SonicMonks

Piana is electronic artist Naoko Sasaki from Japan. She has released two solo albums and collaborated with guitarist Yuichiro Iwashita and post-rock artist World´s End Girlfriend (Katsuhiko Maeda). She has said, that she isn´t inspired from other music - she gets her inspiration from literature and movies instead. I myself couldn´t associate her music with Haruki Murakami´s works, but she has said that without Murakami she might have not been able to create her music. After finding that out, I even began seeing similarities :) Anyway both of her albums (2003 Snow Bird, 2005 Ephemeral) could be described as delicate, introspective and somewhat melancholic. Her voice sounds childish and sweet, but I wouldn´t say it´s naive. And by the way, she herself does not only do the writing and the arranging, but she mixes and produces by herself as well. Although her second album is considered more mature, I personally tend to like the first one more.

Something´s Lost (from Ephemeral)


From Ephemeral:
Early In Summer mp3

From Snow Bird:
Butterfly mp3
Blue Bell mp3

Her homepage, her myspace