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Gutevolk

Gutevolk is the solo music project of Japanese musician Hirono Nishiyama. With electronic music at its base, her sound is one that seems to have eaten the genres of the world; colored by a variety of instruments and sounds, multilingual lyrics and coined words, she expresses an original, evil, pop worldview.

Hirono Nishiyama began working under her own name in 1999 on Nobukazu Takemura’s Childisc label. In 2002, she moved to Haruomi Hosono’s Daisyworld Discs, where she would adopt the name Gutevolk. In addition to releasing a number of albums, she has toured inside and outside of Japan and created music for TV programs, commercials, and theater works. Always working at her own pace, she has also been active as a DJ and produced her own music videos.

In the summer of 2021, she began a collaboration with filmmaker Koichiro Tsujikawa over social media, the Mezameru Wakusei audiovisual exchange diary. On February 1st, 2023, Mezameru Wakusei, an album composed of spinoff songs from the collaboration, was released. After the original project concluded in January with the sixth installment of the series, a new collaboration project with Tsujikawa began on February 14th.

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Hirono Nishiyama weaves a mysterious wave of sound catches the edge of my ear. Even If I follow it with my eyes, even if I try to look at it correctly, it is elusive. I think perhaps it’s because Gutevolk is a fairy, named ‘Good people’. She’s taught me ,the music is the same thing as a fairy.
_Haruomi Hosono

How lovely, I wanted to be born with a voice like this. Would you like to trade for mine?
_Akiko Yano

Dwarfs behind my ear entered through Gutevolk’s lips, and they sliding down into her throat tunnel and playing in the universe stretches beyond…That’s how I feel.
_Yayako Uchida

A really warm and friendly sequence of songs, full of subtly brilliant arrangements.
Infused with a sense of childhood, magic and positivity.
You just want it togo on forever.
_Momus

Hirono Nishiyama

	1999 ”Yura Yura Yureru” /Childisc
	2000 “Kaisentou” /Childisc
	2001 ”Pied Piper” /Childisc

Gutevolk

Album

	2002 “The humming of tiny people” /Daisy World Discs
	2003 “suomi” / noble
	2004 “twinkle” /12k
	2005 “The tiny people singing over the rainbow” /noble
	2010 “Sun Chandelier ” /Rally Label
	2017 “Hello tiny people! I will catch you” / Space Shower Music

Single

	2018 “Stille nacht, Heilige nacht ～Silent Night～” /FLAU
	2019 “Carol Of The Bells” /FLAU

Hirono Nishiyama

Compilation

	1999 “Childisc vol.3″/ Childisc
	2000 “Childisc vol.4″/ Childisc
	2000 “Childisc vol.5″/ Childisc
	2001 “STYLUS#3″ /College Chart Japan
	2008 “Little Things” / FLAU

Vocals and words

	1999 “Yoru No Yuenchi” Child’s View /_Warner Music Japan
	2000 “Child’s View ~Funfair~” Child’s View/_Warner Music Japan
	2002 “Song Book” Nobukazu Takemura / TOKUMA JAPAN

Sound Tracks

	1998 “Tempura Bowl Hard-boiled” Tsuyoshi Shuhama *The Grand Prize on Documentary section of the 1997 Pusan International Film Festival
	2004 “The Possibility For The Model” Tsuyoshi Shuhama

Gutevolk

Compilation

	2002 “Strange Flowers Vol.1″/ Daisy World Discs
	2003 “Hotel Soundtrack Vol.01 By Tatsuo Sunaga”/ GATE RECORDS
	2004 “DoReMi De Utaou “」/ 333 discs
	2009 “Rally Cloak 04 -Silent Phase-“/ Rally Label
	2011 “Invisible Folklore”/ noble