki Maeda (前田尚紀) and Junko Karashima (辛島純子).
- Website: http://bmf.i-revo.jp/artists/terra/index.html The official TËЯRA website, which links to bios of NAOKI and jun
Profile
TËЯRA is the two-person group consisting of BEMANI mainstays NAOKI and jun, who joined the DanceDanceRevolution series in 2002 for DDRMAX2: DanceDanceRevolution 7thMIX. The duo have worked together over the past 10 years on many songs, almost all of them exclusively under the TËЯRA alias. They have appeared in nearly every currently active BEMANI series since their debut.
jun almost always writes the lyrics, as well as does the vocals, on the songs by herself. In beatmania IIDX and pop'n music, she has also frequently done the composition of the songs, with NAOKI doing the arrangement. In GuitarFreaks/DrumMania, NAOKI is usually the one in charge of composition, as well as performing on the guitar.
Their first album, RЁVOLUTIФN, was released in March 11, 2005.
TËЯRA's official website was shut down in late 2009, but profiles of the duo still remain on BEMANI MUSIC FOUNDATION, as well as a page to order their album. Rumors of the TËЯRA name being retired were soon after proven false.
In late 2010, an official UStream stream from KONAMI revealed that a second TËЯRA album, ЁVOLUTIФN, was in the works. It was released on September 7, 2011.
Following Naoki's retirement from KONAMI in 2013, TËЯRA's profile was removed from the BEMANI Fan Site's artist listing, so it's currently unknown if more TËЯRA songs will be made in the future in BEMANI.