Test Tone Presents JOLT: DAY TWOTest Tone Presents JOLT: DAY TWO

Featuring: YOSHIMIO × Eiko Ishibashi KIRIHITO × Hiromichi Sakamoto YPY CARRE + CAL LYALL Artist Information: YOSHIMIO  An original member of the legendary group Boredoms, YOSHIMI is a drummer, singer and the leader of the experimental band OOIOO. She is also a member of Free Kitten with Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth) and Saicobaba – a improvisational band using electronics mixed with traditional Indian musical instruments. [www.boredoms.jp](http://www.boredoms.jp) [ooioo.jp](http://ooioo.jp) EIKO ISHIBASHI  Eiko Ishibashi is a Japanese multi-instrumentalist straddling two musical trajectories. As a songstress of dreamy alt-pop productions and in her mercurial work as part of Tokyo’s improv scene. Having just released a collaboration with noise titan Merzbow on Editions Mego, she is also known for her work with Jim O’Rourke, Keiji Haino, Akira Sakata, Charlemagne Palestine, Seiichi Yamamoto, Gasper Claus, Oren Ambarchi, Glenn Kotche, Darling Gray and many others. [www.eikoishibashi.net](http://www.eikoishibashi.net) KIRIHITO  Active since the early 1990s, KIRIHITO have gradually carved themselves a position as legends in the Tokyo underground music scene. Seamlessly combining no-wave punk with quirky rockabilly, their performances deliver hypnotic, looping psychedelia that shakes the stage like a stampede of hopped-up shamans. [kirihito.com](http://kirihito.com) HIROMICHI SAKAMOTO  A versatile artist, instrumentalist and composer, Hiromichi Sakamoto not only plays the cello, but also makes unconventional use of his voice, and uses saws, drills, and other non-musical objects. He makes daring experiments to broaden the musical scope of the cello, beating and rubbing its surface with vibrators, electric drills or grinders, producing a spectacular shower of sparks in the process. During the performances, radical forms of improvisation go hand in hand with carefully composed lyrical pieces. Apart from his solo career, he creates numerous projects with artists creating films, theater, visual arts, photography butoh and street art. His work is exceptionally eclectic, transcending the generic confines. Sakamoto was a member of bands such as Pa, or Shibusa-shirazu, and worked with artists such as Yoshihide Otomo, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Keiji Haino and Lars Hollmer. [sakamoto-hiromichi.com](http://sakamoto-hiromichi.com) YPY (from GOAT/BONANZAS)  Osaka-based bandleader, label owner and genre-defying artist Koshiro Hino is very busy indeed. Not only is he pushing the bands GOAT and BONANZAS into uncharted musical directions, but he continues to develop his solo work into a myriad of contexts. His recent composition-based hybrid Virginal Variations has taken this into expanded chamber music forms, while his solo performances as YPY capture a new kind of electronic sensibility. It's deceptively hypnotic while showing profound artistry. Through YPY, Hino once again shows absolute control over his elaborate, immersive performances. [soundcloud.com/koshiro-hino](https://soundcloud.com/koshiro-hino) [birdfriendtapes.tumblr.com](http://birdfriendtapes.tumblr.com) CARRE  Purveyors of self-styled 21st century industrial music, CARRE has been creating dense, rhythmic urban sound in Japan for close to a decade. With NAG on rhythm machine, bass machine and synthesizer, and MTR on rhythm box, oscillator and guitar, the duo traverses an aural universe of collapsing beats and undulating melodies, leaving you with the feeling that you may have just experienced a (somewhat pleasant) alien abduction. [mindgainminddepth.blogspot.jp](http://mindgainminddepth.blogspot.jp) CAL LYALL  Involved in the arts scene in Japan for over fifteen years, Cal Lyall has organized large-scale performances involving both Japanese and overseas artists, while also remaining a key member of a number of musical groups which have toured both locally and internationally. His musical activities are documented on over 30 albums he has both produced (including three full-length compilations released on medama records in Japan) and contributed to as a writer or musician. As a curator, he established the monthly Test Tone concert series in 2005 at Tokyo’s SuperDeluxe. Featuring over a thousand distinct artists over its 9 year run, it reached its 100th installment in 2014. With an active performance schedule in Japan and past tours through Thailand, Laos, Indonesia, China, Korea, Australia and the US, he also heads up the Subvalent record label and oversees the Tokyo Hub of Jolt Sonic Arts (Australia). [subvalent.com/cal-lyal](http://www.subvalent.com/cal-lyall) DJ EVIL PENGUIN  Master of disguises, Mexican top-hats, ambient rockabilly to minimal Hawaiian Kumulipo chants, the Evil Penguin pauses deeply against a backdrop of Neue Deutsche Welle. Celebratory, subliminal, moment-to-moment. A Tasmanian treasure with a penchant for open spaces.