RIEKO (Rieko Whitfield) is a genre-defying artist whose sound fuses classical training with heavy metal intensity and left-field club influences. Her work draws on mythological cycles of life, death, and rebirth – channelled through visceral incarnations and ritualistic composition. 

Beyond music, RIEKO’s wider audio-visual world-building spans performance, writing, and collective healing experiences, shaping an oracular, multidisciplinary practice that imagines alternative futures. She is a recent artist in residence at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, a former resident of Tate Modern and Tate Britain, and a graduate of the Royal College of Art. She is also the Founding Director of Diasporas Now, a live art community and cultural agency supporting Global Majority artists across experimental music, performance, and ritual world-building.

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midori jaeger is a London-based cellist and songwriter originally from Japan. Her music has been championed by The New York Times, BBC Radio 3, BBC 6 Music, KEXP, CLASH and Line of Best Fit.

This year she releases (Un/Re)planted, a concept EP written at the cello, depicting uprootedness and mixed cultural identity. The cello itself is an instrument that was once a living tree plucked from the earth. In parallel, the songs express midori's own journey as a child growing up in multiple continents, uprooted and forced to build roots on different soils.

midori is a globally in-demand collaborative multi-instrumentalist, including recent live performances with Imogen Heap, Jessie Ware, Courtney Pine, Patrick Watson, Daughter and Christian Löffler.

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Akiko Haruna is a Japanese-British-Danish producer, vocalist, composer and movement artist currently based in London. Drawing from backgrounds in experimental dance and mixed-media composition, their work moves between raucous pop, club-focused percussion, dense electronics and cinematic sound design.

After entering the dance industry as a teenager and working across music videos and commercial productions, Akiko Haruna released her debut EP through the Glasgow electronic label NMBRS. She further established herself within the electronic music landscape through collaborations with artists including Scaler, Bon, Hinako Omori and Manni Dee, while supporting and sharing line-ups with Daniel Avery, TAAHLIAH, Meuko! Meuko!, Mun Sing, Hinako Omori, LCY, KAVARI, Manuka Honey, Two Shell, Sarahsson and Manni Dee. Festival appearances include Body Movements Festival (UK), Sonic Acts Biennale (Netherlands), Lunchmeat Festival (Czech Republic) and Festival Grounded (Slovenia).
Alongside their music practice, Haruna has developed a multidisciplinary body of work spanning sound design, movement and performance. This has included composing for multimedia and installation projects such as TENSOR, presented as part of SOMMERLIGHTS at DARK MATTER Museum in Berlin, as well as collaborative movement and world-building projects including Bugeisha Club.
Manners Mask the Man, her most recent project marks the beginning of a wider body of work, with additional music to be released throughout 2026.
 

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As our lives move more and more online, the boundaries between the natural and digital world become increasingly blurry. Yumé NET is interested in interrogating these boundaries. Whether it's in her research as a bioelectronics PhD student developing electronics that interface with the human nervous system. Or in her music, where she crafts coruscating and otherworldly musical landscapes that explore what it means to be human in an increasingly online society. Using a meld of modern jazz and experimental electronic music as her framework, Yumé sets out to tell stories about the very personal and very human aspects of her life (platonic love, trans joy, identity, bigotry, community) and how technology has transformed them. Tender but heavy, calculated but full of love, her music invites the listener to join her in exploring what lies between and beyond the 0s and 1s.

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O YAMA O is a music project of artists Keiko Yamamoto and Rie Nakajima. Using a combination of kinetic devices and found objects, they create soundscapes inspired by Japanese myth, ritual, anthropology and everyday, non-spectacular sound worlds. Works are often composed of Yamamoto singing while Nakajima's constructs escalating micro-orchestras in direct response to unique architectural spaces. O YAMA O has been collaborating with Billy Steiger, Marie Roux, and David Cunningham. O YAMA O has been performed at : Cafe OTO (London), Borealis Music Festival (Bergen), NoShowSpace (London), Mayhem (Copenhagen), LCMF (London), Novas Frequencias(Brazil) and some other places.

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Umi Ishihara is a London- and Tokyo-based artist and filmmaker. She creates experimental narrative films and video installations that connect personal memory with social realities, centering the lived histories of marginalized communities. Raised by parents working in Japan’s nightclubs and free-rave scenes, Ishihara developed a focus on portraying communities that exist outside dominant social structures. She often collaborates with non-professional actors, local residents, and people from her immediate surroundings, creating unscripted and grassroots narratives grounded in collective experience.

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