Boredoms

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Boredoms

Formed in 1986 by Yamantaka EYE
- originally in Hanatarash
- EYE left Hanatarash and started Acid Makki & Combi and Zombie
- Eventually, Seiichi Yamamoto and Yoshimi Yokota joined on guitar and drums respectively
Original recordings featured noise as music, but most of the work was done in post-production, with EYE radically remixing most of the material.
Later recordings coalesced into tribal, ambient, drone and other long-form music.
On 07/07/07, they performed at the Brooklyn Bridge Park with 77 Drummers.
They became friends with musicians in the US avant-garde like John Zorn and Sonic Youth
Opened for Nirvana and Sonic Youth - their sound at this point was rather punk and abrasive
Here's an interview with Eye from that period
Here's an interview with Yoshimi.
Here's another Yoshimi interview.
And one more, quite recent Eye interview