Yona-Kit was a math rock quartet active in 1994. Math rock is a style of rock music that emerged in the late 1980s. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

A U.S.-Japanese collaboration, the group consisted of KK Null (electric guitar and vocals), Jim O'Rourke (electric guitar), Darin Gray (electric bass guitar), and Thymme Jones (drum set). K. K. Null (born September 13, 1961 in Tokyo) is an experimental multi-instrumentalist. ... Jim ORourke can refer to two different people: Jim ORourke, the baseball player. ...

Yona-Kit released one album, Yona-Kit (1994) on the Skin Graft label. The album was recorded by Steve Albini in Chicago in June 1994. The album's cover photography, featuring gigantic stuffed animals of various sorts, as well as bizarre lyrics (dealing with such subjects as dancing sumo wrestlers), lend a whimsical character to music that is often fairly brutal and complex. Yasuko Onuki, the singer for the Japanese band Melt-Banana, contributes vocals for one song on the album, "Franken-Bitch." Skin Graft is a highly influential contemporary No Wave, Noise Rock, Art Punk Rock label based out of Chicago. ... Steve Albini (born July 22, 1962, Missoula, Montana) is an influential guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist, former member of the bands Big Black and Rapeman, and current member of Shellac. ... Chicago (officially named the City of Chicago) is the third largest city in the United States (after New York City and Los Angeles), with an official population of 2,896,016, as of the 2000 census. ... 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Melt-Banana is a Japanese noise rock band that was founded in 1992 by friends attending Tokyo University for Foreign Language. ...