Category Archives: Yximalloo

Yximalloo recording since 1973, is Naofumi Ishimaru alone, but he drafts a loose ensemble of players, including the core of Shigeo Ootake and Takashi Korgo (who appear on all discs), as collaborator-executors. All of his releases are on his own label, and none have seen a distributor yet (which is why you very rarely find his CDs in stores). Ishimaru works like a Japanese Jandek without the angst, like the Boredoms minus the bombast. Spiritual kin to early artpunk and especially the LAFMS, he revels in mock-ethnic music and nonsense. Lo-fi, sweet and primitive, he uses ancient drum machines, hand percussion, and electronic droplet noises, sometimes set to melodies gathered from some imaginary South Sea island where the traditional instrument is seemingly an old ’80s synth. Hand claps and chanting abound, but Yximalloo has also been painted as a Japanese Half Japanese — Jad Fair himself has collaborated with Ishimaru and draws the covers for every release. Other Yximalloo recordings can be found here and here and here. Monnorhyta was released as a cassette on Sakura Wrechords (Y-9246) in 1982.

Tracks:

1. Everiday
2. O’Rhythm#13
3. We Work 98 Hours A Week#4
4. O’Rhythm’3
5. A Thieving Habit Child’s Drawing’9
6. The Vibrant Ritual
7. A Moon#2
8. A Moon#3
9. July Sky#4
10. Kimigayo#10
11. Wa-Matsuri#10
12. Charm For A Waiting Bus
13. Big Heart
14. My Washing Makes More Rain Than African Ceremony#2.2
15. Rhythm#14
16. Rhythm#9
17. Rhythm#7
18. Sai#16
19. Jungle Onsen#7
20. Creeper Do Multipris Wis 4 Dimention-Ly In Za Forest#7
21. The 51st Sidejob#9
22. My Washing Makes More Rain Than African Ceremony#2
23. Hare Krishna#8
24. A-E-A-E#6
25. A Horse#15
26. Cacaphony
27. We Work 98 Hours A Week#8
28. Agung Room
29. Wa-Matsuri#9
30. Plague#3
31. H-A-E-#16
32. O’Rhythm#11
33. We Work 98 Hours A Week#5
34. Spare Us#24
35. Masochistic Worker#4
36. Wa-Matsuri#6

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