Jazz Articles about Aki Tsuyuko

Aki Tsuyuko: Hokane

by AAJ Staff
March 13, 2006

The visual element in Aki Tsuyuko's music, amply emphasized in the shiny 48-page hardcover book of drawings that comes with Hokane, presents itself almost immediately in the swirling mist that opens the record. Step into the fairy land, beckons Tsuyuko, and let me be your guide. But her music would be far better suited for a cartoon film--that is, images in motion, not static ones on a page. It's got a surreal combination of childlike naivete and nostalgic romanticism, and ...