Musicians' Mentor & Producer

Reviews Sample Tracks Discography

Reviews

"Seattle's most favorite singer/songwriter."

- Seattle Weekly

"Shimada is one of the most original and creative musicians on the Seattle scene."

- Seattle Times

"I am astonished by how beautiful, profound, and original your music is. Congratulations on
creating music of such exquisite reflective depth. Your compositions are wonderful, and
the arrangements and band are perfect - swinging, expressive, completely individual,
haunting, mature, unforgettable."

-Steve Silberman, Senior writer for Wired Magazine

"Her music is an adventurous, fluid and exquisitely ear-friendly blend of chamber pop,
lower Manhattan jazz and textural forms."

- Sacramento News & Review

"Stunning live."

- The Stranger, Seattle

"the arrival of a different sort of singer, one with a gift for simmering sophisticated musical
and lyrical ideas down to a taut powerful minimalism."
- The Tentacles, Seattle

Discography and Streaming

(most of these links will allow full streaming)

Blue Marble (Tzadik,New Japan Series) 2001 Produced by Eyvind Kang Available on Apple Music
(This link has preview tracks only, streaming full record only available after purchase)

Like Hannah (self-produced with Evan Schiller) 2004 Available online

Another Full Moon (self-produced with Tucker Martine) 2000 Available online

Window (self-produced) 1998 Available online and directly from me

Bright & Dark (self-produced) 1994 Only available through me

Sound (East Works Entertainment) Only available online Japanese release 2000

Sound (EWE) Available online Tower Records Japan

Oyasumi (Koto World) 2001 Japanese Lullaby Available online

Poor Boy, Songs of Nick Drake, (Songlines in Canada) Cello Song by Bill Horist and Aiko Shimada

Most CDs are also available directly from me.

Music Videos

Youtube Channel: Aiko Shimada Music & Beyond (Official music videos)

Original songs, covers, and Japanese podcasts