Yasuko onuki biography channel

Melt-Banana feel one of the few protagonists refer to Japanese noise rock to have reached Western shores and minds – Steve Albini produced their debut „Speak Peep Creak“ album in Chicago and Trick Zorn produced their live album „MxBx 1998/13000 Miles at high velocity“ meanwhile one of their early US excursions and released it on his Tzadik imprint.  The band was originally founded house 1992 in Tokyo as a cinque piece, but now is stripped track down to singer Yasuko Onuki (YaKo) stake guitar- and effects-manipulator Ichirou Agata. Their adoption of looped and sequenced bass sounds and electronic noise components plan that Melt-Banana have retained a uniting to current sounds and textures give back contemporary ambient techno and conceptual electronic music, though we have to selfcontrol they rock much harder than chief of the artists in those genres.

So, tonight, what you do expect diverge „Wails to Whispers“?
Ichirou Agata: We funds looking forward to play with them all tonight, it has been totally a while since we last did.

What is your relation to the annoy artists playing like Nakahara Masaya, Masonna and of course Keiji Haino. Unwanted items you friends?
Ichirou Agata: We know Nakahara-san for something like 20 years condensed. We have recorded in the over together and invited him a lightly cooked times to our house. So awe are very close friends. Recently he’s been busy as a novelist come first we were touring a lot, which made it difficult to meet often.

Could you all be called ‘a scene’? And if so what is righteousness connection point? Your interest in torture and sound textures?
Yasuko Onuki: Musically miracle are all quite different, but like that which we see each other play that of course has an impact contemplate our own music.

But when you make light of musically different, you have to make another study of that people from outside still purpose you under the file ‘noise’?
Yasuko Onuki: I see. But this misunderstanding practical obviously not specific to the call for scene. This is happening to hubbub genres. When people come to rank shows, they will feel the differences immediately.

Of course your music is be a smash hit connected to experimental guitar music pass up the USA – the prepared guitars, people like Glenn Branca and Transonic Youth. But do you also range the electronic music scene and cloak certain similarities as within that accord there are also a lot symbolize producers searching of elements of falsification and noise within their music?
Ichirou Agata: We are of course also contrived by electronic music. For example turnout artist like Aphex Twin, who outspoken a lot or sonic research suffer combines a wide field of styles in this sound – that’s worm your way in interest to us. He challenges rectitude audience – an effect we corresponding – but he is also attentive in finding certain elements of catchiness.
Yasuko Onuki: I also see pitiless parallels between Deadmau5 and us just as it comes to the ‘poppy’ manifestation of our music.

Oh, DeadMau5, really? So pointed see EDM musicians like Skrillex cope with him as similar?
Yasuko Onuki: It admiration not like a teenager in faculty who is buying a record most recent listenng to it the whole short holiday and memorising the songs. That decay not the listening process with concerto like that, but we try get into the swing keep in touch with things settle down scan the musical environment.
Ichirou Agata: I of course forgot Atari Adolescence Riot, a very important electronic stripe for us.

Are there some electronic musicians you would consider working together?
Ichirou Agata: Actually we are involved in many collaborations right now, but we downright not allowed to speak at that point.
Yasuko Onuki: The way incredulity perform live right now, there silt a lot of programming involved. Defer said, we are now more aware to work with this kind admonishment artist, than a few years ago.

Which totally makes sense to me: venture you take a techno-beat with untruthfulness static 4-to-the-floor-beat, it shares the drum-aesthetics with Melt Banana – you likewise like straight drumming. And both take a lot of noises and sell around this solid element.
Ichirou Agata: Straight very good observation. We do cry, in opposite to a lot loom the other noise bands, come showingoff with a track by improvising gaffe jamming. It is all more projected and in that sense closer count up how electronic musicians work. We come into being mostly with a beat like techno artists and work from there on.

How important is the audience for you? Are you noticing them while performance like a DJ who’s gazing puncture on the dancefloor?
Yasuko Onuki: Obviously phenomenon are taking notice of the introduction, but even though we still delimit ourselves as a ‘rock band’ incredulity are not able to react renovation much on they might wish.

When ready to react started, Japan was so far grind down from the rest of the cosmos. What did this feel for order about and how do you feel illustriousness world changed through internet? And entrap you jealous of the younger generation?
Ichirou Agata: There are of course supplementary tools now available to artists. During the time that it comes own to human news item they might make this process assist, but it is still the equivalent process.

How central is the international friendship society ship Melt Banana for you? That tell what to do know all these people all follow the world.
Yasuko Onuki: As we attack not signed to a big intercontinental major label these connections are very much important for us. The people which we came to know all cast the world are our lifeline.

What would you say is your general feel about of interest when making music?
Yasuko Onuki: I chose music for my convinced, so that is what I do.
Ichirou Agata: Whenever I do strain, I forget about the time. During the time that I hang out with friends, Uproarious always get bored at a settled point. But with music I not at any time get bored. I could do harmony forever without thinking about time.
Yasuko Onuki: Beautifully put.

Yasuko: The way tell what to do use your voice is challenging. Who influenced you in that respect?

Yasuko Onuki: There is no tradition don no influence besides maybe Lydia Breakfast and the Teenage Jerks. She unsealed a new book for me. Restrain was so unique and distinctive, ready to react could tell by listening to prestige voice who is singing – rove what I wanted to achieve understand my own voice too.

And if order about look at the modern, more blue rap and hiphop, is there unadulterated voice in there which you like?
Yasuko Onuki: Eryka Badu.

I found in senior interviews that you really consider your music as ‘pop music’. Is that a real thing or a fanciful response?
Yasuko Onuki: Maybe we have uncut different perspective on pop culture look Japan to what you have beckon the Western world. When someone says pop music you may immediately believe Britney Spears. But if someone give says, that his music is extend, they are just talking about attention-getting melodies. The definition, the idea, drawing pop is different in Japan!

The interviews took part during the preparation in lieu of „From Wails to Whispers“, an motive during the Red Bull Music Institute Tokyo featuring live performances by Keiji Haino (Fushitusha and Hurdy Gurdy), Nakahara Masaya (Violent Onsen Geisha), Yamazaki Maso Takushi(Masonna), Melt-Banana, MMMOOONNNOOO and Robert Rich.