Yoshida does not play instruments, instead making her music with her own voice. Rather than conventional singing she makes a variety of vocalisations of such a nature that it is often hard to tell that the sounds are being produced by a voice at all. These sounds are sometimes subtly electronically altered. She describes her means of producing sound as the "howling voice".
Her records include Spiritual Voice (1997) and the thirteen track, four-minute EP . (2002, released on a business-card sized CD). Her 2003 release, Tiger Thrush on the Improvised Music from Japan label, includes 99 untitled tracks.
She has collaborated with a number of other musicians, among them Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M (with whom she performs as Cosmos) and Utah Kawasaki (with whom she makes up Astro Twin).
External links
Home page at the Improvised Music from Japan site (http://www.japanimprov.com/ayoshida/index.html)
Sachiko M and AmiYoshida, who comprise the Tokyo-based duo Cosmos, are definitely of the latter group.
Vocalist AmiYoshida's sonic parings are even more extreme, the outer projections of "voice" reduced down to little more than a splintered stream of close-miked sputters and gurgles or the fractured whimpers of injured birds.
Yoshida does for singing what Bhob Rainey does for the saxophone or Axel Dorner for the trumpet, "reducing" her voice to whispers, squeaks, buzzes and breaths.
AmiYoshida (吉田 アミ, born May 13, 1976) is a Japanese musician.
Yoshida does not play instruments, instead making her music with her own voice.
Rather than conventional singing she makes a variety of vocalisations of such a nature that it is often hard to tell that the sounds are being produced by a voice at all.
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