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| origin = [[Kobe]], [[Japan]]
| origin = [[Kobe]], [[Japan]]
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Noise music|noise]], [[Experimental music|experimental]], [[Avant-garde music|avant-garde]], [[Psychedelic music|psychedelic]], [[alternative music|alternative]], [[Electronic music|electronic]], [[jazz]], [[surf music|surf]], [[dub music|dub]]
| genre = [[Rock music|Rock]], [[Noise music|noise]], [[Experimental music|experimental]], [[Avant-garde music|avant-garde]], [[Psychedelic music|psychedelic]], [[alternative music|alternative]], [[Electronic music|electronic]], [[jazz]], [[surf music|surf]], [[dub music|dub]]
| years_active = 1982–present
| years_active = 1982–present}}
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{{nihongo|'''Yamataka Eye'''|山塚アイ|''Yamataka Ai''}} (born {{nihongo|'''Tetsurō Yamatsuka'''|山塚徹郎|''Yamatsuka Tetsurō''}}, 13 February 1964) is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[singing|vocalist]] and visual artist, best known as a member of [[Boredoms]]. He has changed his stage name three times, from '''Yamatsuka Eye''', to '''Yamantaka Eye''', to '''Yamataka Eye''', and sometimes calls himself '''eYe''' or '''EYヨ'''. He also [[DJ]]s under the name '''DJ 光光光''' or "DJ pica pica pica" ("pica" means "bright" or "shiny"), and has used numerous other [[pseudonym]]s.
{{nihongo|'''Yamataka Eye'''|山塚アイ|''Yamataka Ai''}} (born {{nihongo|'''Tetsurō Yamatsuka'''|山塚徹郎|''Yamatsuka Tetsurō''}}, 13 February 1964) is a [[Japanese people|Japanese]] [[singing|vocalist]] and visual artist, best known as a member of [[Boredoms]]. He has changed his stage name three times, from '''Yamatsuka Eye''', to '''Yamantaka Eye''', to '''Yamataka Eye''', and sometimes calls himself '''eYe''' or '''EYヨ'''. He also [[DJ]]s under the name '''DJ 光光光''' or "DJ pica pica pica" ("pica" means "bright" or "shiny"), and has used numerous other [[pseudonym]]s.


== Music ==
==Music==


=== Boredoms ===
=== Boredoms ===
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* ''[[5: We are 0:00]]'' (1996)
* ''[[5: We are 0:00]]'' (1996)


=== The Lift Boys ===
===The Lift Boys===
* ''[[Anarchy Village b/w Anarchy Way]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Anarchy Village b/w Anarchy Way]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Lift Boyz]]'' (2005)
* ''[[Lift Boyz]]'' (2005)


=== MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse ===
===MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse===
* ''[[Live! (MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse album)|Live!]]''
* ''[[Live! (MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse album)|Live!]]''
* ''Live!!''
* ''Live!!''


=== Puzzle Punks ===
===Puzzle Punks===
* ''[[Pipeline - 24 Smash Hits by 24 Puzzle Punk Bands]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Pipeline - 24 Smash Hits by 24 Puzzle Punk Bands]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Budub]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Budub]]'' (1996)
* ''[[Puzzoo]]'' (2006)
* ''[[Puzzoo]]'' (2006)


=== Tribal Circus ===
===Tribal Circus===
* ''Tribal Circus'' (2000) (with [[Hifana]])
* ''Tribal Circus'' (2000) (with [[Hifana]])


=== Yamataka Eye ===
===Yamataka Eye===
* ''[[Re...Remix?]]'' (2008) (remix compilation)
* ''[[Re...Remix?]]'' (2008) (remix compilation)


=== Noise Ramones ===
===Noise Ramones===
* ''[[Rocket To DNA]]'' (1999)
* ''[[Rocket To DNA]]'' (1999)


=== with Battles ===
===with Battles===
* ''[[Gloss Drop]]'' (2011)
* ''[[Gloss Drop]]'' (2011)


=== with John Zorn ===
===with John Zorn===
* ''[[Nani Nani]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Nani Nani]]'' (1995)
* ''[[Zohar (album)|Zohar]]'' (as Mystic Fugu Orchestra) (1995)
* ''[[Zohar (album)|Zohar]]'' (as Mystic Fugu Orchestra) (1995)
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* ''[[50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10]]'' (2005)
* ''[[50th Birthday Celebration Volume 10]]'' (2005)


=== with Naked City ===
===with Naked City===
* ''[[Naked City (album)|Naked City]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Naked City (album)|Naked City]]'' (1989)
* ''[[Torture Garden (album)|Torture Garden]]'' (1990)
* ''[[Torture Garden (album)|Torture Garden]]'' (1990)
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* ''[[Radio (Naked City album)|Radio]]'' (1993)
* ''[[Radio (Naked City album)|Radio]]'' (1993)


=== with Praxis ===
===with Praxis===
* ''[[Sacrifist]]'' (1994)
* ''[[Sacrifist]]'' (1994)


=== with Sonic Youth ===
===with Sonic Youth===
* ''[[TV Shit]]'' (1993)
* ''[[TV Shit]]'' (1993)


=== with Ween ===
===with Ween===
* ''[[Z-Rock Hawaii]]'' (1997)
* ''[[Z-Rock Hawaii]]'' (1997)


== See also ==
==See also==
* [[Japanese art]]
* [[Japanese art]]
* [[Dadaism]]
* [[Dadaism]]


== External links ==
==External links==
* [http://www.ps1.org/cut/volume/eye.html PS1 profile]
* [http://www.ps1.org/cut/volume/eye.html PS1 profile]
* [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/interview/eye.htm Stylus Magazine interview with Eye]
* [http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/interview/eye.htm Stylus Magazine interview with Eye]
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Revision as of 15:43, 20 June 2015

Yamantaka Eye
Background information
Birth nameTetsurō Yamatsuka
Born (1964-02-13) 13 February 1964 (age 60)
OriginKobe, Japan
GenresRock, noise, experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, alternative, electronic, jazz, surf, dub
Years active1982–present

Yamataka Eye (山塚アイ, Yamataka Ai) (born Tetsurō Yamatsuka (山塚徹郎, Yamatsuka Tetsurō), 13 February 1964) is a Japanese vocalist and visual artist, best known as a member of Boredoms. He has changed his stage name three times, from Yamatsuka Eye, to Yamantaka Eye, to Yamataka Eye, and sometimes calls himself eYe or EYヨ. He also DJs under the name DJ 光光光 or "DJ pica pica pica" ("pica" means "bright" or "shiny"), and has used numerous other pseudonyms.

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 V∞redoms 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:

It’s worth talking about Eye’s art not simply because, like Paul McCartney, he makes it, but because it’s an extension of the same creative brain that propels the Boredoms.

See also: Stylus Magazine feature about his art

Discography

Audio Sports

Boredoms

For a full list of Boredoms releases, see Boredoms discography.

Destroy 2

DJ Chaos X

DJ Pica Pica Pica

Hanatarashi

Hanatarash

The Lift Boys

MC Hellshit & DJ Carhouse

Puzzle Punks

Tribal Circus

  • Tribal Circus (2000) (with Hifana)

Yamataka Eye

Noise Ramones

with Battles

with John Zorn

with Naked City

with Praxis

with Sonic Youth

with Ween

See also

External links

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