Shoko Igarashi was born in 1991 in Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. An accomplished tenor saxophonist, she is also a versatile flautist and plays alto and soprano saxophone fluently. She has already made her mark as both an arranger and a composer. Since 2018, Shoko has written and compiled a series of well-crafted, colourful electronic songs curating diverse influences such as Sly & the Family Stone, Earth Wind & Fire, Japanese City-Pop, ’70s jazz fusion, and the anime film music that she grew up learning to play. Her nimble and seamless assembly of these very different elements into her unique sound is astonishingly natural. In addition to her primary group Maniac Maison, her first official solo Album Simple Sentences  was released by Tigersushi Records 20th of May, 2022.

TRACKLIST:
1. WarHead – Ryuichi Sakamoto
2. Stay Cool – Mike Slott & Hudson Mohawke
3. Ashiko Oumba – Manu Dibango 
4. Part Of My Make-up – Roger Doyle
5. Return To See – Hiele
6. It’s You, Only You – Lene Lovich
7. Otaku Sunrise – J Todd
8. Repeat – This Heat
9. Schack Tati – Mats-Morgan
10. Thorn Of A White Rose – Elvin Jones
11. Elastics – Robbing Millions
12. Peruvian Pink – Yasuaki Shimizu
13. MDF Core – aNTOJE
14. Réveillons-nous – Aksak Maboul
15. Gossipo Perpetuo – Jean-Jacques Perrey