Olive comes from a classical piano background, playing and performing since she was 4. She writes, performs, and produces dreampop music under her name, Olive Kimoto. Currently, she's finishing up her first solo single with producer Chrome Sparks.
As a commercial musician, her work has been featured by Netflix, and she has done projects in collaboration with Hermès, Playtronica, and more.
Occasionally, she collabs with other musicians and adds vocals and synths to other projects. She is also a DJ and hosts the NTS Radio show, Liquid Mirror.
my old shoegaze band :^)
old demos...
As Olive Kimoto, she has performed shows with Kelly Lee Owens, Alessandro Cortini (of Nine Inch Nails), Carla Dal Forno, Vinyl Williams, Tempers, Tess Roby, and more, across venues like MOCA, Lodge Room, Zebulon, and The Echo.
With Crescendo, Olive has played an official SXSW showcase, Treefort Music Festival, and was selected to perform as the house band for TEDTalks (TEDMED) in 2015. Her work has been featured by Nylon Magazine, Buzznet, Brooklyn Vegan, Bandcamp, and more. Her song, Haunted, was featured in the Netflix film, Coin Heist, in 2017.
credits
2023
Composer
"Dane Mitchell’s Post hoc conjures up the ghosts of our past, calling up millions of vanished, extinct, absent and obsolete things. From submerged atolls to failed utopias, extinct languages to tax havens, long lists of lost, withdrawn and vanished entities and phenomena are announced and transmitted, accumulating as a forecast of the past."
released by NTS Radio
2024
Meishi Smile, TBA
Vocals
TBA
2020
Synths
Compilation: I Hope You're Doing Well
Released by Qu Junktions
2017
Lee Noble - A Cape of Leadwort
Vocals
The Hell of You Come In
Released by No Kings Records
2016
Vocals, synths, keys
Unless
Released by We Were Never Being Boring
