Akiko Shikata is a singer-songwriter, musician and soundtrack composer. A t… Read Full Bio ↴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.

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TETHE'ALLA ～対の子どもたち～まほらの戸に立つ産土(ウブスナ)へ手向けるは椿花夢路の社の其の奥によもすがら咲き匂う捻れの街角夕暮れに影法師…
朱隠しまほらの戸に立つ産土（ウブスナ）へ手向けるは椿花夢路の社の其の奥によもすがら咲き匂う捻れの街角夕暮れに…
祈りの彼方淡き空の間(はざま) ひとひらの花は零れ舞い立つ金色(きん)の風にひらり揺られ何処へ向かう廻り出す時代(とき)の…