Shoko Numao

"Warbler Wind" is a sequence of selected tracks from the live recording of Shoko Numao’s solo concert held at Waseda Hoshien Scott Hall in Tokyo on May 23. This is Numao's second solo album, following “The Siwnin Sails” (elsewhere 037/elsesong 003), which was released on elsewhere music in November 2025. In this album, Numao's poetic and introspective world of music reached new horizons. Beautifully resonating through the 105-year-old church's spacious acoustics, her musical personality reaches …

"The Siwnin Sails" is a solo album consisting of eight songs written and composed by Shoko Numao, an emerging Japanese singer-songwriter. Numao studied vocal and composition focusing on jazz at Dublin City University in Dublin, Ireland, where she trained to use her voice as an instrument, exploring the expressive possibilities of the voice and laying the foundation for her current approach. Since returning to Japan in 2021, she has been based in Tokyo, performing her own songs, both in collabora…