Yuko Araki

Based in Tokyo, Yuko Araki has been working for more than ten years to co-exist with more conventional musical structures. His compositions mix modular synthesizers, saturated bass, electronic rhythms and noise discharges that can swing at any time in chaos.

His new album V, due on 22 January 2027 at American Dreams Records, takes this approach even further. The sounds are first composed on a computer, then passed into Eurorack systems that she herself designed to distort and reconstruct. The result borrows as much from industrial music as from club rhythms and the most radical Japanese noise.

The first single, Decoded Void, was born after a date in the first part of Sumac in Tokyo in 2025. Like Lost Invocation or Guttural Shrapnel, Araki uses structures close to those of classic songs, but fills them with metallic textures, vocal samples and distortions.

After more than a hundred concerts between Japan, Europe, Indonesia and China, and passages at Cafe Oto de Londres or Mutek Tokyo, she will be back in Europe in the spring 2027, with a Parisian date at La Mécanique Ondulatoire on 22 April.