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.
Distance
Ikon Lyrics
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Distance will break my heart
So silent my death will be
No distance will cover me
Whenever I hear your name (2)
So desperate to end this game
So distant our lives will be
I hope that you're not like me
Whenever I hear your name (2)
I wonder what will come next
I turn now to face the test
Surrounded by enemy
No place there for you and me
Whenever I hear your name (2)
The song "Distance" by Ikon relies heavily on the concept that physical distance can create an emotional distance between two people. The lyrics describe the fear of separation and the pain that comes with it. The first part of the song is a plea to avoid being kept apart from someone close. The singer is very aware of the potential consequences of distance, even to the point of death feeling like a silent and inevitable end.
In the second half of the song, the singer is coming to terms with their separation. The lyrics express a sense of resignation - that the separation is inevitable and cannot be avoided. The singer regrets their situation and wishes that the person they have been separated from is not suffering in the same way. They question the future and what may happen next, which is a common experience for anyone dealing with a long-distance situation.
Overall, "Distance" is a deeply emotional song that deals with the pain of separation, the difficulties of coping with distance, and the inevitability of change.
Line by Line Meaning
Distance keeps us apart
The geographical distance between us is causing our separation
Distance will break my heart
Being away from you is causing me emotional pain and heartbreak
So silent my death will be
I feel like my separation from you is slowly killing me inside, but I am suffering in silence
No distance will cover me
The distance between us will not obscure the fact that I still feel connected to you
Whenever I hear your name (2)
Thoughts of you are always on my mind, even when I hear your name mentioned
So desperate to end this game
I am eager to find a way to reconcile or find closure in our situation
You'll learn I am not the same
If we were to reconnect, you would find that I have changed and grown since we were last together
So distant our lives will be
Even if we were to reconnect, it is likely that our lives would be very different and separate from each other
I hope that you're not like me
I hope that you have not suffered in the same way that I have due to our separation
I wonder what will come next
I am unsure of what the future holds for us and our relationship
I turn now to face the test
I am ready to confront the challenges that come with attempting to reconnect with you
Surrounded by enemy
There may be external factors or people who are opposed to us reconnecting
No place there for you and me
There may not be a place for us to fit together and reconcile given our new lives and circumstances
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