Tomoe Shinohara is a very accomplished entertainer and performer in Japan. She has a number of hit songs that are easily found on U-Tube. Unfortunately, none of those songs are on this CD. :^( The music here is interesting, experimental, but not 4 or 5 star material in my opinion. Perhaps this was the beginning of her career. Heck - Pink Floyd made a bunch of garbage in their first few years, then got into an artistic groove and - well the rest is history. Probably need to order from a Japanese language catalog to get the more popular hits from this artist -- unfortunately I don't speak or read Japanese well enough to find it.