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Is It You

by Yumi Ito

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"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

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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

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Yumi Ito Basel, Switzerland

Yumi Ito is a Japanese-Polish vocalist, songwriter, producer and arranger based in Basel, Switzerland. Her music is an amalgam of jazz, art-pop, electronica and neo-classical, which can be flexibly performed solo, with her trio or orchestra. Yumi plays live extensively and has shared stages with the likes of Al Jarreau, Becca Stevens, Nils Petter Molvaer and Mark Turner. (Lukasz Polowczyk). ... more

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