​Shoko Numao
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Vocalist and singer-songwriter. Numao sings words and sometimes wordless sounds, using her voice as an instrument.
 
As a child, she was more interested in sewing than music, immersing herself in embroidery and teddy bear making. She developed an interest in singing around the age of 10 and started singing while playing the piano. She joined the choir in junior high school, where she became fascinated by the beauty of words and how they can be expressed through sound. She began performing as a singer-guitarist after graduating from high school. After graduating from music school in Japan at the age of 22, she studied abroad at Dublin City University in Ireland for two and a half years, where she earned a BA in Jazz and Contemporary Music Performance. During her time there, she explored the expressive possibilities of the voice through training in techniques that treat the voice as an instrument, laying the foundation for her current approach. After returning to Japan in 2021, she has been based in Tokyo, performing her own songs, both in collaboration with various musicians and as a solo artist. In 2023, she released her first album, "Live at Ftarri — Lena", featuring eight original songs on the Ftarri label. In November 2025, she will release her second album, "The Siwnin Sails," which will be her solo debut, featuring eight original songs on vocals and guitar, on the US label elsewhere music.
 
In addition to her solo work, her main projects include 'Uquwa', a quartet with Fumi Endo on piano, Masatake Abe on bass, and Yoshinori Shiraishi on drums, and 'ephemeron', a duo with Shunpei Ito on guitar.

https://shoko-numao.com/
​沼尾翔子
 
ボーカリスト、シンガーソングライター。言葉をうたい、言葉のない音を、声を楽器として演奏する。
 
幼少の頃は音楽より裁縫が好きで、刺繍やテディベア作りに没頭していたが、10歳頃から歌うことに興味を持ち、ピアノで弾き語りを始める。中学では合唱団に入り、言葉の美しさとそれを音で表現することに魅了される。高校でギターの弾き語りを始め、卒業後から演奏活動を開始。日本の音楽専門学校を卒業後、22歳でアイルランドのダブリン・シティ大学に2年半留学し、ジャズとコンテンポラリー音楽の演奏専攻の学士号（BA）を取得。同大学では、声を楽器のように使って音を出す訓練を通して、声による表現の可能性を追求し、現在のボーカル表現の基礎を築いた。2021年に帰国後は、東京を拠点に、様々な演奏家との共演やソロでの演奏で自身の曲などを歌っている。2023年、オリジナル8曲を収録したファーストアルバム「Live at Ftarri — Lena」をFtarriレーベルよりリリース。2025年11月には、米国elsewhere musicレーベルより、弾き語りによる自作の８曲を収めたセカンドアルバム「The Siwnin Sails」をリリース予定。これは彼女のソロアルバムとしてはデビュー作となる。
 
ソロ活動以外の主なプロジェクトに、Uquwa（遠藤ふみ piano、阿部真武 bass、白石美徳 drumsとのカルテット）や、ephemeron（伊藤シュンペイ guitarとのデュオ)がある。
 
https://shoko-numao.com/