Yokan System - 'Yokan Teresa' - Ample Play Records

This is Yokan System 予感システム Ample Play’s latest signing. 

Originally from Hokkaido, Japan’s northernest island, now Tokyo-based, Mai and Tsukasa are Yokan System.  They work with analogue keyboards, synth drums and stereo spirit.  We are pleased to introduce them with a 1st single ‘A Dream you Never Wake Up From’ for which London photographer/film-maker Phil Miller has created a video - a patchwork of colours, of life in the city, with images of a fair ground ride, home chores, bathroom tiles, and urban pastels: 
The single is out 24/11/2014.  WATCH: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07Zo93tHQG4

Yokan System 予感システム  'A Dream You Never Wake Up From' - Ample Play Records

Radio Récré Emission 01 du 10 Novembre 2014

Radio Récré Emission 02 du 11 novembre 2014

Radio Récré: Emission 03 du 2 décembre 2014

Radio Récré: émission 04 du 19 décembre 2014

CFBL Christmas Choir GSM/CP, 16/12/2014

Emission 5 du 30 janvier 2015

From the new album out 6 March 2020 'England is a Garden'. As a garden gate to the album ‘St Marie Under Canon’ starts the walk sounding upbeat in nature, and gracious in chorus, praising St Marie for all of our battles that she has overseen and adjudicated, ending with the modern day warfare of the public address sound system: amplifier, echo chamber, microphone and speaker.  Music through the sound system is the weapon (or should be).  Those that have heard it suggest it puts them in mind of The Stones, Beatles, Velvets and Cornershop!  In taking such a wide net it summarises much of what will unfold in the full album, in which it is the first move.

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Brimful of Asha

Cornershop are as The Times and most major papers have put it, 'the most treasured of British institutions,' yet they are amazingly one of the most neglected institutions England has ever known too. Not for them to be merely a pigeon hole in the staff room, they always cut it their own way, constantly changing with every release, burning Morrissey pictures outside EMI to deliver a message that all youth must do, a message that is as important then as it is getting again today, kicking aside their fellow asian crop of bands with a simple kick forward, and such forward thought gave rise to some of the best collaborations and relations ever made.

Whether that was with John Peel or Jon Savage, The Light Surgeons or sleeve art by Nick Edwards, Allen Ginsberg or Otis Clay, Larry Coryell or Noel Gallagher, in Preston Lancashire or London, or Paris or NYC, constructing their videos with the likes of Prashant Bhargava or Douglas Avery, studio production by the likes of The Automator or their own Tjinder Singh, working with charities from Mind to Christian Aid, making diversion to record their epic classic Clinton LP, when everyone warned against it, to then come back with the equally classic Handcream for A Generation, to further flip the record with recordings featuring Bubbley Kaur. The fact that they have stuck to their guns has led to the reduction in how popular they are yet to come, for there is still no one doing anything like them.

The name ‘Tjinder Singh' sounds like 'bells do ring’, and his voice is ‘unspun silk’ – not bad descriptions for a man whose name translates to Fire. The heat is on your ears, and their forthcoming album Judy Sucks A Lemon For Breakfast shows no let up in the programme.

David Ingram, Writer and Presenter 105.6 Radio Scotland

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