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Yuka de mix
Lately, I'm really hooked to Honda Yuka's album "Eucademix" (Amazon Japan, Amazon US). I only learnt about it a few weeks ago, but it actually came out last September on John Zorn's Tzadik label.
On "Eucademix", Yuka continues to make beautiful music, but this time with more beats and vocals than "memories are my only witness" (2002) which was more spacey and quiet. The new album even features vocals by Hatori Miho (also ex-Cibo Matto) on three songs and also Petra Haden (ex-that dog., which was also one of my favorite bands 10 years ago).
Especially after Yoshimi and Yuka's "Flower with no color", to me this album is a bit of a return to pop music, and it brings out Yuka's composer skills more than ever.
This week I'll be seeing Yuka live with her new project Panikaraqs featuring Shinohara Tomoe on vocals (for who she had already written a song on the album "Dream & Machine" (1999)) et al.
Posted on January 31, 2005 at 13:55 | Tweet
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funny, i was just looking at this cd at one of the shops here. it looks like i may have to go back for it after reading what you have to say about it. :)
Posted by william on February 4, 2005 at 15:51
Cool, I hope you'll like it! :) If you do check it out let me know what you think!
Posted by Patrick on February 4, 2005 at 15:54