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Otomo Yoshihide's Late Junction Mixtape

A Late Junction mixtape from the mind of Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist Otomo Yoshihide.

A Late Junction mixtape from the mind of Japanese composer, experimental guitarist, turntablist and producer Otomo Yoshihide.

Otomo Yoshihide has long been one of the most dynamic forces in Japanese experimental music. Heralded as Tokyo's premiere noise DJ, he's spent decades at the cutting edge of Japan's experimental underground. His influences range from the musique concrète of Pierre Schaefer and Pierre Henry to the Japanese free jazz of alto sax player Kaoru Abe and guitarist Masayuki Takayanagi.

In 1990, he founded the influential group Ground Zero, the first free improvising musicians to use turntables, and has since been involved in countless music projects including Mosquito Paper, Project Fukushima, Sampling Virus and his New Jazz Quartet.

He has also received much acclaim for his soundtracks for film and television, having produced over 70 film soundtracks, and was awarded the Japan Record Award for best composer in 2013.

Produced by Alannah Chance for Reduced Listening.

30 minutes

Last on

Fri 27 Apr 2018 00:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • 山下毅雄

    Flight

  • Toru Takemitsu

    The Man Without A Map

  • 远藤贤司

    Kimi Wa Mada Kaettekonai

    • Manzoku Dekiru Kana.

  • Masayuki Takayanagi & New Direction for the Arts

    Mass Projection

  • Steve Beresford

    I Was There

    • Eleven Songs For Doris Day.
    • Chabada ?.

  • John Zorn

    Getting Curly

    • Locus Solus.

  • Rashiban

    Garekino Sora

    • Song Line.

  • Nelson Cavaquinho

    Folhas Secas

    • As Flores Em Vida.

  • Jad Fair & Tenniscoats

    Tonarigumi

Broadcast

  • Fri 27 Apr 2018 00:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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