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Keiji Haino + Derek Bailey – Drawing Close, Attuning
On Drawing Close, Attuning, the father of guitar improvisation, Derek Bailey, lands in Haino World. He trades many plinks and plonks and juts and jolts with Haino as the two lurch forward and…
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Keiji Haino – Keeping On Breathing
For his umpteenth solo CD, Haino offers up yet another guitar and voice affair—again all recorded live with no overdubs. This time, we’re on a major label, but that sure hasn’t affected Haino’s…
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Peter Brotzmann + Keiji Haino – Evolving Blush or Driving Original Sin
A set of duos for saxophone and vocals that sets the standard for improvisational chaos eruptions and all-acoustic shard exploration. Intricate voice / breath / horn interchanges that are sometimes thin as treacle,…
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Alan Licht + Keiji Haino – Gerry Miles
I have no idea who or what Gerry Miles was, is or will be—other than the title of this very pleasant-sounding collaboration between Keiji Haino on vocals and percussion accompanied by Alan Licht…
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Barre Phillips + Haino Keiji – Etchings in the Air
Indeed: very crude, jagged etchings. Five tracks, 46 minutes of free form improv in the form of gargled, garbled, squeaking and screeching dentist patient vocals fused with and exploding from quirky, upright bass…
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Keiji Haino – I Said, This is the Son of Nihilism
Haino’s second domestic CD features one 59-minute track containing much more placid phases of space-filling guitar and voice bliss with occasional sections of rising volume. Yet another slab of wonder to throw on…
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Keiji Haino – Saying I Love You, I Continue to Curse Myself
Another British import containing two long tracks of solo guitar and voice that meld into universal sound expansion. When Keiji Haino says “I Love You,” he’s speaking to the universe as a whole—existence…
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Keiji Haino – The Soul’s True Love
This is quite a revelation: a 4-CD box set from 1995 chronicling the first decade of Keiji Haino’s career: from Lost Aaraaff in 1971 on through solo home recordings and eventually to the…
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Keiji Haino – The 21st Century Hard-y Guide-y Man
The 73 minutes of space on this CD are all filled up with four long hurdy gurdy drones that effortlessly form absolutely beautiful, drifting, sunset clouds. Ranging from long, floaty tones that sparkle…
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Keiji Haino – The Book of “Eternity Set Aflame”
This CD contains 70 minutes of music from 1995 in the form of three long, untitled tracks of spiritual lift-off. Track one is an 18-minute solo electric guitar, pedals and amp stack overload…