Eiko Ishibashi
Eiko Ishibashi is a Japanese singer-songwriter and musician.
She has frequently worked with Jim O'Rourke, with O'Rourke producing several of her albums and Ishibashi playing on his album Simple Songs. Together with Tatsuhisa Yamamoto they formed the band Kafka's Ibiki.
In 2016, she released the album Kouen Kyoudai, a collaboration with the Japanese noise musician Masami Akita. She composed the music for the 2019 anime Blade of the Immortal. She has collaborated with director Ryusuke Hamaguchi on two projects: the 2021 film Drive My Car, and the 2023 film Evil Does Not Exist.
Personal life
She is currently in a relationship with American musician Jim O'Rourke. The two met when Ishibashi played flute on a Burt Bacharach covers album O'Rourke was producing. They live and work closely together, but "keep a professional distance, sending each other data files to work on rather than jamming."Discography
Works for Everything Lola and Soda Slip Beneath the Distant Tree Summer Dress Drifting Devil Carapace Imitation of Life I'm Armed Car and Freezer Compressed Happiness Kouen Kyoudai Ichida The Dream My Bones Dream For McCoy Pareidolia- ''Antigone''