Biography
Gutevolk is the solo project of Hirono Nishiyama. In 1999, she released her first album YuraYura Yureru under her own name for Nobukazu Takemura's label, childisc. Following the releases of a 12-inch EP and a mini album on the label, she contributed to compilation albums for the label. Her artistic collaboration with Nobukazu Takemura includes a vocal participation in some of his albums. When Art Lindsay, Jim O'Rourke and YO LA TENGO toured in Japan, she performed together with them as a vocalist of the childisc band. Her first album under the solo project name, Gutevolk, is The Humming of Tiny People released on the label daisyworld owned by Haruomi Hosono (ex-YMO) in 2002. Suomi, her second one, was recorded with a band, a first challenge for her, and released by noble on August 4, 2003. The mini album titled twinkle was released on the New York-based label Happy on January 2005. Besides her extensive solo works and soundtracks for film and commercials, she has collaborated with the likes of Wechsel Garland (a.k.a Wunder), masakatsu takagi and KAMA AINA. On the live end, she performs locally as well as globally in countries such as Germany, France and Spain. Her current plans are to release a new work in February 2007 entitled "tiny people singing over the rainbow". This would be Her first full album release in three and a half years.
More information
Another (outdated) discography has been posted in 2009. After waiting for several days without any seeds popping up, I've decided to grab the missing albums myself and make a new post out of it.
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Website: http://www.gutevolk.com/
Discogs: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Gutevolk
Albums
The Humming Of Tiny People
Tracklist:
1 Musical Balloon
2 Dream Fish
3 Rainy Dragoon
4 Yume-Kitan
5 Arrested
6 Coquille
7 Morrow
8 See You Tomorrow
9 Voice In A Pool
10 Hinagiku
11 Moon Tripper
12 The Humming Of Tiny People
13 Strange Dream
14 Mizuno Soko (Live Version)
Encoding quality: MP3 192kbps CBR (LAME v3.93)
Suomi
Tracklist:
1 Kikyu Ni Notte
2 Sora
3 Horizonto
4 Hajimete No Yuki
5 Parallel Land
6 Clock Waltz
7 Travel Of Rain
8 Snow Flake
9 Air Train
10 Final Land
11 Strange Seed
Encoding quality: MP3 192kbps CBR
Twinkle
Tracklist:
1 Twinkle Star's Cycling Bolero
2 Light Parade
3 Little Girl, Little Star
4 Silo
5 Moonlakers
6 Wondering
Encoding quality: MP3 VBR (LAME v3.96r)
Tiny People Singing Over The Rainbow
Tracklist:
1 Portable Ram
2 Dream Walker
3 This Moon Following Me
4 Seed Of Sky
5 I Like Rainbow
6 Ao To Kuro
7 The Door To Everywhere
8 Planetarium
9 Sing A Ring
10 Antenna
Encoding quality: MP3 VBR (LAME v3.97)
Sun Chandelier
Tracklist:
1 Picnic
2 Cornflakes Joyride
3 Garland Garland
4 Pupa
5 Pio
6 Taiyo No Uta
7 Illuminations
8 I Am Rain
9 Hinagiku
10 Wonder Eden
Encoding quality: MP3 VBR (LAME v3.97)
My upload is limited (150 kB/s), but I'll keep seeding for as long as necessary. Enjoy!