MONONKUL
# MONONKUL

'MONOKUL' is a Japanese songwriting duo consisting of Sara Yoshida and Ryuta Tsunoda. His record company is gr8!records.

## Members

* Sara Yoshida - Vocal, lyrics, composition and arrangement
* Ryuta Tsunoda - Bass, lyrics, composition and arrangement - singer, drummer Tsunoda ☆ Hiro is his uncle.

## Overview

Formed in 2011 by Yoshida and Tsunoda, who were active as jazz musicians. After releasing the 1st mini-album as an indie, Kikuchi Naruyoshi produced. Released 4th album with self-produced at the beginning of 2018.

The origin of the band name is Tsunoda, who heard that there was a magazine called "Monkuru" supervised by Juzo Itami, and liked the sound of the word rather than the meaning of the word itself. Itami's "Mononkuru" itself seems to have come from "Mon Oncle (My uncle)" because there is also a work with the same name.

## Provenance

Source:

* 2011
   * Released mini-album "SARA"
   * Formation of Monkuru in January
* year 2012
   * First solo performance held at MotionBlueYokohama
* 2013
   * 1st album "Flying Things, Crawling Things, Singing Things"
   * Solo performance from record held at Aoyama CAY
   * Appeared at JAZZ AUDITORIA 2013 sponsored by BlueNote Japan
* 2014
   * 2nd album "Minami e" released
   * Jazz Japan Disc Award '14 Rookie of the Year Award
   * 2nd Season Tour held
* 2015
   * FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL '15 Appearance
   * Solo performance from record held at Kinema Club
   * TOUR held to the south
   * Appeared in Earth Garden '15 Fall
   * JAZZ SUMMIT TOKYO SUMMER FESTIVAL Appearance
* 2016
   * Solo performance held at Marunouchi COTTON CLUB
   * SUNNYSIDE TOUR 2016 held
   * Appearance at KAWASAKI JAZZ 2016
* 2017
   * Solo performance held at Daikanyama UNIT
   * Held a tour where you can hear the world only here
   * 3rdAlbum "Tell me that the world is only here" is jazz on various distribution charts such as iTunes, Apple Music, Spotify Won 1st place in the category
   * Kikuchi Naruyoshi Directed work "Tell me it's only here" MV released
   * Distribution limited single "Mahou ga Toketara" distribution start
* 2018
   * Produced album "RELOADING CITY" released
   * Succeeded in a one-man live from a record at Ebisu Liquid Room and a solo performance at BLUE NOTE TOKYO.
* 2019
   * Digital release of "Super Looper", the image song for craft beer "Wednesday Neko"
   * Her self-planned event "Mon Japonismo" was held at Shibuya WWW with Emi Nakamura as guest for the first time and tofubeats for the second time.
* 2020
   * On July 8, a non-audience live “J-WAVE Sponsored Monkuru LIVE FROM NIHONMONO LOUNGE” will be held.
   * Citizen's cross-sea commercial song "Every One Minute" was released digitally, and the notation was changed to katakana.
* 2021
   * "Billboard Live Tokyo Performance" on March 12, "Billboard Live Yokohama Performance" on June 27, and "Billboard Live Osaka Performance" on July 16.
   * On March 3, digital release of "Hold On Me!" (Morning Musume. cover).
   * Digital release of "GOODBYE" on May 19.
   * On June 23, digital release of "Oto no Narumaida".
   * Digital release of "Zuruiyo" on August 4.
* 2022
   * January 15 Digital release of the ending theme "salvation Anime ver."
   * "salvation" CD release on February 23.
   * On March 10, a one-man live "Mononcle "salvation" RELEASE PARTY" was held at WWW X in Shibuya.
   * On May 11, SONY Xperia 1IV commercial song "Higher" was released digitally.

## Discography

### Album

| | release date | title | Catalog number | form | label | Label (LP) |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1st | May 22, 2013 | Those who fly, those who crawl, those who sing | AP1049 | Delivery / CD | AIR PLANE | |
| 2nd | October 8, 2014 | to the south | | Delivery / CD | TABOO | |
| 3rd | July 12, 2017 Say well that the world is only here | | Distribution / SACD Hybrid / LP | TABOO | HMV record shop | |
| 4th | September 5, 2018 | RELOADING CITY | | Distribution / CD / LP | VILLAGE MUSIC | Lawson Entertainment, Inc. (HMV record shop) |

### Singles

| | release date | title | label | remarks |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 1st | December 6, 2017 | If the magic melts away | | |
| 2nd | July 18, 2018 | Shower | | |
| | July 20, 2019 | Super Looper | Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc. | |
| | October 7, 2020 | Every One Minute | Sony Music Labels Inc. | |
| | March 3, 2021 | HOLD ON ME! | Sony Music Labels Inc. | Morning Musume. cover |
| | May 19, 2021 | GOODBYE | Sony Music Labels Inc. | |
| | June 23, 2021 | While the sound rings | Sony Music Labels Inc. | |
| | August 4, 2021 | It's cunning | Sony Music Labels Inc. | |
| | January 15, 2022 | salvation Anime ver. | Sony Music Labels Inc. | |
