Yumi Ito – Ysla (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 34:43 minutes | 751 MB | Genre: Art Pop, Chamber Pop, Jazz, Female Vocal
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Yellowbird Records
The album Ysla by Yumi Ito has become a true tidal current of personal stories, impressive improvisations, and the unique voice of the SwissPolish-Japanese singer, composer, and improviser.
Musically, the work moves between art-pop, jazz, and neoclassical; thematically, it deals with loneliness & separation, the world ending, and rebirth. In deep selfrefections, Ito has developed her vocal improvisation into a kind of universal language that can be understood anywhere. In addition, for the first time she recorded all piano parts herself, complemented by Kuba Dworak on double bass and Iago Fernández on drums. In addition, there are illustrious guests like Chris Hyson (synths; Jordan Rakei, The Magic Lantern, Snowpoet) and Szymon Mika (g), with whom Yumi Ito also plays in a duo. Mixing & mastering of the seven original compositions was done by sound engineer Daniel Dettwiler at Studio Idee und Klang, using the same mixing console that Queen and Supertramp already used. For all these reasons, Ysla isn’t simply Yumi Ito’s fifth album under her own name, but marks a new peak in her opus.
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Yumi Ito – Stardust Crystals (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:03 minutes | 851 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Unit Records
Yumi Ito is one of the graduates of the first year of the Focusyear program run by the Academy of Music in Basel. I have already had the opportunity to compliment a few projects of the participants of this project in various forums: for example, the duet performances of the heroine of this text with the guitarist Szymon Mika, who also took part in the inaugural edition of the program.
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