Date
日曜日, 7月 24th, 2011
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üka – Lullaby for the Evil Released on 17/8/2011
An highly anticipated new comer to kilk records!
An orchestral masterpiece by a Bristol-based Japanese singer song writer.
“There is a pureness about her voice that I really like. My favourite is
‘Silence’.”
– Marc Mac (4hero)
“üka’s music is reminiscent of the moon at the midnight shining above
you. Feelings of solitude and nostalgia soak together into the centre of
your soul.”
– Tomohiro Ogawa (ROCKIN’ON JAPAN)
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üka – Inner Stream
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üka – Lullaby for the Evil
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Profile
A solo project by Yuka Kurihara, a Bristol-based Japanese female singer song
writer who also sings for the post-rock band This Is My Normal State and the
electronic duo Melodique.
Having started learning cello and piano at the age of 5, Yuka has been
enjoying and playing different styles of music – classical, pop,
electronic, folk and downtempo. In her late teenage, she started singing in
a trip-hop band in Tokyo, which would later be a trigger for her to settle
in Bristol UK in 2006. In 2008, she began creating music as her solo
project üka.
üka’s music is composed with different artistic elements of sounds such as
classical, acid-folk, Bristol-sound and jazz, although it has gentle vocal
melodies on top of those.
On the 17th of September, her long-awaited debut album ‘Lullaby for the
Evil’ will be released.
Lullaby for the Evil
artist: üka
title: Lullaby for the Evil
label: kilk records
catalog no.: KLK-2009
released on: 17/8/2011
| 1. Isobel | |
| 2. Inner Stream | |
| 3. Retrospect | |
| 4. Silence | |
| 5. Songsinmyhead | |
| 6. Orion | |
| 7. Nome | |
| 8. Garden | |
| 9. Fall | |
| 10. Orion – Ametsub remix | |
| 11. Isobel – Melodique remixt |
Comments
“There is a pureness about her voice that I really like. My favourite is
‘Silence’.”
– Marc Mac (4hero)
üka’s music is reminiscent of the moon at the midnight shining above you.
It softly emits the pale light, and illuminates the deep darkness. It is
fragile and ephemeral, but it certainly exists there in an absolute dignity.
Solitude, anxiety, and the tender nostalgia – are what you could feel from
her music, and they all soak together into the centre of your mind. üka is
different from Yuka as the vocalist of This Is My Normal State. It is what
she succeeded to express on her own.
üka’s sound is not as radical as Bjork, or does not have a mystique of
Joanna Newsom. She is not anywhere far away from us. Her sound was born
somewhere close to us. What co-exist in her music are the light and the
dark, beauty and gravity, the hope to be strong and the weakness that
occasionally appears. It is absolutely the right way to be as pop music.
Pop music? You may disagree with this. Because üka’s music, from which
you can hear some influences by classical music, Bristol-sound, Jazz and
Scandinavian sound, is far afield from Japanese pop music in 2011. That is
however not what I would like to stress. üka’s voice and sound directly
touch our mind. As everyone has looked up to the moon in the sky, üka’s
music reaches to all of us.
– Tomohiro Ogawa (ROCKIN’ ON JAPAN)