Enough already with the men around here - it's about time I posted something about a female guitarist - and an absolutely brilliant one at that ... roar!
Allow me to introduce you to Wata, lead guitarist of the Japanese experimental rock band Boris ...
Image from the ModDB's Metal Appreciation Society - copyright by Damon Allen Davison
A musician who is way too cool, and way more eclectic than your average joe ...
Image from Wikimedia, taken by Tim Bray at Vancouver's Biltmore nightclub in 2011
And one who knows how to dress it up, when she wants to ...
Promo shot of Wata by Miki Matshushima, for Boris's 2011 album Attention Please
Sometimes she drones - sometimes she shreds - sometimes she riffs up an amazing storm ...
"Heavy Friends" - off Boris's 2002 album Heavy Rocks, featuring Wata on lead guitar
And sometimes its all about Japanese pop - albeit, a bit on the heavier side of the musical scale compared to most ...
"Hope" - off Boris's 2011 album Attention Please, featuring Wata on lead guitar and vocals
Wata continues to grow as a guitarist, incorporating an ever-changing array of effects into her contributions to Boris, and surprising us at every turn with her go-for-the-jugular technique, stylish finesse, and all-out drone/sludge/noise/psychedelic/ambient monster playing ...
"Riot Sugar" - off Boris's 2011 album Heavy Rocks, featuring Wata on lead guitar
To quote MTV Iggy's Top Ten List: "Another one-name beast from the land of the rising sun, Wata of experimental metal band Boris is not content to shred on a guitar. She’s out to shred your mind. Like many great players, she got her start playing in hardcore bands before getting involved with the genre-annihilating evil that is her current venue. ... See Boris live and you’ll understand that only a project as mercurial and frankly insane as it is could ever contain her soul warping leads."
One can only imagine what is up next for Boris and their guitar/mind shredding femme fatale ... I, for one, look forward to it!
I love Wata!!!
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