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Akiko Yano is a Japanese pop and jazz musician.

Her music is by turns playful, heartfelt, melodic, ornate, and disarmingly simple, reflecting a love of music in all its forms and colors. She handles moody new wave, virtuosic fusion, traditional jazz ballads, straightahead pop, and singer-songwriter folk songs with equal aplomb.

Though she’s recorded with many of the 20th century’s greatest pop and jazz musicians, her primarily Japanese-language albums have kept her music below the radar of most English-language listeners. She’s recorded with, among many others, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, members of Little Feat, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono, David Sylvian, Mick Karn, Kenji Omura, Jeff Bova, Yukihiro Takahashi, Charlie Haden, Peter Erskine, Anthony Jackson, David Rhodes, the band Quruli, and her son Futa Sakamoto.

Beyond her solo work, Yano has recorded with Thomas Dolby, Yngwie Malmsteen, The Chieftains, The Hammonds, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Kazumi Watanabe, The Boom, Tetsuro Kashibuchi, and Ryuichi Sakamoto. She appeared on the recording “Snowflake” reading a children’s story in Japanese with Peter Gabriel reading in English and music by Akira Inoue and David Rhodes accompanying both.
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  • UKokapi

    <3

    February 2012

  • djgizmoe

    tzOd speaketh the truth.

    December 2011

  • capnijodu

    糸井重里氏が矢野のアルバムの帯に提供したコピーです。私の中でのジャンルは

    December 2011

  • tz0d

    I don't think she's like Mitchell, Bush, or anybody else. I think she's been cursed with the decision to use Sakamoto's members as a backing band one-too-many times and is more overshadowed by that than by English-language comparisons. Regardless, her work is very good, very consistent, and gohan ga dekitayo is a favorite album of mine.

    November 2011

  • IanAR

    Added to Streamable Track Wants » Discussions » Artist Connections Overflow

    July 2011

  • odysseyandoracl

    I hate playing the "they're just like a Japanese version of _______!" game with artists, but I'd say Yano shares much more stylistic territory with Joni Mitchell and especially Rickie Lee Jones than Kate Bush.

    March 2011

  • mintonmedia

    Hmmm...maybe here WATER WAYS will flow FOREward and scrob!

    September 2010

  • PullUpTheBumper

    I love her.

    September 2010
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