Day 329.
Mandarinaduck: the latest release on Box Bedroom Records from Manchester is the “Super Long Life” EP 7″! It has 4 jangly and other times fuzzy songs. It is really nice. As usual with Box Bedroom Records the 7″ comes with lots of goodies, a very careful and aesthetically pleasant release!
The Boys with the Perpetual Nervousness: “Songs from Another Life” is the new album that is going to be released by Bobo Integral from Spain. It is coming out on February 5th and sounds amazing. I also like the artwork a lot. The album is coming out on vinyl, and it is thee second album by the band. The band formed by Andrew in Edinburgh and Gonzalo in San Sebastian, have penned 10 superb songs.
Clubwater: 8 poppy songs coming from Bandung, Indonesia. Jangly, Smith-sy, I am enjoying their chiming guitars. The self-titled 8 song album will be out on February 14. It is coming out on tape on the veritable Shiny Happy Records! Three songs are available to preview, “Adult Angst”, “Secret Smile” and “Regret”. Enjoying all three! Looking forward to hearing the rest.
The Laughing Chimes: first time listening to this Ohio band. Their latest is an album called “In This Town” which was released on Jan. 31. Their debut album is jangly and lo-fi. The band is formed by Evan on guitar, vocals and bass and Quinn on drums and I can imagine their music in one of those great 90s compilations like “Pop American Style” if that makes sense!
Rose et les Maries: Rosie and Johan are behind this San Diego duo that just popped up on Bandcamp last December. And they appear to have just one song! It is called “Mon Chien Lucy” and it is really lovely! Where did it come from? We need more songs by them!
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I just had a blast from the past going through some CDRs I have. I wonder if anyone remembers the Japanese band Yupitalk? I am talking around the year 2008, Myspace times. Any?
I don’t think I was in touch with the band. If my memory serves right, I was in touch with Hiroho Komatsu who was either a fan of the band, a promoter of the band, or something like that. He was very keen in promoting Japanese bands then. I remember trading and getting cool Japanese CDRs from him. One of the bands he helped me discover was Yupitalk. As you can imagine I don’t know much about them even though I notice I have two copies of their “Teikuuhikousen” EP that was released in 2008 by Babyboom Records (DEMO EP 08).
This EP has a beautiful sleeve, with a lovely illustration done by Boojil. The EP came with four songs, “Airship Flight”, “In Love”, “Last Human” and “Home”. I know that the band was just Yurie Endo and got help from someone called Hideo to arrange the songs. Hideo also wrote “Airship Flight”.
According to the insert that came with the CDR it says that Yupitalk started in 2007 and was based in Tokyo.
The year after Yupitalk released a new CD called “The Pillows of Yupitalk”. I don’t think I have this one. This one is no longer a CDR but a CD. It was also released by Babyboom Records Japan (BBRJ 001) and included 7 songs! These were “Airship Flight”, “In Love”, “Last Human”, “Amorphophallus Gigas”, “Gift”, “Lizard Town” and “Shangria”. Something cool I found on Youtube is a video to promote this album.
She also appeared on the compilation “Series Two Compilation Vol. 20” with the song “Koi Wo Shiterutoiukoto” in 2009.
There is another release where Yupitalk was involved with. It dates from 2011 and is a collaboration between Ogasawara Hiroyuki and Yupitalk. Actually the release is called just like that, “Ogasawara Hiroyuki & Yupitalk”. This was released as a CD in 2011 by Babyboom Records (BBRJ-0012). This CD had four songs, “青[オガサワラヒロユキ×ユピトーク]”, “奇跡の亡骸[オガサワラヒロユキ]”, “神様がくれたもの[ユピトーク]”, “ギター[オガサワラヒロユキ]” and “ウォーリー[ユピトーク]”. The release included a music video DVDR.
If you want to listen to her songs there is a Soundcloud with all of them! That is really good news, right?
On Soundcloud there is also an EP titled “とかげの街” from 2007. I dont know if there was a CD release for this one. In any case here are the 5 songs for you to listen. These were “とかげの街“, “Home”, “アモルフォファルス・ギガス“, “ユピソング” and “雨の日も、晴れの日も(Piano Ver.)“. Also there’s another song called “1204 (demo)“.
Another nice find is a song of Yupitalk playing the song “Gift” live in 2009 at Connection. I am guessing this was a venue in Tokyo? Then there’s another video of her playing at Mona Records on January 1, 2008, another two at Lush (here’s the other, playing the song “Last Human“) from October 11, 2007,
And last find is that of a Twitter account. I don’t undertand Japanese so it is a bit complicated for me to know if there’s any music talk here! The good thing is that Yurie seems to be active on it!
Yeah, that’s all for now. So who remembers Yupitalk? Maybe some of my Japanese friends do? Tell me more about this project! Did she play live much? Was the 2007 EP released properly? Was she involved with other bands?
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Listen
Yupitalk – Last Human
