Profound Sound presents RIEKO (Rieko Whitfield) and guests

Join us for a special Profound Sound event presenting an immersive performance by Japanese-born, Margate-based artist and composer RIEKO (Rieko Whitfield), showcasing her upcoming EP Zakuro.

Date: Saturday 18 July 2026
Opening Times: 19:30
Location: Quarterhouse, Mill Bay, Folkestone, Kent CT20 1BN

Zakuro — Japanese for "pomegranate" — features sweeping string arrangements over crushing electronic beats, cavernous minimalist piano, and vocals that move from roaring lament to yearnings of hope. The four-track EP draws on the Buddhist tale of Kishibojin: a child-devouring demon who undergoes a spiritual transformation, consuming pomegranate seeds as the closest substitute for flesh, and becoming a protector of the vulnerable.

Zakuro is a tender proposition of hope through anticipatory grief, in the face of political and ecological collapse.

This event is an Outlands Network Exchange commission, supported by Shadow World and Folkestone Fringe.

With support from Raven Bush
Raven Bush

RIEKO (Rieko Whitfield) is a Japanese-born artist and composer whose multidisciplinary practice is part of an ongoing mythological world-building project. Weaving ritual performance, experimental music, and collective healing workshops with curation and community building, her work prototypes alternative futures and cultural systems through oracular, artist-led intuition.

She is a 2025-2026 resident at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, a 2022-2023 resident at the Tate Modern and Tate Britain, a 2021 MA graduate of the Royal College of Art, and Founding Director of Diasporas Now.

For more information about RIEKO – Fruit

riekowhitfield.com
@riekowhitfield