Greg Box - Lead, bass, other guitars, drums, general guru
Antonio Papaleo - Drums
Rob Fisher - Lap steel, guitar, piano, percussion
Ross Palmer - Bass, guitar
Russell Parton - piano, singing
Sam Ritchie - Trumpet, guitar
Sean King - Guitar, singing
Mike Taylor - Saxomophone, menthols
Ana Silvera - Piano
Dan McKean - Guitars, bass, piano
Dan Lea - Brushes on 'Trees They Grow High'
...just count the pianists!
Influences
Hank Williams, "Touch of Evil", The Flamingos, Chet Baker, The Ink Spots, PG Wodehouse, Leonard Cohen, Duke Ellington, Quasi, Sebadoh, Thelonious Monk, Will Oldham, Bob Dylan, Elizabeth Bishop, Johnny Cash, "Night of the Hunter", Kurt Weil, Mark Kozelek, Nat King Cole, Tom Waits, Orson Welles, Willie Nelson, Yo la Tengo, Hal Hartley, William Carlos Williams, "Kiss Me Deadly", Tommy / Lonnie / Robert Johnson, Bernard Schlink, Elliott Smith, the 'Mats, John McCormack, Plush, some of the above.
Sounds Like
this section is redundant when there are sound samples to your right.
Hello. I'm Yo Zushi. I'm a Soho subterranean with failed literary aspirations. My second album, "Notes For Holy Larceny", was released on Pointy Records on the 10th of September, 2007. Find it on amazon or in all good UK stores, should you be so inclined!
Here's what people have said so far:
"Notes for Holy Larceny arrives well crafted and honest... By the end of the record, you're left feeling serene, worthwhile... all the credentials to be the under-sung musical hero that we just don't get anymore... broken optimism and warfare. Excellent."
- *****, Amelia's Magazine
"...dreamy and beautiful... His perceptive lyricism revels in the minutiae of a wondrous day in the city, with a tinge of old American blues. It’s Conor Oberst sharing an orange juice with Johnny Cash... versatile yet intense... Yo Zushi’s campfire tales are at once wistful and uplifting, and this talented songwriter’s fire looks set to continue burning."
- **** and a half, www.subba-culture.com
"Instruments are rendered with warm beauty, the atmosphere of friends in a room playing music together caught on tape... sounding on occasion like an English Stephen Malkmus... brushed with a poetic grace... beautiful, personal, understated and intimate... a rewarding, artful little record by a definite talent."
- Stylus Magazine
"...a woozy trip around Soho's drinking dens with lyrics scribbled down on napkins over copious glasses of red wine and packs of cigarettes... Steeped in a world weary bittersweet melancholy that's laced with an alcohol fumed optimism, this seems certain to gain a whole legion of new admirers and take him a step closer to those inevitable music awards that are so clearly his due."
-www.netrhythms.com
"A raw intriguing talent"
- Steve Lamacq, BBC Radio 2
"Sweet melodies that entice you back... a taste of something different"
- Maverick Magazine
"His second album dances around the maypoles of late night smokiness, traditional folk, nu-folk delicacy and understated classic country, but never gets entangled in any one set of ribbons, instead weaving in and out with consummate skill and in the process creating one of the more interesting albums of 2007... one of those rare beasts, a concept album, wherein the whole of a world of acoustic music coffee bars, late night semi-drunken musings and the deeper darker edges of folk is explored and discovered. An intriguing album."
- Americana UK
"Warmly satisfying... Like a Richard Hawley with knowing winks."
- Q Magazine
Praise for my last one, "Songs from a Dazzling Drift" LP (available now):
"His playfully eccentric lyrics about life's small moments, plucked acoustic guitar and rollicking rhythms suggest a less ramshackle Badly Drawn Boy or better adjusted E from Eels, the likes of Mary Magdalen's Barbershop Blues sparkling in the face of a lost love, and even the Leonard Cohen-like Pin Brooch Cabaret tingling with optimism. Just 23 years old, this could be the start of something major."
- **** Q Magazine, "Q Recommends"
"Yo Zushi's folk songs have earned him plenty of high profile fans around the world and this, his debut LP, looks certain to raise the bar even higher. A masterclass in storytelling."
- Dazed & Confused
"Immediately likeable and with the unerring ability to bring a smile to the lips of any music fan perfectly constructed lyricism With any luck this is just a taster for whats to come from this talented musician."
- Word Magazine
"...diversity and newness throughout... haunting."
- Comes With A Smile
"...a singer-songwriter who does more than slow and painful... upbeat melodies and enchanting lyrics... marvellous."
- **** Maverick
"...With a title lifted from a Robert Browning poem, the album is a classy collection of intelligently literate folk songs that beat with a left of centre Pop heartbeat. Understated, unaffected yet charmingly affecting, the album ought to set Yo Zushi up as one of the key singer/songwriter talents of 2006."
- Tangents
"Should contemplative singer/songwriters become the heroes they once were... then Yo Zushi is one artist who will be leading the revival."
-Flavourpill
Old News:
*Winner of Dazed & Confused Magazine's Re:Creation Award 2004
*Breezeblock Bomb (AKA Record of the Week) on Mary Anne Hobbs's show (Breezeblock, BBC Radio One). She said I was "the spirit of Bob Dylan for the 21st Century", which was nice, but I feel for Mr Dylan himself, who is still very much alive...
*Twice the Xposure Big One (i.e. Record of the Week) on John Kennedy's show (Xposure Part 2, Xfm)
*One of Daily Telegraph's "Bright Young Things" 2004
KAIDAN is the term used for the Japanese ghost stories, and, extensively, for the J-Horror culture. The Buddhist moralizing stories were rapidly transformed into international shockers; people wanted more frightening monstrosities and oddness, with no direct connection with the Western horror.
Manga, anime, movies and the subcultures developed around them competed in shicks and panic. If you really want to know why on the Japanese horror movies is written 18+, take a look at the next issue of Otaku Magazine. Nevertheless, is our duty to warn you that all who looked inside certain pages of this issue have disappeared shortly after. Still, it might be just a story to send the children to sleep for good.
Hey Yo! How's it going?! Good to hear from you! I'm still recording with Mr Ritchie and his horns of steel and just about to press up a little EP of sorts. It's all good fun :) You know it's his birthday next Weds? We're doing a little birthday show at Shunt on the Weds night if you're around. We should get together anyhow for a few beers and talk about maybe organising a night of lovely acoustic music or something. What d'ya reckon? I've got a Mobile amp so we could play to the masses on Primrose Hill... Ah, summer! :) How are you getting on?
Sirs. Sebastian slull eludes me. Looks as though i might be a slave to the hetero for life...... SEBASTIAN ? Maybe i am Sebastian...NO-O-O-O--O--O--O--O--O-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
hey there, a simple note to let you know that we’ll be playing at the Good Ship in Kilburn next Thursday the 22nd, I expect it to be a very good one, Evi Vine will be playing as well so if you’re free would be good to meet you there! You can check out details on our page and check out Evi on our top friends, I’m shure you’ll like her. Enjoy the rest of the week-end and hopefully I will see you on Thursday. Loris
thanks for the complement. more people should listen to post-rock, it's great.
anyway, you might not remember us, but we briefly met you after your set at the Cross Kings a couple of weeks ago. You have a knack for writing some great songs.
The picture from a trip to cape cod in america out of tourist season so it was really peaceful. i do get to walk past the sea in liverpool on the way to work it does add to quality of like still a lot of smoke. the song is the ending theme from the cat returns (an anime film) got a cd on ebay off someone from taiwan didn't realise it was a covers record oh well it good to have a cover of when you wish upon a star. oh yeah liked your album especially the hidden track at the end, not as good as mary magdelins barber shop blues
Zushi! When will I hear recordings of that Eva Marie (or whatever it's called) tune and Rosin The Beau? By the way, I don't think I'll be able to make Sunday, as there's a hell of a lot going on. Sorry dude. We did most the music on sat, though, so it should go ok.
hey, thanks for the comment & thanks for listening to us! we'd love to do a cd swap with you if you're willing. we have an ep on itunes & 2 cds we'd be happy to send your way!
Will we be seeing ya at this month's Red Eyed & Blue on Tuesday April 8th? We sure hope so! It's taking place at the Hawley Arms' brand spanking new music venue The Wilmington. We've got a crackin' lineup with Curtis Eller, The Cedars, Tom Baxendale and Tenlon Forts. And DJ sets from the Truckin' Lauras and DJ James Steel.
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