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Artist:	OOIOO
Title:	Shock City Shockers Vol. 2 OOIOO Remix
Label:	POLYSTAR/SHOCK CITY (JAPAN)
Format:	CD
Price:	$28.00
Catalog #:	PSCR 5980

Second volume in this series on the Boredoms Shock City imprint label (distributed by Polystar). Features remixes of Yoshimi's OOIOO by Zak, OOIOO, Chari Chari, Eye, Woodman, J.A.K.A.M. (Juzu a.k.a. Moochy), ASLN/Dub Squad/Rovo, Kiyoshi Izumi, Nobukazu Takemura, LKO, Moodman, MT.Yamar, Kan Takagi & K.U.D.O. With one new OOIOO track, "Open Your Eyes You Can Fly." Produced by Yoshimi P-We. Beautifully designed in the Shock City style.

Artist:	OOIOO
Title:	Kila Kila Kila
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 117CD

"The newest release from Japan's category splitting OOIOO (pronounced oh-oh-eye-oh-oh) and their first for Thrill Jockey. OOIOO features Yoshimi, one of the most interesting avant-rock artists making music today. OOIOO has always been the best outlet from Yoshimi to articulate her unique talents, and the swirling, dreamy tunes of Kila Kila Kila are the most skilled showcase of her vision as an artists to date. Kila Kila Kila is a perfect combination of the chaotic poppy grooves for which Yoshimi is known, and the psychedelic freak-outs of the Boredoms. Kila Kila Kila is the perfect antidote to the legions of watered-down drone pop, and a natural heater for an otherwise cold winter."

Artist:	OOIOO
Title:	Gold and Green
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 160CD

"OOIOO's Gold and Green reveals the group's hard-to-categorize and refreshing avant-garde rock music, which adeptly incorporates elements of punk and more traditional tribal music. Their rhythms are unique and the organic interplay with the vocals is compelling. The music is complex and challenging and playful and childlike. Previously released only in Japan, Gold and Green includes guest appearances including Seiichi Yamamoto (Boredoms), Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), and Sean Lennon. The album packaging, designed by Yoshimi, is a beautiful miniature gatefold album jacked filled with drawings and photographs by Yoshimi and other artists."

Artist:	OOIOO
Title:	Taiga
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 161CD

"OOIOO's earliest music was minimal and digital, just as their binary name may suggest. But as the band's lineup evolved over four previous albums, so did its sound. New-wave poppy grooves gave way to chaotic plateaus and psychedelic freakouts on albums like Kila Kila Kila and Gold & Green. OOIOO's current manifestation has derived a rhythm-based soundscape, spacious, spiritual and elevatory, intended as communication with the Earth and motivated by nature Taiga shows OOIOO displaying a wide array of instrumental sounds and textures. Focused on accentuating the rhythm, the band adds layers as seamlessly as they take them away. Rhythmic patterns ebb and flow naturally like the tide; all the while a fragile melody interweaves them in waves. To a similar effect, Yoshimi and her bandmates' vocals range from tribal and meditative chants to bird calls and free-folk screaming. Taiga sounds like the deep forest from the bank of a big river, the sounds of animals and trees, life and death. This is a call to nature as only Yoshimi could muster."

Artist:	OOIOO
Title:	Eye Remix
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	THR 171CD

"Hot on the heels of their latest record of hard-hitting polyrhythmic skree, OOIOO have unleashed fellow sonic cohort EYE from Boredoms to dismember and reassemble two of their songs. UMO and UMA get the remix treatment here, resulting in two long tracks that reinvent Yoshimi's jet-propelled psychedelic pep rallies as bass-driven dancefloor slammers. As Eye has shown us on recent Boredoms records, he has an uncanny knack for harnessing a groove and blowing it up to a previously unknown scale, and that's exactly what he does here. Available on CD EP and 12" vinyl single, both formats feature artwork by EYE. The CD EP comes in a full color digipak with deluxe spot-matte finishing and obi strip."

Artist:	OOIOO
Title:	Armonico Hewa
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	THR 222CD

"Thrill Jockey is pleased to announce the arrival of Armonico Hewa, OOIOO's sixth full-length album and first record in over three years! Armonico Hewa continues the rapturous and frenetic celebration of nature that coursed through the veins of their 2006 album TAIGA. Where as TAIGA meant 'forest' in Russian and 'big river' in Japanese, Armonico Hewa is a combination of words ('armonico' is Spanish and 'hewa' is Swahili) that is defined by the band as 'air in a harmonious state'. Like the cross-cultural title, Armonico Hewa is a mind-melting combination of stylistic reference points that can only be described as some kind of tribal psychedelia that is oddly spiritual and alarmingly urgent. OOIOO leader Yoshimi began her music career in 1986 playing drums in UFO or Die with Eye and later joined him in the revolutionary noise-pop experimentalist Boredoms. While the group has featured different musicians in the past, the same all-female four-piece who created TAIGA is once again the driving force behind Armonico Hewa. Longtime OOIOO guitarist Kayan, bassist Aya and drummer Ai join Yoshimi to create one of the most enthralling, adventurous and unique bands in modern music." Deluxe six panel mini-LP style package.

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