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Kono Michi

Currently on the Tom Robinson Show: BBC 6Music

About Me

After recent radio play in the UK on the BBC Radio 1 (Vic Galloway), BBC 6Music (Nemone) and BBC Merseyside, Kono Michi once again travels British airwaves via The Tom Robinson show on BBC Radio 6 Music, which you can listen to online all week till 6/20.


To listen to the Tom Robinson show CLICK HERE and enjoy 2 hours of really really good music!
Kono Michi's first recording "The Livingroom Disappearance E.P." is now available online at iTunes, Amazon, Napster, and more...
KONO MICHI on AMAZON.COM ..
The songwriter, Michi Wiancko, is well known to many in the Classical World as a professional concert violinist. Raised in Orange County, California, she moved east to study at Juilliard, and is now based in Brooklyn, New York. Michi spends her spare time using violin, voice, toy instruments and computer to create dark, lyrical, melodic, trip-pop songs under the name Kono Michi (which means "This Path" in Japanese).
Since graduating from Juilliard in 2002, Michi Wiancko has appeared as soloist with the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, performed solo recitals nationwide, and has toured with the Los Angeles Piano Quartet, East Coast Chamber Orchestra, and Musicians from Marlboro amongst others. Her live appearances have included Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Banff Center and Sydney Opera House.
Although she first began playing classical violin as a three year old, Michi has an eclectic musical taste which includes Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Dolly Parton and The Cocteau Twins. She delights in spending as much of her spare time as possible recording and producing her songs and playing them live with assorted friends in venues throughout New York City. Michi recently had the pleasure of performing two of her Death Haiku songs with Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble to a theatre in Rhode Island.



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Member Since: 1/13/2006
Band Website: sharkbatter.com
Band Members: All songs written, recorded and produced by Michi Wiancko (violin, vocals, toy instruments, computer)

For live shows, Kono Michi has been joined by an assortment of talented friends including:
Nick Cords (viola), Carolyn Jeselsohn (cello), Dan Jeselsohn (bass), Max Mandel (viola), Tai Murray (violin), Clancy Newman (cello), Annaliesa Place (violin), Melissa Reardon (viola), Rench (drums, suitcase, electronics, cowbell), Tarrah Reynolds (violin, vocals), Peter Seymour (bass, beats), Eric Stephenson (cello, meat hammer, cowbell)
Influences: Debussy, Ligeti, Alpha, Bartok, Stina Nordenstam, Taraf de Haidouks, Sparklehorse, Le Mystere des vois Bulgares, This Mortal Coil, The Bad Plus, Cocteau Twins, Webern, Massive Attack, Radiohead, Satie, Bjork, Kurtag, Tom Waits, Nathan Milstein, Portishead, Andrew Manze, Mum, Colleen, Thelonious Monk, Leonard Cohen, Dolly Parton, Sherban Lupu, Brian Wilson, The Cure, Bob Dylan, Art Tatum, Schnittke, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sounds Like: dark sparkly wood-and-horsehair-based trip-pop with some robot beeps here and a weeping gypsy there.
Record Label: Shark Batter Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Kono Michi on the Tom Robinson show BBC 6Music

Kono Michi gets more UK radio play on the BBC this week! You can listen to Tom Robinson's awesome 2 hour show which showcases a bunch of hot new bands every week. Follow this link to BBC Radio 6 Music...
Posted by Kono Michi on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:05:00 PST

My First EP Review

Greetings and Happy Barack!I'm pleased to share my very first review for the Livingroom Disappearance E.P., published on musictowers.comNotice that my video was called "disturbing" which is giving me ...
Posted by Kono Michi on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:47:00 PST

My First Video

Hello Fellow Freaky MySpace Heads,My new video When I Don't Come Back is up for viewing. I should also mention that it's my FIRST video ever! I filmed it myself, but it was directed and produced by St...
Posted by Kono Michi on Thu, 22 May 2008 06:37:00 PST

Kono MIchi on the BBC

The gentlemen over at Shark Batter Records have been hard at work plugging my new EP, "The Livingroom Disappearance" and as a result I just had my first radio play in the UK! My song "When I Don't Com...
Posted by Kono Michi on Sun, 18 May 2008 01:25:00 PST

DJ Simple Simon

I wanted to post a thank-you to DJ Simple Simon (check him out on my 'top friends'), for contributing some subtle but tasty sounds to my new song "When I Don't Come Back". Looking forward to some futu...
Posted by Kono Michi on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 04:43:00 PST

Kono Michi WNYC radio debut :)

Olivier Conan, father of the wonderful bar and venue Barbes in Brooklyn, was interviewed on WNYC and put in a good word for Kono Michi! He also handed over some of my music, and they chose to play 2 o...
Posted by Kono Michi on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:38:00 PST

The new Mike & Michi page!

Hi people!I have been long-distance collaborating with Mike Small, a brilliant and multi-talented musician from Scotland. We've never met in person (we met on Myspace!) but it's been the most fun I've...
Posted by Kono Michi on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 02:46:00 PST

A little Senecan philosophy

"What need is there to weep over parts of life?The whole of it calls for tears."Seneca
Posted by Kono Michi on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:15:00 PST

Grey Eulogy

The song I recently posted called Grey Eulogy is the result of an online, overseas collab with the amazing musician Mike Sorensen in Scotland. He created all the parts of this song, and I simply sang ...
Posted by Kono Michi on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:33:00 PST

Kono Michi in the Spring

Thanks to everybody who has been so supportive of this project and come to shows and downloaded my tunes and all that good stuff. I'm gonna take a little break from booking live shows, at least for no...
Posted by Kono Michi on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 09:34:00 PST