CD REVIEW: "Infinite Flowers" by Gerald Van Waes:
PROGRESSIVE & PSYCHEDELIC MUSIC page15 2005

It is important before reviewing this music to introduce Yoshio's basic instrumentation. With a starting point of a (normal) 12-tone steelpan for basic playing, its sounds are also often processed, many times, while attached to a multi-sampling engine which was programmed using Max/MSP (software) on a laptop computer with some, extra live electronics like some analogue sequencers. This combination of equipment, if I understand it well, he called his "amorphone". In combination with some steelguitar, and help from Tetsuro Yasunaga on electronics (3, 5, 6) and Keiichi Sugimoto on guitar (1, 3, 6) this is very improvised music, partly as coming from a conceptual and visual artist, (being part of the Tokyo art scene), creating a world of sounds with some random bloodpressure changes in the moment's tension with equally a random like-wind-coming and disappearing structures, here and there with some bleeps and blips programming, or some reverted programmed soundcarpets for insects sounds to live upon, or more like watery ambient electronica, or just occasionally with some rhythms. Just a few times it is just fundamentally playing and improvising with the steelpan. Yoshio started his own label in 2004 and this was the label's second release.