Hako Yamasaki = Hako Yamasaki

A breathtaking balance of fragility and fire, Tsunawatari (綱渡り — Tightrope Walking) captures Hako Yamasaki at her most fearless and introspective.

Emerging from Japan’s vibrant folk underground of the mid-’70s, the album walks a line between melancholy and transcendence — raw acoustic confessionals brushed with psychedelic haze and quiet defiance.

Yamasaki’s voice, tender yet unyielding, carries the weight of solitude and survival; it trembles one moment and cuts like glass the next.

Sparse guitars, haunted flutes, and subtle percussion create a sound both earthy and celestial, as if the songs were recorded at the edge of a dream.

Tsunawatari isn’t just a folk record — it’s an act of emotional tightrope walking, poised between vulnerability and power, silence and storm.