Live Shizuka

According to this interview, it seems that Shizuka was into Hotsuma-Tsutae (秀真伝), an ancient Japanese epic poem which "tells the story of the 'gods' who inhabited Japan (...) in more than a thousand years from the 8th century BC to the 3rd century AD". In this song, Shizuka literally sings "Awa-no-uta", which seems to be something like an alphabet created by 2 ancient sorveigns of the Japanese legendary history. The purpose of Awa-no-ata was to standardize "the national language Read more on Last.fm.

静香 (Shizuka) was a Japanese psychedelic rock band that consisted of vocalist/guitarist Shizuka Miura, guitarist Maki Miura (ex-Fushitsusha), drummer Jun Kosougi, and a revolving line-up of bassists. Founded in Tokyo, Japan by renown doll-maker Shizuka Miura and her husband Maki Miura, the band remained in the deep underground during its years of existence. Along with the typical haunting atmosphere of the Japanese psych scene, 静香 also brings a lot of noisy improvisation sounds. Shizuka Miura committed suicide on January 31, 2010. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.