MP3 Yukiko The Witch - POP: Pop/Rock

Folk rock and pop music from the Black Mountains of South Wales to the Kinkakuji temple in Kyoto, Japan. Snow in summer, warmth on your cheeks on a winter morn, this music was written for hungry hearts.

20 MP3 Songs
POP: Pop/Rock, FOLK: Alternative Folk

Details:
The âYukiko the Witchâ project hatched in 2001 with a first album named "Ribcage of a Pineapple Lambscape". This folk record was the first of 18 albums to follow in less than 6 years. YTWâs songwriter, Andrew James Martin, unleashed in âRibcageâ a surreal patchwork of ideas and sounds borrowed from painting and Japanese art.
So James, alias Bones, or Yukiko the Bitch, ended his solo career in 2005 when bass player Franck Claise stepped in and brought warm and inspired rhythm to the band that shortly afterwards recorded the eponymous and pop rock album âYukiko the Witchâ. This LP charmed the talented French drummer Nicolas Bertin who joined later that year.

The « YUKIKO THE WITCH » album was written with Asian cultures in mind and entwines abstract and explicitly personal themes. YTWâs songwriting feeds from other artistic media that band members indulge in, such as painting, instrument making, fine wood carving, sculpture and photography. Like in Bonesâ oil paintings, the band goes for the harmony in chaos theory, snatching every single experienced emotion and pinning it to a songâs backbone, watching how it grows. From this patchwork emanates a certain logic one may find in the beauty of a naturally eroded rusty coca cola can. Musically speaking, and more so in this particular project, songs were given Japanese structure in a simplistic stereotype fashion, allowing flaws to strengthen the essential beauty of each track.

So quite understandably, Yukiko the Witch went on tour in Japan (Tokyo, Kyoto, Yokohama) for the first time in the summer of 2006, and returned to Tokyo in Spring 2007 for another one month tour.

Where does âYukikoâ come from? First of all, this Japanese girlâs name was a song improvised in a northern french town in 1996. The name Yukiko The Witch appeared in 2001 as a reference to Lafcadio Hearneâs âKwaidanâ and Kobayashiâs film adaptation (Yukiko meaning âsnow childâ in Japanese).

-Drums/vocals : Nicolas Bertin
-Bass: Franck Claise
-Piano, guitars, loop, lead vocals, sanshin: Andrew James Martin (Bones)

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