Nomura crafts gorgeous acoustic ballads that sound akin to Beach House, but he juxtaposes this sincerity with ridiculous lyrics and hilarious song. About time we got someone with talent who doesn’t take himself too seriously. -XLR8R

Nomura’s dextrous fingerpicking dazzles you with its lushness, while his strangely accented murmur and blunt lyrics remind you of Pwrfl Power’s core eccentricity. -Time Out New York

Born to an architect and a calligrapher in Hokkaido, Japan in 1984, Kaz Nomura began studying Classical and Jazz guitar at the age of 13 -- moving to Seattle at 18 to study musical composition. Shortly after his arrival, the diminutive and charismatic Nomura co-founded (along with two other like-minded Japanese emigres) the city-conquering, genre-defying free-improv trio Na -- who, before their residency-related demise in 2006, self-released over 40 recordings, and garnered ink in Wire, Spin, and The Stranger.

Following the dissolution of his band, Nomura -- now armed with a fancy music degree -- decided to refine his focus: constricting his work from genre-less abandon to more traditional song structures. The result is PWRFL Power.

After the release of his debut album PWRFL Power on Slender Means Society (CD) and Aagoo (LP), he has won over thousands of new fans at premier American festivals such as Seattle's Bumbershoot, Denver's Monolith Festival, Philadelphia's Popped Fest, and Portland's Music Fest North West as well as touring with Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Parenthetical Girls, and Tickley Feather, among others.