Role Singer | Name Toko Yasuda Years active 1992–present | |
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Occupation(s) Singer, songwriter, musician Instruments Bass guitar, Guitar, keyboard instruments Labels Touch & Go, Spectrum Spools Associated acts Music groups Enon, Blonde Redhead (1993), The Van Pelt, The Lapse Albums Believo!, Sultans Of Sentiment, Grass GeysersCarbon Clouds, High Society, Lost Marbles & Exploded Similar Chris Leo, Matt Schulz, Amedeo Pace, Kazu Makino | ||
PLVS VLTRA-Flowers To Bees
Toko Yasuda is a Japanese singer, songwriter, keyboardist, and bassist, best known as a member of New York indie rock band Enon.
Contents
- PLVS VLTRA Flowers To Bees
- St Vincent Save Me from What I Want 2011 08 25
- Life and career
- Discography
- References
St. Vincent - "Save Me from What I Want" (2011-08-25)
Life and career
Yasuda grew up in the cities of Fujisawa and Kamakura. Her father was once a doshu of Aikido. She moved to New York City in 1992, and lived there until 2006.
Yasuda has played in the bands The Lapse and The Van Pelt before their disbandment, and had a brief stint in Blonde Redhead, although she doesn't appear on any of their recordings. After that Toko appeared in the band Enon. She played the moog synthesizer and guitar for St. Vincent during the Strange Mercy tour from 2011 to 2012.
Soft-spoken Yasuda is known for her smooth sounding voice, simple yet catchy songwriting, and heavy use of synthesizer in song composition, giving the songs an electropop-like quality.
Yasuda currently resides in Los Angeles and formerly she shortly lived in Philadelphia, after being priced out of both Manhattan and Brooklyn. The New York Times profiled Enon's move to Philadelphia as indication of a greater phenomenon of transplanted New Yorkers to the "sixth borough".
In 2012, Yasuda released the album Parthenon under the pseudonym Plvs Vltra. Parthenon is Yasuda's first solo album, featuring collaborations with Danny Ray Thompson of the Sun Ra Arkestra, Scott Allen of Thunderbirds Are Now, and John Schmersal, also of Enon, who produced the album.
Yasuda featured on Gimme A Chance on Azealia Banks' 2014 debut album Broke With Expensive Taste.
Currently, Yasuda is touring with St. Vincent on the Digital Witness Tour as keyboardist, guitarist, and backup vocalist.