Yamantaka // Sonic Titan

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"YT//ST was founded in late 2007 by performance artists alaska B and Ruby Kato Attwood, born from the ashes of the late Lesbian Fight Club. Armed with mixed-race identities, mad illustration skills and a whole pile of home-brew junk electronics, alaska and Ruby wrote and performed the first mini ‘Noh-Wave’ Opera, ‘YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN I’ in April 2008. YT//ST continued to perform short homebrewed operas, eventually forming a network of Asian and Indigenous artists through collaboration and formed the current YT//ST collective. Montrealers had come to know YT//ST by their dazzling musical theatre performances in giant monochrome paper sets, sometimes in far out places, like the Montreal Eaton Centre Food Court at 2AM. Aesthetically, they blend the poorly appropriated styles of Noh, Chinese Opera, Chinese, Japanese and First Nations Mythology, Black & White Television, Psychedelia & Rock Operatics into a sensory feast of nigh-monochromatic costuming, unique hand-built musical instruments and their own mangaesque cardboard ‘NEVERFLAT’ style of 2.5D set design."

Ok back so what you can see here is a weird ass epic sounding indigenous doom metal psych prog rock. It is utterly unique and has a definite space rock prog flavor along most of the music. 

their amazing yet probably least proggy song :D

their awesome gibberish Japanese video for "Hoshi Neko"

and their whole entire wonderful first album available to stream in bandcamp:

http://yamantakasonictitan.bandcamp.com/

Edited by frippism - November 30 2013 at 11:52

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frippism Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160	Topic: Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Posted: November 30 2013 at 11:51
	I'm too lazy so I'll copy thissssss "YT//ST was founded in late 2007 by performance artists alaska B and Ruby Kato Attwood, born from the ashes of the late Lesbian Fight Club. Armed with mixed-race identities, mad illustration skills and a whole pile of home-brew junk electronics, alaska and Ruby wrote and performed the first mini ‘Noh-Wave’ Opera, ‘YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN I’ in April 2008. YT//ST continued to perform short homebrewed operas, eventually forming a network of Asian and Indigenous artists through collaboration and formed the current YT//ST collective. Montrealers had come to know YT//ST by their dazzling musical theatre performances in giant monochrome paper sets, sometimes in far out places, like the Montreal Eaton Centre Food Court at 2AM. Aesthetically, they blend the poorly appropriated styles of Noh, Chinese Opera, Chinese, Japanese and First Nations Mythology, Black & White Television, Psychedelia & Rock Operatics into a sensory feast of nigh-monochromatic costuming, unique hand-built musical instruments and their own mangaesque cardboard ‘NEVERFLAT’ style of 2.5D set design." Ok back so what you can see here is a weird ass epic sounding indigenous doom metal psych prog rock. It is utterly unique and has a definite space rock prog flavor along most of the music. their amazing yet probably least proggy song :D their awesome gibberish Japanese video for "Hoshi Neko" and their whole entire wonderful first album available to stream in bandcamp: http://yamantakasonictitan.bandcamp.com/ Edited by frippism - November 30 2013 at 11:52
	There be dragons

frippism Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160	Posted: November 30 2013 at 11:52
	I say crossover, what say you?
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yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5820	Posted: November 30 2013 at 13:20
	All I can say is...wow! What a great find! I've no idea what sub would be best for this outfit, but I sure as Hell agree that they are worth an evaluation. I wonder what Keishiro's take on them is? Their music certainly has a psych/spacey aspect to it, so maybe he might want to consider it for that sub first... Here are a few live vids of them: And the tracks from the debut album: A track from the new album 'UZU': And a single by the band from Adult Swim's Singles Program: That ought to do for now...

frippism Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160	Posted: November 30 2013 at 14:10
	wow totally thanks there's a bunch of live vids I haven't seen here :D and yeah they've been on repeat for a couple of months now in my house!
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frippism Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160	Posted: December 07 2013 at 03:07
	bump?
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Guldbamsen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098	Posted: December 07 2013 at 03:30
	Hey Ori. I don't know if you know this, but you can forward this to whatever team you think fits best Just drop them a link to this thread, and Bob's your uncle. Currently we don't have any suggestions team that does this service - meaning that the teams have to follow up on suggestions as best as they can. So naturally there'll be bands that fall between the cracks. Anyway, it would be cool if collaborators would help out as much as they can by forwarding their suggestions directly to the teams
	“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams

frippism Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160	Posted: December 07 2013 at 04:05
	ahh!! I actually forgot that's what happens when your on and off the site for a year and a half (again, thank you very much IDF) thanks for the heads up :D
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Guldbamsen Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098	Posted: December 07 2013 at 04:06
	No problem my friend
	“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.” - Douglas Adams

Andy Webb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: June 04 2010 Location: Terria Status: Offline Points: 13298	Posted: December 20 2013 at 16:43
	To psych they go...


frippism Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 27 2010 Location: Tel Aviv Status: Offline Points: 4160	Posted: December 21 2013 at 02:16
	Woot!
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Rivertree Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Band Submissions Joined: March 22 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 17583	Posted: December 21 2013 at 10:55
	noted


DamoXt7942 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum & Site Admin Group Avant/Cross/Neo/Post Teams Joined: October 15 2008 Location: Okayama, Japan Status: Offline Points: 17468	Posted: December 30 2013 at 05:34
	Splendid, my fave rly.


yam yam Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 16 2011 Location: Kerberos Status: Offline Points: 5820	Posted: January 01 2014 at 11:37
	Yeah - looking good in Psych/Space: http://progfreak.com/Yamantaka-/-Sonic-Titan-158168.html?path=pa/recent.