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DoraVideo is the brain child of Yoshimitsu Ichiraku (drums and computer), who appeared in the 2005 summer grand bazaar commercial for the department store Laforet Harajuku, won an honorary mention in the Digital Music division of Europe's largest media art festival, ARS Electronica, and has been active as the drummer in the band Yamaguchi, which has stirred up quite a storm of prizes and awards world wide.
He has created a very exciting and fun group which involves a drum and computer controlled system. He placed impact sensors all over the drum set, creating a huge video deck, and allowing him to using the drum set to control the video image.
As a drummer, he not only creates first class works, but also has a highly developed sense of nonsensical fun and entertainment. Ichiraku and Ito have already toured France and Korea to great acclaim, and this year plan to tour Europe, England, and America.
A home video taken by business men on a factory visit, a video taken at a hotel banquet in which a fellow clings to and pushes over a fat middle aged companion girl, Joshi 12 gakubou(The 12 Girls Band from china), Matsuken Samba, Imperial court, and 'Bush and Bush', a moral video created for public use in America involving mass calisthenics of North Korea and George W.Bush, which is a collage of scenes of calisthenics and parades that surpasses Michael Moore's work. He generously shows an amazing collection of materials on video.
The DVD released in July of this year, 'DoraVideo Volume 1', managed to violate every imaginable law, committing copyright infringement, slander, indecent exposure, has been awarded a spot in the Guiness Book of World Records for offensiveness, and went out of print just before release.
This energy is not limited to video, a sound track has also finally been released! This sound track is Ichirakuﾕs second solo album, and if we could sum up this project in one phrase, it would be DoraVideo without the video. In additon the soundtrack of the August 6th 2002 live performance in Korea has been published.
When the DVD was released, one could say it was a study of copyright infringement, slander, and indecent exposure, being successful at very nearly violating all of these rules, and is a product which offers a very strange sense of satisfaction.
The jacket for this album was designed by Showgo Yoshikawa, who is invoved in animation and VJing, is the publisher of the stateless international anarchical illustration magazine 'PALiNiLLiLLmAstEr',the owner of the sticker label 'hePALiN' and who is also the basist for ZUINOSIN.
Living a distant 1000 Km from Tokyo at the beginning of the 90's with little connection to the Tokyo music scene, Ichiraku was able to create his own style of music.
After 1993, Ichiraku did performances with Motoharu Yoshizawa and others, becoming more and more widely know. He then performed with Kim Dae Hwan, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, and Otomo Yoshihide, and in 1996 toured Korea and Japan as a member of the Korean trio Choi Song Bae.
The turning point in his life was the release of the 1997 Omoide-Hatoba CD, Vuoy, which decided his future in percussion and electronics.
After that he also worked on collaborations with a wide variety of musicians, for example Chris Cutler, Eugene Chadbourne, Mani Neumeier, Pascal Comelade, Leonid Soybelman, Gong, Kevin Ayers, Keiji Haino, Tenko, and others.
In addition to being a member of Omoide-Hatoba and Otomo Yoshihide's group Phantasmagoria, he has also participated in Haco's Happiness Proof, and has formed the hard rock band Nishi-Nihon with Atsushi Tsuyama and Makoto Kawabata. On top of all that, he organized I.S.O with Otomo Yoshihide and Sachiko Matsubara.
In 2001, he toured the US and UK three times as the drummer for the group Acid Mother Temple. At present he is mainly active in the DoraVideo project, and is also very active internationally.
『DORA!!DORA!!DORA!! WARE KISHU NI SEIKO SERI!!』
1.Dora！Dora！Dora！ →sample
2.Father of Minimalko-Cyan （Tribute to S.Reich）→sample
3.Come again! UFO
4.India ni Indo
5.War and SEX
6.Grandfather of Minimalko-Cyan（Tribute to T.Riley)
7.Smoke on the American Flag
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