Filament is a

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from Japan that consists of

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 ...

and

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, two of the major exponents of the

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Otomo Yoshihide Interview 2001
/ref> style of music. The two played as a duo for the first time on November 5, 1995
/ref> in

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, but it was not until 1997 that they began to play often together and Filament became one of their main projects. At first their work together was branded as A-102, then they used both Filament and A-102, and occasionally simply "duo," with no specific project name. Since their United States and France concert tour of May 1998, they have used the name Filament exclusively.

Discography

* '' 29092000'' (2001) * '' Filament 2: Secret Recordings'' (1999) (With

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) * '' Filament 1'' (1998)

References

External links

* http://www.japanimprov.com/yotomo/interview01.html * http://www.erstwhilerecords.com/articles/00_signal.html * http://www.japanimprov.com/filament/livenotese.html Japanese rock music groups {{japan-band-stub