Yukihiro Takahashi: Biography

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Decades Active:

1970's|1980's|1990's

Japanese art rocker Yukihiro Takahashi joined Yellow Magic Orchestra with keyboardist Ryuichi Sakamoto and bassist/producer Haruomi Hosono in 1977. During his tenure with that band, which lasted up until the mid-'80s, Takahashi played drums and handled vocals, but chose to exercise some of his more eclectic tendencies and multi-instrumental abilities on simultaneous solo projects, beginning with 1981's Neuromantic. Earlier albums like 1982's Murdered By the Music and What, Me Worry? are dizzyingly diverse, running through a vast array of rock styles in an almost free-associative fashion. 1982 also found Takahashi involved in a side project called the Beatniks with keyboardist Keiichi Suzuki, who anchored Takahashi's backing band on his 1983 live LP Time and Place. 1985 saw the release of two of Takahashi's most unified solo albums, the romantic synth-dance of Wild Moody and the strongly Burt Bacharach-influenced Poisson d'Avril, the latter of which served as the soundtrack to a film starring its composer. The Brand New Day collected highlights from Takahashi's solo work, but since then, little has been heard from him aside from 1990's Broadcast From Heaven.

- Steve Huey, All Music Guide