Utaite Friday : Yoru

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I see people have joined using their open ids. Thank you very much! Anyway, more updates later since I have to prepare for class tomorrow. In the meantime...here's our utaite spotlight.


Yoru

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Yoru a lesser known singer with a flexible, versatile voice. She has a powerful, low and husky voice similar to Yamai's. Because of her voice quality, she has very good jazzy covers. But she doesn't limit herself to jazzy songs. She has quite a list of covers, from popular Vocaloid songs (Melt, Black Rock Shooter, Roshin Yuukai) to less known ones. Some of the songs do not fit her voice to a T, but she still sounds good despite that.

One thing that I admire about Yoru is how she manages to change quickly from low to high pitch and vice-versa. This is why she sounds best in songs which are difficult to sing because of often fluctuating pitches despite starting low (Blindness, Just a Game, etc.). She also sings clearly and rarely sounds mumbling even though the lines are sung fast.

sample songs
solos:
• Blindness
• Wanderlast
• Kami no Namae ni Ochiru Mono
• Scissorhands
• Just a Game
• Roshin Yuukai - Hard R.K. mix

collabs:
Eh? Aa, Sou (w/ Keysuke)
Ochiba Waltz (w/ terry)


nikki says
There are some songs sung by Yoru which I cannot listen to when covered by other people because I have set her as the ideal XD. Like Kami no Namae ni Ochiru Mono and Blindness (don't get me wrong. F9's Blindness is amazing, but it's just not my type of style). I usually like singers with lower voices but has good range compared to those with super high, shrilly voices, so Yoru has grown to be one of my favorites.

Comments

A long comment.

[(Anonymous)]

I like her too (it was this site that introduced me to her in the rankings) but i really only listen to 2 of her songs - Kami no Namae ni Ochiru Mono and Just a Game. She hasn't released enough covers that are the 'best cover of a song' for me. Even though I say that, I'm too lazy to watch any of her stuff besides what you post.

Oh, now that I've seen it, I think her cover of Wanderlast is actually my favorite, but I don't like that song, so...

Next week you should do Hyadain, because even though he's already pretty famous, he deserves even more fame! Or Hanycham, because she has a weird voice that's really interesting (in a good way).
-matt

Re: A long comment.

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I agree with the "best cover" with regards to some of her songs. I think it's because she likes singing popular works when she was just starting. But don't you think she has gotten better nowadays? :) She sounds so amazing in her recent works ;_;.

Hyadain would be pretty hard, I need to dig up info on him first ;3. As for Hanycham, I listen to her covers occasionally, she'll definitely have a spotlight ;).

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I hear about Yoru a lot! But I have only listened her EAS. /trolls EAS songs

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You hear about her a lot because I flail a lot about her...probably ;^; /not sorry.

...I think we have all the copies of EAS songs, did you get vip-tenchou's? LOLOLOL.

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I really should try to login to my account...one of these days...
I've only knowingly heard Yoru's versions of Ame ka Yume and Black Rock Shooter, but I liked them so perhaps I will check out her other covers. I tend to really obsess over the male utaite and not the female utaite. Maybe it's just my fangirl tendencies, haha~ And for some reason I find it harder to distinguish one female voice from another unless there's a very noticeable difference... like Nayuta compared to Valshe, or something, lolz.