Boredoms () (later known as V∞redoms) is a
rock band from
Osaka
is a Cities designated by government ordinance of Japan, designated city in the Kansai region of Honshu in Japan. It is the capital of and most populous city in Osaka Prefecture, and the List of cities in Japan, third-most populous city in J ...
,
Japan
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formed in 1986. The band's sound is often referred to as
noise rock
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, or sometimes
Japanoise (Japan's
noise music
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scene), though their more recent records have moved toward repetitive
psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a rock music Music genre, genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelia, psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound ...
,
ambient soundscapes, and tribal drumming.
The band has a vast
discography
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. Many band members have rotated through the group over the years, often using a number of various
stage name
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s. Singer
Yamantaka Eye is the closest the band has to a frontman; his style includes a range of baffling screams, babbling,
electronic effects, and very heavy post-production. Drummer/keyboard player/vocalist
Yoshimi P-We is featured on most Boredoms recordings.
History
Formation and early years
Boredoms were formed in early 1986 by
Yamantaka Eye, who at the time acted as front man for the infamous and highly controversial
noise
Noise is sound, chiefly unwanted, unintentional, or harmful sound considered unpleasant, loud, or disruptive to mental or hearing faculties. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrat ...
/
performance art
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act
Hanatarash,
locally notorious for its extremely dangerous live shows consisting entirely of on-stage destruction and complete disregard for the audience's safety. The antics of Hanatarash would later be highly influential on the earliest incarnation of Boredoms, which was formed by the remaining members of a band Eye started with Hanatarash drummer Ikuo Taketani, as well as guitarist Tabata Mitsuru (known as Tabata Mara), bassist Hosoi Hisato, and vocalist Makki Sasarato, called "Acid Makki & Combi and Zombie".
The band's sound was characterized by violent, noisy
punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...
/
no wave
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thrashings. They recorded a single track, "U.S.A.", for a compilation tape.
Shortly after the release of their first song, Taketani was replaced on drums by Yoshikawa Toyohito, a friend of Eye's.
The band officially changed their name to Boredoms after Hira replaced Hosoi on bass, and Sasarato left the band due to creative differences. The band's name comes from the
Buzzcocks
Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band that singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto formed in Manchester in 1976. During their career, the band combined elements of punk rock, power pop, and pop punk. The ...
song "Boredom".
With the band finally reaching a level of stability, Eye and Tabata recorded their first official EP, ''
Anal by Anal'', in mid-1986. In early 1987, Tabata left the group to later join
Zeni Geva and was replaced by
Seiichi Yamamoto as guitar player. In March 1988, the band released its first full-length, ''
Osorezan no Stooges Kyo''. Due to unhappiness over Yoshikawa's drumming,
Yoshimi P-We from Eye's Hanatarash-related project UFO or Die was asked to serve as drummer, becoming the first female member of the band, with Yoshikawa switching to general percussion. Shortly after the change Yoshikawa left the group, to be replaced by Chew Hasegawa (now of Japanese
funeral doom
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band
Corrupted) and then by Kazuya Nishimura, known by his stage name Atari. The band's sound from this period was marked by harsh, dissonant
punk
Punk or punks may refer to:
Genres, subculture, and related aspects
* Punk rock, a music genre originating in the 1970s associated with various subgenres
* Punk subculture, a subculture associated with punk rock, or aspects of the subculture s ...
edited extensively by Eye in the studio, citing
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Founding members Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar), Thurston Moore (lead guitar, vocals) and Lee Ranaldo (rhythm guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of ...
and
Funkadelic
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as influences, among others. This style was seen by some as "pointlessly abrasive" without any underlying motive, making Boredoms nihilistic
absolute music
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, according to some critics; however, the strangeness of the record increased the band's popularity in the musical underground.
Growing popularity
In 1988 and 1989, Eye found himself making friends with
Sonic Youth
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and also worked extensively with
John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...
's
polystylistic Naked City project, serving as guest vocalist.
After the release of Boredoms' album ''
Soul Discharge'' in the United States, the band was able to parlay their growing popularity into long term record deals with
Warner Bros. Records in Japan and its United States imprint
Reprise Records
Reprise Records is an American record label founded in 1960 by Frank Sinatra. It is owned by Warner Music Group, and operates through Warner Records, one of its flagship labels.
Artists currently signed to Reprise Records include Green Day, En ...
. With the release of the band's critically acclaimed ''
Pop Tatari'', generally seen as one of the strangest albums ever released by a major label,
Boredoms took to the road and toured with Sonic Youth in 1992,
Nirvana
Nirvana, in the Indian religions (Jainism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Sikhism), is the concept of an individual's passions being extinguished as the ultimate state of salvation, release, or liberation from suffering ('' duḥkha'') and from the ...
for eight consecutive shows in late October and early November 1993, and
Brutal Truth in 1993.
During this period, the band was asked by
Steve Albini
Steven Frank Albini (; July 22, 1962 – May 7, 2024) was an American musician and audio engineer. He founded and fronted the influential post-hardcore and noise rock bands Big Black (1981–1987), Rapeman (1987–1989) and Shellac (band), ...
to record a track for a compilation he was recording. Shortly after Eye again collaborated with
John Zorn
John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...
on an EP under the name Mystic Fugu Orchestra, which was notably the first album released on Zorn's
Tzadik Records.
The following year, at the height of its popularity in the
United States
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, the band was asked to perform on the main stage of the 1994
Lollapalooza
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tour in support of the album ''
Chocolate Synthesizer'', which had just been released in the United States. The album proved largely successful for such an experimental band and was later considered one of the best albums of the 1990s by
Alternative Press magazine. Yoshikawa had later joined the band in the early months of 1994 for a second time to play on ''Pop Tatari'', often sharing vocal duties with Eye, but left again in 1994 and was replaced on percussion by EDA, who had been introduced to the band by
Pavement bassist
Mark Ibold. The band was dropped from the
Reprise
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roster,
with
Birdman Records distributing the band's ''Super Roots'' EPs during this period.
By the time of 1998's ''Super Go!!!!!'' EP and full-length ''
Super æ'', the band started to break sharply from their earlier
atonal
Atonality in its broadest sense is music that lacks a tonal center, or key. ''Atonality'', in this sense, usually describes compositions written from about the early 20th-century to the present day, where a hierarchy of harmonies focusing on ...
noise rock
Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise music, noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimal music, minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, a ...
/
Japanoise sound by introducing many elements of sweeping
electronica
Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...
effects and thoroughly constructed
psychedelic rock
Psychedelic rock is a rock music Music genre, genre that is inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelia, psychedelic culture, which is centered on perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music incorporated new electronic sound ...
jams into their music. Perceived analogies with the music of
Can became common during this period. Described as "tumultuous space-sludge", ''Super æ'' has most often been compared to the defining elements of 1970s
krautrock
Krautrock (also called , German for ) is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It originated among artists who blended elements of psychedelic rock, avant-garde composition, and electron ...
.
Soon after its initial release in
Japan
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, ''Super æ'' was met with a considerable amount of acclaim from the international music press, recognized as a modern-day
avant-garde
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artifact and progressive "masterpiece". Notably, ''Super æ'' was considered one of the best albums of the 1990s by
Pitchfork Media
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.
In 1999, the band released ''
Vision Creation Newsun'' in
Japan
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. This album saw an evolution in their sound, combining the evolving
space rock
Space rock is a music genre characterized by loose and lengthy song structures centered on instrumental textures that typically produce a hypnotic, otherworldly sound. It may feature distorted and reverberation-laden guitars, minimal drummin ...
themes explored in their ''Super Roots'' EPs and preceding album ''
Super æ'' with "a much more earthly, primal, primitively worshipful inspiration".
It features
psychedelic soundscaping and "cosmic synths", complex tribal drumming, "cathartic celebrations of noise",
and Eye's unique
power electronic and
turntabalistic stylings. The album is often considered the band's greatest achievement thus far, and has been described by critics as blending the "manic, high-speed, cut-up form
punk rock
Punk rock (also known as simply punk) is a rock music genre that emerged in the mid-1970s. Rooted in 1950s rock and roll and 1960s garage rock, punk bands rejected the corporate nature of mainstream 1970s rock music. They typically produced sh ...
" of their earlier albums with a new sound that is "just as intense and exhilarating, but more beautiful and more expansive".
After its release, Eye oversaw a series of
remix albums of the Boredoms catalogue by guest
DJs. After the final remix album, Eye's own ''
Rebore, vol. 0'', was released in 2000, Boredoms seemed to disappear for a few years with no releases or tour dates,
while the members participated in various side projects and other bands.
Later activities
Rumors that the band had broken up began to circulate, but a smaller ensemble who called themselves V∞redoms resurfaced in 2003.
The group's line-up had changed considerably upon its return, stripping down to a much smaller ensemble with Yamantaka Eye on vocals, Izumi Kiyoshi (who had performed on ''Vision Creation Newsun'' and ''Super æ'') on synthesizer, and Yoshimi P-We, Nishimura, and EDA playing drums and percussion.
Despite the changes, the group's music still revolves around the tribal drumming patterns heard on ''Vision Creation Newsun''. The band was signed by
Vice Records for its releases in the United States since it had been dropped by Reprise. All ''Super Roots'' releases were then reissued on Vice in early 2007 (with the exclusion of ''
Super Roots 2'').
In late 2004, Boredoms released its first album as a group in four years, ''
Seadrum/House of Sun'', most of which had been previously recorded before the band's brief hiatus. This release also saw the band move from their label
WEA Japan to the smaller Japanese label Commmons.
The album was not celebrated to the extent of their previous albums, yet it still garnered mostly positive reviews, with a score of 73% on
Metacritic
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. Following its release, EDA left the band and went on to form audio-visual project Adrena Adrena with visual artist Daisy Dickinson. EDA was replaced in the Boredoms by Yojiro Tatekawa.
In early 2007, the group released ''
Super Roots 9'', the first addition to the ''Super Roots'' series since 1999 and their first major release since ''Seadrum/House of Sun''. It was recorded during a
Christmas Eve
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2004 concert, making it only the band's third official live release since 1998's ''
Super Seeeeee!!!!!!'' video (discounting disc two of the ''
Vision Creation Newsun'' boxset, which included a 35-minute excerpt of a live concert). ''Super Roots 9'' also saw the band move from Warner International to the smaller Japanese label Commmons for domestic releases and American label
Thrill Jockey
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History
Richards started the label in 1992 with $35,000 of family and personal capital, while ...
for overseas.
Later, in April, the group (as V∞redoms) played three dates with
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth were an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Founding members Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar), Thurston Moore (lead guitar, vocals) and Lee Ranaldo (rhythm guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of ...
in Japan. The band also planned to attempt using newly developed contact microphones to record the sounds made by the human body while dancing.
The band released a live DVD/CD combination called ''
Live at Sunflancisco'' in December 2007 followed by the remix single ''
Voaltz / Relerer'' in August 2008, while Eye and Yoshimi have come out with new records of their own this year.
During a 2008 United States tour with
Iron & Wine, Eye used a new seven-necked guitar called the "Sevener" or "Sevena".
The band released another addition to the ''Super Roots'' EP series, titled ''
Super Roots 10'', on January 28, 2009.
Boadrum performances and concerts
On July 7, 2007, Boredoms performed a concert entitled
77 Boadrum at the
Empire–Fulton Ferry section of
Brooklyn Bridge Park in
Brooklyn
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,
New York City
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New York with drummer Muneomi Senju replacing Nishimura. The "77" denoted not only the date (7/7/2007) and the start time (7:07pm
EDT) but also the number of drummers in the ensemble. Eye has said that the number 77 became significant to him when he climbed the
Sun Temple and counted 77 steps.
The band continued the concept on August 8, 2008, with two concerts called
88 Boadrum held in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. Boredoms headlined the Los Angeles show while
Gang Gang Dance conducted the Brooklyn show. At 8:08pm
PDT on 8/8/08, 88 drummers played for 88 minutes at the
La Brea Tar Pits
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in Los Angeles. A third concert, Boadrum 9, took place on September 9, 2009 at 9:09pm
EDT at
Terminal 5 in
Manhattan
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, New York City. It featured 9 drummers in total, two from Boredoms (Yoshimi and Yojiro) and seven others from prominent experimental music acts, namely Zach Hill (
Hella), Hisham Bharoocha (
Soft Circle, ex:
Black Dice,
Lightning Bolt), Butchy Fuego (
Pit er Pat), Kid Millions (
Oneida), Jeremy Hyman (
Ponytail), Dave Nuss (
No-Neck Blues Band) and Aaron Moore (
Volcano The Bear)
In 2010, Boredoms toured internationally including two Boadrum performances at
All Tomorrow's Parties curated by
Matt Groening
Matthew Abram Groening ( ; born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, writer, producer, and animator. He is best known as the creator of the television series ''The Simpsons'' (1989–present), ''Futurama'' (1999–2003, 2008–2013, 2 ...
at Butlins
Minehead
Minehead is a coastal town and civil parish in Somerset, England. It lies on the south bank of the Bristol Channel, north-west of the county town of Taunton, from the boundary with the county of Devon and close to the Exmoor National Park. T ...
, England, in addition to shows in London, Japan, Mexico and as part of the
Melbourne International Arts Festival
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on October 10, 2010.
The last numbered Boadrum event was 111Boadrum, on November 11, 2011, at
Byron Bay at 11:11am. Notable drummers included Zach Hill, Hisham Bharoocha, Jermey Hyman, Butchey Fuego, and Mat Watson. There were 11 drummers and 100 cymbal players for a total of 111 performers.
In 2011, Boredoms premiered new material at the All Tomorrows Parties "I'll Be Your Mirror" festival in Tokyo. Six drummers were arranged in a circle around Eye, who used motion sensors to trigger ambient drone soundscapes created by Shinji Masuko that corresponded to each drummer. The music featured highly repetitive
motorik rhythms that grew in complexity over the course of the hour long set. The band was chosen by
Jeff Mangum
Jeffrey Nye Mangum (born 24 October 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician who gained prominence as the founder, songwriter, vocalist and guitarist of Neutral Milk Hotel, as well for his co-founding of The Elephant 6 Recording Comp ...
of
Neutral Milk Hotel
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to perform at the
All Tomorrow's Parties festival that he curated in March 2012 in Minehead, England. That gig (performed twice during the festival) featured 14 guitarists and 6 drummers.
In June 2015, Boredoms performed another development of the Boardrum series at the
Barbican Centre
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in London, UK as part of
Doug Aitken
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's ''Station to Station: A 30-Day Happening''. The performance featured Eye, Yoshimi, Tatekawa, Masuko, and an expanded lineup of drummers and guitarists surrounded by 88 percussionists all playing cymbals.
Discography
* ''
Osorezan no Stooges Kyo'' (1988)
* ''
Soul Discharge'' (1989)
* ''
Pop Tatari'' (1992)
* ''
Chocolate Synthesizer'' (1994)
* ''
Super æ'' (1998)
* ''
Vision Creation Newsun'' (1999)
* ''
Seadrum/House of Sun'' (2004)
Members
*
Yamantaka Eye –
lead vocals
The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...
,
noise
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,
sampler, sevena, programming
*
Yoshimi P-We –
drums
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,
percussion
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, vocals,
djembe,
keyboards,
trumpet
The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...
* Yojiro Tatekawa – drums, percussion
* Shinji Masuko –
guitar
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s, noise, tape machine, turntables, programming
Previous members
* Muneomi Senju – drums, percussion
* Ikuo Taketani – drums
* Hosoi Hisato –
bass guitar
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* Tabata Mitsuru (Tabata Mara) – guitar
* Hiyashi Hira – bass guitar, vocals, percussion
*
Seiichi Yamamoto – guitar, vocals, percussion
* Yoshikawa Toyohito – drums, vocals
* Chew Hasegawa – drums
* Kazuya Nishimura (Atari or ATR) – drums, synthesizer, vocals, sampler, djembe, programming
* EDA – drums, electronic drums, djembe
* Izumi Kiyoshi – synthesizer, sampler, programming
* God Mama – dancing
*
Zach Hill - drums, percussion
See also
*
Z-Rock Hawaii
*
OOIOO
OOIOO is a Japanese experimental rock band. The four-piece ensemble was founded by Yoshimi P-We (also known as Yoshimio), the drummer and occasional trumpeter for Boredoms. The band's origin lies in a photo shoot that Yoshimi was asked to do for ...
References
External links
Official websiteMyspace*
BOMB interview
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Japanese noise rock groups
Japanese experimental rock groups
Musical groups established in 1986
Reprise Records artists
Shimmy Disc artists
1986 establishments in Japan
Krautrock musical groups
Birdman Records artists
Thrill Jockey artists