{"id":4284,"date":"2012-08-22T16:18:48","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T20:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2012-08-22T19:38:58","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T23:38:58","slug":"yamantaka-sonic-titan-sign-to-torontos-paper-bag-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=4284","title":{"rendered":"Yamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan Sign To Toronto&#8217;s Paper Bag Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Yamantaka-Sonic-Titan.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4323\" title=\"Yamantaka-Sonic-Titan\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Yamantaka-Sonic-Titan.jpg?resize=520%2C330\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Yamantaka-Sonic-Titan.jpg?w=520&amp;ssl=1 520w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Yamantaka-Sonic-Titan.jpg?resize=300%2C190&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Yamantaka-Sonic-Titan.jpg?resize=472%2C300&amp;ssl=1 472w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a>Yamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan sign to Toronto-based label\u00a0Paper Bag Records.\u00a0 The label will issue the band&#8217;s\u00a0Polaris Music Prize\u00a0short listed debut album &#8220;YT\/\/ST<em>&#8220;<\/em>\u00a0digitally immediately with a physical release following on September 11th.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/khze_YTST300.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4286\" title=\"YTST cover\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/khze_YTST300.jpg?resize=236%2C240\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/khze_YTST300.jpg?resize=295%2C300&amp;ssl=1 295w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/khze_YTST300.jpg?resize=1009%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1009w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/khze_YTST300.jpg?w=2000 2000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/khze_YTST300.jpg?w=3000 3000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong><br \/>\nYT\/\/ST Tracklisting:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<ol>\n<li>Raccoon Song<\/li>\n<li>Queens<\/li>\n<li>Oak of Guernica<\/li>\n<li>Reverse Crystal \/\/ Murder of a Spider<\/li>\n<li>Hoshi Neko<\/li>\n<li>A Star Over Pureland<\/li>\n<li>Crystal Fortress Over the Sea of Trees<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The video for <em>Hoshi Neko<\/em>\u00a0lifted from their debut album has been selected for screening at the 15th annual\u00a0Antimatter Film Festival<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>which runs from October 12 to 21 in Victoria, BC.\u00a0 Watch the video\u00a0below.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"embed-vimeo\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/36662755\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><br \/>\n<strong>Need more information on Yamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>YT\/\/ST was founded in late 2007 by performance artists\u00a0alaska B\u00a0and\u00a0Ruby Kato Attwood, born from the ashes of the late\u00a0Lesbian Fight Club. Armed with mixed-race identities, mad illustration skills and a whole pile of home-brew junk electronics, alaska and Ruby wrote and performed the first mini &#8216;Noh-Wave&#8217; Opera, YAMANTAKA \/\/ SONIC TITAN I\u00a0in April 2008. YT\/\/ST continued to perform short operas, eventually forming a network of Asian and Indigenous artists through collaboration and formed the current YT\/\/ST collective. Montrealers had come to know YT\/\/ST by their dazzling musical theatre performances in giant monochrome paper sets, sometimes in far out places, like the\u00a0Montreal Eaton Centre Food Court\u00a0at 2AM. Aesthetically, they blend the poorly appropriated styles of Noh, Chinese Opera, Chinese, Japanese and First Nations Mythology, Black &amp; White Television, Psychedelia &amp; Rock Operatics into a sensory feast of nigh-monochromatic costuming, unique hand-built musical instruments and their own mangaesque cardboard &#8216;NEVERFLAT&#8217; style of 2.5D set design. YT\/\/ST continues based in both Montreal &amp; Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>The collective functions as a mutating and constantly evolving art cult that brings together individuals of Asian, Indigenous &amp; Diasporic identity to perform\/create as a collective. Working in multiple mediums including installation, theatre, music, video, animation, illustration and design, YT\/\/ST negotiate cultural clashes between dominant cultures and those whose traditions are oppressed, erased or being eclipsed. They retell the mythologies, customs and stereotypes of their ancestors with cartoon bodies as their vessels.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Yamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/t.ymlp224.net\/bjseaxabuwqacajeaxaumjeu\/click.php\" target=\"_blank\">www.ytstlabs.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Yamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan sign to Toronto-based label\u00a0Paper Bag Records.\u00a0 The label will issue the band&#8217;s\u00a0Polaris Music Prize\u00a0short listed debut album &#8220;YT\/\/ST&#8220;\u00a0digitally immediately with a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=4284\" title=\"Yamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan Sign To Toronto&#8217;s Paper Bag Records\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23,28,36],"tags":[1473,3206,3209,885,1053,1337,1472],"class_list":["post-4284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-toronto","tag-hoshi-neko","tag-indie","tag-music","tag-paperbag-records","tag-signing","tag-yamantaka-sonic-titan","tag-ytst"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-176","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29536,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=29536","url_meta":{"origin":4284,"position":0},"title":"Yamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan announce UK and European tour","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"August 19, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Yamantaka \/\/ Sonic Titan\u00a0released their acclaimed third album, 'DIRT' earlier this year. 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