Hinako Omori: PPL Momentum Music Fund
Hinako Omori is a London-based composer. She began her musical path learning classical piano, later training as a sound engineer, and has since moved into working with analogue synths. In addition to releasing her own solo material she has toured with and played on records for artists including Kae Tempest, Georgia, and EOB.
Since 2022’s critically acclaimed debut album, ‘a journey…’, Omori has fast become one of the UK’s most compelling breakthrough musicians, blurring the lines between classical, electronic and ambient. A concept album inspired by the ancient Japanese ritual of forest bathing, ‘a journey…’s lush textures, rooted in nature, were called “remarkable” by Pitchfork and received heavy rotation on BBC 6Music. Omori has since supported Beth Orton, Anna Meredith and Ichiko Aoba, played with a 60-piece orchestra for BBC Radio 3’s Unclassified and, later this year, will join Floating Points’ esteemed ensemble at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles to perform Promises, his collaborative album with the late Pharoah Sanders.
“I’m very honoured to be a recipient of the PPL Momentum Music Fund this year. The fund will help finance a UK headline tour for my second album which will be released via Houndstooth on 29th October, enabling me to expand the show and crew and further enhance the sound and visual world we will be creating together.
I’m incredibly grateful for this opportunity, and am so excited to share the new music and live show with you very soon.”