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Japanese multi-instrumentalist In this Japanese name, the surname is Otomo.

Otomo Yoshihide大友良英
Otomo performing live at Club w71 in Weikersheim in 2007
Background information
Born	(1959-08-01) August 1, 1959 (age 65) Yokohama, Japan
Genres	Jazz, noise, avant-garde jazz
Occupation(s)	Multi-instrumentalist, composer
Instrument(s)	Guitar, turntable
Years active	1987-present
Labels	Recommended Records, P-Vine Records, Tzadik Records, Erstwhile Records

Musical artist

Otomo Yoshihide (大友良英, Ōtomo Yoshihide, born August 1, 1959) is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics.

He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in a variety of contexts, ranging from free improvisation to noise, jazz, avant-garde and contemporary classical. He is also a pioneering figure in the EAI-scene, and is featured on important records on labels like Erstwhile Records. He has composed music for many films, television dramas, and commercials. In 2017, Otomo became the 2nd Guest Artistic Director of The Sapporo International Art Festival 2017.

Biography

Early years

Otomo was born in Yokohama in 1959, but due to his father's job, moved to Fukushima when he was nine years old. In high school, he frequented jazz cafés and started his own band. After entering university, he began studying under the improvisational jazz guitarist, Masayuki Takayanagi. He began performing around the world and released his first album in 1991 in Hong Kong. It was when the music he composed for a 1994 Hong Kong film was well received at the Cannes Film Festival that he also began to work as a composer.

Film and television

Otomo has composed music for a number of films and television programs, including Naoki Kato's Abraxas, Tsuyoshi Inoue's The Town's Children, and Ryuichi Hiroki's Yellow Elephant. He composed the music for the 2013 NHK morning television drama Amachan and it became his most commercially successful work up to that point. The soundtrack for Amachan reached number 5 on the Oricon Albums Chart, and Kyōko Koizumi's version of the song Shiosai no Memorī from the drama, composed by Otomo, reached number 2 on the Oricon Singles Chart. He performed live on New Year's Eve at the 2013 Kōhaku Uta Gassen.

Selected discography

Studio albums

Otomo Yoshihide (1987)
Problem (1988)
Duo (1989) with Junji Hirose
Silanganan Ingay (1989) with Junji Hirose
No Problem (1990) with No Problem
Who Is Otomo Yoshihide? (1991)
Visions of Japan (1991) with Yuji Katsui and Hiroshi Higo
Ground-0, No. 0 (1991)
Terminal-Zero (1991)
We Insist? (1992)
Turntables Solo (1992)
Memory Disorder (1993)
Peril (1993) with Peril
The Night Before the Death of the Sampling Virus (1993)
Ground Zero (1993) with Ground Zero
Early Works 1: 81-85 (1994)
Monogatari: Amino Argot (1994) with Carl Stone
Balance of Power: Variety (1994) with Hiedaki Sasaki
All at Once at Any Time (1994) with David Moss and John King
Multiverse (1994) with Peril
Null & Void (1995) with Ground Zero
Tatakiuri (1995) with Jon Rose
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera (1995) with Ground Zero
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Version 1.28 (1996) with Ground Zero
Duo Improvisation (1996) with Yasuhiro Otani
p53 (1996) with p53
Twins!! (1996) with Bob Ostertag
Ututu: Doppo Jukyo-at no Ho e Atelier El Sur (1996) with Kiwao Nomura and Keiki Midorikawa
My Dear Mummy (1997) with Masahiko Shimada
Memory & Money (1997) with Les Sculpteurs de Vinyl
Conflagration (1997) with Ground Zero
Consume Red (1997) with Ground Zero
Plays Standards (1997) with Ground Zero
Sound Factory (1997)
Melted Memory (1997)
Vinyl Tranquilizer (1997)
Filament 1 (1998) with Filament
Consummation (1998) with Ground Zero
Gravity Clock (1998) with I.S.O.
Memory Defacement (1998)
Television Power Electric (1999) with Jim Baker, Aeron Bergman, Todd Carter, Brent Gutzeit, Michael Hartman, Ernst Long, and R. Wilkus
Filament 2: Secret Recordings (1999) with Filament
I.S.O. (1999) with I.S.O.
Bits, Bots and Signs (1999) with Voice Crack
Metal Tastes like Orange (1999) with Masahiko Okura, Günter Müller, and Taku Sugimoto
Cathode (1999)
Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita (1999)
Four Focuses (1999) with Martin Tétreault, Yasuhiro Otani, and Sachiko M
21 Situations (1999) with Martin Tétreault
Panty Christ (1999) with Justin Bond and Bob Ostertag
Pilgrimage (1999) with Microcosmos
Without Kuryokhin (1999) with Kenny Millions
Moving Parts (2000) with Christian Marclay
Music for Dance Art Hong Kong's "Memory Disorder" (2000)
Anode (2001)
Flutter (2001) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
29092000 (2001) with Filament
Thumb (2002) with Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi, Sachiko M, and Robbie Avenaim
Ensemble Cathode (2002)
Les Hautes Solitudes: A Philippe Garrel Film: Imaginarry Soundtrack (2002) with Taku Sugimoto and Sachiko M
Miira ni Naru made: German Version (2002) with Masahiko Shimada
Pulser (2002) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
Invisible Architecture No. 1 (2002) with Philip Jeck and Martin Tétreault
Ajar (2002) with Almá Fury, Yasuhiro Otani, and Xavier Charles
Dreams (2002) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble
Tails Out (2003) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
ONJQ + OE (2003) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet and Tatsuya Oe
ONJQ + OE: Short Density (2003) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet and Tatsuya Oe
Turntables and Computers (2003) with Nobukazu Takemura
Studio—Analogique—Numérique (2003) with Martin Tétreault
Time Travel (2003) with Günter Müller
Warholes or All Andy Would Enjoy (And Fear) / Warhol Memory Disorder (2003) with Lengow, Heyermears, and Sachiko M
Soup (2003) with Bill Laswell and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
Loose Community (2003) with Park Je Chun and Mi Yeon
The Crushed Pellet (2003) with Eiichi Hayashi and Yoshisaburo Toyozumi
Turntable Solo (2004)
Compositions for Guitars Vol. 2 (2004) with Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Taku Unami
Brackwater (2004) with Korber, Tomas, eRikm, and Toshimaru Nakamura
Good Morning Good Night (2004) with Sachiko M and Toshimaru Nakamura
Intonarumori Orchestra (2004) with Intonarumori Orchestra
Filament Box (2004) with Filament
1. Grrr (2004) with Martin Tétreault
2. Tok (2005) with Martin Tétreault
3. Ahhh (2005) with Martin Tétreault
4. Hmmm (2005) with Martin Tétreault
Out to Lunch (2005) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra
See You in a Dream (2005) with Yuki Saga
Trace Cuts (2005) with eRikm, Martin Tétreault
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra (2005) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra
Time Magic City (2006) with BusRatch
Episome (2006) with Bill Laswell and Tatsuya Yoshida
Sora (2007)
Prisoner: A Film by Adachi Masao: Original Soundtrack (2007)
Multiple Otomo (2007)
Encounter (2007) with Itaru Oki
Modulation with 2 Electric Guitars and 2 Amplifiers (2007)
Modulation with 2 Electric Guitars and 2 Amplifiers: Alternative Version (2008)
Core Anode (2008)
Country Kill (2008) with Joy Heights
Les Archives Sauvées des Eaux (2008) with Luc Ferrari
Guitar Duo (2008) with Seiichi Yamamoto
Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (2008) with Choi, Joonyong, Hong Chulki, and Sachiko M
Monte Alto Estate (2009) with Sim
Guitar Duo x Solo (2009) with Shinichi Isohata
Shinjuku Crawl (2009) with The Thing
Good Cop Bad Cop (2009) with Derek Bailey, Tony Bevan, and Paul Hession
Ultra Miracle Love Story (2009)
Book from Hell (2010) with Zai Kuning and Dickson Dee
3-Part In(ter)ventions (2012) with Jim O'Rourke
Piano Solo (2013)
Existence (2013) with Shinichi Isohata
Quintet/Sextet (2013) with Sachiko M, Evan Parker, John Butcher, John Edwards and Tony Marsh,

Live albums

Live at Aketa-no-mise in Tokyo, July 28, 1989 (1989)
Solo Live in Kyoto 93 (1995)
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995 (1995) with Ground Zero
Live! (1995) with Eye Yamatsuka
Live!! (1996) with Eye Yamatsuka
Session 18 Oct. 1997 (1998) with Seed Mouth
Live at Otis! (1998) with Sachiko M and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku
Live (1998) with I.S.O.
Last Concert (1999) with Ground Zero
Guitar Solo Live 1 (1999)
Live (2002) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
Turntables Solo Live, 28 Feb 2002 in Tokyo (2002)
Soup Live (2004) with Bill Laswell and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
Erst Live 004 (2005) with Christian Fennesz, Sachiko M, and Peter Rehberg
Erst Live 005 (2005) with Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, and Toshimaru Nakamura
Concert in St. Louis (2005) with Grnr Coleman, Franz Hautzinger, and Sachiko M
Guitar Solo: 12 October 2004 @ Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo + 1 (2005)
ONJQ Live in Lisbon (2006) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
Live 1992 (2007) with Ground Zero
Live Vol. 1: Series Circuit (2007) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra
Live Vol. 2: Parallel Circuit (2007) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra

Singles

Otomo + Mao (1995)
Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Version 1.50 (1996) with Ground Zero
Live Mao '99 (1996) with Ground Zero
Untitled (1996) with Eye Yamatsuka
Museum of Towing & Recovery (1998) with Steve Beresford
Lupin the Third: Ending Theme (1999)
Split 7" (1999) with Christian Marclay
Re/cycling Rectangle (2000)
Digital Tranquilizer Ver. 1.0 (2004)
Digital Tranquilizer Ver. 1.01 (2004)
4 Speakers (2009)

DVDs

Dark Room Filled with Light (2006) with Filament
Music(s) (2006)
Ensembles 09: Pre-opening Live at Shinjuku Pit Inn (2009)

As sideman

With Rova::Orchestrova

Electric Ascension (Atavistic, 2005)

Film scores

Film

The Blue Kite (1993)
Summer Snow (1995)
Postman (1995)
Kitchen (1997)
Wait and See (1998)
Kaza-hana (2000)
Blue (2001)
Les Hautes Solitudes: Philippe Garrel Film (2002)
Iden & Tity (2003)
Canary (2005)
Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru (2007)
Ultra Miracle Love Story (2009)
Tokyo Island (2010)
Abraxas (2010)
The Town's Children (2011)
Olo the Boy from Tibet (2012)
Botchan (2012)
Yellow Elephant (2013)
Junan (2013)
Piece of Cake (2015)
Beneath the Shadow (2020)
You've Got a Friend (2022)
Noise (2022)
Inu-Oh (2022)

Television

Amachan (2013)
Idaten (2019)

References

"PROFILE" (Archive). Otomo Yoshihide Official Website. Retrieved on May 30, 2015. "When you write your Japanese name in English alphabetFor this reason, I would like to continue using the notation "Otomo Yoshihide" as before."
"...Yoshide is largely known for his innovative works in the avant-garde electronic music world as well as his collaborations on drone pieces, creative methods on the turntables sounds like a cross between Hendrix and Zappa, and at other times Tony Iommi." Rob Theakston, review of Episome (2006) for Allmusic.com, retrieved 30 Jan, 2018
^ 大友良英さんプロフィル. Asahi Digital (in Japanese). Asahi Shimbun. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
"Otomo Yoshihide o kaibai suru: Yasuo Ozawa x Yoshihide Otomo". 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
"Sundance Review: Punk Rock Meets Buddhism in Naoki Kato's Exquisitely Crafted Debut Feature 'Abraxas'". The Hollywood Reporter. 26 January 2011.
"The Town's Children". Special Broadcasting Service.
"'Kiiroi Zo'". The Japan Times. 8 February 2013.
連続テレビ小説「あまちゃん」オリジナル・サウンドトラック (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
潮騒のメモリー (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
"Yoshihide Ōtomo – Amachan Theme: New music from Japan". The Guardian. 13 January 2014.
"Miliyah Kato, Kazunobu Mineta Perform Live-Action Piece of Cake Film's Theme". Anime News Network. April 23, 2015. Retrieved April 24, 2015.
"夕方のおともだち". eiga.com. Retrieved November 19, 2021.
"ノイズ". eiga.com. Retrieved December 20, 2021.
"犬王". eiga.com. Retrieved March 22, 2022.

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