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Japanese musician and vocalist YoshimiO revisits key moments in her career and discusses her approach to collaboration, musical training and performance.
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Drummer, vocalist and serial collaborator Yoshimi Yokata AKA YoshimiO has been an inescapable presence in the Japanese and international experimental rock and avant-garde scene for over 30 years. Hailing from Okayama, YoshimiO began her career in 1986 with the band U.F.O or Die, a side project of experimental vocalist Yamatsuka Eye, before joining Eye’s Boredoms a year later and eventually becoming one of its longest serving members.

She began releasing music under the name Yoshimi P-We (now YoshimiO) in 1993, all the while collaborating across various projects – the experimental ensemble OOIOO, the Saicobab quartet, which fuses Indian raga traditions with punk and electronic music – and with international musicians including Kim Gordon, Mats Gustafsson, Susie Ibarra and Robert Lowe. While best known as a drummer and vocalist, Yokata also plays the trumpet and keyboard and often works in improvisational contexts.

YoshimiO sat down with Masaaki Hara at the Cerulean Tower’s Noh Theatre for a rare public lecture as part of the Red Bull Music Festival Tokyo 2019, during which she discussed her influences, prolific career and her unique approach to performance.

TOPICS:
6:15 - Early years with UFO or Die, Boredoms and learning to play drums
11:49 - Field recordings, Yoshimi and Yuka and approach to collaboration
25:00 - Using the voice as an instrument
32:51 - Impulsive music as local music
35:24 - Technique, tones and tuning
39:53 - Working with Thrill Jockey and the SAICOBAB project

MUSIC:
4:48 - Free Kitten – “Oh Bondage Up Yours!”
8:05 - UFO or Die – “We Are Rice”
13:48 - Yoshimi and Yuka – track from Flower With No Color
23:11 - Mats Gustafsson and Yoshimi – “Soundless Cries With Their Arms In The Air”
31:39 - YoshimiO – “Untitled”
39:22 - YoshimiO, Susie Ibarra, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe – “Aaa”
47:57 - SAICOBAB unknown track

伝説のバンドBoredoms、OOIOO、そして、SAICOBABなどの活動で知られるYOSHIMIO。彼女がそのキャリアを振り返った初めてのレクチャー講演と、その現在地を垣間見るSAICOBABのパフォーマンス。

太古から連綿と連なる生命の力を、能楽堂という伝統的な様式に囲まれて感じ取るSAICOBABの演奏と、常識に囚われず衝動を信じ表現を続けるYOSHIMIOが、とつとつと語る言葉たち。この場でしか体感できない貴重な一夜となった。
Red Bull Music Festival Tokyo 2019
4.11『A CONVERSATION WITH YOSHIMIO + PERFORMANCE BY SAICOBAB』@ セルリアンタワー能楽堂

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