is a Japanese musician. Yoshida does not play instruments, instead making her music with her own voice. Rather than conventional singing she makes a variety of vocalisations of such a nature that it is often hard to tell that the sounds are being produced by a voice at all. These sounds are sometimes subtly electronically altered. She describes her means of producing sound as the "howling voice". Her records include ''Spiritual Voice'' (1997) and the thirteen track, four-minute EP ''.'' (2002, released on a business-card sized CD). Her 2003 release, ''Tiger Thrush'' on the

Improvised Music from Japan Improvised Music from Japan is a website and record label. The website was originally known as ''Japanese Free Improvisers''. As its name suggests, it concentrates on Japanese and Japan-based improvisers, particularly free improvisers. In Dece ...

label, includes 99 untitled tracks. She has collaborated with a number of other musicians, among them

Otomo Yoshihide is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics. He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked i ...

Sachiko M Sachiko Matsubara (Japanese: 松原幸子; born 1973), better known by her stage name Sachiko M, is a Japanese musician. Her first solo album, ''Sine Wave Solo'', was released in 1999. Working in collaboration with Ami Yoshida under the name Cosmo ...

(with whom she performs as Cosmos) and Utah Kawasaki (with whom she makes up Astro Twin). ''Soba to Bara'', a 2009 release on

Erstwhile Records Erstwhile Records is an independent record label devoted to free improvisation, particularly the electroacoustic variety, contemporary, experimental composed music, and combinations of both. Erstwhile was founded by Jon Abbey in 1999, whose perso ...

, found Yoshida and

Toshimaru Nakamura Toshimaru Nakamura is a Japanese musician, active in free improvisation and Japanese Onkyokei, onkyo. He began his career playing rock and roll guitar, but gradually explored other types of music, even abandoning guitar, and started working on ...

(no-input

mixing board A mixing console or mixing desk is an electronic device for mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems. Inputs to the console include microphones, signals from electric or electronic inst ...

) performing one 47-minute improvisation each and pairing the two recordings, each musician's part unheard by the other.Ami Yoshida/Toshimaru Nakamura Soba to Bara
Erstwhile Records, 2009.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoshida, Ami Avant-garde singers Japanese musicians 1976 births Living people Japanese women in electronic music