Jimanica
Jimanica is a Drummer/Laptop musician.
Born in Tokyo in 1975, he started playing drums at 15 years old. After graduating from the Faculty of Visual Arts at Musashino Arts University, he made the move to New York in 1998 to begin a career as a freelance drummer. The year 2000 brought him back to Tokyo, where he soon formed the band 'moai' amongst a series of activities as a session player on numerous recordings and live performances.
In 2005, he unveiled his electronic/noise-based solo project 'Jimanica', releasing his first drum solo album 'Entomophonic' from the vanguard 'mao' label. after releasing that album, he started his career as a solo live performance artist. and meantime he gets many offers to play with various artists such as Damo Suzuki, Mitsuru Nasuno, Han Bennink, etc...
In 2006, he formed "d.v.d" with Itoken and Takashi Yamaguchi. They started to spread that activities in all over the world ....participating "Transmediale 08" in Berlin, touring Europe, Korea, Australia and so on. They got a prize "Honorary mentioned" in Ars Electronica 08.
In 2007, He met an electronica artist "Ametsub", and they formed a duo unit "Jimanica x Ametsub". They released a first mini album "Surge", their live performance always makes great reputation.
Jimanica still spreads his career to new era. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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