Onna-Kodomo – Syuuka (1997)

 

Country: Japan

Tracklist

1. Echo 09:25
2. When She Ascend For Steps 03:50
3. Driftin' 06:41
4. Phantom Pain 04:43
5. Black Forest - I Can't Sleep 05:58
6. Stray Sheep 08:47
7. Syuuka (The Last Song) 20:03

Onna-Kodomo was a Japanese trio that consisted of Yuko Hasegawa (bass, voice),

Shizuo Uchida (bass, guitar, also a member of Nijiumu) and Shinmei Suzuki (violin).
The band released in 1995 the cassette "終歌" and was featured on both the "Tokyo Flashback 4" compilation series

from Japan's P.S.F. Records and on the "Land Of The Rising Noise Vol. 2" compilation by Charnel Music.
In 1997 their debut CD "Syuuka" was released revealing their beautiful dreamy music.
"Syuuka" consists of minimalistic slow etheral/ambient with simple bass lines while

Shinmei Suzuki's electric violin chords blends with Yuko Hasegawa's gorgeously eerie/chanting vocals.
The album "Hypnosis" was Onna-Kodomo's next work in 2003, that is an one-hour solo by Yuko Hasegawa mostly on bass, followed by the album "Oboro" in 2003 featuring Hasegawa and Shinmei Suzuki on violin and sax.
Shizuo Uchida, among his many projects, has also teamed up with another Hasegawa, Hirotomo Hasegawa

 to record under the moniker Hasegawa-Shizuo, while together with Yuko Hasegawa 

joined Masahiro Deguchi to form the project Le Son De L'Os.

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