Yukari Fresh

Yukari Fresh may be the stage name under which Japan “Shibuya-kei” musician Takasaki Yukari performs. Writing a quirky and occasionally coquettish attitude with later-’90s contemporaries such as for example Kahimi Karie and Minekawa Takako, she also offers a pick-and-mix method of musical genres such as for example home, French pop, jazz, bossa nova, and lounge music that places her music loosely in the same ballpark as Cornelius, Fantastic Plastic material Machine, and Capsule. Right from the start, Yukari Fresh continues to be connected with Tokyo’s fashionable Escalator Information, getting started as an associate of ’90s indie music group Snapshot and afterwards going single, releasing her debut record Yukari’s Great in 1997. The record, recorded by using guest music artists Kaji Hideki as well as the Genbeat, brought her towards the wider interest from the Tokyo indie picture aswell as German label Bungalow Information. In 1998 she released the divide 7″ “Super Disco 45” with German music group Stereo system Total and was asked to donate to the Sushi 4004 “Shibuya-kei” compilation, both on Bungalow. 1999’s New Year’s Clean noticed Yukari expounding on her behalf love of Western european, particularly English, soccer, with the songs “Michael Owen” and “Paul Scholes,” and 2000’s Cityrama, documented in Tokyo, Kyoto, Berlin, Dortmund, Paris, St. Tropez, Honolulu, London, Bristol, and Prague, noticed her collaborating with different worldwide performers on each monitor. The mini-album Erik as well as the full-length launch Trefoil’s Hat adopted in 2001 and 2003 respectively, and she reinvented herself as Yukari Rotten, liberating the electro-punk recording Not Deceased in 2004. In 2005, Yukari New was herself once again, an undeniable fact she underscored by entitling her following album Me. Once again Yukari indulged her penchant for collaborations, this time around including efforts from, amongst others, Chicks on Rate. 2008’s grrrl, summer time cape child, etc. demonstrated further advancement of her eccentric and eclectic musical viewpoint, mixing rock and roll, pop, and digital sounds using the same playful contact that has regularly characterized her function to date.