Artists: Piana

Piana (real name Naoko Sasaki) is a Japanese artist who began her musical activity with Card Skepper (a collaboration with Yuichiro Iwashita, guitarist, who is now part of Minamo unit).
Naoko creates minimalistic melodies backed up with digital glitches, whirrs and crackles. Her ethereal voice is combined with instruments as piano, organ, cello, violin, guitar…

Discography:

• Eternal Castle (2007, Noble - CXCA-1210)
• Ephemeral (2005, Happy - HAP003)
• Snow Bird (2003, Cubic Music - 012 / Happy - HAP001)

Compilations:

• We Are All Cotton-Hearted (2006, Mu-Nest - MNC001)
• Textile (2006, Mophrec - mcd001)
• Assemblage Session 1 (2005, Abandon Building Records - abr003)
• Stylus#8 (2003, STYLUS - CCJ-0009)

Collaborations:

• The Heartbreak Moment - The Sound Of Our Summer (2006, & Records - YOUTH-007/&027)
  
• Fourcolor - Letter Of Sounds (2006, 12k - 12k1038) (vocals on “Rowboat”)
• Mokira - FFT Pop (2004, Cubicfabric - cubicf 04) (vocals on “Tsuki No Kioku”)
• World's End Girlfriend - Farewell Kingdom (2001, Noble - CXCA-1089)

Piana - Something Is Lost (from "Ephemeral")

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