Years active 1990–1998 | ||
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Past members Otomo YoshihideHideki KatoMasahiro Uemura Members Yoshihide Otomo, Sachiko M, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Naruyoshi Kikuchi, Yasuhiro Yoshigaki, ナスノミツル Albums Plays Standards, Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Revolutionary Pekinese Opera - ve | ||
Ground-Zero was a Japanese noise/improvisation band during the 1990s led by the guitarist and "turntablist" Otomo Yoshihide that had a large and rotating group of performers with two other regular performers.
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Musical style
The band performed on such instruments as turntables, sampler, shamisen, saxophone, koto, omnichord, electric guitar and two drum kits. They were the first free improvising musicians to use turntables
Their music was virtuoso and mixed free jazz, improvisation, pop, rock and experimental noise. They are most highly regarded for their album Consume Red, on which the performers improvise around a short sample of hojok music played by the Korean holy musician Kim Seok Chul.
History
Ground-Zero was initially formed to play the John Zorn game piece Cobra. They first played in August 1990 and last played in March 1998. The band's last project was in 1998 when they re-worked material from a 1992 Cassiber concert in Tokyo; it was released on the second CD of Cassiber's double CD, Live in Tokyo (1998).
Discography
Songs
Akashia No Ame Ga Yamu TokiPlays Standards · 1997
Red Mao Book by SonyRevolutionary Pekinese Opera - ver 128 · 1996
Revolutionary Enka 2001Revolutionary Pekinese Opera - ver 128 · 1996