yumbo - 石が降る Raining Stones Artist_James Blackshaw

yumbo - 石が降る Raining Stones Artist_James Blackshawyumbo's first ever vinyl record (300 copies limited). Recut from highly praised "Onibi" album, with deep & beautiful images of acclaimed photographer Lieko Shiga . Both side have 2 totally different versions of "People Umbrellas" as track 2. Side A version features only Ayuko Takayanagi's voice & Tori Kudo of Maher Shalal Hash Baz's Cecil ish piano (+ guitar). Side B version was originally recorded & posted to YouTube right after The Great East Japan

with a scope on the post 2000-era band in especially zoned/exploratory regions

as the title suggests

ready for the ride Chaz and company have concocted for us

the leading band among young generation of Japanese minimal & mellow music

then chanted vocals

roaming the streets for fat cats to hustle

The album’s cover artwork is a painting called ‘Bird on Money

"These songs are not a sketchpad of semi-formed ideas

There is a delicate narrative on show throughout the record from the opening hopefulness of Image-Autumn-Womb through the melancholy of Now to the sensitive romance of the album's closer Evelyn

Her third studio album Acts of Love sees Maylee wholly embracing technology and taking on the role of producer

the challenging part

Because of COVID