Jakokoyak


Jakokoyak is a Welsh musician and producer who creates lo-fi experimental electronic music, with leanings towards psychedelic folk, sometimes classified as folktronica. Edwards also ran the now defunct Peski Records label. He is married to musician Gwenno Saunders and lives in Cardiff, Wales.

Career

A native of Mold, Flintshire, Edwards began recording in his second year of university. Working and recording alone, he began exploring old keyboards and effects pedals. It was these recordings that subsequently gave him the passport to a postgraduate music course at Bangor.
In 2003 he released his debut album, Am Cyfan Dy Pethau Prydferth. In the same year he won a Pop Factory award for Best New Talent, and Am Cyfan... was awarded Best Album at BBC Radio Cymru's 2003 music awards.
The album was re-released in Japan in 2004 and was warmly received in Japanese magazines such as Vogue Nippon.
After a string of releases, Jakokoyak supported the Super Furry Animals on their tour of Japan, which was followed with the release of theFlatyre EP, of which its lead track "Eira" was voted Record of the Week on London's Xfm radio station.
Jakokoyak released a second album ‘Aerophlot’ in 2010, a collection of songs recorded between 2006-2008.

Discography

Albums