Eraldo Bernocchi & Hoshiko Yamane
Biography Eraldo Bernocchi & Hoshiko Yamane
Eraldo Bernocchi
is an Italian composer, arranger, producer and guitarist with a solid reputation as an all round sonic sculptor. Starting his career in the late 70’s as a guitarist in independent punk bands, in the mid ’80’s Eraldo co-founded the conceptual audio project Sigillum-S (with Paolo Bandera and Luca di Giorgio), which grew into a highly acclaimed international cult act.
In the 90’s, together with his wife Petulia Mattioli, Eraldo established Verba Corrige Productions, which became the base for a raft of notable audio visual projects and co-operations. A relentless sound explorer, Eraldo Bernocchi has collaborated with numerous artists including Mick Harris (SIMM, Black Engine), Bill Laswell (Somma, Charged, Ashes and numerous others), Nils Petter Molvaer, Harold Budd , Russell Mills, Toshinori Kondo (Charged), Raiz, Almamegretta, Spectre, Sensational, DJ Disk, Professor Shebab, Thomas Fehlmann, Zu (as Black Engine), DJ Olive, Markus Stockhausen, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti (as producer and author), Robin Guthrie, Colin Edwin and Balazs Pandi among many others.
In addition to regular work scoring music for adverts and other multimedia projects, Eraldo has composed film music for Academy Award winner Gabriele Salvatores and produced numerous art installations with Petulia Mattioli, as well as other artists including Russell Mills and Harold Budd.
Uniquely, Eraldo is also known for being invited to play and organize several special events for H.H. The Dalai Lama in Italy.
In 2008 Eraldo founded RareNoise Records, a new London based label, which aims to showcase a wide range of cutting edge music. The label has since become an important conduit championing several forward thinking and original artists, as well as releasing a number of Eraldo’s own recordings, including ambient guitar duo Parched (with Davide Tiso from Ephel Duath fame), Somma (with Nils Petter Molvaer, Bill Laswell, Raiz and Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari), Owls (again with Fornasari and Tony Wakeford), Metallic Taste Of Blood (with Colin Edwin from Porcupine Tree, Balazs Pandi and Jamie Saft) and Obake, a doomtronic quartet with Colin Edwin/Porcupine Tree on bass , Lorenzo Esposito Fornasari and Balazs Pandi.
In 2014 “Mutations” , the second Obake album, came out harvesting incredible reviews and appearances in major festivals. As well Osso, his new band with Morkobot.
Eraldo produced as well the 30 years anniversary outputs from Sigillum S, promoted the new Metallic Taste of Blood with Colin Edwin and Ted Parsons on drums, created Blackwood ” As the world rots away” album for SubSound Records, finalized the power noise duo Mangiati Vivi first output, recorded the first album of a new duo with Prakash Sontakke, one of the most amazing slide guitar players from India.
in 2016 he moved to London where he recorded a new project with FM Einheit and cellist Jo Quail, finished a full length cd with renowned Japanese ambient guitar player Chihei Hatakeyama that will be coupled with a photo book by Petulia Mattioli and Yasushi Miura, recorded Supervoid a new instrumental power trio with Xavier Iriondo, Jacopo Pierazzuoli.
Hoshiko Yamane
is a classically trained, Berlin-based, Japanese violinist and composer. She is currently a member of German electronic music group Tangerine Dream.
Yamane has released several solo albums and to date,along with a larger number of recordings of her diverse artistic collaborations with other artists,on a variety of different labels. She has also composed music for various artistic endeavors/projects in the fields of: dance performance, installation art and film,too.
“Her violin sings with the positivity of direct, youthful sunlight. Radiant and energetic, but well-paced and sensitive of its place, her violin is blown as if on the lightest of spring winds; an unraveling series of dawn-lit notes which take flight as soon as the sun rises.” – James Catchpole (‘A Closer Listen’)….from a review of Hoshiko’s third solo album,’Threads’.
As Tukico, her solo side project, she released her first EP, ‘become’, on Hush Hush Records(USA),in early-2020 and solo album,’Primitive’, on Subcontinental Records(India), in Autumn 2020. Tukico perform the electric violin with effects and synthesizer.
As Tangerine Dream ‘s violinist since 2011, Yamane has participated in the recording of the band’s albums since then. Additionally, she has also performed live concerts with her TD bandmates, in many cities throughout: Asia,Canada,Europa(including the UK), and USA. Her debut CD work with Tangerine Dream, came in 2011, with the track, ‘Fay Bewitching the Moon'(from the album, ‘The Island of the Fay’). This was recorded in the studio of Tangerine Dream founder,Edgar Froese.
Following Edgar’s sad passing in 2015, the group’s remaining members (Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Schnauss, and Hoshiko Yamane) have continued to work together in an effort to fulfill his vision for the group.
Yamane started her classical training when she was four years old. After she graduated from Aich Prafectural University of Art and Music with the Master of Fine Arts for the violin, she moved to Berlin. Later, she graduated with a Diploma in the violin, from the University of Music and Theater in Rostock in Germany. Also, during her studies,she worked with the Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester. From 2011-2013, she worked with Jane Birkin on a European tour(with music directed by Nobuyuki Nakajima), performing live concerts in more than thirty countries. Her other projects include Tansik(live music and contemporary dance) and KiSeki(a violin and Klangstein duo)
