Artist: NTsKi
Album: Orca
Format: Digital / Vinyl / CD on EM Records Japan
Release: Aug 6, 2021

NTsKi is a Kyoto-based artist, musician. She began making music while living in the UK and began working in earnest in 2017 after returning to Japan. She works seamlessly to create tracks with gentle but somewhat eerie vocals and a mixture of diverse musicality. In 2021, she was selected by Bijutsu Techo as one of the newcomer artists who will open up the 2020s. Her collaboration with 7FO, released through EM Records, was selected as one of the best of the year by Shintaro Sakamoto. In addition to her self-produced works, she has participated in the works of Giant Claw, CVN, Shokuhin Matsuri a.k.a foodman, Dengaryu, KM, etc., and has released through overseas labels including TAR and Orange Milk. Also, she has contributed music to the Japan Pavilion hosted by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry at SXSW 2019, where Yoichi Ochiai was the general director, virtual singer te'resa, and an Australian bag brand. On August 6th, 2021, her debut album "Orca" will be released via Orange Milk / EM Records. 

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Orca ~

Music & words by NTsKi, except “Parallelisme” by Haruomi Hosono & Miharu Koshi 

All tracks produced by NTsKi, except track 3, 4, 5, 6 co-produced by Yem Gel, track 2 co-produced by Le Makeup, track 8 co-produced by Dan Shutt, track 10 produced by Giant Claw

Guitars on track 2 by Le Makeup, vocals on track 2 by Dove, vocal editing on track 6 by Hiroto Taniguchi, guitars and bass on track 9 by Yosuke Shimonaka

Track 1, 5, 8, 9 mixed by The Anticipation Illicit Tsuboi @ RDS Toritsudai 

Mastered by Rick Essig @ REM Sound NYC 

Visual art by Keith Rankin based on a montage by NTsKi

NTsKi - On Divination In Sleep Feat. Dove

離れている君や、まだ知らない誰かとの、
まだ知らない場所での待ち合わせ*

1. NAGATA - Dancing In The Snow
2. Soda Plains - Mist on Lantau
3. t0ni - keepsake
4. Yosi Horikawa - 05 Swashers
5. RLX ASSASSYN - I Swear I Hear Voices In The Snow
6. Mechatok - 12 Years
7. Shinji Hawke - Shimmer
8. ML Buch - O
9. Mechatok - Agency Loop
10. Murlo - Lanced
11. Yung Sherman - Sometimes When I Can’t Sleep
12. Himera -Broken friendship Bracelet
13. Mura Masa & Erika de Casier - e-motion
14. Lorenzo senni - Dance Tonight Revolution Tomorrow
15. Sega Bodega - Sun Loop
16. Dark0 - Hardwire
17. A.G.Cook - 2021
18. o0o - Yoyou_Joy_Rmx
19. Direct - Tired Eyes
20. TEEN - Pls (Emily Glass remix)
21. DJH - Buoyant
22. Croatian Amor - Love Means Talking Action
23. upsammy - Echo Boomed
24. soichi 芳芽 - Autophagy (feat. renko)
25. Howie Lee -鸟岛（Birdy Island） 

cover photo was taken by Yugo Takayama at last Nimbus*
*a event that hosted by me

NTsKi - On Divination In Sleep Feat. Dove

Orange Milk Records