Biography
Yoshiko Ohara is a Japanese musician and established visual artist, best known as the vocalist of the funeral doom metal band Bloody Panda.
After years of fruitful collaboration with various colleagues in her adopted hometown of New York City, Yoshiko Ohara released her first solo album, "Ringing in Our Wrists". Best known for her mesmerizing performances as lead singer for Bloody Panda and collaborations with Ocean and Kayo Dot, Yoshiko expanded her repertoire ever further into the outer reaches of strange, unearthly music, and released her first solo album in March 2013 via Ice Level Music, a new label run by Toby Driver (Kayo Dot, maudlin of the Well)
Ohara composed and recorded all the songs herself in addition to creating all the soon-to-be-revealed accompanying album artwork. She embraced the random on Ringing In Our Wrists, treating her audio material as pure sound rather than attempting to compose logical songs. Using the visual cue of the waveform as it appeared on her computer screen, Ohara rearranged the tracks to create visual tableaux that mirrored the imaginary artworks in her head. As such, all the sounds are created by accident, not written as music but created as an art work. Using a combination of field recordings and synthesizer generated noises Ohara's freshman album merges the painter's eye with the musician's ear, taking the listener on an inward journey to a place where those two synaptic impulses merge into one.
Bandcamp page: http://yoshikoohara.bandcamp.com
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