As Yoshimioizumikiyoshiduo, longtime collaborators YoshimiO and IzumikiYoshi bring fresh perspectives to their legacies as Japanese improvisational innovators. With YoshimiO adding piano to her vocal prowess and IzumikiYoshi processing and recombining her performances in real time with his modular synthesizer, the pair creates equally raw, spontaneous, and otherworldly music on releases like 2023's To the Forest to Live a Truer Life.
YoshimiO and IzumikiYoshi's creative partnership dates back to their work on Boredoms albums such as 1998's Super Ae and the following year's V...