Ground Zero (band)

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Ground-Zero
Origin Tokyo, japan
Genres Noise music
Free improvisation
Japanese noise rock
Years active 1990–1998
Past members Yoshihide Otomo
Hideki Kato
Masahiro Uemura

Ground-Zero was a Japanese noise/improvisation band[1] during the 1990s led by the guitarist and "turntablist" Yoshihide Otomo that had a large and rotating group of performers with two other regular performers.[1]

Musical style

The band performed on such instruments as turntables, sampler, shamisen, saxophone, koto, omnichord, electric guitar and two drum kits. They were the first free improvising musicians to use turntables[2]

Their music was virtuoso and mixed free jazz, improvisation, pop, rock and experimental noise.[3] They are most highly regarded for their album Consume Red, on which the performers improvise around a short sample of hojok music played by the Korean holy musician Kim Seok Chul.

History

Ground-Zero was initially formed to play the John Zorn game piece Cobra.[3] They first played in August 1990 and last played in March 1998.[3] The band's last project was in 1998 when they re-worked material from a 1992 Cassiber concert in Tokyo; it was released on the second CD of Cassiber's double CD, Live in Tokyo (1998).

Discography

Otomo Yoshihide at Weikersheim, Germany
  • Null And Void (1993)[4]
  • Revolutionary Pekinese Opera ver. 1.28 (1996, ReR GZ1)
  • Consume Red (1997, Sank-ohso/Creativeman)[3]
  • Last Concert (1999, (Valve/)Amoebic)[1][3]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Jenkins, Todd S. (2004). Free jazz and free improvisation: an encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 165. ISBN 9780313298813. Retrieved 2010-05-30.  Unknown parameter |lang_de&id= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ Christoph Cox, Daniel Warner (2004). Audio culture: readings in modern music. Continuum International Publishing Group. p. 405. ISBN 9780826416155. Retrieved 2010-05-30. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Kelly, Caleb (2009). Cracked media: the sound of malfunction. MIT Press. p. 188. ISBN 9780262013147. Retrieved 2010-05-30. 
  4. ↑ Scaruffi, Piero (2003). A History of Rock Music: 1951-2000. iUniverse. p. 505. ISBN 9780595295654. Retrieved 2010-05-30. 

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