1) IKON is an Aust… Read Full Bio ↴There is more than one artist with the name Ikon;
1) IKON is an Australian goth/darkwave band that has gained an international following. Chris McCarter(vocals, guitar, programming) and Dino Molinaro (bass) began to create music as high school students in Melbourne, Australia in 1988. In 1991, their band Death in the Dark, which included Michael Carrodus on vocals, changed its name to IKON.
IKON has released five studio albums, five EPs and seventeen singles, with additional unique versions that have been produced for Germany, America and Russia. The band’s last full-length release, Destroying the World to Save It, attained number 21 on the Native DJ World Charts for best album of 2005.
IKON has frequently toured Australia, Europe and the UK. IKON has played on the same bill as The Sisters of Mercy, H.I.M., Soft Cell, Death in June, London After Midnight and The Mission. IKON has performed at the Eurorock Festival (2001) in Belgium and at the M’era Luna Festival (2002) in Hildesheim, Germany before an audience of more than 15,000 people. The band has also appeared three times at the world’s largest goth festival, Wave Gotik Treffen in Leipzig, Germany, in 2003, 2005 (during that year Anthony Cornish joined the live line-up on guitar) and 2011.
In 2007, the band embarked upon ‘The Burden of History’ tour of Europe to mark the release of the singles collection (1992-2007) of the same name. The EPs League of Nations (2007) and Amongst the Runes (2008) demonstrate a progression in IKON’s signature sound, providing a taster of the forthcoming album Love, Hate and Sorrow (to be released in September 2009). While retaining the essence of influences such as Joy Division, early New Order and Death in June, the future for IKON promises to add further texture to the band’s style. Love, Hate and Sorrow embraces more melodic song structures without entirely relinquishing the shadowy threads that are interweaved in the lyrics, art work, and music of one of the world’s most successful and enduring darkwave bands. The single "A Line on a Dark Day" from the album will also be made into the band's first video clip.
www.ikondomain.com
2) A UK collaborative project of Elliot Ireland and Alex Rizzo, the people behind the Jalapeno label. They utilise a wide range of guest vocalists and instrumentalists to create an interesting fusion of dnb, jazz, downtempo and triphop. They have released a self-titled album and at least 2 singles, 'The Dove' and 'Tricolour'. The album took a long time to make and was created in 7 different countries with 8 different collaborations, in languages such as Portuguese and English.
From the Jalapeno Records Website on Ikon:
"As for the Ikon sound it's tricky to categorise: bossa nova melodies seem to seep effortlessly into epic cinematic productions, which mutate into slick drum and bass rhythms."
"Musically the group cites most genres as being influential to the Ikon sound, particularly jazz, funk, soul and hip hop."
"What the hell is Ikon about? "Happy coincidences," opines co-founding member Alex Rizzo with a smile."
"Ikon is about producing lush, imaginative music and recreating sounds in an original way. Give us a keyboard a string, synth or computer- Rolf Harris's stylophone and we'll play it- the quirkier the better. If there's a sound we wanna emulate we'll try and get the original materials: like a 60s bass and a 60s mic to get the right effect."
www.jalapenorecords.com
3) A religious community in Belfast with the CD "Dubh".
4) A since-disbanded Stratford-based metal band with the CD "Sterilized".
5) Ikon is a finnish thrash metal band from Kouvola, since spring 2007.
6) Ikon is a drum & bass producer duo James Smyth & Andy Walters from United Kingdom.
http://www.rolldabeats.com/artist/ikon
7) iKon (Hangul: 아이콘), stylized as iKON, is a South Korean boy band formed in 2015 by YG Entertainment. The group was first introduced in the reality survival program WIN: Who is Next as "Team B." After that, Team B went on to appear in the 2014 reality survival program Mix & Match, which determined the final seven-member lineup of iKon: B.I, Bobby, Jinhwan, Junhoe, Yunhyeong, Donghyuk and Chanwoo.
Beyond Grey Skies
Ikon Lyrics
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Another place
Beyond the stars
Beyond the sun
In my dreams
I have seen the colours
In my dreams
A forgotten world
If you feel
The way I do
If you've seen
Through my eyes
Don't betray
Me now
I have come here
Only for you
In the distance
A change is coming
To look beyond
All I have seen
I had a vision
Of another world
I had a vision
Beyond here and now
There is a place
For you and I
There is a place
Beyond grey skies
From: Flowers For The Gathering
by Chris McCarter & Michael Carrodus
Ikon's song Beyond Grey Skies is a song about hope and escapism. The song speaks about a place that is beyond the reach of our current reality. The lyrics state that this place is far away, beyond the stars and the sun, but can be accessed through dreams. The singer of the song claims to have seen the colors of this place in their dreams, and that it is a forgotten world.
The song then speaks to the listener, asking if they feel the same way and if they have seen the same visions. The singer pleads with the listener not to betray them now that they have come so far. They then describe the coming of a change in the distance and urge the listener to look beyond all they have seen. The song ends on a hopeful note, stating that there is a place beyond the grey skies for both the singer and the listener.
Overall, the song speaks about the human desire to escape the limitations of our current reality and to dream of a better place. It encourages the listener to keep hope alive, even in the face of difficult circumstances.
Line by Line Meaning
Far away
Distant from my current location
Another place
An alternate location
Beyond the stars
Further than where the stars are located
Beyond the sun
Further than where the sun is located
In my dreams
During my periods of unconsciousness
I have seen the colours
I have seen something with a variety of colors
A forgotten world
A world that has been lost or not remembered
If you feel
If you have the same emotions as me
The way I do
In the same manner as me
If you've seen
If you have observed
Through my eyes
Through the way that I perceive things
Don't betray
Do not disappoint or disregard
Me now
At this moment in time
I have come here
I made an effort to arrive at this location
Only for you
Exclusively for your benefit
In the distance
Far away but visible
A change is coming
A modification will be approaching
To look beyond
To search for something further
All I have seen
All of the observations I have made
I had a vision
I imagined something that felt real
Of another world
Of a different universe or reality
Beyond here and now
Further than the present and current location
There is a place
A location exists
For you and I
For both you and me
Beyond grey skies
Further than what is visible in the current sky
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