Track Tales: PoiL Ueda - Yoshitsune (Dur et Doux 2023.)
This is a crazy year for the French-Japanese project PoiL Ueda. In March they released their first joint album together ("PoiL Ueda"," Dur et Doux), and after that they toured all over Europe, including Zagreb. Now they're back with a new album, "Yoshitsune"." The wonderful combination of the Japanese artist Junko Ueda and the French band PoiL once again brings a mixture of medieval Japanese music with chants and solo parts on the satsuma-biwa, the Japanese version of the lute, with progressive rock elements. If the album "PoiL Ueda" was a more than successful exploration, "Yoshitsune" is a confirmation that it is currently one of the most interesting combinations on the scene.
"Yoshitsune" was released today, and the members of the band PoiL group talk about each of the songs on the album for Izvorišta.
Kumo 雲(船弁慶)
The umpteenth attempt at writing a simple song, this is the one we've broken our teeth on the most. Perhaps because it speaks of the vengeful spirit that reminds us that all victory is only future failure, and that every intention turns against you.
Omine-san 大峰山(吉野静)
To make up for it, this is the simplest track, which took us an afternoon to put together. Probably because it's about a tragedy of love, the only tangible feeling in this deceptive universe.
Yoshino 吉野(静の和歌)
Too good to be true, too hard to be played live, Yoshino brings us back to our pitiful condition as limited mortals who, in spite of everything, look out of the shuttered window to observe the beyond of their own reflection.
Ataka 安宅
Unheard of; we, Poil, a band who strive to play as many notes as possible everywhere all the time, have achieved this master stroke of ultimate sobriety. I think this track (finally) illustrates our maturity.
Kokô 虎口
One of our first songs, composed as if to welcome Junko, in which we reveal to her our epic lyricism with the scent of plum blossoms after the rain.
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