yuka & chronoship Archive
20 Dec 2018
The Yuka & Chronoship Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Not lost in translation Both Funakoshi and Taguchi understand a bit of English, as evidenced when they would begin laughing or responding even before the interview […]
19 Dec 2018
The Yuka & Chronoship Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… The keyboardist’s gear While Funakoshi’s compositions lent themselves to a progressive context, it was a different story when it came to her her playing style. Prior […]
18 Dec 2018
The Yuka & Chronoship Interview, Part One
Yuka Funakoshi’s musical journey has followed a circuitous path. The Japanese keyboardist, songwriter and vocalist was classically trained, but became an established presence in her home country’s J-pop scene. A […]
27 Dec 2016
Best Music of 2016: New Releases
I’ve said it before, and in 2016 it’s true as ever: those people who complain that there’s no good music any more simply aren’t looking hard enough, or in the […]
12 Feb 2016
Album Review: Yuka & Chronoship — The 3rd Planetary Chronicles
Progressive rock has a widespread (and, it must be said, often well-earned) reputation for being ponderous, pompous, overblown, and more about showy technical and instrumental brilliance than emotional content. Not […]