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Keiji Haino – Guitar Works I-VIII
This is one in a series of 12 guitar-related seven-inch records released by Table of the Elements back in 1994. As the title says, this little coaster sports eight really short cuts of…
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Keiji Haino – Watashi Dake?
This my favorite solo disc by Keiji Haino. It’s a 1993 reissue of a rare, obscure, Japanese LP from 1981. This is a very sperm-filled set of recordings and debuts many of the…
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Keiji Haino – Execration That Accept To Acknowledge
Japan’s premier “out” musician offers up a CD’s worth of solo, electric, improv guitar—efficiently moving Earthquake and volcanic activity-like sounds into the privacy of your own home with only a fraction of the…
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Keiji Haino – Milky Way
This is an archival recording of a live performance from 1973 issued for the first time two decades later in 1993. It features one track and 47 continuous minutes of Haino all by…
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Keiji Haino – Affection
This long, one-track affair starts out with some barely audible, poppy, “shopping mall” music, which is quickly cut out by mysterious reverb interjections. A simple, melodic, solo guitar-picking section follows, then some strumming…
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Keiji Haino – Nijiumu
Nijiumu is a side project of Keiji Haino, which sometimes involves other musicians. Confusingly, it’s also the title of his is his first solo disc since Watashi Dake? in 1981 and an early…
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Mikami Kan, Moto Yoshizawa, Haino Keiji – Live in the First Year of Hesei
These two volumes by three of Japan’s underground master musicians were among the first releases on Tokyo’s awesome PSF label a decade ago—just before Haino-mania swept the dimly-lit English-speaking world. The music filling…
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Keiji Haino – Watashi Dake?
This rare, obscure, Japanese LP from 1981 was Keiji Haino’s very first release. It’s a very sperm-filled set of recordings and debuts many of the crude elements of Haino’s technique that would more…
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Fushitsusha – 1978
This is an archival recording dating from 1978 that, fortunately, finally received a public service release 25 years later in 2003. While it’s nowhere near as dense as classic Fushitsusha of the ’90s,…
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Fushitsusha – Origin’s Hesitation
After seven years of releases on other labels, Fushitsusha finally comes home to roost in the PSF loft once again—and, aye, what a different bird they be. After the last drummer, Ikuro Takahashi,…
