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Yagull
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Yagull is New York post rock chamber project featuring composer/ guitarist Sasha Markovic and pianist extraordinaire/ composer Kana Kamitsubo. Following the success of critically acclaimed album "films", the couple recorded their second album "Kai" with a help of the fantastic line up of guest musicians hailing from eight different countries including fellow MoonJune international recording artists Beledo, Dewa Budjana, and Marko Djordjevic. The second album named after their son Kai, born during the period of writing and producing the record. The couple's second album together"Yuna" represents a truly intimate and personal recording for the couple. This time Sasha and Kana are the only musicians on the album with exception of one song.
"Sit back, open your ears and mind, and allow the sinuous, endless beauty of Yagull to move you. It will be a profound journey, and you will come out on the other side...changed."
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Yagull: Yuna
by Glenn Astarita
The duo's third album is an unquestionable treat for the aural senses. Think of fragile lullabies, drifting melody lines, temperate undercurrents and a few tuneful up-tempo numbers, as these piano-guitar duets are organic and wistful, yet not overly sedate or monolithic akin to commercial New Age mall music.Pieces like Dawn" spark imagery of a faraway land via a simple melody, tinted with drifting qualities. Here, pianist Kana Kamitsubo renders elegant block chords, placing emphasis on the primary theme ...
read moreNYC Acoustic Duo Yagull's New Album Yuna - Marriage Of Piano & Guitar - Cinematic, Lyrical, Truly Intimate Recording
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Glass Onyon PR - William James
Yagull represents an ethereal beauty that takes you on a transformative journey. Throughout the course of the band’s discography, Sasha Markovic and Kana Kamitsubo have smoothly blended the guitar and piano, respectively, to produce exquisite splendor in melody and mood. One feels the music of Yagull in a spiritual, emotional intensity that is rarely equaled. A metamorphosis occurs for the listener. Yuna, the band's newest endeavor, was created and recorded over a period of two years. Apart from one track, ...
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New York City Based Serbian-Japanese Instrumental Duo Yagull Greatly Expands Their Post Rock Chamber Soundtrack Concept On Second Album Kai
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Glass Onyon PR - William James
New York, NY - Yagull's official debut for MoonJune Records, 'Kai', finds the band expanding its post-rock chamber soundtrack concept to great effect. The result is a simmering sonic bouillabaisse, chocked full of choice ingredients which delectably merge to blur the lines drawn by traditional genres - delightfully teasing the palette, while appealing to an expansive range of music aficionados! The group delivers twelve songs on this joyous outing: eight brand new compositions; two tunes from Films, reworked and revisited; ...
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