Yona-Kit was a

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quartet active in 1994.

Background

A U.S.-Japanese collaboration, the group consisted of

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(electric guitar and vocals), Jim O'Rourke (electric guitar), Darin Gray (electric bass guitar), and

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(drum set). All but Null were contemporaneously members of the group

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, which featured a similar sound to Yona-Kit but were somewhat less aggressive and more experimental. Yona-Kit released one album, ''Yona-Kit'' (1994) on

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. The album was recorded by

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in June 1994. The album's cover photography, featuring gigantic stuffed animals of various sorts, as well as bizarre lyrics (dealing with such subjects as dancing sumo wrestlers), lend a whimsical character to music that is often fairly brutal and complex.

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, the singer for the Japanese band

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, contributes vocals for one song on the album, "Franken-Bitch." {{Authority control Math rock groups American experimental musical groups