Mieko Shimizu is a boldly nonconformist Japanese singer, songwriter, composer and producer and a resident artist at Wonky Plonky Electronk. Based in London, Mieko Shimizu has released numerous albums and singles, as she continues to make her mark on avant-garde and experimental genres.

She first erupted onto the scene as Apache 61; her searing alter ego, fusing layers of cross-woven breaks and battling shards of sub-bass within stateless melodies drawn from the fringes of the avant-garde. As Mieko Shimizu, her last album, ‘My Tentacles’ saw her return to a deeper, more reflective state in the cavernous depth of beautiful symphonic songs that oscillated with glitchy electronica.

Mieko has played at Sonar, alongside the mighty Kraftwerk and supported Massive Attack at their Melt Festival. She has been an ‘Emerging Artist in Residence’ at London’s Southbank Centre where she collaborated with the London Philharmonic Orchestra on her own compositions.