NEWS: Yamantaka // Sonic Titan sign to Toronto's Paper Bag Records.
Paper Bag Records is excited to announce the signing of Yamantaka // Sonic Titan to their already stellar roster. The label will issue the band's Polaris Music Prize short listed debut album digitally now with a physical release following on September 11th. Earlier this week, Pitchfork shared a new track from Yamantaka // Sonic Titan as part of the 2012 Adult Swim Singles Program. 'Lamia' is currently available for download here.
The video for 'Hoshi Neko' was recently selected for screening at the 15th annual Antimatter Film Festival which runs from October 12 to 21, 2012 in Victoria, BC.
YT//ST was founded in late 2007 by performance artists alaska B and Ruby Kato Attwood, born from the ashes of the late Lesbian Fight Club.
Armed with mixed-race identities, mad illustration skills and a whole
pile of home-brew junk electronics, alaska and Ruby wrote and performed
the first mini 'Noh-Wave' Opera, 'YAMANTAKA // SONIC TITAN I'
in April 2008. YT//ST continued to perform short operas, eventually
forming a network of Asian and Indigenous artists through collaboration
and formed the current YT//ST collective. Montrealers had come to know
YT//ST by their dazzling musical theatre performances in giant
monochrome paper sets, sometimes in far out places, like the Montreal Eaton Centre Food Court
at 2AM. Aesthetically, they blend the poorly appropriated styles of
Noh, Chinese Opera, Chinese, Japanese and First Nations Mythology, Black
& White Television, Psychedelia & Rock Operatics into a sensory
feast of nigh-monochromatic costuming, unique hand-built musical
instruments and their own mangaesque cardboard 'NEVERFLAT' style of 2.5D
set design. YT//ST continues based in both Montreal & Toronto.
The
collective functions as a mutating and constantly evolving art cult
that brings together individuals of Asian, Indigenous & Diasporic
identity to perform/create as a collective. Working in multiple mediums
including installation, theatre, music, video, animation, illustration
and design, YT//ST negotiate cultural clashes between dominant cultures
and those whose traditions are oppressed, erased or being eclipsed. They
retell the mythologies, customs and stereotypes of their ancestors with
cartoon bodies as their vessels.\
Raccoon Song
Queens
Oak of Guernica
Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider
Hoshi Neko
A Star Over Pureland
Crystal Fortress Over the Sea of Trees
Queens
Oak of Guernica
Reverse Crystal // Murder of a Spider
Hoshi Neko
A Star Over Pureland
Crystal Fortress Over the Sea of Trees
Preorder here.
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