Jakokoyak

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Jakokoyak is the music project of Welsh musician and producer Rhys Edwards. His sound mixes psychedelic folk, folktronica, and lo-fi experimental electronic music. Edwards also ran the Peski Records label. He is married to musician Gwenno Saunders and lives in Cardiff, Wales. Born in Mold, Flintshire, he grew up on Anglesey and started recording in his second year of university, working alone with old keyboards and effects pedals. Those early recordings helped him win a place in a postgraduate music course at Bangor.

In 2003 he released his debut album Am Cyfan Dy Pethau Prydferth. The title came from a badly translated poster on the walls of the Cardiff Union. That year he won a Pop Factory award for Best New Talent, and the album was named Best Album at BBC Radio Cymru’s 2003 music awards. The album was reissued in Japan in 2004 and received praise in Japanese magazines such as Vogue Nippon. After more releases, Jakokoyak supported the Super Furry Animals on their Japan tour, then released The Flatyre EP (2006), whose lead track “Eira” was voted Record of the Week on Xfm in London. A second album, Aerophlot, followed in 2010, collecting songs recorded between 2006 and 2008.