Otomo Yoshihide

Improvisational guitarist, turntablist and composer Otomo Yoshihide was created August 1, 1959 in Yokohama, Japan; the boy of the engineer, as a kid he constructed his have radio and digital oscillator, so that as a teen started creating audio collages through open-reel tape recorders. During senior high school, Yoshihide performed in an area rock-band before shifting to free of charge jazz, influenced mainly by saxophonist Kaoru Abe and guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi; while a college or university college student, he also became captivated by cultural music, and in 1981 journeyed to Hainan, China to analyze the area’s musical tradition. Upon time for Tokyo, Yoshihide started regularly performing free of charge improvisation pieces at the neighborhood Goodman membership, although he preserved a comparatively low profile until 1987, when he made an appearance within a duo with saxophonist Junji Hirose furthermore to concurrent stints in the rings NO ISSUE and ORT. In 1990, Yoshihide became a member of bassist Kato Hideki’s group Participant Piano and in addition formed his very own noise rock and roll group, Ground No. From 1992 to 1994, he also led the Twice Unit Orchestra. Various other Yoshihide-helmed sets of the time included Mosquito Paper and Sampling Trojan Project; following 1998 dissolution of Surface Zero, his function moved more and more towards minimalism in tasks including I.S.O. and Filament.