Experimental · Stockholm
Yasuaki Shimizu
Live at Fasching — 20:00, Stockholm — Monday 9 November 2026
- Date
- Time
- 20:00
- Venue
- Fasching — 20:00, Stockholm
- Genre
- Experimental
Yasuaki Shimizu is something of a cult figure in Japanese music: saxophonist, composer and producer with a catalogue that moves between jazz, ambient, new wave, minimalism, pop and Japanese folk music without getting stuck in any single genre.
Since the late 1970s he has released a string of classic records and collaborated with names like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk and David Cunningham. Most familiar are probably his solo album Kakashi from 1982 (with its iconic cat cover) and his band Mariah’s classic Utakata No Hibi from 1983. Two masterful hybrids where Japanese folk music and pop are filtered through a refined electronic, disco-tinged production aesthetic that sounds as fresh today as it did then.
Dreamlike, Bristol-bred jazz, trip hop and minimalism.
Psychedelic, jazzy indie-pop from Lisbon.
Since the late 1970s he has released a string of classic records and collaborated with names like Ryuichi Sakamoto, Björk and David Cunningham. Most familiar are probably his solo album Kakashi from 1982 (with its iconic cat cover) and his band Mariah’s classic Utakata No Hibi from 1983. Two masterful hybrids where Japanese folk music and pop are filtered through a refined electronic, disco-tinged production aesthetic that sounds as fresh today as it did then.
Dreamlike, Bristol-bred jazz, trip hop and minimalism.
Psychedelic, jazzy indie-pop from Lisbon.
