This homage to the main female character in the Maison Ikkoku series, sung from the view point of the love sick male protagonist was the final song of the Alter-Ego project.

The Alter-Ego project was a sort of one-off, anything-goes, double album (many of the tracks re-purposing tracks my brother Michael had recorded in years prior). It was originally seen as a side-project outside of Asterisk but it ultimately served as a stepping stone to becoming Warhorse.

One quarter into the Alter-Ego project, in June 1996, my Fostex 4-track machine broke down. And after a 14 month hiatus, the project resumed with a new 4-track in September 1997.

During that hiatus I had been working on various musical ideas and out of the combination of these came Kyoko. As this was the first piece of entirely new music created on the new multi-track it seemed the right time to finally change the ‘band’ name to the alias I had been using for a year by then.

As such Kyoko is the inaugural Warhorse song.
A good portion of the words were taken from the English translations of the early volumes of the Maison Ikkoku series.