YT//ST
by YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN
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Raccoon Song
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Queens
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Oak of Guernica
02:44
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Hoshi Neko
04:43
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A Star Over Pureland
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about
With YT//ST, the pan-Asian cultural collective, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan has crafted a debut LP that sets new standards for the creative heights and satisfactions of genre fusion. They call it Noh-Wave.
The key to Yamantaka’s sound lies in their uninhibited admixture of East and West, their commingling of the band’s ancestral musics with more contemporary genres to explore the complications and contradictions of dual identity. By simultaneously inhabiting a variety of cultural forms, the band shatters the comfort with which colonialist cultures have appropriated the image and art of Asian and First Nations peoples to assemble a wholly new hybrid form. This is Noh-Wave, and it draws from both pop and J-pop, British prog and Japanese psychedelia, punk rock and Iroquois core, black metal and Chinese Opera, noise music and Noh theatre. The resultant sounds could be seductively soft (as heard on “Hoshi Neko”) or electrifyingly loud (as heard on “Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider), but they’re invariably the stuff of a visionary new approach to popular music. --GL
The key to Yamantaka’s sound lies in their uninhibited admixture of East and West, their commingling of the band’s ancestral musics with more contemporary genres to explore the complications and contradictions of dual identity. By simultaneously inhabiting a variety of cultural forms, the band shatters the comfort with which colonialist cultures have appropriated the image and art of Asian and First Nations peoples to assemble a wholly new hybrid form. This is Noh-Wave, and it draws from both pop and J-pop, British prog and Japanese psychedelia, punk rock and Iroquois core, black metal and Chinese Opera, noise music and Noh theatre. The resultant sounds could be seductively soft (as heard on “Hoshi Neko”) or electrifyingly loud (as heard on “Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider), but they’re invariably the stuff of a visionary new approach to popular music. --GL
credits
released 01 October 2011
Ruby Kato Attwood - Vocals
Alaska B - Drums, Keys, Programming
John Ancheta - Bass, Acoustic Guitar
Ange Loft - Vocals
Shub Roy - Guitar
Walter Scott - Vocals
Brendan Swanson - Keys
Recorded & Engineered @ Gloryhole by Alaska B
Mastered by Electric Frog Recordings
A Psychic Handshake Recording
©2011 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN
Ruby Kato Attwood - Vocals
Alaska B - Drums, Keys, Programming
John Ancheta - Bass, Acoustic Guitar
Ange Loft - Vocals
Shub Roy - Guitar
Walter Scott - Vocals
Brendan Swanson - Keys
Recorded & Engineered @ Gloryhole by Alaska B
Mastered by Electric Frog Recordings
A Psychic Handshake Recording
©2011 YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN
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YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN are a psychedelic noh-wave opera group fusing noise, metal, pop and folk music into a multidisciplinary hyper-orientalist cesspool of 'east' meets 'west' culture clash in giant monochrome paper sets.
shows
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May 18Chicago, IL
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May 19Minneapolis, MN
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May 21Winnipeg, MB
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May 22Saskatoon, SK
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May 23Edmonton, AB
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May 27Seattle, WA
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May 28Vancouver, BC
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May 29Portland, OR
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May 31San Francisco, CA
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Jun 01Los Angeles, CA
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Jun 02San Diego, CA
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Jun 05Marfa, TX
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Jun 06Austin, TX
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Jun 07New Orleans, LA
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Jun 08Birmingham, AL
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Jun 09East Atlanta, GA
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Jun 11Washington, DC
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Jun 12Philadelphia, PA
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Jun 12Philadelphia, PA
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Jun 13New York, NY
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Jun 20Montreal, QC
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Jun 20Calgary, AB
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Jun 22Calgary, AB
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Jun 23Calgary, AB
discography
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Oct 2011 -
Jan 2011
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