Diana Yukawa - Spirals (2022)

Since her debut album with BMG RCA at the age of 14, violinist Diana Yukawa has dazzled audiences at globally renowned venues such as Royal Albert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl and engaged in a wide range of collaborations from distinctive artists like Jeff Beck and Nitin Sawhney to orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic. Readers of the blog may recall her work alongside John Foxx and Ben Edwards (aka Benge) as part of Ghost Harmonic on their excellent 2015 release Codex (read the ST review here).

Spirals is Diana’s highly anticipated sixth solo album which she says is informed both by the global pandemic and her own personal lockdown experience where she chose to temporarily step back from music and focus on family life, motherhood and adapting to life in the English Cotswolds where the Tokyo-born and London-raised artist moved 7 years ago to start a family. The music came together during a period that spanned a pair of pregnancies, those of her first two children, and Diana indicates that motherhood was a major factor in its inspiration.