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    Her name is Shikata Akiko. She is notoriously shy and not much information written about her in English. Although she did do interviews in Japanese.

    Her concert:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUsYcKj-SS8

    Her music score for orchestra:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBT9WmbWtbE

    There are some of her concerts on Youtube. But if you don't want to listen to her music that is alright too. During one interview someone reported that she did not feel very comfortable using her own voice, although she used to be an classically-trained opera singer; she felt more connected to music only and did not use words too much, resulting her lyrics usually written by other people - although with her own intentions behind. Many people considered she was an extreme author in her own works. She often composed, arranged and orchestrated her own songs, used various disguised voices to describe the characters in stories behind those works.

    She produced an album retelling Greek myths, nine muses and others fantasy world and symbolic-related. She even has a song called "Euridyce", with another instrumental score with some words on it, basically saying "The spirits of woods, they called me Eurydice (wife of Orpheus, tragic figures in Greek mythology)." I think she emerged herself with many tragic female heroines in stories, because she mostly sings about heart-broken girls who cannot find a place where she called home and truly belonged - yet she is so detached and shy when exerted those fantasies into her works.

    Unfortunately I don't have any of her full interview, there are links to her live concerts. There are also some lyrics she wrote for songs (the White Cocoon of Dreams was written along with two others, Namino and Isogai, but I think her intention is still the strongest when it comes to writing lyrics). Doko e is purely her writing.

    From "Doko e" (To where?)


    Like a bird that forgot its home
    I cannot even remember your figure...

    Alone on the blood red hill
    The footprints you left behind bring me pain
    Just like being chained in memories
    Memories of your unforgettable warmth

    To where have you vanished?

    The color of promise is fading, swept away by the wind
    To the sky hazed in scarlet laments

    Memories that echo in my ears
    The ultramarine meadow has fallen asleep
    To protect the dimly shining flowers
    Along the path of faint sighs

    To where have you gone?

    In order to bring back those wailing warmth
    I chase after you with my tired feet, I want for you with my painful heart
    I whisper, I sing, I search for you

    Can we ever meet again?

    [Credits (translated): Aquagon]

    From "White Cocoon of Dream (Remembering the Past)"

    Oh ephemeral soul,
    that hide yourself
    in the depths of deceit,
    who have you waited for
    in the deserted forest?

    Deprived of a wing,

    the tiny bird has
    closed its eyes in silence.

    The sufferance
    has vanished far away;
    the tiny bird
    now cries no more.


    A silvery soft mist,
    a silvery soft mist
    tenderly envelops everything.

    Rest, rest in peace:

    in the tale I've wrote,
    you can freely fly.
    Here's my last spell,
    so that your light
    shall not know darkness (darkness...)


    May the splendid (splendid) golden dream

    never be befouled (befouled)
    by the sadness (sadness)
    brought by the truth (the truth)

    The forest of guilt,

    that consumed the tiny bird,
    has withered in silence.

    Fallen petals in the wind

    gently wrap
    the pale cheeks.

    That day, how many mysteries

    should I have solved
    to take you away?

    Rest, rest in peace:

    in the illusion you created,
    I knew love.
    I shall never cease
    pronouncing your name,
    to keep bringing to life your desires!
    Nor no one nor nothing may
    drag you into the darkness of the oblivion.

    Rest, rest in peace,

    [my] sweet love, in peace.
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