Yamantaka // Sonic Titan Lyrics Follow
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan is a Canadian experimental music and performance art collective. Formed in Montreal, Quebec and currently operating between Montreal, Quebec and Toronto, Ontario, the group's core members are Ruby Kato Attwood and Alaska B, with supporting members including John Ancheta on bass and acoustic guitar, Ange Loft and Walter Scott (left in 2011) on vocals, Shub Roy (left in 2011) on guitar, Brendan Swanson on keyboards, Alana Ruth (left in 2013) on lights, Daniel Ellis and Chase Lo as dancers and Aylwin Lo as a projectionist.
The group was originally conceived while Kato Attwood and Alaska B were art students at Concordia University, as an art project exploring and subverting the cultural signifiers of their shared Asian Canadian heritage; both are of mixed Asian-European heritage, and were previously members of the defunct Montreal noise rock band Lesbian Fight Club. They developed a music and performance style that incorporated aspects of Asian C-pop and J-pop, progressive rock, heavy metal and industrial music, with roots in Haudenosaunee and First Nations culture, as well as Buddhist philosophy, anime and manga, Chinese opera and Kabuki and Noh theatre.
They present two distinct versions of their work, one conceptualized as a large scale theatrical performance art project and one recast as a touring rock band, and describe their style as "Noh-wave", a pun on Noh theatre and the No Wave style of experimental underground music. Their first theatrical work, a drag rock opera called 33, premiered at Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times theatre as part of the 2012 Rhubarb Festival, while their rock band show has appeared at several venues in 2012, including the All Tomorrow's Parties and NXNE festivals.
The duo released an album, YT//ST, on Montreal independent label Psychic Handshake in 2011. The album was a shortlist nominee for the 2012 Polaris Music Prize. The album was rereleased on Paper Bag Records in 2012. Their video for "Hoshi Neko" was a shortlisted nominee for the Prism Prize in 2013.
Their second album, UZU, was released on October 29, 2013, and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2014 Polaris Music Prize.
In 2016, the band scored the soundtrack for the video game Severed (in collaboration with Pantayo).
In January 2018, the band announced the release of DIRT, their third album which was released on March 23, 2018, via Paper Bag Records. The band had a five week tour in North American in March and April, and a European tour in June.
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Albums
Popular Songs
- Mark & Blade
- A Star Over Pureland
- Hoshi Neko
- Queens
- Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider
- Crystal Fortress Over the Sea of Trees
- Oak of Guernica
- One
- Sea Sickness, Part 1
- Sea Sickness, Part 2
- Bring Me the Hand of Bloody Benzaiten
- Windflower
- Saturn's Return
- Hall of Mirrors
- Lamia
- Whalesong
- Atalanta
- Raccoon Song