Kyoko Kitamura is a vocal improviser and composer residing in Brooklyn, New York. She does weird things with her voice and uses the laptop to make it sound even weirder.

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Kyoko ditched her MySpace account but has a Facebook account.

"a major asset...Kitamura is an expressive vocalist who knows how to be quirky and eccentric but is also quite musical." (Alex Henderson - All Music Guide)

"Fronted by the captivating Kyoko Kitamura, Go-Zee-Lah gave one of the Festival's most theatrical performances […] Kitamura acted as the focal point, introducing the tunes, and moving between torch singing, sprechgesang (an expressionistic technique halfway between singing and speaking) and vocal aerobatics in her accomplished delivery." (John Sharpe - All About Jazz)

"Kitamura's voice is an amazing instrument..." (Richard Kamins - Hartford Courant)

"Kitamura is a gifted singer... electrifying on Ornette Coleman’s 'What Reason Could I Give'..." (Point of Departure October 2009 Issue by Bill Shoemaker on Taylor Ho Bynum & SpiderMonkey Strings "Madeleine Dreams")

"an extraordinary experimental/jazz vocalist..." (Downtown Music Gallery)

All photos on this site by Michael Weintrob unless otherwise noted.