EVOKE

Encountering Again the Sound Within

Shiho Yamaki's 4th Album, Woven from Originals and Covers

Shiho Yamaki is one of the artists who has helped give solo bass clarinet its place in Japan, and the sound world she arrives at here is one that only she could reach — an artist who has come to understand the instrument to its core and made it wholly her own voice. It leads the listener somewhere quietly, yet with certainty, into the heart of a story they have never heard before. What stays with you afterward is not simply wonder at her command of the bass clarinet, but the plain and honest joy of having heard something genuinely beautiful. [Eiji Taniguchi, jazz clarinet player]

[1]　 Viva la Vida　[Coldplay]
[2]　 Dolphins　[Shiho Yamaki]
[3]　 Devil’s Waltz　[Steven Verhelst]
[4]　 Black　[Marc Mellits]
[5]　 Ditto+　[Shiho Yamaki]
[6]　 SERTAO　[Richard Galliano]
[7]　 Time After Time　[Cyndi Lauper, Rob Hyman]
[8]　 mélancolie manège　[Shiho Yamaki]
[9]　 for　[Shiho Yamaki]

—2BASS CLARINETS PROJECT—
Shiho Yamaki, Bass Clarinet
Nao Nakamura, Bass Clarinet
Yuka Yanagihara, Piano
Yuki Ito, Bass
Ryo Noritake, Drums

Recording Location: Cultural Centre of Fujimi City Main Hall, 2–3 June 2025
Recording Engineer & Sound Editing: Jun Kawanami
Assistant Engineer: Ikuro Yoshida
Piano Technician: Osamu Adachi
Notes: Eiji Taniguchi, Shiho Yamaki
Photo: Karin Shikata
Cover Design: Anna Murakami
Booklet Editing: Kensuke Fujii