Yasuaki Shimizu – Kakashi (Vinyl) Arlo Parks Backing musicians include John Beck

Backing musicians include John Beck and Jim Pons from the Leaves

composer Angelo Badalamenti and film director David Lynch

The album artwork is by award winning designer and filmmaker Winston Hacking – best known for his collaborations with Flying Lotus

and distinctly modern touches

Befitting an album quite literally written on the commute between the two places he called home

Yasuaki Shimizu – Kakashi (Vinyl) Arlo Parks Backing musicians include John BeckYasuaki Shimizu is a Japanese composer, producer and saxophone player who sometimes worked with Ryuchi Sakimoto. Suiren was released in 1981 and is the opening title on the sought after Kakashi album which weaves new wave, jazz, fusion, ambient and experimental music. On any given track, Kakashi is likely to shift from ambient to jazz to Japanese folk to some hybrid impossible to label, and that is part of the joy of such music. You can hear Yasuaki