Yximalloo has been played on NTS in shows including SKYAPNEA, featured first on 12 March 2018. Songs played include Catholic Ghetto 23, A Water #9 and Masochistic Worker#4.

Yximalloo is Naofumi Ishimaru alone, but he drafts a loose ensemble of players, including the core of Shigeo Ootake and Takashi Korgo (who appear on all discs), as collaborator-executors. All of his releases are on his own label, and none have seen a distributor yet (which is why you very rarely find his CDs in stores). Ishimaru works like a Japanese Jandek without the angst, like the Boredoms minus the bombast. Spiritual kin to early artpunk and…