About the Track
- Added on 15 January 2023
- Album Ysla
- Year of creation 2023
- Label Enja Yellow Bird Records
- Tags neoclassical, art pop, pop jazz, uk jazz
- 19 plays
Credits
"Is It You" is the first single from Yumi Ito's new album "Ysla" (14.04.2023) and deals with a broken relationship. It brings up the associated feelings of guilt in view of possible injuries, as well as self-confrontation and self-forgiveness. These two contrasts also meet on a musical level: after an opening full of longing, featuring a striking cello figure, halfway through the song it shifts into a driving groove, driven by Ito's piano playing, who for the first time has recorded all the piano parts on an album herself. All these elements make it clear that nothing is eternal, as much as it may seem so - which is precisely why it is a powerful realization of the continuously new.
"Ysla" -14.04.2023 Enja Records Yellow Bird
lyrics
I fought with my own feelings
I gave you all I could
Don't blame it on my heart
I still feel you here with me
I never wanted to hurt you
I never wanted to hurt
I never wanted to hurt you
But I know that I did
I close my eyes and still see
Still can see your smile
Still can see your face
When I close my eyes
I can still feel your touch
Although you are gone
Although you are gone
Although you are somewhere else
- Vocal Improvisation -
I close my eyes and I can still see
Still can see your smile
Still can see your face
When I close my eyes
I can still feel your touch
Although you are gone
Although you are gone
Although you are somewhere else
Uuh...
Credits
Released November 25, 2022
Yumi Ito - Vocals, Piano, Composition, Lyrics, Artistic Direction, Production
Kuba Dworak - Double bass
Iago Fernandez - Drums
Chris Hyson - Postproduction, Synthesizer
Kirk Starkey - Cello
Ambrosius Huber - Cello
Sam Barnett - Recording, Editing
Johannes Jäck - Recording, Editing
Daniel Dettwiler - Mixing, Mastering
Magdalena Piotrkowska - Additional Mastering
Recorded at the Jazzcampus Studio, Basel February - June 2022
Mixed and Mastered at Idee und Klang Studio, Switzerland July 2022
Mastered at Hear Candy Mastering, Poland August 2022
Executive Production Manager - Marta Soltys, MsMuse Management
Graphic design, artwork - Maria Jarzyna
Photography - Maria Jarzyna
Supported by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council, Erna & Curt Burgauer Stiftung, Stiftung Anne-Marie Schindler
license
EN
The destruction of Earth, the only true kingdom we humans have; the committal of a friend to a psychiatric hospital; the heroin-death of her unknown neighbour: Yumi Ito weaves into her music...