Eau Sans (1992)

YOFonts Eau Sans In 1992, I wanted to design a perfectly faceless (generic) typeface of my own. I chose Eau, meaning water in French, as the name. I planned to do two variations; a sanserif and a Roman serif style version. I could not decide on the design details for the Roman variation, so only the sanserif version was completed. Although I think that Eau Sans needs more refinement, I present it here as it was originally designed. At the time of release, I re-formatted the Eau Sans family with numeric characters in three variations: proportional, lining and old-styled figures. This typeface is used for my electronic sound project: parabola. Eau Sans is designed by Yamaoka Yasuhiro 1992. Download free font (OpenType)

Telegrama (1992)

YOFonts Telegrama Telegrama was originally created from an idea for the relationship between Pixe and Smoo. In 1992 when I designed them, both Telegrama Raw and Telegrama Render had other names. These almost completed fonts were put aside and forgotton until I re-discovered them in 2008. This time, I united the two fonts as a family and decided to present them with small adjustments and some additional accented European characters, etc. Telegrama is designed by Yamaoka Yasuhiro 1992. Telegrama is freeware (OpenType). Download free font (Open Type) | A3 specimen poster PDF

COSMOS - Pre-Delay (2011)

COSMOS Pre-Delay

01. High & Low (Acoustic)
02. Silent Blues
03. Haru wha Kuru
04. Kyoh no Dekigoto
05. Phytoncide
06. Anata de Aru Yohni
07. High & Low
08. Harukaze ni Notte
09. Love in Rain
10. Nami-oto
11. Shopping in the Street
12. California wha Hare

Music played by COSMOS.
Mariko Itoh: vocal, piano.
Toru Matsuura: guitar, bass, synthesizer, drum machine, vocal.
All words and music by COSMOS
except Anata de Aru Yohni: music by Junko Hayakawa.
Piano on Anata de Aru Yohni by Rumiko Tanaka.
Recorded in 1999.
Remixed and designed by Yasuhiro Yamaoka, January 2011.

Pop songs by an acoustic music duo COSMOS: Mariko Itoh and Toru Matsuura. Compiled by Toru Matsuura from their two original albums in 1999, remixed by Yasuhiro Yamaoka in 2011.



About COSMOS
COSMOS was formed as an acoustic music duo by Toru Matsuura and Mariko Itoh in 1999. They were both students in a song writing class called Melodist conducted by Rumiko Tanaka who is known for a song about the Hiroshima atomic bomb attack: Natsu no Uta. At the time, the two were hoping to become professional musicians. They brought their original songs to each lesson, and exchanged their opinions about them. The lessons were run in a very relaxed atomosphere. Matsuura, who thought his vocals were not good, was interested in the vocal sound of Itoh. He then asked her to form COSMOS with him.
This new version of Pre-Delay is compiled mostly with tracks chosen from Pre-Delay I released in April 1999 and Pre-Delay II released in August of the same year.
The 1st track, High & Low (Acoustic), was on the compilation album Rough Diamond that was produced by the live perfomance house Ohtsuka Cave. The 2nd track, Silent Blues, through the 6th track Anata de Aru Yohni are taken from Pre-Delay I (includes 8 songs). The 7th track, High & Low, to the 11th track, Shopping in the Street, are taken from Pre-Delay II (includes 8 songs). California wha Hare, chosen as the last song, was recorded separately by Matsuura around the same time. The new release is a compilation of 12 songs in total.
At the time of the original album, COSMOS was intending to make a major debut, but their actions were a little impatient. Possibly, the difference in music directions of Matsuura and Itoh made their collaboration over a longer period difficult. COSMOS split after one more album.

Toru Matsuura official web page
Toru Matsuura (music archive) in YOWorks

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Toru Matsuura - how do you do? (1991)

Toru Matsuura how do you do?

01. Market no Jo-oh
02. BRASS DANCE
03. Kakurenbo (Dare mo Inai)
04. how do you do?
05. Suigyu Song
06. Oh-uridashi
07. Jawa no Hanayome

All compostions by Toru Matsuura, November 1991.
Digitally remastered by Yasuhiro Yamaoka, November 2010.

The 1st release of an album by Toru Matsuura from YOWorks. These exotic instrumental compositions with his interest in South-East Asian culture was originally recorded in 1991, and was digitally remastered by Yasuhiro Yamaoka in 2010 here.

About Toru Matsuura
Born March 31st 1958, in Ohta-ku, Tokyo. He spent his childhood surrounded by green nature in Musashisakai.
He got to know the Beatles at the end of elementary school, and then got into Hard Rock/Progressive Rock/Glam Rock during his junior high school years. Around this time he bought an electric guitar and an amplifire. Throughout his high school life, he dived deeply into the abyssal world of Rock. Hearing Anarchy in the U.K. by the Sex Pistols on the radio gave him a shock. I Don't Mind by the Buzzcocks made his eyes open wide to Punk and he began song writing.
He formed a punk-pop band Tokyo 2-channel (TVC2). and later joined the originator of Japanese Girl's Bands Boys Boys as the bassist, and participated with them in the Pass Live Tour. Later he joined with Non Band as the guitarist. He began a guitar solo project using a sound delay effector. He Participated in music productions for FM commercials/the theater/and films, etc. He formed the accoustic duo Cosmos, and released their 4 CDs. He joined with Totsuzen Danball as the guitarist, and formed Sora no Sachi (Joy of the Sky) with Jason Shalton from Panicsmile. He formed Tengoku Ryokoh with trumpeter Tetsuroh Konishi, and is now trying to sing solo with his guitar.

Toru Matsuura official web page
Toru Matsuura (music archive) in YOWorks

I am happy that I can introduce how do you do? by Toru Matsuura. Known as a guitarist, this entire album was recorded in 1991 and kept stored away in a closet. It was composed using a Roland S-50 digital PCM sampler keyboard and a Kawai Q-80 MIDI sequencer. Here, his interest in South-East Asian culture is nicely blended into strange exotic Rock music.

Yamaoka Yasuhiro November 2010.

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Yamaoka Yasuhiro - Easy Ride (2003)

Yamaoka Yasuhiro Easy Ride

01. side one
02. side two



03. album version
04. secret track

Groovy Booby, Yeah Yeah!

All files composed by Yamaoka Yasuhiro.
side one and side two 01.2003, album version and secret track 10.2003.
No catalogue number.

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Yamaoka Yasuhiro - "Remix?" for Wantech (2001)

Yamaoka Yasuhiro "Remix?" for Wantech

01. Shiranai Oyaji (try it!)

Wantech visited Tone Note BBS of ACE, and asked how to get an extract of the vocal section apart from accompaniment; he called it ekisu (essence). ACE was showing the succeeded sample at his BBS. He wrote back "just try it", instead of giving the answer. Wantech could not reach the answer.
Several days later, Wantech made a song: Shiranai Oyaji (an old stranger man). It's a song about unknown old man who is singing alone in the midnight. This was exactly what Wantech did. Wantech thought that singing by himself is easier rather than trying to extract the vocal part from a prepared audio file. Wantech uploaded the audio file of his vocal part to both of his web page and ACE's BBS.
The other day, a web friend of Wantech opened the web page for remix entries. The first subject was Wantech's Shiranai Oyaji. It seemed an interesting idea because Wantech had a web site for Orion users, his friend had a web site for Acid users. (Both of two web sites no longer exsist.) Their calls for entries had begun almost at the same time. They had gotten 4 to 5 entries from Acid users, but from Orion users. So, I decided to enter my remix file that was made with Orion. And this is the last entry for this project.

Shiranai Oyaji (try it!) was originally released in 03.2001.

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Yamaoka Yasuhiro - Shumekuri Calendar (2002-2003)

Yamaoka Yasuhiro Shumekuri Calendar



01. No Snow, Here
November 2002, recorded in NY USA.

these files are made for weekly web calendar project by contributors through the web.



02. please call again
January 2003, recorded in TYO JPN.
originally, the short 30sec version was exhibited for the ongoing project.

each work was exhibited for 7 days.



03. fmxmhz
May 2003, recorded in TYO JPN.

I contributed music mp3 files except for



04. Saguriai no Blues (karaoke)
September 2003, drawn in TYO JPN.
the karaoke added in May 2006 TYO JPN.

Saguriai no Blues: an imaginary folk song, shown just as a page from an imagined song book. now, you can sing it with karaoke mp3.



05. TOTAL ISOLATION
December 2003, recorded in TYO JPN.

Saguriai no Blues English translation

Feel Each Other Out Blues
lyrics and music by Saguri Ai

Feeling each other out, touching each other / We are living, me and you / Here, there, everywhere / Feeling each other out, touching each other / Holding each other out, fraying the nerve ends / Feeling each other out, touching each other / We are living, me and you / For today, for tomorrow, everyday / Feeling each other out, hanging each other on / Holding each other out, bearing each other with / Robbing each other, giving each other / Vowing each other, nipping nipples each other / We are living, me and you / In the morning, in the night, everytime

(Dialogue) Well, let's sing this song and enjoy it

all files created by Yamaoka Yasuhiro.
no catalogue number.

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