Harmonia - Album

Akiko Shikata Is A Singer-Songwriter Musician And Soundtrack Composer. A Tricky Artist To Categorize Her Works Incorporate Various Genres Such As Neoclassical Darkwave World Music Experimental Jazz Synthpop New Age Classical Ambient And More Ordinary Japanese Pop Among Many Others. She Launched Her Career In 2001 With The Vocal EP Midori No Mori De Nemuru Tori "Sleeping Bird In The Green Forest" Which She Made On Her Own Using A Synth And A Laptop. In 2002 She Released An Instrumental Album Kurenawi Showing Various Influences Such As Caribbean Music Traditional Japanese Folk And Classical Piano Music. In 2003 She Released Her First Full-Length Vocal Album Haikyo To Rakuen "Ruins And Heaven" Showing Influences From Old Europe Classical And Ethnic Music In Which She Sang Italian Poetry But Also Japanese Lyrics And What Is Seemingly An Invented Language "Iuripuka" . This Album Gained Critical Success In Japan Through The Indie Music Platform Muzie Where It Stayed On Top Of The Sales For Two Years. Her Latest Release Is The Avant-Garde Album Ayashi 2018 Which Could Be Labeled As World Fusion. read less