Trek to Yomi with Yoko Honda Gaalaas

Steal a moment away at ACMI’s Listening room, a space perfectly built for experiencing your favourite records, with composer Yoko Honda Gaalaas and her music from the samurai-themed game, Trek to Yomi.

With each track, Yoko transports you between Akira Kurosawa’s cinematic influences and her careful approach to cultural authenticity, crafting a score that exclusively features instruments of the Edo period of Japanese history.

Yoko Honda Gaalaas is an award winning Japanese music director / composer for motion pictures and video games based in Los Angeles, US. She started learning music at the age of two when her parents found out that she had natural perfect pitch. Yoko's international upbringing in Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States contributes to her unique musical development style and sound. Her natural perfect pitch often defines her sound; The intricate multi-layers of instruments in her music are often described as "Evocative and Emotional". Yoko's musicality demonstrates a wide spectrum ranging from orchestral sound to modern electronic sound, showcasing the crossover elements of classical music, pop, R&B, and Japanese traditional music.