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Founded by percussionist Ichiraku Yoshimitsu, the sound-constructivist improv trio I.S.O. also contains the two users of Filament-samplist Sachiko M. and guitarist/turntablist Otomo Yoshihide. Yoshimitsu was created in Yamaguchi, Japan, in 1959, and elevated in Yamaguchi Town, 900 km from Tokyo. His comparative isolation triggered him to build up in addition …

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 …

The idea of the “country boy” is one which comes up in only about every history of a musical genre. The actual fact that this body of reference provides nothing in connection with nation music in any way is best showed by the profession of this great avant-garde Japanese musician …