ORDER ONLINE Gutevolk is the solo project of Hirono Nishiyama, whose previous releases on Noble and Childisc defy categorization with an eclectic musical fusion of electronics, bossa nova, and quirky pop playfulness. Twinkle is her follow-up to 2003’s Suomi (Noble, Tokyo) in which she has created 6 songs (stories/dreams) that intentionally stand on their own, as opposed to one unified whole. During the creation of Twinkle Nishiyama read and took much influence from the stories and rhymes of Mother Goose; weaving much of their surreal, yet childlike imagery, into her songs. With this, she mixed a fascination with space science and immersed herself in knowledge of stars, moons, and black holes during the album’s writing process. The result is a very peculiar and unique sound that is both light and dark. Uptempo loops, hooks, and lyrical imagery loop and intertwine with wistful, dreamlike vocals and off-centered chords and textures. Gutevolk began her career with an album for Nobukazu Takemura’s Childisc label (2001’s Pied Piper and the Kaisentou EP) as well as collaborated with Takemura as a vocalist. She has also released work on Haroumi Hosono’s Daisyworld label (The Humming Of Tiny People, 2002) and Tokyo’s Noble Recods (Suomi, 2003) ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGH HAPPY: SUOMI 01. twinkle star's cycling bolero 02. light parade (MP3) 03. little girl, little star 04. silo 05. moonlakers 06. wondering
	LYRICS: twinkle star’s cycling bolero: twinkle stars go around and hop into my little heart shiny stars, you fall and drop into my little cup twinkle stars go around and hop into my little heart one by one, happen and give to me a thrill world swinging you are, sway so happily above my head one by one, touch and catch those moving lights twinkle stars go around and hop into my little heart shiny stars, you fall and drop into my little cup light parade: speed o agete dokomade yuku no daro bokura no kotoba o kimama ni tsunaideku sekai no hajimari o tsugeru yo ni oh where is my bird? mune ni hikaru diamond melody no parade onpu ni michibikarete samayoi tsuzukete iru hora imagoro boku nado wasurete sekai no dokoka eto oh where is my bird? silo:: delete all of my days recalled delete all of my days before to my self who must be in farther parallel world, i'm fade into how many patterns of world? there are so many stories come me again recall, all my before before, my before wondering: how should i know where is the beginning of my image hints of them appear and spinning on drapes of my skirt let me know and more than rest let it talk and more than there let it talk again even if not so long let it to me talk again even if words shuffled how should i know where is the beginning of my image and one day remember, somewhere, it what i was forgetting maybe recall, maybe it calls