Yamantaka Eye

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Yamantaka Eye
Background information
Birth
name
Born
Origin
Tetsur Yamatsuka
13 February 1964 (age 52)

Kobe, Japan
Rock, noise, experimental, avant-garde,
Genres psychedelic, alternative, electronic, jazz,
surf, dub
Years
1982present
active
Yamataka Eye ( Yamataka Ai?) (born Tetsur Yamatsuka ( Yamatsuka
Tetsur?), 13 February 1964) is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a
member of Boredoms and Naked City. He has changed his stage name three times, from
Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometimes calls himself eYe
or EY . He also DJs under the name DJ or "DJ pica pica pica" ("pica" means
"bright" or "shiny"), and has used numerous other pseudonyms.
Contents
1 Music
o 1.1 Boredoms
o 1.2 Other
2 Art
3 Discography
o 3.1 Audio Sports
o 3.2 Boredoms
o 3.3 Destroy 2
o 3.4 DJ Chaos X
o 3.5 DJ Pica Pica Pica
o 3.6 Hanatarashi
o 3.7 Hanatarash
o 3.8 The Lift Boys
o 3.9 MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse
o 3.10 Puzzle Punks
o 3.11 Tribal Circus
o 3.12 Yamataka Eye
o 3.13 Noise Ramones
o 3.14 with Battles
o 3.15 with John Zorn

o 3.16 with Naked City
o 3.17 with Praxis
o 3.18 with Sonic Youth
o 3.19 with Ween
4 See also
5 External links
Music
Boredoms
Born in Kobe, Eye is a founder of the influential rock music band, Boredoms, whose first
major label release came out in the early '90s. They were signed to Warner Bros. (Chocolate
Synthesizer era) by David Katznelson, then A&R VP of Warner Bros. The closest thing
Boredoms have to a frontman, Eye offers a variety of vocal techniques: gurgles, screams,
grunts and occasionally, relatively conventional singing. In the later days of Boredoms and
in today's Vredoms he plays electronics and open reel tapes.
Other
Yamantaka Eye is also a member of the bands Hanatarash, UFO or Die, Puzzle Punks,
Noise Ramones and Destroy 2. He is notorious for his vast, confusing discography and
countless guest appearances. In 1993, he recorded an EP with Sonic Youth called TV Shit
for Thurston Moore's label, Ecstatic Peace. He also collaborated with Yamamoto Seiichi &
Yamazaki Maso in the project "(Triple) Yama's" which was titled for their shared namesake.
He released two albums, Live! and Live!!, with Japanese turntablist/improviser Otomo
Yoshihide, under the moniker "MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse". He formed a music and art
group called Puzzle Punks, with Shinro Ohtake.
Other notable collaborations include his work with Bill Laswell's Praxis and with John
Zorn's groups Naked City and Painkiller. Eye and Zorn also recorded the album Zohar as
the "Mystic Fugu Orchestra." This latter compilation, which both commemorates and
satirizes Jewish culture, also draws strength from Eye's earlier influence from the Oomoto
religion in Japan, a sect claiming to possess visions of an emerging world order. Several
generations of Eye's family belonged to Oomoto[citation needed], which was at times brutally
suppressed by the Japanese government. Yamantaka participated in the Boredoms 77
Boadrum performance which occurred on July 7, 2007 at 7:07 PM at the Empire-Fulton
Ferry State Park in Brooklyn, New York, and the 88 Boadrum performance which occurred
on August 8, 2008 at 8:08 PM at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California.
Art
As well as his music, Eye is famous for his Dada influenced mixed-media style of art that
utilises airbrush, marker pen and collage, amongst other materials. This work has adorned a
number of records, including the majority of Boredoms releases and, perhaps more
famously, Beck's Midnite Vultures. Similar to the Boredoms' musical direction, Eye started
incorporating a much more psychedelic, calmer approach into his work, evident on the
covers of many of the later Boredoms albums. Drawing as much from Japanese mythology
as it does from his musical influence, such as early punk imagery, his work aims to
complement the music as well as to provide another dimension to the sound.
When discussing Eye's unique art style, Stylus Magazine writer Mike Powell commented:
Its worth talking about Eyes art not simply because, like Paul M
See also: Stylus Magazine feature about his art
Discography
Audio Sports
3-6-9 (Bron Records) (EP) (1991)
Eat+Buy+Eat (All Access) (EP/CD) (1992)
Era of Glittering Gas (All Access) (CD) (1992)
Boredoms
For a full list of Boredoms releases, see Boredoms discography.
Osorezan no Stooges Kyo (1988)
Soul Discharge (1989)
Pop Tatari (1992)
Chocolate Synthesizer (1994)
Super (1998)
Vision Creation Newsun (1999)
Seadrum/House of Sun (2005)
Destroy 2
We Are Voice and Rhythm Only (1996)
DJ Chaos X
Live Mixxx (2006)
DJ Pica Pica Pica
Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 199999 (1999)
Hanatarashi
Hanazumari (1984)
Take Back Your Penis!! (1984)
Live Axtion 84.4.20 & 1.29 (1984)
Noisexa (1984)
Bombraining (1984)
The Hit Parade 1 (1984)
The Hit Parade 2 (1984)
Hane Go Go (1984)
Man Of Noise Noise Kyojin (1984)
Live! 1984 3.24 (1984)
8448-412 (1984)
Live Action 84.1.29 (1984)
Live Act 16.Dec.1984 at Zabo Kyoto (1984)
Merzbow & Hanatarashi (1985) (with Merzbow)
Worst Selektion (1985)
Worst Selektion (1985)
Hanatarashi 1 (1985)
Hanatarashi 2 (1987)
Hanatarash
3: William Bennet Has No Dick (1990)
The Hanatarash and His Eye (1992)
Live!! 1984 Dec. 16: Zabo-Kyoto (1993)
Total Retardation (1995)
4: Aids-a-delic (1995)
5: We are 0:00 (1996)
The Lift Boys
Anarchy Village b/w Anarchy Way (2005)
Lift Boyz (2005)
MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse
Live!
Live!!
Puzzle Punks
Pipeline - 24 Smash Hits by 24 Puzzle Punk Bands (1996)
Budub (1996)
Puzzoo (2006)
Tribal Circus
Tribal Circus (2000) (with Hifana)
Yamataka Eye
Re...Remix? (2008) (remix compilation)
Noise Ramones
Rocket To DNA (1999)
with Battles
Gloss Drop (2011)
with John Zorn
Nani Nani (1995)
Zohar (as Mystic Fugu Orchestra) (1995)
Naninani II (2004)
50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10 (2005)
with Naked City
Naked City (1989)
Torture Garden (1990)
Grand Guignol (1992)
Heretic (1992)
Leng Tch'e (1992)
Radio (1993)
with Praxis
Sacrifist (1994)
with Sonic Youth
TV Shit (1993)
with Ween
Z-Rock Hawaii (1997)
See also
Japanese art
Dadaism
External links
PS1 profile
Stylus Magazine interview with Eye

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13 February 1964 (age 52)

o 3.15 with John Zorn

See also: Stylus Magazine feature about his art

3-6-9 (Bron Records) (EP) (1991)

Eat+Buy+Eat (All Access) (EP/CD) (1992)

Era of Glittering Gas (All Access) (CD) (1992)

Osorezan no Stooges Kyo (1988)

Soul Discharge (1989)

Pop Tatari (1992)

Chocolate Synthesizer (1994)

Vision Creation Newsun (1999)

Seadrum/House of Sun (2005)

We Are Voice and Rhythm Only (1996)

Live Mixxx (2006)

DJ Pica Pica Pica

Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 199999 (1999)

Take Back Your Penis!! (1984)

Live Axtion 84.4.20 & 1.29 (1984)

The Hit Parade 1 (1984)

The Hit Parade 2 (1984)

Man Of Noise Noise Kyojin (1984)

Live! 1984 3.24 (1984)

Live Action 84.1.29 (1984)

Live Act 16.Dec.1984 at Zabo Kyoto (1984)

Merzbow & Hanatarashi (1985) (with Merzbow)

Worst Selektion (1985)

Worst Selektion (1985)

3: William Bennet Has No Dick (1990)

The Hanatarash and His Eye (1992)

Live!! 1984 Dec. 16: Zabo-Kyoto (1993)

Total Retardation (1995)

5: We are 0:00 (1996)

The Lift Boys

Anarchy Village b/w Anarchy Way (2005)

Lift Boyz (2005)

MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse

Pipeline - 24 Smash Hits by 24 Puzzle Punk Bands (1996)

Tribal Circus (2000) (with Hifana)

Re...Remix? (2008) (remix compilation)

Rocket To DNA (1999)

Gloss Drop (2011)

with John Zorn

Nani Nani (1995)

Zohar (as Mystic Fugu Orchestra) (1995)

50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10 (2005)

with Naked City

Naked City (1989)

Torture Garden (1990)

Grand Guignol (1992)

Leng Tch'e (1992)

with Sonic Youth

Z-Rock Hawaii (1997)

Stylus Magazine interview with Eye

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