Ayu

Ayu was born in Kyushu and grew up in Osaka in Japan. She started playing the guitar and singing with some friends in high school. In her first band there were 7 other girls :). For the University (which she rarely attended;) she lived in Tokyo where she started creating a lot of music (mostly Japanese pop songs). After recording 2 albums with Universal Music Japan, Ayu set up a band called Pablonik, for which she also released a record. Then, she issued 2 acoustic, solo albums from Oasis. Hoping to explore more and make some new music, Miss Okakita stepped her feet in London in 2005. She founded a band called Echovelle (www.myspace.com/echovelle), which split up last year. Recenly she's been collaborating with Marc Teitler, theatre and film music composer (www.myspace.com/marcteitler), but mainly has been working on her own, solo material, which we all hope is gonna be released quite soon. To record, she plays all the instruments and adjusts the program beats herself what makes her mad sometimes. Thankfully though, her engineer friend, Shuta comes to rescue just on time to give a hand for a better overall quality. To perform, Ayu uses loop stations and if lucky some friendly and not-so-shiny audience. These give her a great company to truly expose the complexity and beauty of her work.