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Otayonii

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Otayonii
Also known asLane Mingyu Shi
Jindou Shi[1]
Born1993 or 1994 (age 32–33)
Haining, China
GenresArt punk, experimental, industrial
Years active2014–present
LabelsPelagic Records
WV Sorcerer Productions
Bié Records
Member ofThe Ocean, Fórn
Formerly ofDent, Elizabeth Colour Wheel
Websiteotayonii.vercel.app
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese施明妤[2]
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShī Míngyú

Lane Mingyu Shi (Mandarin Chinese: 施明妤; born either 1993 or 1994), known by stage name Otayonii (occasionally stylized as otay:onii and otay:onii施金豆), is a Chinese musician, sound designer,[3] film composer,[3] and installation artist currently based in Berlin.[4] She was the lead vocalist of the Boston experimental bands Dent and Elizabeth Colour Wheel. Since 2018, she has been releasing solo records under the Otay:onii name.[5][6][7] She joined Boston doom metal band Fórn in 2018,[8] and in 2026 joined the German post-metal collective The Ocean, sharing vocal duties with Enrico Tiberi in place of Loïc Rossetti.[9] In 2025, she became Roadburn Festival's first triennium artist in residence.[10]

Early life

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Otayonii was born in Haining, China.[11] Otayonii has said she was a naughty child, but certain life events silenced her as she was growing up, changing her into a shy, quiet person.[5] In 2010, at age 16, Otayonii moved to the United States from Guangzhou, China.[11]

Influences

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Otayonii's music is influenced by Queenadreena. She credits Chinese and Mongolian singing with influencing her to sing without boundaries.[5]

Dent

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Dent
OriginBoston
Genreexperimental metal
Years active2014–2017

Dent was an experimental metal band formed in 2014 by drummer Jack Whelan, guitarist Harley Cullen, bassist Tristan Allen, and vocalist Otayonii, who all met while attending Berklee College of Music.[12][13][14]

The Boston Globe described Otayonii's stage presence at Dent shows as "creating a force field around as much of the room as she can reach".[5] Bandcamp Daily stated Dent's "local notoriety grew with each visceral, concrete-shaking basement performance".[15]

In 2015, the band played a 14-city tour of China that spanned 5,700 miles (9,200 km).[16]

On 12 May 2015, Dent released the album Eyeballs. Boston Hassle reviewed the album, stating, "with all the low/quiet shifts and endless details it simply begs for repeated listening".[17]

In 2017, Dent split up after the members graduated from Berklee.[15]

On 7 June 2019, Dent released the album Bao Bei, which the band had recorded in 2016.[15]

Elizabeth Colour Wheel

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Elizabeth Colour Wheel
OriginBoston
Years active2014–2023
LabelThe Flenser
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese伊麗莎輪[18]
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYīlìshā lún

Elizabeth Colour Wheel was an American experimental band formed in 2014 by guitarist Alice Jackson, bassist Bill Cunningham, drummer Connor DeVito, and vocalist Otayonii.[5][19] Reviewers described the band's music as resisting genre categorization, drawing on elements of black metal, shoegaze and post-punk.[20]

In January 2019, Revolver Mag listed the band on 5 Artists You Need to Know, writing "their live show is something to behold and, impressively, the album manages to capture the same vital energy that exists in their onstage performances."[21]

On 15 March 2019, Elizabeth Colour Wheel released the album Nocebo 疑隱浚患真 under San Francisco-based label The Flenser.[22] Metal Injection described the album as, "a testament to all that is heavy, beautiful, and twisted."[23] Nine Circles wrote Nocebo, "has that timeless quality that marks a unique and vital voice in the music world."[24] BrooklynVegan called Otayonii's voice "soaring and unique".[6]

In 2022, the band played a 50-show tour of the United States. This was Elizabeth Colour Wheel's first time playing for an audience since 2019 (due to the COVID-19 pandemic). A reviewer at The Austin Chronicle commented on Otayonii's physicality during her performance, involving vibrating, exiting the room mid-song, eating the microphone, and making sounds with the microphone lodged in her mouth.[25] Ghost Cult Magazine wrote about the band's New York show that Otayonii "disappeared into the crowd", her "seemingly disembodied shrieking" making the audience forget she had a corporeal form until she reemerged writhing in the middle of the floor.[26]

Otayonii left Elizabeth Colour Wheel in September 2023.[27][10]

Solo career

[edit]

In 2018, Otayonii released her solo debut, Nag, on ShadowTrash Tape Group under the stage name Otay:onii.[28]

In 2021, Otay:onii's second solo album, MíngMíng 冥冥, was released on Chinese label WV Sorcerer Productions.[29][30] Sputnikmusic described the album as "a forward-thinking work that combined industrial, Chinese folk, glitch and just the bare minimum of pop sensibilities into a spellbinding fever dream of unease and liminal suspense."[31][32] The music video for MíngMíng 冥冥’s closing track, "Un deciphered", was an official selection by the Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival.[11][33]

In 2023, Otay:onii released the album 夢之駭客 Dream Hacker on Bié Records.[34] The project came out after she returned from living in China for three years, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Pitchfork gave 夢之駭客 Dream Hacker a 7.4 rating.[7] WBUR called the second track on the album, "W.C.", "crushingly eerie".[35]

In March 2023, Otayonii performed at the high-altitude mountain ranges in Manigango on the Tibetan Plateau for Le Guess Who? and in Austin, Texas for SXSW.[36][37][38] In April 2023, she performed at Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, North Brabant.[39][40][41]

In September 2024, Otayonii returned to WV Sorcerer Productions to release her fourth solo LP, True Faith Ain't Blind (信仰看見了我看見了它).[42]

In 2025, Otayonii released a pair of collaborative LPs with Canadian ambient act thisquietarmy, Howl and Tell and Serpents and Shallows.[43]

Otayonii made her debut on German label Pelagic Records in May 2026 with her fifth full-length solo album, Love is in the Shit (愛在屎邊邊),[44] coinciding with her joining the label's flagship band, The Ocean.[9]

Having moved to Europe in early 2024, Otayonii has worked across genres, including performing in Florentina Holzinger's opera Sancta.[10] She was named Roadburn Festival's first triennium artist in residence, appearing in three consecutive editions from 2025; in the first year, she performed True Faith Ain't Blind in full.[45] For the second year of residency she was commissioned to create Moonstruck Old Tales, a staged work reimagining six Chinese folk lullabies with full band and costumes, drawing on Chinese cosmology.[45]

Discography

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Solo

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  • NAG (LP, 2018, ShadowTrash Tape Group)
  • MíngMíng 冥冥 (LP, 2021, WV Sorcerer Productions)
  • 夢之駭客 Dream Hacker (LP, 2023, Bié Records)
  • True Faith Ain't Blind 信仰看見了我看見了它 (LP, 2024, WV Sorcerer Productions)
  • Love is in the Shit 愛在屎邊邊 (LP, 2026, Pelagic Records)

otay:onii and thisquietarmy

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  • Howl and Tell (LP, 2025, Katuktu Collective)[46]
  • Serpents and Shallows (LP, 2025)[47]

with Elizabeth Colour Wheel

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  • EP B-Side (Live) (EP, 2015)
  • Queen Tired (EP, 2018)
  • Nocebo 疑隱浚患真 (LP, 2019, The Flenser)

with The Ocean

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  • Solaris (LP, 2026, Pelagic Records)[48]

with Fórn

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  • "涂地" (Single from Rites of Despair, 2018)[8]
  • Repercussions of the Self (LP, 2024, Persistent Vision Records)[49]

Guest appearances

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  • "Impossible Light / Golden Flower" by Uboa (2024, the Flenser)

Performance art

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  • Naked Winger, Stovefactory Gallery, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 2015[50]
  • Muted Jiji, Whisper 局部振动, Mountain Store, Chengdu, China, 2018[51]
  • Unwrap! 包裹之外, at Ming Contemporary Art Museum in Shanghai, China, 2021[52]
  • A Returning of A One that Must be Loved, Wonderville, Brooklyn, New York, 2015–2023[53][54]

Awards and honors

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2016 VOID – International Animation Film Festival, Copenhagen – Official Selection – Therapy Rooms[55]
2016 Holland Animation Film Festival – HAFFTube – Official Selection – First Breath[56]
2016 Barcelona Planet Film Festival – Official Selection – Therapy Room + Dystopia Rooms[57]
2016 Boston Music Awards – Song of the Year, semi-finalist – Dent[58]
2017 LINOLEUM Festival – Official Selection – Therapy Room[59]
2017 Seoul International Cartoon & Animation – Official Competition – Sorrowful Seed[60][13]
2018 Global Music Award – Bronze Prize, Best Female Vocal – Dent – Sorrowful Seed[61][13]
2018 Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival – Official Selection – Shaoxing Nomad[62]
2018 Rome Prisma Film Award – Semi-finalist – Shaoxing Nomad[63]
2019 Paris Lift-Off – Official Selection – Shaoxing Nomad[64]
2020 International Sound and Film Music Festival – Official Selection – Shaoxing Nomad[65]
2022 Fear Faire Film Festival – Official Selection – Un deciphered[66][11]
2022 Silicon Valley Asian Pacific Film Festival – Official Selection – Un deciphered[11]

References

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  2. ↑ Call You by My Name by Otay:onii on Apple Music, 19 May 2023, retrieved 28 May 2026
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  7. 1 2 otay:onii: 夢之駭客 Dream Hacker. Pitchfork. Archived from the original on 16 June 2023. Retrieved 27 February 2023.
  8. 1 2 "Rites of Despair". forn.bandcamp.com. Retrieved 28 May 2026.
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