hamaYôko
Ygun –n9– CD (E52)
Yôko Higashi is a performer, vocalist, choreographer and dancer.
hamaYôko is her musique concrète-influenced electro-pop project.
This is Yôko’s second album; her debut CD, hamaYôko 4/29,
was released in October 2007. Ygun –n9– was co-mastered by
Lionel Marchetti, with whom she is currently working on the
musique concrète album Okura 73°N–42°E alongside the next
hamaYôko release.
See also hamaYôko (E48)
hamaYôko and Yôko Higashi/Lionel Marchetti on YouTube
First edition of 300 copies.
£8
Yôko Higashi, Meiji Jingu, Tokyo 2007
Photograph by Martin Holtkamp
Yôko Higashi is a young Japanese woman whose music can definitely
not be classified: abstract electronics, pure and modulated field
recordings, cut-ups, strings, singing… everything mixed as a chain of
radio accidents into an extremely exciting sound texture. Whether with
or without pattern, the musical structure stays inscrutable, as do the
Japanese lyrics; the [overall] aim and direction remain completely
mysterious — sometimes musique concrète, other times like Diamanda
Galás playing a game of ping pong, awesomely nuts like Violent Onsen
Geisha or haunting, nearly frightening. In addition to music and vocal
acrobatics Higashi is a dancer and choreographer. Perhaps that’s the
origin of these uncommen contortions and unsurveyable splits in many
simultaneous directions.
Ed Benndorf in De:Bug
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