Yoshihide Otomo
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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 composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
and multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...
.
He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of 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...
group Ground Zero
Ground Zero (band)
Ground Zero was a Japanese noise/improvisation band during the 1990s led by guitarist and turntablist Yoshihide Otomo that had a large and rotating group of performers with two other regular performers-Musical style:...
, and has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
to noise
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
, jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
, avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
and contemporary classical. He is also a pioneering figure in the EAI
Electroacoustic improvisation
Electroacoustic improvisation is a style of music that incorporates aspects of both electroacoustic music and free improvisation.-Origins:Live electronics has been part of the sound art world since the 1930s with the early works of John Cage...
-scene, and is featured on important records on labels like Erstwhile Records
Erstwhile Records
Erstwhile Records is an independent record label devoted to free improvisation, particularly the electroacoustic variety. Erstwhile was founded by Jon Abbey in 1999, and his knowledgeable personality and tastes are closely identified with the label.Characteristic label artists include guitarist...
. He plays guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, turntables, and electronics.
Early life and career
Otomo studied at the Meiji UniversityMeiji University
is a private university in Tokyo and Kawasaki, founded in 1881 by three lawyers of the Meiji era, Kishimoto Tatsuo, Miyagi Kōzō, and Yashiro Misao. It is one of the largest and most prestigious Japanese universities in Tokyo, Japan....
from 1979, where he studied ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology is defined as "the study of social and cultural aspects of music and dance in local and global contexts."Coined by the musician Jaap Kunst from the Greek words ἔθνος ethnos and μουσική mousike , it is often considered the anthropology or ethnography of music...
, concentrating on the Japanese pop music of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
and the development of musical instruments during the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, commonly known as the Cultural Revolution , was a socio-political movement that took place in the People's Republic of China from 1966 through 1976...
. Samples of instruments and music from this period are found in several of his works.
He played in rock bands while at college, but turned to improvisation after discovering free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...
and free improvisation
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
musicians like guitarist Derek Bailey, saxophonist Kaoru Abe
Kaoru Abe
was an influential Japanese avant-garde alto saxophonist, who is often regarded as having the greatest abrasive saxophone sound.He generally performed solo. He was married to the author Izumi Suzuki, and a cousin to singer Kyu Sakamoto. He died of a drug overdose at the age of 29.-References:* Yuko...
and guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi
Masayuki Takayanagi
Masayuki 'Jojo' Takayanagi was a Japanese jazz / free improvisation / noise musician. He was active in the Japanese jazz scene from the late 1950s. In the 1960s he formed New Directions , which recorded several albums throughout the 70s...
(from whom he took lessons).
In 1981, Otomo began improvising in the first Japanese house club in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
(Jazu Kissa), performing on guitar and also using tapes and synthesizer
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
devices, like Roland drum machines. He is considered the father and the pioneer of house music
House music
House music is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, United States in the early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discothèques catering to the African-American, Latino American, and gay communities; first in Chicago circa 1984, then in other...
in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
.
Ground Zero
For much of the 1990s his main project was Ground ZeroGround Zero (band)
Ground Zero was a Japanese noise/improvisation band during the 1990s led by guitarist and turntablist Yoshihide Otomo that had a large and rotating group of performers with two other regular performers-Musical style:...
, a large group founded in 1990 with an ever-changing lineup. They played music in a variety of styles, perhaps best described as 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...
with an experimental edge and a heavy emphasis on sampling. In Consume Red (1997), for example, a sample of Korean musician Kim Seok Chul
Kim Seok Chul
Kim Seok-Chul was a Korean shaman and hojok virtuoso, recognised as the 82nd valuable intangible cultural asset of the Republic of Korea for his mastery of the instrument.- External links :*[ Allmusic review]...
playing the hojok is continuously repeated throughout the single hour-long track while the band improvise around it, becoming louder, and eventually swamping the sample out.
Filament
Ground Zero was disbanded in 1998. Towards the end of that group's life, Otomo formed two electronic free improvisationFree improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....
groups: Filament
Filament (band)
Filament is a musical group from Japan that consists of Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko M, two of the major exponents of the electroacoustic improvisation style of music....
with Sachiko M
Sachiko M
Sachiko Matsubara, who usually records as Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician, but she considers herself to be a "non-musician".She was a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997, where she used a sampler. More recently, she has concentrated on music made from sine waves...
, and I. S. O. with Sachiko M
Sachiko M
Sachiko Matsubara, who usually records as Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician, but she considers herself to be a "non-musician".She was a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997, where she used a sampler. More recently, she has concentrated on music made from sine waves...
and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku. These groups abandoned the frenetic postmodern pastiche of Ground Zero
Ground Zero (band)
Ground Zero was a Japanese noise/improvisation band during the 1990s led by guitarist and turntablist Yoshihide Otomo that had a large and rotating group of performers with two other regular performers-Musical style:...
, and emphasized small gestures and low volume. The music contained no samples, being made of sine waves and electronic clicks and hums. Though he continued using turntables, Yoshihide largely stopped using gramophone record
Gramophone record
A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...
s as a sound source, instead manipulating the turntable itself with a wide variety of objects and contact microphones.
New Jazz Ensemble
At the end of the 1990s he founded Ōtomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble, a group that played more traditional jazz (albeit with added sine waves from Sachiko M and noisy passages), which released Flutter and Dreams on the Tzadik label. In JapanJapan
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...
, a more consistent lineup of the group, using the name Ōtomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, has released ONJQ LIVE (2002), a collaboration with Tatsuya Oe
Captain Funk
is a Japanese electronic music producer, club DJ and label impresario, known for a flair in alternating between some abstract experimentation and more pop-oriented sounds.- Career :...
(Captain Funk
Captain Funk
is a Japanese electronic music producer, club DJ and label impresario, known for a flair in alternating between some abstract experimentation and more pop-oriented sounds.- Career :...
) entitled ONJQ+OE (2003), and Tails Out (2003). 2005 saw a release credited to the Ōtomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra (ONJO), featuring top European improvisors Axel Dörner, Cor Fuhler
Cor Fuhler
Cor Fuhler is an Amsterdam-based musician who plays in the style of electroacoustic improvisation. His primary instrument is the piano . He explores the possibilities of the piano, manipulating it’s sound with use of various string stimulators like ebows, rotating threads and spinning disks...
, Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....
, Alfred Harth
Alfred Harth
Alfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner...
. It is his largest group thus far.
Other works
Ōtomo has also released duo albums with early experimental turntablist Christian MarclayChristian Marclay
Christian Marclay is a Swiss-American visual artist and composer.Marclay's work explores connections between sound, noise, photography, video, and film...
(Moving Parts, 2000) and another Japanese electronic musician, Nobukazu Takemura
Nobukazu Takemura
Nobukazu Takemura is a Japanese musician whose style has run from jazz to house to drum and bass to chamber music to electronic glitch within less than a decade. Born in Hirakata, Osaka in August 1968, he became interested in punk and New Wave music when young...
(Turntables + Computers, 2003).
Records released under his own name include Cathode (1999), which includes pieces that are sine wave-based or made from samples, and Anode (2001), a group improvisation where the players are constrained by certain pre-determined rules (similar in some respects to John Zorn
John Zorn
John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
's game pieces). Featured in both pieces are Gagaku
Gagaku
Gagaku is a type of Japanese classical music that has been performed at the Imperial Court in Kyoto for several centuries. It consists of three primary repertoires:#Native Shinto religious music and folk songs and dance, called kuniburi no utamai...
instruments, such as the Shō, futozao-shamisen
Shamisen
The , also called is a three-stringed, Japanese musical instrument played with a plectrum called a bachi. The Japanese pronunciation is usually "shamisen" but sometimes "jamisen" when used as a suffix . -Construction:The shamisen is a plucked stringed instrument...
, and koto
Koto (musical instrument)
The koto is a traditional Japanese stringed musical instrument, similar to the Chinese guzheng, the Mongolian yatga, the Korean gayageum and the Vietnamese đàn tranh. The koto is the national instrument of Japan. Koto are about length, and made from kiri wood...
.
Ōtomo has worked with Jon Rose
Jon Rose
Jon Rose is an Australian violinist born in the UK in 1951. Rose began playing violin at age 7 after winning a music scholarship to King's School in Rochester. For over 35 years, Rose has been at the sharp end of new, improvised, and experimental music and media...
, Yamatsuka Eye of Boredoms (as MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse
MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse
MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse is a collaboration project between Japanese artists Yamantaka Eye , best known as a member of Boredoms, and experimental composer Yoshihide Otomo . The duo released two live albums in 1995 and have no current plans for further releases together.-Discography:*Live! *Live!!...
), Butch Morris
Butch Morris
Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris is an American jazz cornetist, composer and conductor.-Biography:Before his musical career, Morris served in Vietnam during the Vietnam War....
, Alfred Harth
Alfred Harth
Alfred 23 Harth is a German multimedia artist, band leader, multi-instrumentalist musician, and composer who mixes genres in a polystylistic manner...
, Voice Crack
Voice Crack
Voice Crack was a Swiss electronic free improvisation group. Formed in late 1972 by Andy Guhl and Norbert Möslang, Voice Crack were initially a free jazz duo...
, Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe
Keith Rowe is an English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter. Rowe is a founding member of both the hugely influential AMM in the mid-1960s and M.I.M.E.O. Having trained as a visual artist, Rowe's paintings have been featured on most of his own albums...
, Peter Rehberg
Peter Rehberg
Peter Rehberg is an author of electronic audio works.He has collaborated with: Jim O'Rourke, Christian Fennesz, Dennis Cooper, Gisèle Vienne, Stephen O'Malley , Tina Frank, Matmos, Tujiko Noriko, Kevin Drumm, Marcus Schmickler, Michaela Schwentner , Matt "Skitz" Sanders, Russell Haswell, Florian...
, Toshimaru Nakamura
Toshimaru Nakamura
Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese onkyo.He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar and started working on circuit bending...
, Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell is an American bassist, producer and record label owner....
, David Sylvian
David Sylvian
David Sylvian is an English singer-songwriter and musician who came to prominence in the late 1970s as the lead vocalist and main songwriter in the group Japan...
, Fennesz, Derek Bailey, Sachiko M
Sachiko M
Sachiko Matsubara, who usually records as Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician, but she considers herself to be a "non-musician".She was a member of Otomo Yoshihide's Ground Zero from 1994 to 1997, where she used a sampler. More recently, she has concentrated on music made from sine waves...
, Hoppy Kamiyama
Hoppy Kamiyama
Hoppy Kamiyama is a Japanese keyboardist and music producer who has worked with artists such as eX-Girl, Bradford Reed, Bill Laswell, Jan Linton, Marc Ribot, Hugh Hopper/Elton Dean and Damo Suzuki.- Biography :...
, Mats Gustafsson
Mats Gustafsson
Mats Olof Gustafsson is a Swedish saxophone player and a stalwart on the Scandinavian free jazz scene. He is known for his tonal belligerence and intensity when improvising....
, The Thing
The Thing
The Thing is a 1982 science fiction horror film directed by John Carpenter, written by Bill Lancaster, and starring Kurt Russell. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a parasitic extraterrestrial lifeform that assimilates other organisms and in turn imitates them...
, John Zorn
John Zorn
John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
, Hikashu
Hikashu
Hikashu are a renowned Japanese underground "avant-pop" collective led by pseudo-Kabuki vocalist, Makigami Koichi, known for their highly experimental music...
, Philip Jeck
Philip Jeck
Philip Jeck is an English multimedia composer, magician, choreographer, woodsman and taxidermist. He is perhaps best known for his work Vinyl Requiem with Lol Sargent which won the Time Out Performance Award in 1993...
, Martin Tétreault
Martin Tétreault
Martin Tétreault is a free improvisation musician and visual artist. Often using the turntable as the basis for his experimental music, he has released many collaborative records with people such as Kevin Drumm and Otomo Yoshihide, as well as his own solo work.-External links:* at Discogs...
, Sabuhiro Toyozumi, Thermo
Thermo
Thermo, descended from , meaning heat, is a prefix referring to heat or temperature, e.g.,* thermodynamics, the physics of energy, heat, work, and entropy, which is also discussed in the article heat...
and poire z
Poire z
poire_z was an electronic free improvisation music group formed in 1998. The group's members all have long careers in improvised music; critic Fred Grand of Avant calls poire_z a "post-AMM supergroup."-Band history:...
.
Ōtomo was also part of an Australian / Japanese industrial outfit called Peril
Peril (band)
Peril were a Japanese/Australian industrial band operating throughout the early 1990s.Peril was founded by drummer Tony Buck and were active from 1992 to 1996...
.
In 2003, Otomo worked with Bill Laswell and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki to record a four song LP Soup. Then in 2004 a 2CD live set was released as Soup Live.
In 2006, Otomo and Laswell again teamed up this time with Tatsuya Yoshida to release Episome.
Otomo also has a quartet with three other musicians from different parts of Asia. Called FEN (Far East Network), the quartet comprises Otomo, Yuen Chee Wai (Singapore), Ryu Hankil (South Korea) and Yan Jun
Yan Jun
Yan Jun, style name Mancai , was an official of Eastern Wu during the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history. He was also the writer of Essay on Tides, which has disappeared over the course of history.-In fiction:...
(China). FEN debuted in Mimi Festival in Marseille 2008 and has been performing regularly in many countries.
There is also an album by Kenny Millions & Otomo Yoshihide, Without Kuryokhin
Without Kuryokhin
Without Kuryokhin is a 1999 album by American jazz multi-instrumentalist Kenny Millions and Japanese experimental musician Otomo Yoshihide. It was dedicated to Russian jazz and experimental musician Sergey Kuryokhin...
, released in 1998 and dedicated to the memory of Russian jazz and experimental musician Sergey Kuryokhin
Sergey Kuryokhin
Sergey Kuryokhin was a Russian film actor, film composer, pianist, music director, experimental artist and writer, based in St. Petersburg, Russia.-Biography:Kuryokhin began his acting career as a piano and keyboard player with a school band in Leningrad...
.
Solo
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Modulation with 2 Electric Guitars and 2 Amplifiers.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Modulation with 2 Electric Guitars and 2 Amplifiers: Alternative Version.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Multiple Otomo. DVD + CD.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Guitar Solo: 12 October 2004 @ Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo + 1.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Turntable Solo.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Digital Tranquilizer Ver. 1.01. 3" CD. F.M.N.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Turntables Solo Live, 28 Feb 2002 in Tokyo.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Re/cycling Rectangle. 7" single.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Digital Tranquilizer Ver. 1.0. 3" CD. F.M.N.
- Marclay, Christian / Otomo, Yoshihide. Split 7".
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Guitar Solo Live 1. 50 Limited CD-R Edition Series 1.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Sound Factory (1997).
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Melted Memory. DAT.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Vinyl Tranquilizer.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Solo Live in Kyoto 93. Audiocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. The Night before the Death of the Sampling Virus.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Memory Disorder. Videocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Turntables Solo. Videocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Terminal-Zero. Audiocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Ground-0, No. 0. Audiocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Live at Aketa-no-mise in Tokyo, July 28, 1989. Audiocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Otomo Yoshihide. Audiocassette.
Leader
- Otomo Yoshihide. Ensembles 09: Pre-opening Live at Shinjuku Pit Inn. DVD.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Ultra Miracle Love Story.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Core Anode.
- Otomo Yoshihide Invisible Songs. Sora.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Prisoner—A Film by Adachi Masao: Original Soundtrack.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Music(s). 2-DVD-R set.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. We Insist?
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Masahiko Shimada. Miira ni Naru made: German Version.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Ensemble Cathode.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Anode.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Music for DanceArt Hong Kong's "Memory Disorder".
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Cathode.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Otomo Yoshihide Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Lupin the Third: Ending Theme. 12" single.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Memory Defacement. 2-LP set.
- Les sculpteurs de vinyl. Memory & Money.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Otomo + Mao. 7" single. FMN Sound Factory,
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Early Works 1: 81-85. Audiocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. We Insist?
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Who is OTOMO Yoshihide? Audiocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide. Problem. Audiocassette.
Duo
- Isohata, Shinichi, and Otomo Yoshihide. Guitar Duo x Solo.
- Ferrari, Luc, and Otomo Yoshihide. Les Archives Sauvées des Eaux.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Seiichi Yamamoto. Guitar Duo. F.M.N.
- Oki, Itaru, and Otomo Yoshihide. Encounter.
- Tétreault, Martin, and Otomo Yoshihide. 1. Grrr 2. Tok 3. Ahhh + 4. Hmmm. 4-CD set.
- Tétreault, Martin, and Otomo Yoshihide. 4. Hmmm.
- Tétreault, Martin, and Otomo Yoshihide. 3. Ahhh.
- Tétreault, Martin, and Otomo Yoshihide. 2. Tok.
- Tétreault, Martin, and Otomo Yoshihide. 1. Grrr.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Nobukazu Takemura. Turntables and Computers.
- Günter Müller, and Otomo Yoshihide. Time Travel.
- Tétreault, Martin, and Otomo Yoshihide. Studio—Analogique—Numérique . 3-miniCD set.
- LENGOW & HEyeRMEarS, Otomo Yoshihide, and Sachiko M. Warholes or All Andy Would Enjoy (And Fear) / Warhol Memory Disorder.
- Marclay, Christian, and Otomo Yoshihide. Moving Parts.
- Millions, Kenny, and Otomo Yoshihide. Without Kuryokhin.
- Tétreault, Martin, and Otomo Yoshihide. 21 Situations.
- MicroCosmos. Pilgrimage.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Steve Beresford. Museum of Towing & RECOVERY. 10" vinyl.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Eye Yamatsuka. 7" single.
- Otani, Yasuhiro, and Otomo Yoshihide. Duo Improvisation. Audiocassette.
- DJ Car House (Otomo Yoshihide) and MC Hell Shit (Eye Yamatsuka). Live!!
- DJ Car House (Otomo Yoshihide) and MC Hell Shit (Eye Yamatsuka). Live! 3" CD.
- Hirose, Junji, and Otomo Yoshihide. Duo. Audiocassette,
- Hirose, Junji, and Otomo Yoshihide. Silanganan Ingay. LP.
Co-leader
- Sim, and Otomo Yoshihide. Monte Alto Estate.
- Bailey, Derek, Tony Bevan, Paul Hession, and Otomo Yoshihide. Good Cop Bad Cop.
- Choi, Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Sachiko M, and Otomo Yoshihide. Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves.
- Joy Heights. Country Kill.
- BusRatch, and Otomo Yoshihide. Time Magic City.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, Bill Laswell, and Tatsuya Yoshida. Episome.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Yuki Saga. See You in a Dream. 2-CD set.
- eRikm, Martin Tétreault, and Otomo Yoshihide. Trace Cuts.
- Rowe, Keith, Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide. ErstLive 005. 3-CD set.
- Fennesz, Christian, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, and Peter Rehberg. ErstLive 004.
- Coleman, Gene, Franz Hautzinger, Sachiko M, and Otomo Yoshihide. Concert in St. Louis.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, Bill Laswell, and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki. Soup Live. 2-CD set.
- Akiyama, Tetuzi, Toshimaru Nakamura, Otomo Yoshihide, and Taku Unami. Compositions for Guitars Vol. 2.
- Korber, Tomas, eRikm, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide. Brackwater.
- Sachiko M, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Otomo Yoshihide. Good Morning Good Night. 2-CD set.
- Intonarumori Orchestra. Intonarumori Orchestra.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, Bill Laswell, and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki. Soup.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, Park Je Chun, and Mi Yeon. Loose Community.
- Hayashi, Eiichi, Otomo Yoshihide, and Yoshisaburo Toyozumi. The Crushed Pellet.
- Rowe, Keith, Oren Ambarchi, Sachiko M, Otomo Yoshihide, and Robbie Avenaim. Thumb.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, Taku Sugimoto, and Sachiko M. Les Hautes Solitudes—A Philippe Garrel Film: Imaginarry Soundtrack.
- Jeck, Philip, Otomo Yoshihide, and Martin Tétreault. Invisible Architecture #1.
- Almá Fury, Yasuhiro Otani, Otomo Yoshihide, and Xavier Charles. Ajar.
- Screen: Festival Concepts of Doing 1999.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Voice Crack. Bits, Bots and Signs.
- Okura, Masahiko, Günter Müller, Taku Sugimoto, and Otomo Yoshihide. Metal Tastes like Orange. Secret Recordings 1.
- Baker, Jim, Aeron Bergman, Todd Carter, Brent Gutzeit, Michael Hartman, Ernst Long, Otomo Yoshihide, and R. Wilkus. Television Power Electric. Enhanced CD.
- Tétreault, Martin, Yasuhiro Otani, Otomo Yoshihide, and Sachiko M. Four Focuses. .
- Bond, Justin, Bob Ostertag, and Otomo Yoshihide. Panty Christ.
- Seed Mouth and Otomo Yoshihide. Session 18 Oct. 1997. Audiocassette. 1998.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, Sachiko M, and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku. Live at OTIS! Audiocassette.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Masahiko Shimada. My Dear Mummy.
- Nomura, Kiwao, Keiki Midorikawa, and Otomo Yoshihide. Ututu: Doppo Jukyo-at no Ho e Atelier El Sur
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Bob Ostertag. Twins!!
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Jon Rose. Tatakiuri.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Carl Stone. Monogatari: Amino Argot.
- Sasaki, Hideaki, and Otomo Yoshihide. Balance of Power: Variety. Videocassette.
- King, John, David Moss, and Otomo Yoshihide. All at Once at Any Time.
- Peril. Multiverse.
- Peril. Peril.
- Katsui, Yuji, Hiroshi Higo, and Otomo Yoshihide. Visions of Japan.
- No Problem. No Problem. Audiocassette. 1990.
With ONJQ / ONJE / ONJO
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. Live Vol. 2: Parallel Circuit. 2-CD set.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. Live Vol. 1: Series Circuit. 2-CD set.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet. ONJQ Live in Lisbon.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. Out to Lunch.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra. Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra (ONJO).
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet. Tails Out.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, and Tatsuya Oe. ONJQ + OE: Short Density. LP.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, and Tatsuya Oe. ONJQ + OE.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet. Pulser. LP.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet. Live. .
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble. Dreams.
- Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet. Flutter.
With Filament
- Filament with Musikelectronic Geithain. 4 Speakers. miniCD.
- Ikunishi, Yasunori, Yasunori Kakegawa, Tetsuya Nagato, and Filament. Dark Room Filled with Light. DVD.
- Filament. Filament BOX. F.M.N.
- Filament. 29092000.
- Filament, and Günter Müller. Filament 2: Secret Recordings.
- Otomo, Yoshihide, and Sachiko M. Filament 1.
With Ground Zero
- Ground-Zero. Live 1992 +.
- Ground-Zero. Last Concert.
- Ground-Zero. Consummation.
- CassiberCassiberCassiber were a German avant-rock group founded in 1982 by German composer and saxophonist Alfred Harth, German composer, music-theatre director and keyboardist Heiner Goebbels, English drummer Chris Cutler from Henry Cow and German guitarist Christoph Anders...
. Live in Tokyo. - Ground-Zero. Conflagration.
- Ground-Zero. Consume Red.
- Ground-Zero. Plays Standards.
- Bästard / Ground-Zero. Pinball Tenacity / Live Mao '99.
- Ground-Zero. Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Version 1.50. 7" single.
- Ground-Zero. Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Version 1.28. ReR, GZ1, 1996 (UK);
- Ground-Zero. Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995: Unofficial Live Video. Videocassette.
- Ground-Zero. Revolutionary Pekinese Opera.
- Ground-Zero. Null & Void. Tzadik,
- Ground-Zero. Ground-Zero.
With P53
- P53P53 (album)P53, sometimes written p53, is a 1996 live album by experimental music group P53. It was recorded at the 25th Frankfurt Jazz Festival in Germany on 16 September 1994, and was released in 1996 in the United Kingdom by Recommended Records....
(1996, CD, Recommended RecordsRecommended RecordsRecommended Records is a British independent record label and distribution network founded by Chris Cutler in March 1978. RēR features largely "Rock in Opposition" and related music, but it also distributes selected music released on other independent labels.In 1982 Cutler established November...
, U.K.United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
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External links
- Page at japanimprov.com
- Comprehensive discography
- An interview is available at: http://www.furious.com/perfect/otomo.html
- http://japan-101.com/art/otomo_yoshihide.htm
- Multiple Otomo CD/DVD review at Grooves Magazine
- DVD otomo yoshihide music(s): http://www.lahuit.com/article/uk/otomo-yoshihide-music-s
- Live with Bill Laswell for Tokyo Rotation