Otomo Yoshihide

Otomo was born in Yokohama in 1959, but due to his father's job, moved to Fukushima when he was nine years old.[3] In high school, he frequented jazz cafés and started his own band.[3] After entering university, he began studying under the improvisational jazz guitarist, Masayuki Takayanagi.[3] He began performing around the world and released his first album in 1991 in Hong Kong.[3] It was when the music he composed for a 1994 Hong Kong film was well received at the Cannes Film Festival that he also began to work as a composer.[3]

Otomo has composed music for a number of films and television programs,[4] including Naoki Kato's Abraxas,[5] Tsuyoshi Inoue's The Town's Children,[6] and Ryuichi Hiroki's Yellow Elephant.[7] He composed the music for the 2013 NHK morning television drama Amachan and it became his most commercially successful work up to that point. The soundtrack for Amachan reached number 5 on the Oricon Albums Chart,[8] and Kyōko Koizumi's version of the song Shiosai no Memorī from the drama, composed by Otomo, reached number 2 on the Oricon Singles Chart.[9] He performed live on New Year's Eve at the 2013 Kōhaku Uta Gassen.[10]

• Otomo Yoshihide (1987)
• Problem (1988)
• Duo (1989) with Junji Hirose
• Silanganan Ingay (1989) with Junji Hirose
• No Problem (1990) with No Problem
• Who Is Otomo Yoshihide? (1991)
• Visions of Japan (1991) with Yuji Katsui and Hiroshi Higo
• Ground-0, No. 0 (1991)
• Terminal-Zero (1991)
• We Insist? (1992)
• Turntables Solo (1992)
• Memory Disorder (1993)
• Peril (1993) with Peril
• The Night Before the Death of the Sampling Virus (1993)
• Ground Zero (1993) with Ground Zero
• Early Works 1: 81-85 (1994)
• Monogatari: Amino Argot (1994) with Carl Stone
• Balance of Power: Variety (1994) with Hiedaki Sasaki
• All at Once at Any Time (1994) with David Moss and John King
• Multiverse (1994) with Peril
• Null & Void (1995) with Ground Zero
• Tatakiuri (1995) with Jon Rose
• Revolutionary Pekinese Opera (1995) with Ground Zero
• Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Version 1.28 (1996) with Ground Zero
• Duo Improvisation (1996) with Yasuhiro Otani
• p53 (1996) with p53
• Twins!! (1996) with Bob Ostertag
• Ututu: Doppo Jukyo-at no Ho e Atelier El Sur (1996) with Kiwao Nomura and Keiki Midorikawa
• My Dear Mummy (1997) with Masahiko Shimada
• Memory & Money (1997) with Les Sculpteurs de Vinyl
• Conflagration (1997) with Ground Zero
• Consume Red (1997) with Ground Zero
• Plays Standards (1997) with Ground Zero
• Sound Factory (1997)
• Melted Memory (1997)
• Vinyl Tranquilizer (1997)
• Filament 1 (1998) with Filament
• Consummation (1998) with Ground Zero
• Gravity Clock (1998) with I.S.O.
• Memory Defacement (1998)
• Television Power Electric (1999) with Jim Baker, Aeron Bergman, Todd Carter, Brent Gutzeit, Michael Hartman, Ernst Long, and R. Wilkus
• Filament 2: Secret Recordings (1999) with Filament
• I.S.O. (1999) with I.S.O.
• Bits, Bots and Signs (1999) with Voice Crack
• Metal Tastes like Orange (1999) with Masahiko Okura, Günter Müller, and Taku Sugimoto
• Cathode (1999)
• Plays the Music of Takeo Yamashita (1999)
• Four Focuses (1999) with Martin Tétreault, Yasuhiro Otani, and Sachiko M
• 21 Situations (1999) with Martin Tétreault
• Panty Christ (1999) with Justin Bond and Bob Ostertag
• Pilgrimage (1999) with Microcosmos
• Without Kuryokhin (1999) with Kenny Millions
• Moving Parts (2000) with Christian Marclay
• Music for Dance Art Hong Kong's "Memory Disorder" (2000)
• Anode (2001)
• Flutter (2001) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
• 29092000 (2001) with Filament
• Thumb (2002) with Keith Rowe, Oren Ambarchi, Sachiko M, and Robbie Avenaim
• Ensemble Cathode (2002)
• Les Hautes Solitudes: A Philippe Garrel Film: Imaginarry Soundtrack (2002) with Taku Sugimoto and Sachiko M
• Miira ni Naru made: German Version (2002) with Masahiko Shimada
• Pulser (2002) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
• Invisible Architecture No. 1 (2002) with Philip Jeck and Martin Tétreault
• Ajar (2002) with Almá Fury, Yasuhiro Otani, and Xavier Charles
• Dreams (2002) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Ensemble
• Tails Out (2003) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
• ONJQ + OE (2003) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet and Tatsuya Oe
• ONJQ + OE: Short Density (2003) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet and Tatsuya Oe
• Turntables and Computers (2003) with Nobukazu Takemura
• Studio—Analogique—Numérique (2003) with Martin Tétreault
• Time Travel (2003) with Günter Müller
• Warholes or All Andy Would Enjoy (And Fear) / Warhol Memory Disorder (2003) with Lengow, Heyermears, and Sachiko M
• Soup (2003) with Bill Laswell and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
• Loose Community (2003) with Park Je Chun and Mi Yeon
• The Crushed Pellet (2003) with Eiichi Hayashi and Yoshisaburo Toyozumi
• Turntable Solo (2004)
• Compositions for Guitars Vol. 2 (2004) with Tetuzi Akiyama, Toshimaru Nakamura, and Taku Unami
• Brackwater (2004) with Korber, Tomas, eRikm, and Toshimaru Nakamura
• Good Morning Good Night (2004) with Sachiko M and Toshimaru Nakamura
• Intonarumori Orchestra (2004) with Intonarumori Orchestra
• Filament Box (2004) with Filament
• 1. Grrr (2004) with Martin Tétreault
• 2. Tok (2005) with Martin Tétreault
• 3. Ahhh (2005) with Martin Tétreault
• 4. Hmmm (2005) with Martin Tétreault
• Out to Lunch (2005) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra
• See You in a Dream (2005) with Yuki Saga
• Trace Cuts (2005) with eRikm, Martin Tétreault
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra (2005) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra
• Time Magic City (2006) with BusRatch
• Episome (2006) with Bill Laswell and Tatsuya Yoshida
• Sora (2007)
• Prisoner: A Film by Adachi Masao: Original Soundtrack (2007)
• Multiple Otomo (2007)
• Encounter (2007) with Itaru Oki
• Modulation with 2 Electric Guitars and 2 Amplifiers (2007)
• Modulation with 2 Electric Guitars and 2 Amplifiers: Alternative Version (2008)
• Core Anode (2008)
• Country Kill (2008) with Joy Heights
• Les Archives Sauvées des Eaux (2008) with Luc Ferrari
• Guitar Duo (2008) with Seiichi Yamamoto
• Sweet Cuts, Distant Curves (2008) with Choi, Joonyong, Hong Chulki, and Sachiko M
• Monte Alto Estate (2009) with Sim
• Guitar Duo x Solo (2009) with Shinichi Isohata
• Shinjuku Crawl (2009) with The Thing
• Good Cop Bad Cop (2009) with Derek Bailey, Tony Bevan, and Paul Hession
• Ultra Miracle Love Story (2009)
• Book from Hell (2010) with Zai Kuning and Dickson Dee
• 3-Part In(ter)ventions (2012) with Jim O'Rourke
• Piano Solo (2013)
• Existence (2013) with Shinichi Isohata
• Quintet/Sextet (2013) with Sachiko M, Evan Parker, John Butcher, John Edwards and Tony Marsh,

• Live at Aketa-no-mise in Tokyo, July 28, 1989 (1989)
• Solo Live in Kyoto 93 (1995)
• Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Tokyo 1995 (1995) with Ground Zero
• Live! (1995) with Eye Yamatsuka
• Live!! (1996) with Eye Yamatsuka
• Session 18 Oct. 1997 (1998) with Seed Mouth
• Live at Otis! (1998) with Sachiko M and Yoshimitsu Ichiraku
• Live (1998) with I.S.O.
• Last Concert (1999) with Ground Zero
• Guitar Solo Live 1 (1999)
• Live (2002) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
• Turntables Solo Live, 28 Feb 2002 in Tokyo (2002)
• Soup Live (2004) with Bill Laswell and Yasuhiro Yoshigaki
• Erst Live 004 (2005) with Christian Fennesz, Sachiko M, and Peter Rehberg
• Erst Live 005 (2005) with Keith Rowe, Sachiko M, and Toshimaru Nakamura
• Concert in St. Louis (2005) with Grnr Coleman, Franz Hautzinger, and Sachiko M
• Guitar Solo: 12 October 2004 @ Shinjuku Pit Inn, Tokyo + 1 (2005)
• ONJQ Live in Lisbon (2006) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet
• Live 1992 (2007) with Ground Zero
• Live Vol. 1: Series Circuit (2007) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra
• Live Vol. 2: Parallel Circuit (2007) with Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra

• Otomo + Mao (1995)
• Revolutionary Pekinese Opera, Version 1.50 (1996) with Ground Zero
• Live Mao '99 (1996) with Ground Zero
• Untitled (1996) with Eye Yamatsuka
• Museum of Towing & Recovery (1998) with Steve Beresford
• Lupin the Third: Ending Theme (1999)
• Split 7" (1999) with Christian Marclay
• Re/cycling Rectangle (2000)
• Digital Tranquilizer Ver. 1.0 (2004)
• Digital Tranquilizer Ver. 1.01 (2004)
• 4 Speakers (2009)

Otomo Yoshihide performing in Denmark

• Dark Room Filled with Light (2006) with Filament
• Music(s) (2006)
• Ensembles 09: Pre-opening Live at Shinjuku Pit Inn (2009)

With Rova::Orchestrova

• Electric Ascension (Atavistic, 2005)

• The Blue Kite (1993)
• Summer Snow (1995)
• Postman (1995)
• Kitchen (1997)
• Wait and See (1998)
• Kaza-hana (2000)
• Blue (2001)
• Les Hautes Solitudes: Philippe Garrel Film (2002)
• Iden & Tity (2003)
• Canary (2005)
• Boku wa Imōto ni Koi o Suru (2007)
• Ultra Miracle Love Story (2009)
• Tokyo Island (2010)
• Abraxas (2010)
• The Town's Children (2011)
• Olo the Boy from Tibet (2012)
• Botchan (2012)
• Yellow Elephant (2013)
• Junan (2013)
• Piece of Cake (2015)[11]
• Beneath the Shadow (2020)
• You've Got a Friend (2022)[12]
• Noise (2022)[13]
• Inu-Oh (2022)[14]

• Amachan (2013)
• Idaten (2019)