OOIOO

Led by percussionist/guitarist/vocalist YoshimiO -- also a founding member of Japanese experimental greats Boredoms -- OOIOO's music is united by the enthusiasm powering their wide-ranging explorations. They borrow from and reimagine fusion, kosmische, prog rock, and sounds from around the globe in ever-changing ways that are all the more exciting for their unpredictability. While 1997's OOIOO grew from the same noisy, psychedelic roots as Boredoms' music from that time, the band soon took that album's call-and-response vocals, rangy song structures, and transcendent rhythms in very different directions. On 1999's Feather Float, OOIOO found bliss in Motorik repetition; on the following year's Gold and Green, they immersed themselves in elongated, pastoral excursions. Later, they dug into African inspirations on 2006's Taiga and Javanese gamelan music on 2014's Gamel. They teamed up with labelmates and tourmates Lightning Bolt for 2026's split LP The Horizon Spirals/The Horizon Viral.