Seiichi Yamamoto
Encyclopedia
is a Japan
ese musician. While perhaps most famous for his role as guitarist
for the noise rock
band Boredoms, he has released multitudes of records both as a solo artist and with several other musicians and bands, in addition to composing the soundtracks to several films.
Yamamoto had left Boredoms prior to the release of Seadrum/House of Sun; the album contains samples of previously-recorded guitar work.
In addition to performing in these bands, Yamamoto has collaborated with dozens of other bands of varying genres.
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese musician. While perhaps most famous for his role as guitarist
Guitarist
A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...
for the noise rock
Noise rock
Noise rock describes a style of post-punk rock music that became prominent in the 1980s. Noise rock makes use of the traditional instrumentation and iconography of rock, but incorporates atonality and especially dissonance, and also frequently discards usual songwriting conventions.-Style:Noise...
band Boredoms, he has released multitudes of records both as a solo artist and with several other musicians and bands, in addition to composing the soundtracks to several films.
Solo projects
- Suido Megane Satsujin Jiken videocassette (Augen, 1994)
- Solo Improvisado videocassette (Augen, 1996)
- Noa (Alchemy, ARCD-101, 1998)
- Noa 2 (Alchemy, ARCD-125, 2001)
- Crown of Fuzzy Groove (Weather/P-Vine, 2002)
- Nu Frequency (Tzadik, 2003)
- Nazonazo (Ummo / MIDI Creative, 2003)
- Baptism (Tzadik, 2004)
- X-Game (as Para; P-Vine, 2006)
- Tokyo Loop: Original Soundtrack (Image Forum/P-Vine, 2006)
As co-leader
- Shiawase no Sumika with Phew (Tokuma Japan Communications, 1998)
- Ichi the KillerIchi the Killeris a 2001 Japanese film directed by Takashi Miike, based on Hideo Yamamoto's manga series of the same name.- Plot : While alone with a prostitute, crime lord Anjo is brutally murdered...
: Original Soundtrack (Monsoon, 2001) - Ontoko with K.K. Null (Ummo, 1999)
- Dance with Philip Samartzis (FMN Sound Factory, 2002)
- Live at Showboat, February 25, 2000 with Lamones Young with Mukai, and Chie (Last Visible Dog/Hospital Productions, 2003)
- Hasselt with Enkidu (Turtles' Dream, 2004)
- Kirie: Kabusacki Tokyo Session with Kabusacki, Fernando, Yuji Katsui, Natsuki Kido, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, Yoichi Okabe, and Takashi Numazawa (Glamorous, 2004)
- Chichipio: Buenos Aires Session vol. #1 (EWE, 2005)
- Izumi: Buenos Aires Session vol. #2 (EWE, 2006)
with Boredoms
- Osorezan no Stooges KyoOsorezan no Stooges KyoOsorezan no Stooges Kyo is an album by Boredoms, released in 1988 on Selfish Records. The title translates to "The Stooges' Craze in Osorezan".-Track listing:#"Wipe Out Shock Shoppers" – 0:21#"Boredom, Vs, Sdi" – 3:23#"We Never Sleep" – 2:10...
(1988, Selfish Records) - Soul DischargeSoul DischargeSoul Discharge is a 1989 album by experimental noise rock band Boredoms. It was named the 89th greatest album of the 1980s by Pitchfork Media.-Soul Discharge:Original Selfish Records LP release -Soul Discharge '99:...
(1989, Selfish Records) - Pop TatariPop TatariPop Tatari is the third full-length album by Boredoms, released in 1992 by Warner Music Japan, in 1993 by Reprise Records, and in the United Kingdom in 2004 by Very Friendly Records....
(1992, WEA Japan) - Super RootsSuper RootsSuper Roots is the first installment of the Super Roots EP series by Japanese experimental band Boredoms, released in 1993 by WEA Japan, in 1994 by Reprise/Warner Bros. Records in the United States, and rereleased in 2007 by Very Friendly Records in the United Kingdom and Vice/Atlantic Records in...
(1993, WEA Japan) - Wow 2Wow 2Wow 2 is a live album by Japanese experimental band Boredoms. It was also the band's only live release until Super Roots 9—despite the title, no Wow 1 was ever made. It was recorded live in studio by John Zorn and Martin Bisi.-Track listing:...
(1993, Avant Records) - Super Roots 2Super Roots 2Super Roots 2 is the second installment of the Super Roots EP series by Japanese experimental band Boredoms. It was mailed out to people in Japan who completed and mailed in a survey card enclosed with the Japanese release of Chocolate Synthesizer or packaged with copies of the album exported...
(1994, WEA Japan) - Chocolate SynthesizerChocolate SynthesizerChocolate Synthesizer is the fourth full-length album by Japanese noise rock band Boredoms, released in 1994 by WEA Japan and Reprise Records and in 2004 on Very Friendly Records....
(1994, WEA Japan) - Super Roots 3Super Roots 3Super Roots 3 is the third installment of the Super Roots EP series by Japanese experimental band Boredoms. It consists only of one song, half an hour in length, which has a repetitive rhythm almost throughout.-Track listing:...
(1994, WEA Japan) - Super Roots 5Super Roots 5Super Roots 5 is the fourth installment in the Super Roots EP series by noise rock band Boredoms, released in 1995 by Warner Music Japan....
(1995, WEA Japan) - Super Roots 6Super Roots 6Super Roots 6 is the fifth installment in the Super Roots EP series by noise rock band Boredoms, released in 1996 by WEA Japan. In the USA, it was numbered and priced as a standard album.-Track listing:#"01" – 1:42#"0 " – 0:57#"6" – 6:08...
(1996, WEA Japan) - Super Go!!!!!Super Go!!!!!Super Go!!!!! is a maxi single by the Japanese experimental noise rock band Boredoms. All the songs are remixes of "Super Going" from the band's next album, Super æ....
(1998, WEA Japan) - Super æ (1998, WEA Japan)
- Super Seeeeee!!!!!!Super Seeeeee!!!!!!Super Seeeeee!!!!!! is a live video released by Japanese noise rock band Boredoms, and is their first official video. It was released in 1998 by Warner Music Japan on VHS, and reissued later in 2004 and 2006 on DVD.-Track listing:...
(1998, WEA Japan) - Super 77/Super SkySuper 77/Super SkySuper 77 / Super Sky is a maxi single by the Japanese experimental noise rock band Boredoms. It was released in a 500-copy limited edition vinyl....
(1998, WEA Japan) - Super Roots 7Super Roots 7Super Roots 7 is the sixth installment in the Super Roots EP series by noise rock band Boredoms, released in 1998 by Warner Music Japan. The band included a credit for "Super thanks to the Mekons," whose song "Where Were You?" influenced this release....
(1998, WEA Japan) - Super Roots 8Super Roots 8Super Roots 8 is the 7th installment in the Super Roots EP series by noise rock band Boredoms, released in 1999 by Warner Music Japan. The three tracks are all variations on...
(1999, WEA Japan) - Vision Creation Newsun (EP)Vision Creation Newsun (EP)The Vision Creation Newsun EP is the short version of the album of the same name, released before the box set.-Track listing:...
(1999, WEA Japan) - Vision Creation NewsunVision Creation Newsun-Limited edition:The album was originally released with alternative artwork, a second disc, a T-shirt, a sticker, and an electronic device that played sampled frog noises when the box was opened. The second disc contains a 30+ minute live track consisting of an unreleased song and the opening track...
(1999, WEA Japan) - Rebore, vol. 1Rebore, vol. 1Rebore, vol. 1 is a 2000 album by experimental noise rock band Boredoms. It is the first of three in the Rebore series, and is a DJ remix by Unkle that contains samples from Boredoms' entire discography to that point.-Personnel:...
(2000, WEA Japan) - Rebore, vol. 2Rebore, vol. 2Rebore, vol. 2 is the second remix album of material by experimental noise rock band Boredoms. It is the second of four in the Rebore series, and is a DJ remix by Ken Ishii that contains samples from Boredoms' entire discography to that point....
(2000, WEA Japan) - Rebore, vol. 3Rebore, vol. 3Rebore, vol. 3 is the third remix album of material by experimental noise rock band Boredoms. It is the third of four in the Rebore series, and is a DJ remix by DJ Krush that contains samples from Boredoms' entire discography to that point.-Personnel:...
(2001, WEA Japan) - Rebore, vol. 0Rebore, vol. 0Rebore, vol. 0: Vision Recreation by Eye is a 2001 album by experimental noise rock band Boredoms. It is the final in the series of four remix albums of Boredoms material and was compiled and mixed entirely by Eye.-Track listing:#"7" – 8:40#"77" – 6:31...
(2001, WEA Japan) - Seadrum/House of SunSeadrum/House of SunSeadrum/House of Sun is an album by Boredoms, released in 2004 by Warner Music Japan and in 2005 on Vice Records in the United States. It consisted of just two extended 20 minute tracks, with the tribal drumming now generally equated with modern-day Boredoms and elements of drone music, trance...
(2004, WEA Japan)
Yamamoto had left Boredoms prior to the release of Seadrum/House of Sun; the album contains samples of previously-recorded guitar work.
with Rovo
- Pico! (Dohb, 1998)
- Vitamin ! / Cisco ! (Roars, 1998)
- Horses ! / Kmara ! LP (Dohb, 1999)
- Imago (Dohb, 1999)
- Pyramid (Dohb, 2000)
- Sai (Warner Indies Network, 2001)
- split with Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden. (P-Vine, 2001)
- Live at Liquid Room 2001 5/16: Main Drive Trance (Rovolone, 2001)
- Tonic 2001 (Tzadik, 2002)
- Flage (Warner, 2002)
- Live at Hibiya-Yaon 2003. 05. 05: Man Drive Trance Special (Wonderground, 2003)
- Condor (2006)
- Live at Tokyo Kinema Club 7/7/2006 with Alejandro Franov, Fernando Kabusacki, and Santiago Vazquez (EWE, 2007)
with Omoide Hatoba
- Surfin' in U.F.O. EP. Public Bath, 1990)
- Dai-Ongaku (Alchemy, 1990)
- Suichu-Joe (Alchemy, 1991)
- Black Hawaii (Alchemy, 1992)
- Famicon Rally I-V audiocassette (1993)
- Mantako (Public Bath, 1994)
- Livers and Giggers: 1987-1993 (Japan Overseas, 1994)
- Kinsei (Earthnoise/Meldac/Birdman 1995)
- Suger Clip (Trattoria / Polystar, 1997)
- Vuoy (Trattoria / Polystar, 1997)
- Osaka Ra (Dako Vinyl Fantasia, 2004)
with Rashinban
- Rashinban audiocassette (Gyuune, 1994)
- Bunka audiocassette (Gyuune, 1997)
- Rago (Gyuune, 1997)
- Eien no Uta. 3" (Warner Music Japan, 1997)
- Rago (Warner Music Japan, 1997)
- Seika (Warner Music Japan, 1998)
- Psychedelic Sessions for All Incredible Hippies I and II audiocassette
- Rashinban's Live Tips Collection Vol. 1: '97-'99 audiocassette
- Adrenalin Drive (Warner Music Japan, 1999)
- Song Line (Warner Music Japan, 2000)
- Soundtrack to Adrenalin Drive (Beam Entertainment, 2000)
- Psychederix: Impro and More Songs audiocassette
- Psychederix: Impro and More Songs: Nagoya Version audiocassette
- Musubi (Lighthouse, 2005)
with Akabushi
- Chonmage 3" CD (Satsugai Enka Vinyl, 1994)
- Mademoiselle. Live: T-Shirt Kote Kure with Bonjour! (Satugai Enka Vinyl, 1995)
with Live Under the Sky
- Live Under the Sky audiocassette (F.M.N. Sound Factory)
- Live Under the Sky / Lost Utopia Total Sound audiocassette (Maboroshi no Sekai, 1995)
- Sky (F.M.N. Sound Factory, 1995)
with Novo Tono
- Panorama Paradise (Alida / Creativeman, 1996)
- Yoshihide Otomo plays the music of Takeo Yamashita (P-Vine, 1999) (two tracks)
- Live (2001)
with Ruinzhatova
- Ruins-Hatoba (Magaibutsu/Charnel Music, 1994)
- Ruins-Hatoba Show video (Magaibutsu, 1995)
- R H (Magaibutsu, reissue of first album, 2001)
- Close to the R H KIKI (Litte Mor Rec., 2003)
- sampling CD KAERUCAFE Material Collection/RUINZHATOVA
- Live in Somewhere (Magaibutsu, 2006)
with Guillotine Kyodai
- Memorial and Material audiocassette (Maboroshi no Sekai, 1996)
- Suspense Carry Pro (Guillotine / Doubletrap / Creativeman, 1997)
- Viva Guitar (Guillotine / Doubletrap / Creativeman, CMDD-00064, 1997)
- Meetings with Remarkable Men Featuring Junji Hirose (Guillotine / Tag Rag, 2000)
In addition to performing in these bands, Yamamoto has collaborated with dozens of other bands of varying genres.