KEIKO YAMAMOTO
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Photo: Maurizio Martorana
(b.1979 Japan)
Keiko works with people, spaces, songs and images.
Keiko started music project O YAMA O with Rie Nakajima in 2015 and they have released their first album from Mana Records produced by David Cunningham in 2018. The duo often accompanied by Billy Steiger (violin) and Marie Roux(drums) and the band has played at BBC 3 Late Junction Festival (UK), Borealis festival (NO), Wysing Polyphonic (UK), Supernormal (UK), IKON/Flatpack Film Festival (UK), All Ears festival (NO), Art Basel: Empty Gallery (HK), Cave12 (CH), Les Ateliers Claus (BE), London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) and Novas Frequências in Brazil and appeared in radio shows including BBC, NTS, Worldwide FM.
O YAMA O debut album
https://manarecs.bandcamp.com/album/o-yama-o
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O YAMA O
This year during the lockdown O YAMA O released digital EP Awadatete Yoku Arau by SARU, Oxford Brookes University
https://sonicartru.bandcamp.com/album/awadatete-yoku-arau
Recently O YAMA O made a cover of Daniel Blumberg's song On&On soon to be available from here:
https://danielblumberg.bandcamp.com/album/on-on
Featured ON The Wire magazine (December 2020) on the Invisible Jukebox
https://www.thewire.co.uk/
Solos
co-wrote two songs on David Toop's recent album Apparition Paintings
https://room40.bandcamp.com/album/apparition-paintings
Contributed photographic songs in reaction to Mieko Shiomi's scores on mumei 9, published by mumei, a collective of Ryoko Akama and Heather Frasch in Autumn 2020
http://mumeipublishing.com/publication/mumei-nine-shiomi-mieko/
Performed and composed music for the Departing Shadow a film by Sini Pelkki due to be exhibited in Helsinki's gallery O from 28th Nov- 20 Dec 2020
http://monitoimitila.fi/
Currently working on solo recording and next O YAMA O album both due to be released in 2021(fingers crossed):)
@oyamaok / @oyamaoooo
https://manarecs.bandcamp.com/album/o-yama-o
Keiko is a co-founder and creative director of cafe OTO, a small music venue in London since 2008.
http://cafeoto.co.uk