The Yunyu Special
You know how much we love Yunyu’s music!
To celebrate her latest project Twisted Tales, created in collaboration with manga artist Queenie Chan -and the fact that she’s just a great Aussie talent – we’ve got a whole lot of Yunyu love for you today. Starting out we’ve posted her latest interview with Cels Jansink, and then we have a preview of her first single Dorothy, and an intro to the Twisted Tales collaboration. Yunyu’s song Bluebeard, written for Marianne’s book, Angel Arias, will be released later this year.
Big 4 with Cels
1. Firstly congrats on the release of “Dorothy” the first single from your new album “Twisted Tales”- a modern twist on some classic fairy tales. You teamed up with renowned manga artist Queenie Chan for this project and the end result is absolutely breathtaking. For those who haven’t yet discovered the Yunyu experience, how do you describe your particular brand of music?
It’s like reading science fiction and fantasy…packaged in world-traversing, genre-crossing 4 minute songs.
2. You have also previously released two singles to coincide with the Burn Bright series (Angel Arias and Bluebeard) and collaborated with Marianne on the Ixion fairy tales performance. What was it about the world of Ixion that drew you in so completely?
Ixion is a colourful world about hedonistic decadence and a dark price to pay … kind of like the dark twisted fairytales that I like.
3. Are there any plans for a tour in the near future?
Oh yes. See here. more coming in a bit. Tours for Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney have been planned …
4. And lastly one just for fun. You’ve found the keys to a time machine and have just enough time for one trip before you’re discovered. Where would you go and why?
I’m quite liking this timeline that I’m on …warts, financial crisis and all, better the devil you know I say. But for the sake of some adventure … I’m going back to tell my younger self to throw my uni savings into a start-up called Google AND Apple. This way, I can make afford own time machine and not have to steal it for this one trip … time travel is a technology too good to be only used once.
My next trip would then be to Mr Schroedinger to steal his cat. That scientist is making zombie cats that are alive and dead at the same time and this abomination is very unacceptable.
