My Tentacles is the capricious album re-release by radical, nonconformist Japanese composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, and singer Mieko Shimizu.
The album features the offbeat unworldliness of the single, My Tentacles and the mesmeric standout track, Think Like a Swarm, reminiscent of Laurie Anderson’s art meets pop sensibilities. The album bristles with quirky, dysfunctional beats and chimeric fusions. Her Tentacles are truly her own, for this free-spirited champion of outsider art pop.

She has worked with an extensive range of artists including Japan’s Mick Karn, Nitin Sawhney, Riz MC, David Cunningham, Robert Lippok and has also re-mixed the likes of Coldcut and Haruomi Hosono of ‘Yellow Magic Orchestra’.
Mieko also played at Sonar, alongside Kraftwerk as well as support for Goldfrapp, Meredith Monk, Jennifer Walshe and Massive Attack at their Melt Down Festival.
She has written scores for the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the London Symphony Orchestra. She also created works for contemporary theatre including The Everyman in Liverpool, dance companies such as Phoenix Dance Theatre, the Ballet ‘The Red Balloon’ at the Royal Opera and Piccadilly Circus, Circus for the 2012 Olympic Games. She was also commissioned by MSCTY to create soundscape called ‘Soho Morphosis’ based on a 1954 plan to demolition of Soho and rebuild as a dystopian mall with 5 brutalist towers.

She has released 7 albums, including her last album, ‘I Bloom’ which features her
collaboration with William D Drake of The Cardiacs. Recent Eps include Phenomena of the Mind & Write To Be again featuring William D Drake, German artist, Barbara Morgenstern & Polish Artist Orla Schmitt, other work includes an album as her alter ego Apache 61.

The album features bass by Teitur Arnason & Renell Shaw, acoustic guitar & backing vocals Sam Carter, electric guitar by David Cunningham, Viola by Ella Burch, Cello by Francesca Ter-Berg & Lucinda Skinner, Trumpet by Eddie ‘Tan Tan’ Thornton Recorded / Mixed / Produced by Mieko Shimizu & Peter Morris at Street Furniture Studios, Soho, London.

Assisted by Teitur Arnason, George Stamenkovic, ‘Tall’ George Reid & Oliver Sanders. Mastered by Keith Tenniswood at Curve Pusher.
My Tentacles by Mieko Shimizu will be re-released on 13th March 2024 on Street Furniture Records. It was originally released in 2011.

This digitally remastered version has been repackaged with new designs by We Are Noisy.

Track List:

1. My Tentacles

2. I see a soul

3. Undersong

4. Cruising forever

5. Think like a swarm

6. Time is over

7. Bullet Train

8. Cobra Mist

9. Speak 2 Me