Introduction
Tatsuya Yoshida (吉田達也, Yoshida Tatsuya) (born in Kitakami, Iwate) is a Japanese musician; drummer and composer who is the only consistent member of the renowned progressive rock duo Ruins, as well as Koenji Hyakkei. He is also a member of the progressive rock trios Korekyojinn and Daimonji. Outside his own groups, Yoshida is renowned for his tenure as drummer in the indie progressive group YBO2, a band also featuring guitarist KK Null, whom he also joins in the current line up of Zeni Geva and he has played drums in a late edition of Samla Mammas Manna. He has been cited as "[the] indisputable master drummer of the Japanese underground".
Along with his participation in bands, he has also released several solo recordings.
Discography
- Solo Works '88 (1988)
- Solo Works '89 (1989)
- Magaibutsu '91 (1991)
- Drums, Voices, Keyboards & Guitar (1994)
- Pianoworks '94 (1994)
- First Meeting (1995)
- A Million Years (1997)
- A Is for Accident (1997)
- PYN - songs for children who don't want to sleep (2015)
- PYN - L'élan créateur (2016)
With Ruins
- Ruins III (1988) (reissued as Infect in 1993)
- Stonehenge (1990)
- Burning Stone (1992)
- Graviyaunosch (1993)
- Hyderomastgroningem (1995)
- Refusal Fossil (1997/2007)
- Vrresto (1998)
- Symphonica (1998)
- Pallaschtom (2000)
- Tzomborgha (2002)
- Alone (2011)
With Painkiller
- The Prophecy: Live in Europe (Tzadik, 2013)
With Ron Anderson
- RonRuins
- NYJPN