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Ikue Mori

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drummer, electronic musician and composer

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
New York
Active from
1953-12-17
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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
13,410
Total plays
222,893

Tags

experimentalAvant-Gardeelectronicjapanesetzadik

Ikue Mori moved from her native city of Tokyo to New York in 1977. She started playing drums and soon joined the seminal NO WAVE band DNA, with fellow noise pioneers Arto Lindsay and Tim Wright. DNA enjoyed legendary cult status while creating a new brand of radical rhythms and dissonant sounds; forever altering the face of rock music. In the mid 80’s Ikue started to employ drum machines in the unlikely context of improvised music. While limited to the standard technology provided by the drum m

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Tokyo
Occupation
drummer
Instrument
drum kit
Record label
Tzadik Records
Official website
www.ikuemori.com
Image
Ikue Mori-4.jpg
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Commons category
Ikue Mori
date of birth
1953-12-17
described by source
UbuWeb
start of work period
1977-00-00
member of
DNA
birth name
森 郁恵
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Ikue Mori, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana