Tatsuya Yoshida Explained

Background:	person
Tatsuya Yoshida
Native Name:	吉田達也
Native Name Lang:	ja
Birth Date:	9 January 1961
Birth Place:	Kitakami, Iwate, Japan

(born 9 January 1961) is a Japanese musician; drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as of Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios Korekyojinn and Daimonji. Outside his own groups, Yoshida is renowned for his tenure as drummer in the indie progressive group YBO2, a band also featuring guitarist KK Null, whom he also joins in the current line-up of Zeni Geva^[1] and he has played drums in a late edition of Samla Mammas Manna. He has been cited as "[the] indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground".^[2]

Along with his participation in bands, he has also released several solo recordings.

Discography

• Solo Works '88 (1988)
• Solo Works '89 (1989)
• Magaibutsu '91 (1991)
• Drums, Voices, Keyboards & Guitar (1994)
• Pianoworks '94 (1994)
• First Meeting (1995)
• A Million Years (1997)
• A Is for Accident (1997)
• PYN - songs for children who don't want to sleep (2015)
• PYN - L'élan créateur (2016)

With Ruins

• Ruins III (1988) (reissued as Infect in 1993)
• Stonehenge (1990)
• Burning Stone (1992)
• Graviyaunosch (1993)
• Hyderomastgroningem (1995)
• Refusal Fossil (1997/2007)
• Vrresto (1998)
• Symphonica (1998)
• Pallaschtom (2000)
• Tzomborgha (2002)
• Alone (2011)

With Koenji Hyakkei

• Hundred Sights of Koenji (高円寺百景) (1994, remastered and reissued in 2008)
• Viva Koenji! (弐(II)) (1997)
• Nivraym (2001, remastered and reissued in 2009)
• Angherr Shisspa (2005)
• Dhorimviskha (2018)

With Painkiller

• (Tzadik, 2013)

With Ron Anderson

• RonRuins
• NYJPN^[3]

With The Gerogerigegege

• Instruments Disorder (1994)

External links

• Official Website
• New Official Website

Notes and References

1. Web site: The official KK NULL website.
2. Web site: Volume Detail.
3. Web site: Album Review: PAK, "NYJPN". 20 January 2015.