Kyoko Kitamura

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Kyoko Kitamura is a musician residing in New York City, who combines different forms of vocal improvisation with real-time vocal processing using a laptop.

Background

Kitamura was born in New York City and raised partially in Tokyo. She studied piano at the Juilliard School of Music prep division but later chose to become a TV reporter with Fuji Television, a national network in Japan and was based in Paris for many years as their French news correspondent.

After quitting her job, she moved back to NYC in 1997, worked as a freelance magazine writer for a few years before getting back into music after a hiatus of close to 15 years. Unusual for a vocalist, she honed craft as a sideperson-vocalist with NYC musicians such as bassist Reggie Workman, saxophonist Steve Coleman, cornet player Taylor Ho Bynum, Argentine composer/conductor Laura Andel, and German pianist Ursel Schlicht, among others.

Mostly recently, she appears on Trillium E (New Braxton House 2011), the first ever studio-recording of an Anthony Braxton opera. She currently works with Anthony Braxton as a vocalist in his Tri-Centric Orchestra and as a board member of his Tri-Centric Foundation.

Discography

She co-led the avant/pop group ok|ok which released its first CD Eating Mantis in 2008 from Ravi Coltrane's RKM Music label.

Discography as a sideperson includes Anthony Braxton's Trillium E (New Braxton House 2011), Taylor Ho Bynum's Madeleine Dreams (Firehouse 12 Records 2009), Jamie Baum's Solace (Sunnyside Records 2008), Laura Andel Orchestra's Somnambulist (Red Toucan Records 2003), Laura Andel Electric Percussive Orchestra's In::tension:.(Rossbin Records October 2005), Steve Coleman's Lucidarium (Label Bleu 2004), and Ras Moshe's Live Spirits 2 & 4 (Utech Records).

Have performed and/or recorded with

Laura Andel Orchestra, Anthony Braxton, Taylor Ho Bynum, Jay Clayton, Steve Coleman, Shane Endsley, Angie Eng (video artist), Gerry Hemingway, Jason Hwang, Yayoi Ikawa, Mark Lamb (dancer), Art Lande, Russ Lossing, Mike McGinnis, Maria Mitchell (dancer), Tony Moreno, Ras Moshe, Kirk Nurock, Reuben Radding, Ursel Schlicht, Jim Staley, Take Toriyama, Reggie Workman, and others.

References

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