Mondialito is the collaboration of a beautiful young woman with long hair and a silent, artistic-looking young man. They met through a common friend when they were 19. However, they didn’t get to know each other until the young woman saw the young man performing with his former band, Aztec Camera, a year later. The story could have developed like a Japanese drama: the young woman would fall for the young man because of his musical talent. But he was not someone who needed anyone. So he left her behind, took the guitar and walked on his own road towards somewhere unknown. What a sad ending, what a love story.

Mondialito is a musical project by Toshiya Fueoka, the instrumentalist and composer, and Junko, the singer and lyricist. Junko sings as if she doesn’t realize how beautiful her voice is: hiding herself in a room alone, she is pouring her heart out. Although we all need such beauty, perhaps no one loves it better than Toshiya. He always sits quietly at the backdrop, playing his acoustic guitar, electric keyboard, or an old violin to give her joy, sadness, a sunny or rainy day.

Toshiya said Mondialito was made of sadness and acoustic. Their 2002 debut, was inspired by a nostalgia of childhood, of the sunset under which the little boy and the little girl walked together. In the 2004 , which was released by the band’s own label, Junko began to write and sing in French. With the lightness of her breath and some more sophisticated compositions using electric instruments and strings, the sadness appears to be more elusive. In that album, they reinterpreted Morita Doji’s hits “Bokutachi no Shippai” (the theme song of the Japanese TV drama “Kou Kou Kyoushi 2003” a.k.a. “High School Teacher 2003”), which was well-received by radio in France. And it was later used by LG. in its TV ad. Just before the release of their self-title album—the duo’s third—at the end of 2005, they gave a wonderful performance in Hong Kong.

If it has been said that in Mondialito one can detect traces of Club 8 or Keren Ann, then in its latest work , one may be pleasantly surprised to find a kind of sadness and acoustic uniquely blended together by Toshiya and Junko.

Mondialito是由兩個來自東京，同樣出生於1979年的一男一女組成的二人樂隊。男的那個是人馬座，女的那個則是處女座。一般籠統的說法是因為前者屬火像，後者屬土像，所以兩者不大合得來。但其實人馬座那富冒險精神，適應能力強，易於相處的性格特徵，對於細水長流，吹毛求疵，信奉完美主義的處女座有著一種難以形容的吸引力。雖然兩者之間隱隱存著矛盾，然而兩件不同的樂器不也能一起演奏出動聽的音樂嗎？

Mondialito是由一個長髮披肩，樣子典雅的美貌女子，和一個看上去不大喜歡說話，帶點藝術家氣息的年青男子組成的二人樂隊。他們在19歲時經朋友介紹而認識，女的在翌年偶爾看到男的當時所組成的樂團Aztec Camera的演出，而逐漸熟絡起來。這也許可以發展成一齣青春劇，女主角因為那男的音樂才華而深深愛上他，然而這個束縛不來的男孩卻大概會忽然提著他的木結他，丟下這個他喜歡的女孩子，一個人走到公路盡頭，那夕陽存在的地方，讓這愛情變作遺憾。

Mondialito是由一手包辦樂器演奏，作曲，混音編排的Toshiya Fueoka（笛岡俊哉）和負責填詞，主唱的Junko組合而成的二人樂隊。Junko大概不知道自己的聲音有多美麗，她像是躲在一個沒有人找得到的地方，不停地唱呀唱，唱出自己心裏的說話，那歌聲有時候輕柔得讓人以為她只是在幽幽地嘆氣。而儘管我們都陶醉於Junko那如夜鶯一樣教人舒暢的聲線，卻沒有人比Toshiya更明白它的漂亮，更能以音樂表現出它的優美。他總是默默地坐在Junko的背後，拿著木結他，又或是按著琴鍵，又或是架著提琴，垂著頭，為她演奏出或輕快，或哀愁，或晴，或雨的音樂。

Toshiya Fueoka說Mondialito是由憂愁和acoustic音樂組成。在他們於2002年推出的首張大碟《note of dawn》裏，那份回憶童年家鄉的感觸，就如封套上那對走在黃昏下草坡上的男女孩子，手牽手走回家一樣淡然。其後從2004年他們於自己成立的獨立廠牌推出的第二張大碟《avant la pluie》開始，Junko以法語填詞和演唱，在其獨得的一呼一吸之間，和更豐富的弦樂和電子樂器運用下，那份哀愁更顯得不著痕跡。他們並於專輯中重新演繹森田童子的名曲「ぼくたちの失敗」（日劇「新高校教師」的插曲），獲得多個法國廣播電台的強力推薦，更被韓國LG用作電視廣告配樂。而在2005年末推出同名的樂隊的第三張專輯前，他們二人抽空來港演出，讓樂迷如癡如醉。

在2007年推出的《Cher mon amoureux》在音樂和演唱上皆有更進一步的嘗試，卻同時又顯得更為成熟。如果說他們之前的作品有著Club 8又或是 Keren Ann的影子，那麼在這張全新大碟裏，Mondialito就是Mondialito，那份清新和憂愁，也是他們獨有的。