Tatsuya Yoshida
Tatsuya Yoshida (born 9 January 1961) is a Japanese musician, drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as of Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios Korekyojinn and Daimonji. Outside his own groups, Yoshida is renowned for his tenure as drummer in the indie progressive group YBO2, a band also featuring guitarist KK Null, whom he also joins in the current line-up of Zeni Geva and he has played drums in a late edition of Samla Mammas Manna.
Tatsuya Yoshida
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- Name
- Tatsuya Yoshida
- Born
- 9 January 1961
- Birthplace
- Kitakami, Iwate, Japan
- Occupation
- * Musician
- Nationality
- Japan
- Fields
- progressive rock
- Languages
- Japanese
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Tatsuya Yoshida (born 9 January 1961) is a Japanese musician, drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as of Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios Korekyojinn and Daimonji. Outside his own groups, Yoshida is renowned for his tenure as drummer in the indie progressive group YBO2, a band also featuring guitarist KK Null, whom he also joins in the current line-up of Zeni Geva and he has played drums in a late edition of Samla Mammas Manna.
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Tatsuya Yoshida (born 1961) is a Japanese composer, drummer and musician, among other activities. The composer was born in Kitakami. Tatsuya Yoshida is a member of Daimonji, Kōenji Hyakkei and Korekyojinn, among others.
Genres include progressive rock. Languages used include Japanese.
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Since 2001, he and bass guitarist Takeharu Hayakawa have worked with jazz pianist Satoko Fujii and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura in the Satoko Fujii Quartet. He has been cited as "[the] indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground". Along with his participation in bands, he has also released several solo recordings.
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• Background — person • Name — Tatsuya Yoshida • Native Name — 吉田達也 • Born — 9 January 1961 • Birthplace — Kitakami, Iwate, Japan • Occupation — * Musician • composer • Instrument — * Drums • vocals • keyboards • guitar • Current Member Of — * Ruins • Zeni Geva • Koenji Hyakkei • Korekyojinn • Daimonji • Samla Mammas Manna • Acid Mothers Temple SWR • Website — magaibutsu.com
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Tatsuya Yoshida is classed in the genre progressive rock. Recorded with the occupation composer. Recorded as composer, drummer, singer and musician.
Discography
• Solo Works '88 (1988) • Solo Works '89 (1989) • Magaibutsu '91 (1991) • Drums, Voices, Keyboards & Guitar (1994) • Pianoworks '94 (1994) • First Meeting (1995) • A Million Years (1997) • A Is for Accident (1997) • PYN - songs for children who don't want to sleep (2015) • PYN - L'élan créateur (2016) With Ruins • Ruins III (1988) (reissued as Infect in 1993) • Stonehenge (1990) • Burning Stone (1992) • Graviyaunosch (1993) • Hyderomastgroningem (1995) • Refusal Fossil (1997/2007) • Vrresto (1998) • Symphonica (1998) • Pallaschtom (2000) • Tzomborgha (2002) • Alone (2011) With Koenji Hyakkei • Hundred Sights of Koenji (高円寺百景) (1994, remastered and reissued in 2008) • Viva Koenji! (弐(II)) (1997) • Nivraym (2001, remastered and reissued in 2009) • Angherr Shisspa (2005) • Dhorimviskha (2018) With Painkiller • The Prophecy: Live in Europe (Tzadik, 2013) With Ron Anderson • RonRuins • NYJPN With The Gerogerigegege • Instruments Disorder (1994) With Satoko Fujii Quartet • Vulcan (2001) • Minerva (2002) • Zephyros (2003) • Angelona (2004) • Bacchus (2006) • Dog Days of Summer (2024) With Satoko Fujii/Tatsuya Yoshida Duo • Toh-Kichi (2002) • Erans (2003) • Baikamo (2019) With Acid Mothers Temple SWR • SWR (2005) • Stones, Women & Records (2007) • Sax & the City (2011) • Stones, Women and Records at Taku Taku 2009 (2011) • Yes, No & Perhaps (2014)
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