Junko

Junko is a Japanese vocalist and a longtime member of Hijokaidan, founded in 1978 by Jojo Hiroshige. The confrontational quality of Junko's vocal work radically expands interpretive possibilities for the audience, operating in a mode too improvisational to be punk, too chaotic to be free jazz, and yet too intimate to be dismissed as mere noise. Her practice represents a blend of anti-melodic and anti-symbolic engagement with the varied textures of the human voice taken to extreme limits.

Her contributions to Hijokaidan span decades of performances and recordings, and her work has been a defining element of the group's identity.