Press

  • "The vocal surfing between styles is extraordinary, and it’s hard to believe that all these tracks feature the voice of a single artist. I can’t stop listening."

    Wprost Kultura Magazine (PL) about the album “Ysla”

  • "Bird-like vocal sensation!"

    Süddeutsche Zeitung (DE), Oliver Hochköppel

  • "One talent that cannot be taught is Yumi Ito’s gift for writing songs that are grand, layered, significant, enticingly diffuse, sometimes unfathomable, and often quite magical."

    Abendzeitung München (DE)

  • "Music from another planet, spherical and with an extraordinarily aesthetic sound."

    Concerto Magazine (AT)

  • "Ysla is going to be something of a 2023 highlight."

    UK Vibe, Steve Williams

  • "The Swiss Yumi Ito is one of the European vocal discoveries of recent years. With an irresistible timbre all her own, she sings self-composed songs that combine the simplicity of pop with the complexity of jazz."

    SWR 2 (DE), Ssirus W. Pakzad

  • "Very powerful when she elevates her scat singing like in Drama Queen and is accompanied only by bass and drums: so much fire, so much expression."

    Jazzreportagen (DE), Rainer Ortag

  • "I am taken by her intonationally impressive, gifted, stylistically rangy and ultra-musical voice."

    Gapplegate Music Review (US)

  • "Truly prodigious."

    JazzMania (BE)

  • "Exciting Polish-Japanese duo."

    UK Jazz News (UK), about the album “Ekual”

“Stardust Crystal is so damn personable.”
— Dave Sumner

The Best Jazz on Bandcamp
U.S.

“Ito presents an entire spectrum vocal abilities…all tastefully and mastery executed…”

— Adam Baruch