REVE
NOCTURNE

REVE NOCTURNE is Japanese HR/HM band by ACO and supporters. We offer original tunes; mainly based on power metal, progressive metal, symphonic metal and metal core. Released 1st album "AZUL" in December 2015 and 2nd album "ROSSA" in October 2019, as formerly Strawberry Rhythm Laboratory. Changed the project name to "REVE NOCTURNE" in February 2021.

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Vo. Lyricist, Composer ACO

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DO YOU THINK this is a unique career?

I restarted my music IN ORDER TO SPEND THE REST OF LIFE doing what I really like and SEEK OUT THE ‘GENUINE', such as genuine music or genuine happiness...

BEGIN WITH MY BIRTH. I was born in Hyogo, Japan, in 1982. From elementary school to junior high school, I had played the electone. While I was a junior high school student, I was addicted to rock music with band sound and gorgeous costumes, called ‘Visual Kei’ in Japanese. When I went to high school; English course in Osaka Jogakuin, I started to play the guitar in some copy bands. I WAS REALLY INTO the guitar as much as I worried about the future course. At the same time, I had studied hard because I disliked to being scolded by my mother. Instead of that, I freely dyed my hair to pink-brown or blue and opened the piercing (only ears in high school, and mouth after graduation, though).

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I STILL REMEMBER that I cried in the train of Midosuji line, saying to my friend, "Why can’t I do what I like?" on the way home from open campus of a music college. Now I understand it may have been the moment when soul was torn out. I decided to go to university without special reason.

In university that I passed as second-choice, I played the guitar but stopped it eventually. I only enjoyed part time job of karaoke, not school life.

Because my life didn’t go well also after graduation and I wanted to regain confidence, I studied again and then entered graduate school of economics in Osaka University. This school life made me ENHANCED EVER BEFORE. By the way, in those days, listening to music (I knew later it was metal core...) was reason for living for me.

After graduation, I worked a securities company famous in Japan. I was in charge of risk management for bond and derivatives and then rates and FX structuring (financial products development) for 13 years. I HAD MANY VALUABLE EXPERIENCES about business, company organizations, and so on, through turbulent history.

Besides, I went to voice training school as my hobby. After I learned basic methods of singing songs at Ochanomizu vocal school, I go to vocal school Bése even now. I was ALSO ADDICTED TO HEAVY METAL before I knew it. In 2015, I founded my solo project, performed the live show at Tokyo and Osaka, and released albums including some tunes which I composed. They were VERY CHALLENGING THINGS for me.

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On the other hand, my body was eroded by sickness without notice. It resulted in Greaves’ disease, cervical adenocarcinoma in situ, and sudden deafness. All were resolved leaving a bit after-effects, but I really felt the importance of health and life.

From 2020 to 2021, I launched some new business and started my music in earnest as "REVE NOCTURNE", in order to spend the rest of life doing what I really like and seek out the ‘genuine', such as genuine music or genuine happiness. I may go ahead approx.20 years behind of other musicians, but live with music...