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词条 Chino Amobi
释义

  1. Early life and education

  2. Career

      Diamond Black Hearted Boy (2009–2014)    NON Worldwide and Airport Music For Black Folk (2015–2016)    Paradiso (2017–present)  

  3. Selected discography

      Albums and mixtapes    EPs    As Diamond Black Hearted Boy  

  4. Notes

  5. References

  6. External links

{{Infobox musical artist
| name = Chino Amobi
| image =
| background = solo_singer
| birth_name = Chinonyeelu Uchechi Amobi
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1984}}[1]
| birth_place = Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S.[1]
| alias = Diamond Black Hearted Boy
| genre = {{flatlist|
  • Electronic
  • experimental
  • post-industrial

}}
| occupation = Musician, contemporary artist, label founder, director
| years_active = 2010–present
| label = NON Worldwide
| associated_acts = ANGEL-HO, Nkisi, Elysia Crampton, Rabit, Haleek Maul, Dutch E Germ, Johnny Utterback, Aurel Haize Odogbo, Yves Tumor
}}

Chinonyeelu Uchechi Amobi (born 1984), known professionally as Chino Amobi, is an American experimental electronic musician, contemporary artist, director, and co-founder of the independent record label NON Worldwide. He worked in the fields of painting and sound design in the past, and has released albums like Airport Music for Black Folk (2016) and Paradiso (2017) which explore themes of the Global South, intercontinental security, post-apocalyptic narratives and Afro-pessimism.

Early life and education

Amobi was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in 1984[1] and grew up in Virginia.[2] Amobi's parents emigrated from Nigeria, and he frequently traveled to the country as a child to visit extended family.[2] Concerned about assimilation into American life, Amobi's parents did not teach their children to speak their native Igbo.[3] Amobi experienced alienation growing up in America[3] and said "I can't speak Igbo so I never fully felt Nigerian or black American."[4] However, Amobi has also spoken of the importance and closeness of the Nigerian-American community in Virginia to his family.[4] He has also recalled his travels to Nigeria as a significant early artistic influence.

As a child, Amobi pursued art and learned to make music through software like eJay, the first-generation Playstation game MTV Music Generator, and Apple Inc.'s GarageBand.[3] In high school, Amobi made hip hop music with his brother, who is now a rapper under the name Chichi the Eternal.[5] He favored music with an immersive, world-building quality, naming video game music and musicians like Nas, Wu-Tang Clan, Björk, and Radiohead as early influences.[3] Amobi attended the public John Tyler Community College with a plan to transfer to undergraduate art school, obtain a doctorate, and teach painting at the community-college level.[6] He transferred to Virginia Commonwealth University in 2006,[5] graduating cum laude in 2009 with a BFA.[7] Amobi is currently pursuing an MFA in graphic design at VCU.[8]

Career

Diamond Black Hearted Boy (2009–2014)

While at art school, Amobi began releasing music under the alias Diamond Black Hearted Boy.[9] His early music was self-released through Myspace.[10] Amobi was quoted in a 2012 New York Times article on seapunk, an early-2010s subculture and microgenre that prized aquatic aesthetics:

{{quote|As with any online trend, seapunk is probably fleeting. Chino Amobi, an artist from Richmond, Va., who makes electronic music under the name Diamond Black Hearted Boy, has already shifted from seapunk to slimepunk.{{efn|name=slime season|Amobi shared more thoughts and visual art about slimepunk in an interview with Charlotte McManus, who also interviewed Le1f and several others.[11]}}

"It's the toxic waste of 2012," he said. On March 9, Mr. Amobi will hold a slimepunk rave in Brooklyn during the Arts Not Fair. "It’s going to be the saddest rave you've ever been to."[12]}}

As Diamond Black Hearted Boy, Amobi became part of an underground scene of musicians using electronic production techniques to create avant-garde, sample-based sound collage.[13] "Nigerian Hair," a Diamond Black Hearted Boy track, appeared on Blasting Voices, a 2012 various-artists compilation featuring E+E (an alias of Elysia Crampton), James Ferraro, and Ryan Trecartin.[13]

In 2013, Diamond Black Hearted Boy released Father, Protect Me., a full-length cassette compiling several of the project's tracks.[13] Praising the tape for its narrative cohesion, Adam Harper wrote that Amobi's voice is "on the outer reaches of hip hop culture and its means of self-expression. If Kanye is a 'God,' DBHB is a fallen god languishing in some weird purgatory, and his collected work is a Yeezus for even greater degrees of alienation."[13] Harper compared the tape's music to a subverted form of cloud rap, and remarked that it "mixes together the sweetness and violence of the modern soundscape (music and non-music) in ways that play on the mind and are often frankly distressing."[13] How The West Was Won, Wanted: Dead or Alive, Amobi's final long work as Diamond Black Hearted Boy, came out in 2014. Harper said this final release "flicks through the wreckage of the twentieth-century Americana like it was TV channels on a concave wood-paneled screen, jerry-building a mock-epic (anti-)hero's tale along the way."[13]

NON Worldwide and Airport Music For Black Folk (2015–2016)

By 2015, Amobi stopped using the Diamond Black Hearted Boy moniker for his new music, instead releasing work under his own name.[14] Amobi told OkayAfrica he realized he had used the name as a "mask," and "I didn't want to hide behind a mask and that I wanted to claim ownership of what I was making, to be able to face someone as me without an alter ego. In the same way that Wangechi Mutu or Richard Serra or Philip Glass create, I want my work to be an extension of me."[4] An early Amobi project under his own name was a noise-inspired remix of Michael Jackson's "They Don't Care About Us".[14] He released a collaborative mixtape with Houston-based producer Rabit, The Great Game: Freedom From Mental Poisoning (The Purification of The Furies).[15]

That same year, Amobi—along with the musicians Nkisi, from London, and ANGEL-HO, from Cape Town—co-founded NON Records (also called NON Worldwide).[16] NON is an independent record label dedicated to artists who are African or of the African diaspora, with an artistic and political vision articulated in a manifesto written by Amobi, "NON SUPPORTS ITS CITIZENS OF THE UNITED RESISTANCE".[4]

In 2016, Amobi released the EP Airport Music For Black Folk. The title alludes to Brian Eno's landmark 1978 ambient album Music for Airports.[17] According to Matthew Trammell at The New Yorker, Amobi's EP offered "a more explicit take on air travel" than Eno's Music for Airports, with "buzzy synths swell into prominence like a takeoff, asymmetrical percussion mimics the metallic dance of landing gear unfolding, and talk-box samples evoke the chorus of voices, automated and analog, that echo through terminal halls."[9] Joe Muggs of The Wire called the EP "a sonic illustration of the tensions felt by non-white travellers in today's surveillance society."[18] Later that year, NON held a performance at the New Museum during Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York.[19][20] Amobi contributed to two of his friends' albums in 2016: Demon City by Elysia Crampton[21] and $uccessor, the debut album of the Sacramento, California-based producer Fred Warmsley (aka Dedekind Cut).[22]

Paradiso (2017–present)

Amobi made his solo vinyl debut with minor matter, a soundtrack accompaniment to choreographer Ligia Lewis's piece of the same name.[23] He also announced his debut album, Paradiso, described as "a musical epic set in a distorted Americana populated by a cast of sirens, demons, angels, imps, priests, hierophants, monsters and peasants."[24]

Nina Power praised the album in The Wire as "an extraordinary record: utterly grandiose, pulsing and punishing." Comparing the album's soundscape to the works of Hieronymus Bosch and Dante Alighieri, Power wrote "[m]odernity is Hell, Paradiso tells us, but the only way to understand this is to embrace it fully, to stare into the void, to get on all the fairground rides, even though you already feel sick and all the colours are wrong."[25] The Wire named Paradiso the release of the year in its annual critics' poll.[26] Rolling Stone named the album the year's third-best avant-garde release.[27]

Music by Amobi was featured in "Gidi gidi bụ ugwu eze (Unity is strength)", a short film directed by Akinola Davies Jr. for fashion house Kenzo.[28] In 2018, Amobi released a short film accompaniment to Paradiso titled WELCOME TO PARADISO: CITY IN THE SEA.[29] Directed by Rick Farin and rendered in Unreal Engine 4, Amobi listed the film's influences as "The Global South, Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, Timothy Morton's theories regarding hyper-objects and dark ecology after the end of the world, my experiences traveling and touring globally, Square Enix, Xanadu (Citizen Kane), and the poetry of Elysia Crampton."[29]

Selected discography

Albums and mixtapes

  • The Great Game: Freedom From Mental Poisoning (The Purification of The Furies) — with Rabit
  • minor matter (2017)
  • Paradiso (2017)

EPs

  • Anya's Garden (2015)
  • Airport Music for Black Folk (2016)

As Diamond Black Hearted Boy

  • e (2011)
  • Father, Protect Me. (2013)
  • zᵉʳº (2013)
  • How The West Was Won, Wanted: Dead or Alive (2014)

Notes

{{notelist}}

References

1. ^1 2 {{Cite web | last = Davis | first = Ben | url = https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/10/27/chino-amobis-day-glo-brooklyn/ | title = Chino Amobi's Day-Glo Brooklyn | website = The Village Voice | date = October 27, 2010 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180711005219/https://www.villagevoice.com/2010/10/27/chino-amobis-day-glo-brooklyn/ | archive-date = July 11, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
2. ^1 {{Cite web | last = Kelly | first = Chris | url = https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/05/08/chino-amobi-feature/ | title = The Artful Dissonance of Chino Amobi | website = Bandcamp Daily | publisher = Bandcamp | date = May 8, 2017 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170518062007/https://daily.bandcamp.com/2017/05/08/chino-amobi-feature/ | archive-date = May 18, 2017 | dead-url = no}}
3. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web | last = Raihani | first = Nadine | url = http://www.electronicbeats.net/native-instruments-komplete-sketches-chino-amobi/ | title = Chino Amobi on the Development of His Music-Making Process | website = Electronic Beats | publisher = Deutsche Telekom | date = December 12, 2016 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170213052750/http://www.electronicbeats.net/native-instruments-komplete-sketches-chino-amobi/ | archive-date = February 13, 2017 | dead-url = no}}
4. ^1 2 3 {{Cite web | author = Remi | url = http://www.okayafrica.com/non-chino-amobi-interview/ | title = NON Is a Worldwide Resistance Movement for African Artists | website = OkayAfrica | publisher = Okayplayer | date = March 28, 2016 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027125423/http://www.okayafrica.com/non-chino-amobi-interview/ | archive-date = October 27, 2017 | dead-url = no}}
5. ^1 {{Cite web | last = Joyce | first = Colin | url = https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/9kkqea/chino-amobi-makes-violent-music-for-violent-times | title = Chino Amobi Makes Violent Music for Violent Times | website = Noisey | publisher = Vice Media | date = February 4, 2016 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180615060452/https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/9kkqea/chino-amobi-makes-violent-music-for-violent-times | archive-date = June 15, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
6. ^{{Cite web | author = John Tyler Community College | url = https://www.richmond.com/news/local/chesterfield/jtcc-students-making-a-difference/article_a33c8545-51a7-5429-bac3-ce93ab0e869b.html | title = JTCC Students Making a Difference | website = Richmond Times-Dispatch | publisher = Berkshire Hathaway | date = March 24, 2006 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
7. ^{{Cite web | url = http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/offsite-becoming-new-objects-at-trans-pecos | title = (Offsite) Becoming New Objects at Trans-Pecos | publisher = Queens Museum | date = June 24, 2016 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160702103058/http://www.queensmuseum.org/events/offsite-becoming-new-objects-at-trans-pecos | archive-date = July 2, 2016 | dead-url = no}}
8. ^{{Cite web | last = Hall | first = Malik | url = https://rvamag.com/art/local-artist-and-musician-chino-amobi-channels-italian-philosopher-in-latest-exhibit-weak-images.html | title = Local Artist and Musician Chino Amobi Channels Italian Philosopher in Latest Exhibit, 'Weak Images' | website = RVA Magazine | date = November 16, 2017 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = http://archive.today/2018.07.11-030340/https://rvamag.com/art/local-artist-and-musician-chino-amobi-channels-italian-philosopher-in-latest-exhibit-weak-images.html | archive-date = July 11, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
9. ^1 {{Cite web | last = Trammell | first = Matthew | url = https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/24/chino-amobis-rerouted-ambient-music | title = Chino Amobi's Rerouted Ambient Music | website = The New Yorker | publisher = Condé Nast | date = July 24, 2017 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
10. ^{{Cite web | last = Ressler | first = Darren | url = http://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/big-shot-magazine/3924/ | title = The Diamond Black Hearted Boy / EP (myspace.com/diamondblackheart) | website = Big Shot | date = June 24, 2009 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180711091721/http://newsflash.bigshotmag.com/big-shot-magazine/3924/ | archive-date = July 11, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
11. ^{{Cite web | last = McManu | first = Charlotte | url = https://charlottemcmanus.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/cultureartmusic-slimepunk-supersuper-vol-2-004/#more-465 | title = Culture/Art/Music: Slimepunk | website = SUPERSUPER! | volume = 2 | number = 004 | date = March 15, 2012 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120718111626/https://charlottemcmanus.wordpress.com/2012/03/15/cultureartmusic-slimepunk-supersuper-vol-2-004/ | archive-date = July 18, 2012 | dead-url = no}}
12. ^{{Cite web | last = Detrick | first = Ben | url = https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/fashion/Seapunk-a-Web-Joke-With-Music-Has-Its-Moment.html | title = Little Mermaid Goes Punk: Seapunk, a Web Joke With Music, Has Its Moment | website = The New York Times | date = March 2, 2012 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120308005835/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/fashion/Seapunk-a-Web-Joke-With-Music-Has-Its-Moment.html | archive-date = March 8, 2012 | dead-url = no}}
13. ^1 2 3 4 5 {{Cite web | last = Harper | first = Adam | url = http://www.thefader.com/2014/05/07/system-focus-adam-harper-on-the-divine-surrealism-of-epic-collage-producers-ee-total-freedom-and-diamond-black-hearted-boy | title = System Focus: Adam Harper on the Divine Surrealism of Epic Collage Producers E+E, Total Freedom and Diamond Black Hearted Boy | website = The Fader | date = May 7, 2014 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120308005835/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/fashion/Seapunk-a-Web-Joke-With-Music-Has-Its-Moment.html | archive-date = March 8, 2012 | dead-url = no}}
14. ^1 {{Cite web | last = Harper | first = Adam | url = https://www.thefader.com/2015/08/11/non-records-dog-food-music-group-scraaatch | title = The Voices Disrupting White Supremacy Through Sound | website = The Fader | date = August 11, 2015 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150813213909/https://www.thefader.com/2015/08/11/non-records-dog-food-music-group-scraaatch | archive-date = August 13, 2015 | dead-url = no}}
15. ^{{Cite web | last = Iadarola | first = Alexander | url = https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/pg85n9/halcyon-veil-gears-up-for-release-of-new-why-be-ep-with-destructive-music-video | title = Halcyon Veil Gears Up for Release of New Why Be EP with Destructive Music Video | website = Thump | publisher = Vice Media | date = October 13, 2015 | accessdate = July 12, 2018 | archive-url = http://archive.today/2018.07.12-205232/https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/pg85n9/halcyon-veil-gears-up-for-release-of-new-why-be-ep-with-destructive-music-video | archive-date = July 12, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
16. ^{{Cite web | last = Saxelby | first = Ruth | url = http://www.thefader.com/2015/08/03/angel-ho-interview | title = Meet ANGEL-HO, The Cape Town Artist Resisting Colonialism's Legacy Through Sound | website = The Fader | date = August 3, 2015 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150805154944/http://www.thefader.com/2015/08/03/angel-ho-interview | archive-date = August 5, 2015 | dead-url = no}}
17. ^{{Cite web | last = Ryce | first = Andrew | url = https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3014 | title = Chino Amobi: Iron sharpening iron | website = Resident Advisor | date = June 16, 2016 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170621182701/https://www.residentadvisor.net/features/3014 | archive-date = June 21, 2017 | dead-url = no}}
18. ^{{cite magazine |last=Muggs |first=Joe |title=Territorial Support Group |date=December 2016 |magazine=The Wire |issue=394 |pages=26–29 |location=London |url=https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/54345/spread/26 |url-access=subscription |via=Exact Editions}}
19. ^{{Cite web | last = Stabler | first = Brad | url = http://www.papermag.com/non-worldwides-chino-amobi-aims-for-clarity-1810037798.html | title = NON Worldwide's Chino Amobi on Defying Classification And Decolonizing the Dance Floor | website = Paper | date = May 20, 2016 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160521142205/http://www.papermag.com/non-worldwides-chino-amobi-aims-for-clarity-1810037798.html | archive-date = May 21, 2016 | dead-url = no}}
20. ^{{Cite web | last = Gorton | first = Thomas | url = http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/31478/1/non-records-chino-amobi-angel-ho-nkisi-new-york-rbma | title = Meet the NON Citizens disrupting everything for themselves | website = Dazed | date = June 30, 2016 | accessdate = July 10, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170910165557/http://www.dazeddigital.com:80/music/article/31478/1/non-records-chino-amobi-angel-ho-nkisi-new-york-rbma | archive-date = September 10, 2017 | dead-url = no}}
21. ^{{Cite web | last = Lozano | first = Kevin | url = https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22103-elysia-crampton-elysia-crampton-presents-demon-city/ | title = Elysia Crampton: Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City Album Review | website = Pitchfork | publisher = Condé Nast | date = July 18, 2016 | accessdate = July 12, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160719135353/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/22103-elysia-crampton-elysia-crampton-presents-demon-city/ | archive-date = July 19, 2016 | dead-url = no}}
22. ^{{cite magazine |last=Pattison |first=Louis |title=Dedekind Cut: The Expanded Domain Hallow Ground DL/MC/12" |department=Soundcheck |date=October 2017 |magazine=The Wire |issue=404 |page=56 |location=London |url=https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/59878/page/56 |url-access=subscription |via=Exact Editions}}
23. ^{{Cite web | last = Ediriwira | first = Amar | url = https://thevinylfactory.com/news/chino-amobi-minor-matter-vinyl/ | title = Chino Amobi makes vinyl debut with minor matter | website = The Vinyl Factory | date = February 2, 2017 | accessdate = July 12, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170202213603/https://thevinylfactory.com/news/chino-amobi-minor-matter-vinyl/ | archive-date = February 2, 2017 | dead-url = no}}
24. ^{{Cite web | last = Dandridge-Lemco | first = Ben | url = http://www.thefader.com/2017/03/02/chino-amobi-non-records-debut-album-paradiso | title = Chino Amobi Announces Debut Album PARADISO | website = The Fader | date = March 2, 2017 | accessdate = July 12, 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170308222934/https://www.thefader.com/2017/03/02/chino-amobi-non-records-debut-album-paradiso | archive-date = March 8, 2017 | dead-url = no}}
25. ^{{cite magazine |last=Power |first=Nina |author-link=Nina Power |title=Chino Amobi: Paradiso NON Worldwide/UNO NYC DL/LP/MC/USB |date=June 2017 |magazine=The Wire |issue=400 |pages=62–63 |location=London |url=https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/56356/spread/62 |url-access=subscription |via=Exact Editions}}
26. ^{{cite magazine |title=Rewind 2017: Releases of the Year 1–50 |date=January 2018 |magazine=The Wire |issue=407 |page=32 |location=London |url=https://reader.exacteditions.com/issues/61179/spread/32 |url-access=subscription |via=Exact Editions}}
27. ^{{Cite web | last = Weingarten | first = Christopher R. | url = https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/20-best-avant-albums-of-2017-196147/pharmakon-contact-196755/ | title = 20 Best Avant Albums of 2017 | website = Rolling Stone | date = January 2, 2018 | accessdate = July 12, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
28. ^{{Cite web | last = Kolada | first = Brian | url = https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=42091 | title = Midori Takada's first new composition in nearly 20 years to be released by !K7 | website = Resident Advisor | date = July 9, 2018 | accessdate = July 12, 2018 | archive-url = http://archive.today/2018.07.12-212248/https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=42091 | archive-date = July 12, 2018 | dead-url = no}}
29. ^1 {{Cite web | last = Darville | first = Jordan | url = https://www.thefader.com/2018/07/04/chino-amobi-animated-short-film-paradiso-rick-farin-eaves | title = Chino Amobi's animated short film is a declaration of independence | website = The Fader | date = July 4, 2018 | accessdate = July 12, 2018 | archive-url = http://archive.today/2018.07.12-211719/http://www.thefader.com/2018/07/04/chino-amobi-animated-short-film-paradiso-rick-farin-eaves | archive-date = July 12, 2018 | dead-url = no}}

External links

  • [https://chinoamobi.com/home.html Chino Amobi's homepage]
  • NON
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11 : 1984 births|Living people|Christians from Alabama|American people of Nigerian descent|Queer musicians|American electronic musicians|American experimental musicians|21st-century American painters|People from Richmond, Virginia|People from Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Virginia Commonwealth University alumni
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