My Tentacles - Mieko Shimizu 12″ Vinyl

My Tentacles is the capricious album re-release by radical, nonconformist Japanese composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer Mieko Shimizu. The album features the offbeat unworldliness of the single, My Tentacles and the mesmeric standout track, Think Like a Swarm, reminiscent of Laurie Anderson’s art meets pop sensibilities. The album bristles with quirky, dysfunctional beats and chimeric fusions. Her Tentacles are truly her own, for this free-spirited champion of outsider art pop. She has worked with an extensive range of artists including Japan’s Mick Karn, Nitin Sawhney, Riz MC, David Cunningham, Robert Lippok and has also re-mixed the likes of Coldcut and Haruomi Hosono of ‘Yellow Magic Orchestra’.

The album features bass by Teitur Arnason & Renell Shaw, acoustic guitar & backing vocals Sam
Carter, electric guitar by David Cunningham, Viola by Ella Burch, Cello by Francesca Ter-Berg & Lucinda Skinner, Trumpet by Eddie ‘Tan Tan’ Thornton

Recorded / Mixed / Produced by Mieko Shimizu & Peter Morris at Street Furniture Studios, Soho, London. Assisted by Teitur Arnason, George Stamenkovic, ‘Tall’ George Reid & Oliver Sanders Mastered by Keith Tenniswood at Curve Pusher. The album was originally released in 2011. My Tentacles by Mieko Shimizu will be re-released on 13th March 2024 on Street Records.

Tracklist:
1. My Tentacles
2. I see a soul
3. Undersong
4. Cruising Forever
5. Think like a swarm
6. Time is over
7. Bullet Train
8. Cobra Mist
9. Speak 2 Me