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Music(S)
Music(s) is the intimist portrait of Japanese composer Otomo Yoshihide.Music(s) is the intimist portrait of Japanese composer Otomo Yoshihide.In 1990, he founded the mythic group 'Ground Zero' produced by John Zorn, and is one of the major players on the current Japanese scene. An adept of free jazz and noisy music, he travels around the globe with his various jazz ensembles as well as solo on guitar or with his astonishing turntables. This double DVD presents a talented artist through th…
Music For Listening On The Moon
"This CD is made for the occasion of Moon Life by Alicia Framis, Shanghai. A continuous sound material from the installation 'Wormhole 2' in Yan Jun's washroom. After simple mastering (Denoise and Compression only). For playing in any environment and listening with any other sounds. 'Wormhole 2' is a continuation of the installation 'Wormhole Trip Souvenir' in The Shop Beijing, as 'Music For Listening On The Moon' is a continuation of 'Wormhole Trip OST'" (Label info)
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UNEXPLORED CHINESE MUSIC: 'all tracks: live recording during 2010 May Ð July. recorded from desk. mastered by Taku Unami.' (label info)
With Records
Otomo Yoshihide (turntable), Ozeki Mikito (kirie), Mats Gustafsson (baritone saxophone from Mats Gustafsson's solo LP 'It Is All About' on Tyyfus label). Mastered by Jun Numata. Released to commemorate the exhibition Ensembles '09: With Records at Gallery 45-8, Tokyo, October 11-November 8, 2009. No cover, limited 800 copies, serial numbers. Otomo Yoshihide (turntables), Ozeki Mikito (cutout art) and Mats Gustafsson (baritone sax).
See you in a dream
Back in stock. 'It is an album that Otomo Yoshihide arrange & produce the tune of hachidai nakamura who is the great composer (he made the base of popsong of Japan.) The vocalist is Yuki Saga. Backing musicians are the member of the ONJO etc 'All songs composed by Hachidai Nakamura. Lyrics by Rokusuke Ei, Hachidai Nakamura, Naomi Kodaira, Rokuro Yanai, Michio Yamagami and Tokiko Iwatani. Yuki Saga: vocals, mellophone, field recording. Otomo Yoshihide: electric guitar, banjo-guitar, sound collage…
Guitar Duo
Otomo Yoshihide: electric guitar, acoustic guitar. Seiichi Yamamoto: electric guitar, acoustic guitar. Produced by Otomo Yoshihide and Seiichi Yamamoto. Recorded and mixed by Yoshiaki Kondo at GOK Sound, Tokyo, August 2007. Mastered by Tetsuya Kotani at Omega Sound, Osaka.
Archives sauvées des eaux
Luc Ferrari's composition Archives sauvées des eaux for two DJs was premiered in Japan and performed by the composer himself and Otomo Yoshihide at SuperDeluxe in Tokyo in 2003. This CD is a live recording of their first and the only performance, before the French composer passed away in 2005. The included are the intimate liner notes by Brunhild Ferrari and Otomo, and a 10 minute CD-Extra edition of live video clip slow landing, produced by studio Malaparte, as a bonus track for the initial pre…
Live Vol. 2 Parallel Circuit
Since last year, those titles had been a hold by various matters but ONJO (Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra) Live CD are finally released at last. Those essential titles, 2CDs x 2 sets are organized various Live performances and indicate the future ONJO. The sound of ONJO contains every connection between tone, onkyo, sonority, melody, rhythm and so on. Disc 1 : Shichinin no Keiji (Berlin + Tokyo), Gazzelloni (Kyoto), Te recuerdo Amanda > Song For Che > Reducing Agent (Tokyo), Super Jetter (…
Live Vol. 1 Series Circuit
Since last year, those titles had been a hold by various matters but ONJO (Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra) Live CD are finally released at last. Those essential titles, 2CDs x 2 sets are organized various Live performances and indicate the future ONJO. The sound of ONJO contains every connection between tone, onkyo, sonority, melody, rhythm and so on. Disc 1 : Lost In The Rain (Berlin), Out To Lunch (Tokyo), Playgirl BGM (Berlin + Tokyo), Double Command II (Tokyo), Single Command (Tokyo), …
Moving Parts
Performer, sculptor, and sound artist Christian Marclay has been experimenting with phonograph records and turntables, applying the constructs of hip-hop to avant-garde sound art deconstruction since 1979. Having teamed up with Japanese turntablist and guitar player Otomo Yoshihide for their collaboration Moving Parts, the two continue in their ongoing quest to evolve music and sound far beyond anything that is even remotely accessible to a mainstream audience. Moving Parts is a ravenous bricola…
Core Anode
Core Anode is the roaring-sound project of the versatile and multifaceted Otomo Yoshihide, who works in genres ranging from free improvisation to jazz to rock to movie and TV music. The CD contains 3 pieces recorded live at concerts in Tokyo (2002), Copenhagen (2006), and London (2006). The players/numbers of players differed at each performance. In all cases, the musicians were outside the audience area, surrounding the listeners, and in all cases they put out nothing but roaring sound. In Tok…
Loose Community
Otomo Yoshide (turntables, guitar) is active on a worldwide scale in such fields as free improvisation, composition, and film music. On a trip to Seoul in May of 2002, Otomo made a studio recording with Seoul musicians Park Je Chun (percussion) and Mi Yeon (piano). Known as a brilliant student of Kang Tae Hwan, the pioneer of the Korean improvised music scene, Park was formerly a member of Kang's band. Mi Yeon, an artist firmly grounded in contemporary classical music, has collaborated with Park…
Ensemble Cathode
Taku Sugimoto: electric guitar, Tetuzi Akiyama: turntable without records, contact microphones, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki: waterphone, Kumiko Takara: snare drum, Masahiro Uemura: bells, Ami Yoshida: voice, Itoken: crotales, Mari Furuta: snare drum, Yoshimitsu Ichiraku: cymbal with bow, Sachiko M: sine waves, contact microphone, Yoko Nishi: prepared 17-string koto, Andrea Neumann: inside piano, Yoshihide Otomo: turntable. This album was recorded intermittently between May 2001 and March 2002. Most of th…
Difference between the two clocks
Featuring French multi-instrumentist Xavier Charles and the well known experimental Japanese musician Otomo Yoshihide. Together their sounds create a monochrome mental image in a field of ambient drone and glitches. 'Difference Between The Two Clocks' is an involving, sometimes uneasy listen, during which the duo explore the relationship between sound and silence, focusing on non beating rhythms and minimalist texture and volume.
Hu-du-men: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Soundtrack for a movie by Shu Kei. Chino Shuichi: piano, organ, synthesizer; Uchihashi Kazuhisa: guitar, bass, banjo; Matsumoto Osamu (5): trombone; Otsubo Hirohiko (2,10,16,17): contrabass; Nasuno Mitsuru (5): bass; Yoshigaki Yasuhiro: drums, latin percussions; Aya (2,16,17): vocal; Otomo Yoshihide (1): sampler.
21 Situations
This is the long-anticipated encounter between Martin Tétreault and Otomo Yoshihide, recorded in the CBC studios in Montréal. Witness for yourself the clash of two masterful turntable manipulators, one from Japan, the other from Quebec: two universes, two attitudes and one electro-mechanical encounter around the record player. The result is a stunning collection of twenty-one improvised “situations” exploring themes such as science fiction, education, jungle, cartoons, and seventeen additional s…
Modulation with 2 electric guitars and amplifiers
This is Otomo Yoshihide's second guitar solo release on doubtmusic. The concept of this work, however, is complely different from that of the first. Here, feedback sound issues from two amplifiers, each connected to one of two guitars placed on a tabletop. Due to this stereo effect, the feedback mutually interferes, producing beatlike fluctuations, creating black holes into which the sound suddenly disappears, sounding completely different depending on the position of the ears, creating the illu…
Turntables and computers
Turntables & Computers is an uncut live recording of Otomo Yoshihide and Nobukazu Takemura performing an improvised live set at the Super Deluxe club in Roppongi, for the 'Space Invaded' event on March 29, 2003. This live album documents the first performance ever of these two world renowned musicians together, and the intense collision between the sounds of Otomo's turntables and Takemura's computers.
Mottomo Otomo – Unlimited XIII
The legendary Unlimited Festival in Wels, Austria in 1999 was curated by Otomo Yoshihide (Ground Zero). We are happy to release this sampler that captures the great musicians, bands and projects: Otomo Yoshihide solo, Radian, Incapacitants, Kaffe Matthews / Neumann / Krebs, Tetreault / Labrosse, Nagata Kazunao, Novo Tono, Keith Rowe / Taku / Otomo, Poire_Z, O.Y. New Jazz Quintet (their first performance ever!!), Hoahio, O.Y. solo (finale).
Brackwater
Recorded by Laurent Perrier Sonorisation at the former state prison of Sion, May 4, 2003.