Biography
James Yoshinobu Iha (伊葉吉伸, Iha Yoshinobu) (born March 26, 1968) is an American rock musician. He is best known as a guitarist and co-founder of the alternative rock band the Smashing Pumpkins. He was a member until the band's initial breakup in 2000 and rejoined in 2018. Iha has also produced songs, contributed guitar, keyboards and vocals and produced remixes for a number of artists, including Midnight Movies, Isobel Campbell, Marilyn Manson, Whiskeytown, Scott Weiland and Michael Stipe. Among his other musical projects, Iha has been a permanent fixture of supergroup A Perfect Circle since 2003. He was also a member of Tinted Windows, a group with members of Cheap Trick, Fountains of Wayne, and Hanson. He previously co-owned independent record label Scratchie Records with Adam Schlesinger and, from 1999 to 2012, owned a recording studio with Schlesinger and Andy Chase of Ivy called Stratosphere Sound.
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Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Siamese Dream
1993
Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
1995
Gish
1991
Adore
1998
Pisces Iscariot
1994
Thirteenth Step
2003
Greatest Hits
2001
Machina | the Machines Of God
2000
Eat The Elephant
2018
The Aeroplane Flies High
1996
ATUM (A Rock Opera In Three Acts)
2023
Shiny And Oh So Bright - Vol.1 / LP - No Past. No Future. No Sun.
2018
Emotive
2004
Welcome Interstate Managers
2003
Cyr
2020
Aghori Mhori Mei
2024
Lull
1991
Witching Hour
2005
Pneumonia
2001
Disarm
1994
Earphoria
1994
1979
1996
Peel Sessions
1992
I Am One
1992
Credited work
1,052 releases · 129 albums · active 1988–2025
- Performance · 1,770
- Production · 511
- Other credits · 414
- Engineering · 399
Studios: The Village Recorder · Chicago Recording Company · Pumpkinland · Bugg Studios
Frequent collaborators
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Various
- Smashing Pumpkins
- A Perfect Circle
- The Sounds
- Ivy
- Ladytron
- The Blank Theory