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• Yoshiaki Sato

  Profile Singer-songwriter based in Sapporo, Hokkaido. From an early age, he was influenced by his parents and became familiar with American pop songs, and started playing the piano at the age of 9. He started playing in a band in high school and spent a period of time devoted to pop punk and loud rock music. Gradually developed his current style of mid-tempo rock and pop music around the time he entered college. He loves nature, and his songs are reminiscent of cool landscapes, such as majestic mountains and the serenity of a body of water. Until 2007, he performed his original songs at live houses in Sapporo and sold over 500 demo CDs. While attracting attention from record company insiders, he met sound producer Soshi Iihama, and in 2009 performed at the Rising Sun Rock Festival, and that same year signed with Yumechika Records, a label affiliated with Hokkaido Television Broadcasting. Debuted in May 2010 with the mini-album cacoi. The album was widely distributed at Tower Records and Village Vanguard, and its songs have been used in commercials and plays, and Face was used as an insert song in the DVD version of Suiyododesyou, Across the United States of America. In May 2013, they released their second mini-album, Like It Was Yesterday. The lead song Mouichidowaratte was used as the theme song and insert song for a TV show and sung by actors in a play. In July 2014, they released a distribution-only single, Dancefloor, followed by a long period of recharging. In 2024, he broke their 10-year silence and released three singles in a row, followed by the release of their first full-length album, Architectures, in November of the same year through Fabtone Inc. Like all of their previous songs, the album was sound-produced by Soshi Iihama. The number of listeners is rapidly increasing not only in Japan but also in Asia.

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