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”